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Rudy's Bizarre Behavior (Unbelievable)
NewsMax.com ^ | 4-09-07 | Ronald Kessler

Posted on 04/09/2007 2:13:24 PM PDT by no dems

Rudy Giuliani has a lot to learn about campaigning outside of New York City.

The former New York mayor attended a roundtable discussion with heavy-hitters at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City recently. Two of the three co-hosts were natural gas billionaires who are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

“Mayor Giuliani was doing fine until one CEO asked him what his energy policy was,” a participant said. “He gave a very detailed and lengthy answer covering every energy source imaginable, but he never once uttered the words ‘natural gas.’ Considering where he was, who he was talking to, and who was sponsoring the fundraiser, it was very insulting and showed a lack of preparation.”

Another participant started to ask a question about Iraq.

“In the middle of the question, Mayor Giuliani’s personal cell phone rang, and he answered it,” the participant said. “At first, I think people thought he was kidding. But then he just started talking; and without looking up or saying anything to us, he just got up, left the room, and never came back! Everyone waited about 20 minutes, and then the room started to break up. It was bizarre behavior.”

A Giuliani spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: behavior; bizarre; cellphone; electionpresident; giuliani; julieannie; ragingidiot; rudy; rudy08; rudy2008; rudys; stoprudy2008
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To: no dems; Liz

Don’t be surprized to see more interviews sandbagged by Rudy’s handlers with ominous phone call interruptions when Rudy botches debates and discussions.

It’s not good for Rudy’s image for him to look incompetent.


21 posted on 04/09/2007 2:24:39 PM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: no dems

It keeps getting better and better with this guy.


22 posted on 04/09/2007 2:24:56 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: BykrBayb
"It was Saks, telling him they had a new line of dresses in."

LOL! Thanks. I'll get a new keyboard now... ;-)

23 posted on 04/09/2007 2:24:57 PM PDT by TommyDale ("Rudy can win the War on Terror!" Perhaps, but for whose side?)
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To: no dems

Judi pull a Kitty Dukakas on him?


24 posted on 04/09/2007 2:25:58 PM PDT by pissant (Have a blessed Good Friday)
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To: no dems

Rudy’s new shipment of Ethel Merman wigs must have arrived...


25 posted on 04/09/2007 2:27:21 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Hey mister, can you spare a carbon credit?)
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To: Spiff; Liz; narses; dirtboy; Extremely Extreme Extremist; Old_Mil; don-o; Kevmo; ...

I...really don’t know what to make of this.


26 posted on 04/09/2007 2:28:17 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Why vote for Duncan Hunter in 2008? Look at my profile.)
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To: Alberta's Child
Who the heck could be on the other end of the line that would prompt anyone to do this?

He was trying to talk one of his campaign staffers off a window ledge?

27 posted on 04/09/2007 2:29:08 PM PDT by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08/But Fred would also be great)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

The fact that it rang surprises me. Guys like him usually have it on “vibrate” and call their own number repeatedly.


28 posted on 04/09/2007 2:30:31 PM PDT by TommyDale ("Rudy can win the War on Terror!" Perhaps, but for whose side?)
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To: no dems

His handlers were listening. When it got to a question they didn’t want him to answer, they Pinged him.

That’s why he didn’t come back. Important phone call, y’know?


29 posted on 04/09/2007 2:30:50 PM PDT by dforest (Fighting the new liberal Conservatism. The Left foot in the GOP door.)
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To: no dems

I wonder if this story is really true.


30 posted on 04/09/2007 2:30:58 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Le chien aboie; la caravane passe.)
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To: no dems
Anonymous source in Newsmax.

Not a Guiliani supporter, but I do think stories like this are nothing but gossip.

31 posted on 04/09/2007 2:31:55 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Prayers for Jemian's son,: Lord, please keep him safe and bring him home .)
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To: azhenfud
"It’s not good for Rudy’s image for him to look incompetent."

Not much better for his image or his coffers to pi$$ off a bunch of billionaires and expose his arrogance by not only taking phone call, but leaving a group of listeners at their tables?

32 posted on 04/09/2007 2:33:31 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde; Peach; neverhillorat

Pinging my two favorite RudyBots.


33 posted on 04/09/2007 2:34:48 PM PDT by GunRunner (Rudy 2008, because conservatives can't win.)
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To: no dems
FWIW, a quick GOOGLE does confirm that he spoke at a private find raiser in Oklahoma City on 3/29: "Giuliani attended a private fund-raiser where supporters paid 23-hundred-dollars to attend a reception and photo opportunity and 500-dollars to attend a cocktail party."
34 posted on 04/09/2007 2:35:05 PM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas
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To: Alberta's Child

Maybe it was Kerik, describing an envelope of pictures. (just a guess)


35 posted on 04/09/2007 2:35:10 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: no dems

I’m no Rudy-man, but as “bizarre behavior” this seems like so much unpassed gas.


36 posted on 04/09/2007 2:35:12 PM PDT by cookcounty (No journalist ever won a prize for reporting facts. --Telling big stories? Now that's a winner.)
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To: no dems

It’s good to be the King!


37 posted on 04/09/2007 2:36:20 PM PDT by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: no dems
Your link leads to Yahoo News and no article. Have a link that works??
38 posted on 04/09/2007 2:37:05 PM PDT by veronica
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

heheheheheh!


39 posted on 04/09/2007 2:40:30 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek (President Fred Thompson will finally give the University of Memphis the respect that it is due!)
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To: Alberta's Child

It was his Mom. And NO, he didn’t want to put it on speaker.


40 posted on 04/09/2007 2:40:38 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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