Giuliani was having none of it, calling ferrets wild animals like tigers.
Sheesh Rudy, that is soooo gay.
I guess Rudy thinks Central Park is 'The Great Outdoors'.
Posted on 02/25/2007 12:22:29 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Temper, thin skin may hurt candidate
Have you ever noticed how really macho guys will dress in drag at the drop of a hat? Try inviting a football team to a Halloween party and you'll see what I mean. I don't know why this is so, but it is. Which is why the video of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani that's burning up You Tube, in which America's Mayor dresses in swishy silk, red lipstick and a blond wig, doesn't seem entirely out of character.
Recorded for a press roast in 2000, the video also features a lascivious Donald Trump (playing himself) fondling Hizzoner's (Herroner's?) pneumatic breasts.
Creepy, yes. Misogynistic, yes. Embarrassing, you bet. But not necessarily out of character for a man who'd spent most of his career being a professional tough guy. And not out of character for a lame-duck mayor, unpopular with much of his constituency, who believed that his political career was at an end. Who, a year before his reputation would be resurrected in the wake of 9/11, had no idea that he'd ever be running for president.
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center changed Giuliani's fortunes in the space of a few days. His relentless on-camera stoicism in the first hours after the Trade Center collapsed - when our president looked like a deer caught in the headlights and the vice president was nowhere to be seen - calmed a terrified nation.
When several days later Oprah Winfrey dubbed Giuliani "America's Mayor," even Giulani's critics, and there were many, couldn't argue with the honorific. He was even named Time's Person of the Year.
Since then, based on that one horrible day in his long political career, Giuliani has built a multimillion-dollar consulting company. He commands astronomical fees for speaking engagements. And he's announced he's running for president. In fact, recent polling data (realclearpolitics.com) show Giuliani with a nearly 15 percent average lead over his closest competitor, John McCain.
But now that he's taken such a commanding lead, Giuliani is going to face scrutiny of his career before 9/11 and since. And frankly, his turn as a drag queen is going to be the least of his worries.
Giuliani is a problematic candidate for the Christian conservative wing of the Republican Party. He started his political career as a Democrat and still maintains liberal positions on abortion, gay rights and gun control. And then, Rudy isn't exactly a family values poster boy. He's been married three times. When he decided to leave his second wife and two children for his girlfriend, he held a press conference to announce it - without bothering to let his wife know about his plans.
The ferret fiasco
Although Giuliani may hope that his progressive social beliefs will win him a big cross-over vote from registered Democrats, revelations about his high-handed, autocratic mayoral style will certainly scare off lovers of free speech, freedom of the press and civil liberties.
Rudy's dislike of the press was notorious, earning him a reputation for "ridiculously thin skin and a mile-wide mean streak." He had a dreadful relationship with the black community, exacerbated by his stubborn support for the NYPD in the wake of police scandals involving the beating and sodomizing of a male prisoner and the shooting deaths of several unarmed men.
And then Giuliani became obsessed with seemingly minor issues in a way that seemed almost pathological. His attempt to cut funding for a Brooklyn art museum after it showed artwork he deemed offensive is perhaps the best known such incident.
But much more telling, I think, was his dust-up with the ferret lovers of New York City. In May 2001, the city council of New York considered doing away with a 1959 ban on owning ferrets. Giuliani was having none of it, calling ferrets wild animals like tigers. The ban remained in place.
When David Guthartz of New York Ferrets' Rights Advocacy called Giuliani's weekly radio program to press again for the rights of pet owners, the mayor went ballistic.
"There's something deranged about you," he told Guthartz. "The excessive concern that you have for ferrets is something you should examine with a therapist, not with me."
When the caller objected to the mayor's characterization, he was cut off.
Giuliani then began a three minute rant - a lifetime on radio - that reveals more about his own emotional issues than the caller's (you can listen to the entire segment at thislife.org, episode 146, 12/10/99). He comes across as an angry, rude man, disgusted by the very idea of ferrets, and revealingly conversant in the kind of psychobabble that people pick up in the therapist's office.
It's one of the funniest pieces of radio I've ever heard. Or rather, it would be funny if it weren't real. And if the man who made it weren't leading the early polls for the presidential nomination.
No one in this world is 100% perfect. We can only vote for the party's candidate who comes the closest. Kerry was the nearest to perfection that the Dems could come up with. It will mean Hillary is the closest if she is nominated. All candidates have a skeleton or two hidden in their closet. In Bush's case it was a traffic ticket for DWI at 20?, (ooooooooooh), and an AWOL charge that you knew was BS, if you had served any time in the NG or Reserves. (And knew the ET proceedures.) The Dems are worried about Guliani even though he is a RINO. They are afraid he will bring people out to vote and take away a good percentage of the minority vote they depend on.
You have to go to approximately 22:00 on the audio to find this interview.
Somehow I get the impression this Hillary person doesn't like Rudy.
That is funny. I like him. He says what he thinks. I'm still not voting for him but I like him.
Hillary Nelson is the pen name for Hillary Clinton. Nelson is an actual leftist.
Yeah, Christ's mother covered in dung is no big deal.
Being offended by that is real evidence of pathology!
????? - Parallel universe?
Giuliani was having none of it, calling ferrets wild animals like tigers.
Sheesh Rudy, that is soooo gay.
I guess Rudy thinks Central Park is 'The Great Outdoors'.
Supposedly an article about Giuliani but the author could not esist throwing in a completely unrelated, unnecesary, and untrue barb against the President.
Yet another victim of BDS. I hope there is a cure someday, because if there isn't, who will these morons pick to vent their anger against after he is gone from office?
Maybe their little tiny brains will swell up and their heads will explode.
"Support"?
The perp was dismissed from the force, tried, convicted, and is serving time.
The Mayor rightly said this crime was not representative of the force.
And it's very revealing that Sharpton and Maddox put the victim up to perjury by having him say that the cop who sodomized him said, "Get used to it, it's Giuliani time" - which was later revealed to be a lie, but consistent with the pathological hatred of the left for the next President of the United States.
The President was supposed to jump up and say, "Children, the country is under attack from terrorists. Hide under your desks, while I go to Washington immediately because I can't make any decisions or look like a leader unless I'm there waiting for a plane to fall out of the sky on top of me."
Rudy Giuliani
1989- "I've said that I'll uphold a woman's right of choice, that I will fund abortion so that a poor woman is not deprived of a right that others can exercise, and that I would oppose going back to a day in which abortions were illegal." Phil Donahue Show
I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights,Giuliani said. He was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions. "No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing," he responded." -- CNN.com, "Inside Politics" Dec 2, 1999
Rudy Giuliani is a proponent of gun control who supported the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapon Ban
His thoughts on the gay-marriage amendment? "I don't think you should run a campaign on this issue," he told the Daily News earlier this month. "I think it would be a mistake for anybody to run a campaign on it -- the Democrats, the president, or anybody else."
"Rudy Giuliani came out yesterday against President Bush's call for a ban on gay marriage.
The former mayor, who Vice President Cheney joked the other night is after his job, vigorously defended the President on his post-9/11 leadership but made clear he disagrees with Bush's proposal to rewrite the Constitution to outlaw gays and lesbians from tying the knot."I don't think it's ripe for decision at this point," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press.""I certainly wouldn't support [a ban] at this time," added Giuliani..."
When Congress enacted immigration reform laws that forbade local governments from barring employees from cooperating with the INS, Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed suit against the feds in 1997. He was rebuffed by two lower courts, which ruled that the sanctuary order amounted to special treatment for illegal aliens and were nothing more than an unlawful effort to flaunt federal enforcement efforts against illegal aliens. In January 2000, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, but Giuliani vowed to ignore the law.
Mr. Rockefeller represented "a tradition in the Republican Party I've worked hard to re-kindle - the Rockefeller, Javits, Lefkowitz tradition." -- Rudy Giuliani, New York Times, July 9, 1992
"Shortly before his last-minute endorsement of Bob Dole in the 1996 presidential election, [Giuliani] told the Post's Jack Newfield that "most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine." The Daily News quoted [Giuliani] as saying that March: "Whether you talk about President Clinton, Senator Dole.... The country would be in very good hands in the hands of any of that group."
Revealing at one point that he was "open" to the idea of endorsing Clinton, he explained: "When I ran for mayor both times, '89 and '93, I promised people that I would be, if not bipartisan, at least open to the possibility of supporting Democrats." -- Rudy - An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, Wayne Barrett, Page 459
Sounds like this column could have been ghost written by Nancy Pelosi or Dennis Kucinich.
I'm still undecided, but stuff like this does not run me away from Rudy... Anyway, I HATE ferrets!
The blindness of the "Stop Giuliani with anything we can get our hands on" crowd is now laughable.
This article should be a boost of Giuliani for Republicans.
It rightfully dismisses the drag costume as a proof of secure machismo and then blames Giuliani for being what Conservatives are supposed to love.
Anti Black civil rights- which in truth really means he took no crap from Al Sharpton and his gangs.
Pro police
Anti MSM
Anti religiously profane art
And, by example here, intolerant of politically correct animal rights groups supporting ferrets. An impeachable offense if there ever was one.
If Giuliani was less then popular towards the end of his term, it's because he made all the right (and the Right's) enemies.
The bottom line from listening to it, is that there is nothing on it, that raises any concern on my part about Rudy's temperamental fitness to be president.
] And there you have it.
Our President was at a elementary school reading to students there
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