A Message To You, Rudy

I have to admit to having been utterly gobsmacked at the sheer brass neck of former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani’s having announced his attempt at a run for the Presidency of the US last week, given his very public history of adultery, humiliating his wife and his children, his numerous affairs, his sleazy close personal and professional relationships with the corrupt Bernie Kerik, his blatant nepotism and rampant authoritarianism, not to mention his dodgy political backstory,going right back to Ollie North and Iran/Contra:

Giuliani’s political malfeasance dates back to his days as US Attorney for the Southern District of NY, when he approved a US Customs sting operation ordered by White House shill Oliver North to catch Israel’s Joint Committee middlemen of the Iran-Contra scandal. North wanted the sting because he considered the Joint Committee not criminals but competition, since they supplied our supposed enemy Iran with more weapons of mass destruction then he illegally could trade. As a result of the sting arrests, Joint Committee leader Ari Ben-Monashe leaked Iran-Contra to Beirut newspaper Al Shiraa. This prompted Giuliani to quickly release the arms dealers on virtually no bail, and drop all charges against them once they were out. (Though North and George Bush Sr. testified before Congress that they never worked together on Iran-Contra, North’s now declassified diaries of that time prove otherwise.

Oh yes, and then there’s the extra-judicial killings on his mayoral watch.

You’d think a documented history like that might give him some pause for thought wouldn’t you? But no, Rudy’s monstrous ego knows no bounds – anything and everything he does is fine, because he’s, he’s BIG RUDY GIULIANI, AMERICA’S MAYOR, GODDAMMIT!

Worse still, he’s currently the Republican frontrunner.

So what can you do, except to, like Crooks & Liars do with this videoclip, keep telling the world what an asshole he actually is and how he’s potentially more dangerous even than Bush is now?

The video comes from the movie ” Giuliani Time.” John Bynes, who called in and complained to Giuliani because he needed food stamps and medication to live at a time when Rudy’s policies were having dire consequences to people like John. Rudy just laughs him off…UP: Did Rudy know about John’s condition? Probaby not, but he knew what was happening to people just like John who got caught up in the cross-hairs of his policies…

Washington Post:

“When “Giuliani Time” gives a glimpse of this Giuliani, it’s mesmerizing. So, the smiling mayor fields a phone call during his weekly radio show. The caller is angry about city cuts to food stamps and Medicare aid for the disabled. Hizzoner is a pit bull to the chase.
“Hey, John,” Giuliani tells his caller, “what kind of hole are you in? There’s something that’s really wrong with you. . . . We’ll send you psychiatric help because you really need it.”

As it happens, the caller, John Hynes, needs real help. A disabled lawyer, he suffers from Parkinson’s disease, and he’s had his benefits cut off and he’s running out of medicine.

Nothing chills the blood so thoroughly as the sight of a powerful man turned gleeful bully.”

(Unless its this….)

Funny, though, it didn’t chill CBS’ or the US media’s blood when Bush did it.

Bush and Giuliani may be on a par when it comes to cheap viciousness, but Bush is vicous and stupid where Giuliani is vicious and clever. Since 9/11, he has reaped over $10 million in public appearance fees, not a bad return for one day’s real mayoring, yet he can mock on public radio a sick, almost destitute man, who’sas in that situation because of his neoliberal policies.

So what do the wingnuts and moderate conservatives think of Giuliani’s run? Are the ‘moral majority’, who condemn the slightest moral lapse by liberals, outraged that such a sleazebag is running in their party’s name?

Hell no. All Giuliani’s personal dirt is fine by them – href=”http://workingclassconservative.blogspot.com/2007/01/giuliani-track-record-is-right-with.html”>just as long as he keeps the n***ers in their place. he can pretty much do what he likes.