Heh. As Mediaite puts it, “Move over Wilford Brimley!” Did anyone really take him seriously as a Presidential candidate?
Archive for Rudy Giuliani
“WMD? Nope, no weapons over there … maybe under here?”
Rudy Giuliani went on for what seemed like more than a week about it taking more than a week for the Obama administration to call the Libya attack “spontaneous”. Of course, as Soledad O’Brien pointed out, information changed as time went on and was shared as it came in, plus CBS reported that the evidence undermined right-wing charges of an administration “cover-up”.
Matthew Dowd, a former Bush administration official, reminded everyone that during the Iraq War, it took the Bush administration years to make its case and still got it wrong. Where was Rudy then?
CNN– “This wasn’t two weeks. This was months and months and months of a conversation where we never got the right answer to this,” Dowd said on ABC’s “This Week.”
O’Brien:
“It took years…By jumping on so quickly and expecting accurate final answers within weeks is I guess unfair in a way.”
Giuliani:
“We’re going to blame this on Bush, too?”
Um, Rudy? That’s not at all what she (or Dowd) was saying. Answer the damn question.
O’Brien:
“You got to stop putting words in my mouth, sir. Seriously, hang on. Let me finish. Every time I ask you a question, you like to push back as if somehow the question that’s being posed to you is unfair. It’s not. I’m a journalist. You said some things. I’m trying to get some accurate responses from you. You are welcome to answer. Go ahead.”
Meanwhile, Romney’s version of meeting Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi was disputed by best friend, mother: “Pathetic & comical”, not to mention Christopher Stevens’ dad said that the Libyan ambassador’s death should not be politicized.
Yet there Rudy is, totally ignoring O’Brien’s point while politicizing what’s left of his brains out.
Mitt Romney and his GOP gang have been going after President Obama for not providing enough security in Libya, and now Rudy Giuliani is accusing the administration of intentionally delaying investigations until the election is over, trying to “run out the clock” and “cover up.”
Christopher Stevens’ dad has said that the Libyan ambassador’s death should not be politicized. But that won’t stop Republicans from using the Benghazi attack for political gain, exploiting the tragic deaths in order to get a few more votes.
If President Obama and his surrogates pulled something as shameless as this, imagine the 24/7 outcry.
Here’s what Rudy Giuliani said on CNN, via Think Progress:
Rudy’s sensitive little feathers got ruffled and he accused Soledad O’Brien of being biased toward Democrats when she tried to get him to back up his accusations. How dare she?!
O’Brien:
“The one thing I’m debating with you is just specifics. When you quote someone or you paraphrase them the only thing I ask is that you get that accurate. That’s all I ask…”
Giuliani:
“We’re also entitled to interpret what the president is saying without this, like, massive defense of everything he says.”
“Excuse me if being the fact that I’m a Republican, I don’t give them as you do, all the benefit of the doubt.“
And here’s what Rudy said on Fox:
Bill Hemmer:
“David Axelrod made the claim Mitt Romney is doing his best to exploit this. Is there argument to be made there? How was this handled on Tuesday night?”
Giuliani:
“Well he should be exploiting it. I mean, the fact is, there is real chance, there is a cover-up here.”
Here’s what Joe Biden said about Rudy Giuliani repeatedly politicizing terrorist acts back in 2007:
Keep the truth and those smiles coming, Joe.
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They’ll twist themselves into any position possible to get President Obama. Via.
“Well, I mean, there’s a certain amount of personal ego in that. At that point I was probably comparing his record to my record. That’s all part of campaigning… So I was comparing what I thought was my far superior record to his otherwise decent record, but numbers weren’t as great.”
See, all those attacks on Willard M. Romney were just about Rudy’s “far superior” ego, er, record, not about Mitt’s embarrassing failures. Water under the bridge, ego under the b.s., blahblah, whatever, yeah yeah.
Magically, Willard is now the “perfect choice.”
Speaking of abysmal records, here’s a peek at Rudy’s, circa 2001.
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