Yesterday, everyone’s favorite Nosferatu impersonator, Rudy Giuliani, appeared on national television . . . well, okay, on "Morning Joe" . . . to weigh in on the the whole waterboarding kerfuffle. The Ghoul was as predictably, dickishly a blowhard as ever:
"One of the great fallacies is that Islamic terrorist are [sic] particularly impressed by the way we conduct our interviews. They couldn’t give a darn. I’ve been investigating them since the late 1960’s, early 1970s. They are single-minded, they have their own objectives in mind. . . . I’ve read thousands and thousands of pages of documents and I’ve never heard an Islamic terrorist say, ‘Hey I became a terrorist because they waterboarded some other terrorist.’"
See, this is why Giuliani should have been elected President — his forty years of experience investiga. . . wait, what?
That’s funny — funny as in "odd", not "haha". According to information publicly available on the interwebs, the Rudester didn’t graduate from law school until 1968. Am I to assume that he spent the early ’60s suffering Cassandra-like visions of future 9/11’s and investigating Islamic terrorists for his senior thesis in college? Or did he ask for all the Islamic terrorism work he could get while clerking for Judge McMahon at the Southern District of New York? Ohhhh, I know. It was when he was appointed chief of the narcotics unit at the U.S. Attorney’s office in 1973. . . where he brought zero cases against Islamofascists.
It wasn’t until he became Mayor of New York City that he discovered how "efficient" torture can be.
I’m shocked. SHOCKED. Once again, Rudy Giuliani’s pants appear to be . . . on fire!
And don’t even get me started on Newt Gingrich.
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Rudy speaks with forklift tongue…
Rudy Guiliani graduated from law school? What a waste of a perfectly good ethics curriculum.
No one expects the Spineless Inquisition!
He’s probably right… and so what? He totally ignores the inconvenient facts that torture is a violation of American ideals, not to mention U.S. and international laws.
Let ‘em play their cards out.
The decks about dealt out for them all.
They are dust. They are ghosts, in the best Asian sense.
Harumph.
;-)
And WT Ma’am, I’m remiss to say I love the Python bit, and all they did . . . nice pick for the post. *G*
Ayup. More excuses and lame CYA rationalizations from the bastard boys.
i can haz the comfy chair?
…and they left the Jokers in the deck :)
Notice he doesn’t say that he’s read thousands and thousands of pages of documents on ISLAMIC TERRORISM…they could have been divorce documents, business records of Bernie Kerik, campaign donor lists…who knows?
Then again Rudy was a theology undergraduate student in College with full on intentions to becoming a priest during the Vietnam War (he had a low lottery number). Fortunately he received a 2A deferment after a judge interfered and said his internship was critical. Maybe Rudy had double secret information on Islamoterrorism from his access to Catholic inquisitional records? Or as an supporter of the Bobby Kennedy campaign in ‘68 made a “special covert study” on the links of Sirhan Sirhan to Barack Hussein Obama.
Nah, I think he’s just a lying sleazebag.
NOOOOOOOBODY EXPECTS THE.. i’ll come in again
Something that Rudy and the Bushies share, they are completely amoral. Concepts such as religion, government, justice… merely rhetorical devices to further their self-serving agendas.
Honestly, I would rather watch Fox and Fiends, which is like watching someone scrape their front teeth across a chalkboard, than Joe and Mika Colmes. They and their old Irish crank wingmen are simply unwatchable!
boing boing boing – reverse three-and-a-half somersaults, tuck position, no splash (natch)
g’evening pups
Yay torture! Three cheers for torture! Hip, hip hur….. Ow! help! I’m drowning!
Since it appeared on intern-killer Joe’s wee programme, can we just pretend it never happened?
kinda like joe does about the dead intern in his office?
This is just another example of Republicans not letting facts get in the way of a good story or talking point.
We desperately need an injection of some realism in our poltics but so far I am not seeing any from Republicans or Democrats. The only difference is that Republican stories are even nuttier than what the Democrats are putting out. But give the Democrats credit they are trying to match the Republicans on this.
ey,Rootie Kazootie howz da anthrax investigation goin?
Hi Suz, WT, everyone.
I know some wingnuts who say wacky things like “At least Bush put limits on torture that weren’t previously there.”
?!?
United Nations Convention Against Torture, (Article 1), The United States Criminal Code, Title 18, Prohibitions Against Torture (18 USC 2340A) and War Crimes (18 USC 2441), and the Geneva Convention…
Lurn 2 reed, duuds.
Ummm. Rudy is not actually an impersonator.
Also interesting that he has been studying radical Islam since the 1960s, since it only emerged in the late 70s, largely as an adjunct of the Iranian Revolution.
total theater of the absurd
funny dat
The GOP has nothing else except to lie about us! Ok its obvious and we have not brought this fact up in our talking points before.
I’m so ashamed!
Just another riff on that useless and beside the point “effectiveness” argument they have been pandering. Beheading is a highly effective method of ending an argument, but I don’t see them endorsing that.
Personally,I think ignoring a loser like Rudy is the best thing you can do for him.
Other than driving a stake through his heart and stuffing his mouth full of salt and garlic.
republicans only speak in opposite speak – no child left behind means fucking up childhood education, clean skies meant more pollution, operation iraqi freedom meant we become occupiers of iraq, etc. once ya start viewing all republican speech through the prism of opposite speak, it is amazing what the fuckers admit to. we do not torture means we torture but call it enhanced interrogation techniques.
meek mikka…is just a total joke…her idolatry of killer Joe is vomit inducing
Rudy probably lumps in folks like Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. There are only somewhere between 1 and 1.8 billion Muslims in the world, how different can any of them be?
he is Italian,no,he might enjoy that
true dat
Impersonator? Naw he’s a vampire it’s the Vampire’s who say he’s an impersonator they are embarrassed.
Sorry next one’s for you Cinnamonape
they actually enjoy the confusion they perpetrate….psychos all
True. Be just like him to conflate Black Nationalism with radical Islam.
Iran is Shiite does Rudy know that Ossama is Sunni and a Fundamentalist at that cripes next Rudy will blame the Greek Orthodox for the Protestant wars in Europe.
You can be truthful and still make a good sound bite Rudy does not even try.
Rudy would blame his mother for the Black Death if he thought it would buy him votes and power.
im teh tired,planted tomatoes,yellow and red,peppers,yellow red and pablamos,and eggplant today,oh arugula too,im exhausted ,nite,nite all
Night. Yummy dreams of comestibles to come.
That is also commonly called – ORWELLIAN.
g’nite sadly
G’nite sadly. Congrats on the garden.
Me be out too. Nighters, all.
Night.
g’nite ratfood
and thievery. Don’t forget thievery, including all forms of corruption. Besides lying, hypocrisy and torture, pillagery is the fourth great pillar of rethugdom. Religious extremism may be considered a fifth pillar, but only for a subset of the rethug set.
Thank goodness, is it really spring? Good on the dive, Suz!
I have never know anyone with an over inflated ego than Rudy….. the idea that he was soooooooo important that they needed to wave him leaving office after 911, that he hasn’t been touched with the dirt from his good buddy Bernie and the mob.
Think I will head out as well. Take care all.
g’nite dr dick
i was tempting it, trying a dive before memorial day weekend – water is still forking c-c-c-old.
I had a meeting and voted to decide to call the GOP the Exploitation Party.
ok, who farted?
It was so obvious, Rudy is really that famous MI5 agent, Teddy Salad.
you’re too kind ;-). I can think if worse and probably more accurate things to call ‘em.
Rudy has a Mom? I thought he was a stem cell clone?
Rudy is doing what running for Governor Senate President? If he is not running for President how soon before his wife divorces him?
the horror that was rudy started long before 9/11. This is the guy who intentionally sought to hire thugs for cops, providing them with nearly no training, before ordering them to brutally clear the homeless from Manhattan. Also the guy who once mooted the idea of rounding up the indigent and imprisoning them in a giant concentration camp on Governors’ Island. As one can clearly see, Rudy represents the highest ideal of the rethug party: mindless brutality.
So by this logic Obama can release the torture photos because the terrorists don’t care how we conduct our press interviews?
Or is Rudy saying the Muslims do not care how we Interview/torture people?
The second conclusion is just a little hard to believe.
Rudy did try and stay on as co mayor after 9/11 to help Bloomberg which was as weird as a college guy hanging out in the highschool parking lot.
There is no logic, it’s just rudy shooting his mouth off trying to sound “in the know”.
It was what Rudy did to the homeless in NYC….. He was so brutal
Hey!
hey didja see my 51? (sorry, busy backstage)
brutal, some people find that quite appealing. they named an after shave after it I think. Brutal 66 or something. :0
ES is upstairs.
hey Rudy. Remind me now.. how many delegates did you win in your late and unlamanted quest for the Republican nomination? And how much did that one solitary delegate cost?;-P
Thomas Frank had a nice piece yesterday on how the Villagers (i.e. MSN) only care about power. For some reason they still believe that the Republicans hold power, which is why Guliani and the other Grinch can get aay with their lies. When you are the Power, what you say is true. Now, given the election and the clear hold on power that Obama seems to have, this is all very odd. I assume that at some point the Villagers will come around, since their living depends on their sucking up. Just takes time to fnd that other teat.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” … “I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.” Norman Thomas