Steve posted about this latest Rudy scandal that broke just yesterday afternoon, and to Anderson Cooper’s credit, he at least made sure Rudy was called on it during last night’s CNN YouTube debate.
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Rudy says “it wasn’t true” (really? what part?) and that he had “nothing to do with the handling” of the records. As Josh Marshall says “Rudy isn’t denying anything. He’s just saying he’s not responsible.” Cooper didn’t follow up (ok, it was short notice) to try and get him to explain why then were his travel costs, which included at least 11 trips to the Hamptons “during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons,” later split up and billed to obscure agencies that had nothing to do with the mayor’s security detail. What’s more, former NYC mayor Ed Koch believes Rudy “acted improperly and appeared to be covering something up” and that providing then-mistress Judy with “her own personal protection (when she was not a member of the first family) constituted an even more flagrant misuse of taxpayer money.” Oh, snap! The Blotter has more.
Even if we were to be so gullible as to just take Rudy at his word (and we won’t, but will the msm?) that he had nothing to do with the cooking of the books to hide his travel expenses, does this Enron-for-philanderers accounting system really sound like the answer to our current federal budget woes?
UPDATE: (Nicole) Oh, this is getting better and better… Cliff Schecter has video of city officials telling ABC News that Giuliani homewrecker Judy Nathan used the NYPD “as a taxi service.”
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“lalala I can’t hear you”-Rudy fanboys Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd everytime another Guiliani scandal breaks
He’s a criminal. Pure and simple.
Do you expect anything less?
God I’d hate to see all the dirt on all of these nazi freaks.
who do these people think they are?! and that they’re above the law?? honestly I find it difficult to understand how they could be so whacked out and such fucktards!
The look in his face is priceless! what an ugly ba$tard!!
A caller to Ed Schultz today, from Buffalo, said that the way Rudy “cleaned up” NYC was by busing the homeless upstate. She said there were lawsuits from mayors and counties, and that people should be requesting FOIAs.
This may be the bigger scandal.
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I really like that screenshot of Rudy trying to answer that question. Perfect.
What will happen is the Pubs will say is Bush Haters are making this stuff up about Rudy. And he stood up to the questions like a MAN
Thats the only comfort they have in life
DE~NILE
justabill @ 5:
Stop action reveals a lot doesn’t it?
To the true believers, Rudy’s the man because he knows how to handle Them.
And I think we all know what I mean by Them.
Gee thanks Koch. Where were you when we needed you in 2004? Oh, yeah. Defending the Bush doctrine. You abandoned the party and its principles and should be tethered to the sinking Giuliani ship.
Shame he can’t blame this on a post-9/11-world.
I think the only way out of this disaster in 08 is for overwhelming force to mobilize and vote Dem (anything but republicon) and then hope for the best.
Poontang. Coverup. 9/11.
hadenuf says
If too much comes out now, he won’t get the nomination and we’ll miss all the fun of watching the GOP candidate for prez be picked apart day by day with one outrage after another– that are currently squirreled unsafely away in Rudi’s closet.
I wish this mattered to the people who will vote for him regardless.
Rupert Murdoch will create some sort of world crisis to divert attention away from this and it will blow away with the wind.
Sorry to say the forces that want Rudy in are greater than the ones that want accountability.
Rudys wife once worked for U.S. Surgical Corporation specialized in showing doctors in operating rooms a new surgical stapling method using live, large dogs.
abarts @ 14:
In other words, it won’t matter to the people who will vote for him irregardless.
Seeing as how as mayor, he’s allowed to have security wherever he goes, it’s not crime or even a big deal that he had security with him when he went away for the weekends. The issue here is that he for some reason hid the payments for his security on the books of obscure city agencies. I’ve not heard anyone else posit this, I hope I’m the first, but I bet all he was trying to do was hide the fact that he was spending his weekends with his mistress so that during a divorce proceedings his adultery wouldn’t come back to haunt him since his wife most definitely would have subpoenaed the billing records during discovery. So I don’t think he did anything illegal, (you can quibble about moving the payments but again its not like the payments themselves were illegal) but it was incredibly unethical, immoral and cowardly. Certainly not the kind of sneaky underhanded behavior we want in the whitehouse.
L.A. Confidential @ 16:
Ugh, I had forgotten.
Is there some encyclopedia set of “republican scandals, outrages, and revulsions”?
I wonder if Mrs G realizes her ear rings are a little overweight. Or if the thought never occurred to her.
http://tinyurl.com/2oqksy
But you have to understand that 9/11 terror 9/11 Rudy can’t really be 9/11 terror 9/11 expected to 9/11 terror 9/11know every little 9/11 terror 9/11 detail about his 9/11 terror 9/11 finances becaues 9/11 terror 9/11cleaning up New York City 9/11 terror 9/11 and ending communism 9/11 terror 9/11as we knew it 9/11 terror 9/11 is such a big9/11 terror 9/11job!!9/11 terror 9/119/11 terror 9/119/11 terror 9/119/11 terror 9/119/11 terror 9/119/11 terror 9/11
hadenuf @ 19:
I don’t think there is enough trees to be able to put it all into print.
Sure, but have you heard the ‘rumors’ about Obama?
What does it say about Rudy when Ed Koch - the Jewish Zell Miller - throws him under the bus.
resetthathang @ 21:
Most likely Rudy was doing her when he got the call that the Towers were just hit by jets.
That would explain his disheveled appearance when he arrived at Ground Zero.
Nobody can derail the Giuliani freight train to the White House. The extermination of Islamic terrorists is the single issue that trumps all others. Giuliani is 100% committed to the ruthless extermination of Islamic terrorists without hesitation or remorse. He will defeat Hillary in a general election for that one reason and one reason only. American voters will instinctively choose Giuliani over Hillary because we viscerally entrust our national security to the uniquely masculine mandate to destroy our enemies, see them scattered before us, and hear the lamentations of their women.
It was on the front page of the NY POST!
Funny, they will lick his feet on anything else, but if it has to do with sex…BAM! They send him up the river.
‘Nobody can derail the Hitler freight train to the Reichstag. The extermination of Jews and gypsies is the single issue that trumps all others. Hitler is 100% committed to the ruthless extermination of Jews, homosexuals and Poles without hesitation or remorse. He will defeat his enemies in a general election for that one reason and one reason only. German voters will instinctively choose Hitler because they viscerally entrust our national security to the uniquely masculine mandate to destroy our enemies, see them scattered before us, and hear the lamentations of their women.’
Do you really think this will matter? We need to start referring to Him as Teflon Rudy. He could have hacked up his mother and her puppy into a hundred pieces and it wouldn’t matter. The “Value Voters” are a bunch of phonies. They know Rudy is their best chance of winning the White House. They’ve ignored his record to this point…gun control, abortion, his real record on taxes etc… Do you really think a little “mismanaged” tax dollars are going to hurt FOX’s, I mean Rudy’s chances.
resetthathang @ 21:
Thanks for stealing my line..err…lines.
???WTF???
rudy & judy???
JasonS @ 12:
cover up that poontang !
intelgetz dezines @ 15:
rudy knows to much about 911, er 911 er 911
It really doesn’t matter if he knew directly or not. he knew he wasn’t paying personally for these extra services.
It’s true. The Pugs will vote for who will protect us from the hordes and legions of terrorists and middle eastern Muslims preparing to invade our country on ocean hopping hang gliders.
Who cares about rights. Just keep us safe!
until rudy has been convicted for a crime, this story isn’t relevant.
L.A. Confidential @ 35:
Never mind that Bush is selling off our country to pops rich arab buddies.
hadenuf @ 19:
Here’s a few that come close.
Rudy is the chosen one. This will pass.
Infowars diggs C&L? Amazing.
http://infowars.com/articles/u.....istory.htm
Just watched Rudi defend himself on CBS with Katie. Exhibit 1 of his defense was that it was nothing new in a Mayors office, in fact it had been going on since……..well since his first term as Mayor.
StirFry @ 39:
I’m sure he’ll make a great Mussolini
It doesn’t matter. He’s going to win the GOP nomination. The theft of his playbook from a hotel room should have sunk him. Now scandal after scandal won’t stop him.
nightjar @ 40:
Hey he’s honest! I can just see the Pubs sitting there thinking “see he’s not like that Clinton who lied on TV about an affair”. Now thats a real man.
justabill @ 38:
There’s a Ph.D program right there.
Don’t get me wrong. Hillary is a fierce debator. She will tear Rudy apart. It will be a great time for popcorn munching.
….Then Rudy will win the general election anyway.
Dhalgren @ 45:
Judging from the results of the past two elections you may be right.
Rudi Giuliani’s financial indiscretions were all in the interest of getting laid. No red blooded American male will ever reject a Presidential candidate because he made mistakes as a byproduct of his relentless pursuit of pussy.