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Showing posts with label Rudy Giuliani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rudy Giuliani. Show all posts

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Giuliani Does What he Does Best: Lies and Laughs it Off

Rudolph Giuliani has been dodging and lying his way out of questions dealing with his long-time criminal partner in crime Bernie Kerik being indicted on numerous charges last week. I am not sure who he thinks he is talking to when a person asks a question in a key early state about yet another lawsuit linking him. Certainly not a clueless voter that is void of any information dealing with Giuliani's past.

Say what you will about selfish Judith Regan, but she's definitely never shied away from speaking her mind and telling the truth when it is effecting her personally. Now when Giuliani says that Regan's idea that Rupert Murdoch's empire tried to silence her by firing and downgrading her public image, fearing that because of her close relations with Kerik in the past that she could unleash secrets about Giuliani was more appropriate for the gossip columns, who are you inclined to believe? Someone with nothing to lose, or a chronic liar with everything to lose? Like he repeatedly does when faced with an apparition, he laughed the question off on a campaign stop in Iowa Wednesday. He went on to actually claim he knows nothing about it AFTER he tried to paint it off as gossip, and we've heard that one before from this guy. He is having a pretty tough time as of late to not get caught in a web. Liar Liar Liar.

Judith Regan claimed Rudy Giuliani's cronies tried to silence her; now the presidential hopeful wants to sideline her to the gossip columns.

The Republican candidate said Wednesday the publishing queen's bombshell $100 million suit was no more than salacious tittle-tattle.

"It sounds to me like a kind of gossip column story more than a real story," he said on a campaign stop in Iowa.

"The last thing in the world you want to do when you're running for President is respond to gossip column-type stories."

Regan's suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court this week, claimed her old bosses at HarperCollins and its parent company, News Corp., tried to discredit her to protect Giuliani.

The editor, canned amid controversy as she tried to push O.J. Simpson's supposed tell-all book "If I Did It," had New York's former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik as a client and a lover.

Kerik, who was mentored by Giuliani, was indicted last week on federal corruption charges.

Regan said her bosses at Rupert Murdoch's media empire were terrified she knew things that could hurt Giuliani's chances of moving into the White House.

They told her to hide documents and lie to federal investigators building a case against her ex-boyfriend, she said.

And they moved to paint her as an "unethical businesswoman devoid of any integrity" by letting her take the fall for the outrage Simpson's book created, she said in her 70-page suit.

"Defendants knew they would be protecting Giuliani if they could preemptively discredit her," the suit said.

Giuliani, a former business partner and friend of Kerik's who installed him as police commissioner while New York's mayor, laughed when asked about the suit at the end of Wednesday's campaign stop.

"I don't respond to the story at all," he said. "I don't know anything about it."

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Giuliani Partner in Crime Indicted on Charges

Bernie Kerik has finally been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of tax fraud and corruption, among other charges that are being kept confidential at the moment. He is expected to turn himself in Friday. Aside from having significant ties to the mob, Kerik was the New York police commissioner during 9/11, and a partner in Giuliani's firm. Before all that, he was just a lowly hotheaded drug cop busting his fellow human scum with extreme prejudice. He is one of the many who think the American dream is all power and success, and when they get it, think they can do no wrong when advancing one's self so selfishly.

Skeptics can claim that this does little to no harm to Pinocchio Giuliani all they want, but it doesn't take a smart person to realize that Giuliani knew of Kerik's bad activities and mob ties. He was briefed on it all, and still insisted on supporting Kerik's promotion to head of Homeland Security back in 2004. Until Kerik was publicly scrutinized, Giuliani had previously denied ever knowing of any Kerik wrongdoings or affiliations. They are both chronic crooks and liars with major ties to the mob. Yes, you could write a 300 page book on all the criminal and gross activity in Giuliani's life alone, so whether this affects Giuliani's run for president or not is up to voters who actually care enough to do a few minutes of research.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Scumbag Neocon Pat Robertson Endorses Pinocchio

Pat Robertson has endorsed Rudolph. Now there's a pair. The fact that this was news today is astonishing. Pat Robertson should be institutionalized, not to mention forbidden of any media attention at all. Yes, of all 'evangelicals' Pinocchio Giuliani could muster up support from, he welcomes an endorsement from this Christian Coalition hateful clown. A vote for Giuliani is a vote for Pat Robertson. They're both lying idiots.

“To me, the overriding issue before the American people is the defense of our population against the blood lust of Islamic terrorism,” he said.

Giuliani fought for Robertson's endorsement for months, hoping to boost his conservative credentials.

“Having him aboard gives us a great deal of confidence because he has tremendous insights into what the main issues are, how they should be dealt with,” said the former mayor. “His advice is invaluable.”

Friday, October 26, 2007

Rudy Giuliani's Campaign Lies Again; 9/11 Commission Report Leaked

Rudy Giuliani's 9/11 Commission testimony in 2004 was not supposed to be released until after next year's elections, but apparently it has leaked out, and The Village Voice got a hold of it. Giuliani and his campaign staff have been possibly the biggest liars of all the presidential candidates, and that is not a small feat by any means. The puzzling part of this is that he has been caught time and time again, yet he is still labeled as the front runner, oddly enough. Elections are a fraud, and this is evidence enough. Anyone that supports this guy needs to have their head examined.

In a recent broadside deriding the Clinton administration's response to Al Qaeda, Rudy Giuliani told an audience at Pat Robertson's Regent University: "Bin Laden declared war on us. We didn't hear it. I thought it was pretty clear at the time, but a lot of people didn't see it, couldn't see it." Other tenets of his standard stump speech include the assertion that he's been "studying terrorism" for more than 30 years, and that "the thing that distinguishes me on terrorism is that I have more experience in dealing with it" than the other presidential candidates.

However, in private testimony before the 9/11 Commission in 2004, Rudy gave a very different version of how much he knew about terrorism when the World Trade Center was attacked. That testimony isn't scheduled to be released publicly until after the 2008 presidential election, but the Voice has obtained a copy of it. And it reveals a New York mayor who was anything but an "expert on terrorism."

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Podhoretz Gets Pissed at Book Crowd

Apparently the dangerous textbook neocon quack Norman Podhoretz got a little enraged over a crowd at a Barnes and Noble book signing who offered up real questions against his anti-American rhetoric and disinformation. He was there to promote his new book that might as well be titled 'I Love Fascism, But Use It In My Propaganda.' Podhoretz is of course one of Giuliani's main foreign policy contributors, and does his best to garner conservative Jewish support.

Asked whether there should be a fresh investigation into 9/11, Podhoretz simply dismissed the suggestion as "paranoia" and refused to answer the question.

He later defended the fact that he signed the infamous Project For a New American Century documents, a Neo-Con manifesto for world domination that includes advocating the use of race-specific bio-weapons, and claimed that the PNAC had been "misrepresented".

Podhoretz then admitted that the CIA had overthrown the U.S.-friendly Iranian government of Mohammad Mossadegh in the 50's, but called it "ancient history."

He then went on to make a case that Iran was behind the violence in Iraq and had formed an alliance with Al-Qaeda, despite the fact that the two are Shia and Sunni respectively and as such are arch-enemies. He was then educated about how in fact it was the U.S. government that is funding Al-Qaeda affiliated groups to attack Iran. This mattered little to Podhoretz, who was then asked why we should "fight back" against Iran by bombing them when they had never attacked us?

Podhoretz's answer was to state that, "We were attacked by Islamofascists on 9/11," clearly implying that Iran attacked the U.S. on 9/11. Such unmitigated and bellicose propaganda might fly on Fox News, but many members of the audience were having none of it, asking why they should trust Bush and the Neo-Cons after being lied to for six years.

"Why don't you shut up," barked Podhoretz, seemingly having abandoned his ceaseless regurgitation of warmongering rhetoric and finally losing his temper.

Several members of the audience were kicked out of the store by cops but as Podhoretz left he was heckled again as protesters chanted "No Iran war," before ducking into a vehicle and scurrying away.
Even the more hellbent neocons like Podhoretz have to be getting the clear message now that their days of controlling the foreign policy in this country are coming to an abrupt and ugly end.