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AP Portrayed Rudy Giuliani as Cross-Dressing and 'Gender-Bending' While Knocking Conservatives
News Busters - Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias ^ | April 17, 2007 | Lynn Davidson

Posted on 04/17/2007 6:01:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Then the AP neatly buttonholed questions about whether what is being slyly portrayed as a bourgeoning alternative lifestyle “could damage his campaign” among conservatives and particularly Southerners. The secondary message is that Southerners and conservatives are homophobic and intolerant.

There’s another snide article about Rudy Giuliani in a dress. In the past, the media have gleefully reminded America that Rudy Giuliani has worn dresses during comedic performances such as the one on “Saturday Night Live,” but this April 14 AP article that appears on MSNBC took a different tone, one that leaves the reader with the impression that Giuliani is a transvestite. Along with a big picture of the former mayor “dressed in drag,” as the caption put it, the article elaborated in great giddy detail each time that Giuliani wore a dress or a costume like this:

It is difficult to shock New Yorkers, yet Rudy Giuliani teetered close to the line when he sauntered onto a stage wearing a platinum-blond wig, a face full of makeup, dainty white gloves and a frilly pink gown filled out in all the right places.

(...)

Shortly after winning re-election that year, Giuliani took his feminine side to a national audience. While hosting “Saturday Night Live,” he appeared in one skit as a bosomy, gray-haired Italian grandmother in lipstick and a flowered housedress, with stockings pulled halfway up his calves.

Instead of categorizing his dressing up for what they were, the AP portrayed those instances with a transvestite undertone that the article while making sure the reader knows the vaudeville bits “could significantly damage his chances” in the conservative primaries and in the South. The AP deliberately repackaged Giuliani’s comical performances into a sexually-charged coming out party through phrasing such as “dressed up like a girl,” “cavorting about in women’s wear,” “gender-bending gags,” “seeing him in drag” and descriptions like this:

Giuliani’s first drag appearance, in 1997, featured a breathy Marilyn Monroe impression that was followed by various other female alter-egos over the years, including one that shared a scene with Donald Trump, who groped Giuliani and buried his head between the mayoral breasts.

The AP portrayed the occasions as a gender-bending lifestyle commitment instead of a guy in a dress joking around at special events. Giuliani makes no secret his support of certain social issues and is not ashamed of his “cross-dressing.”

Then the AP neatly buttonholed questions about whether what is being slyly portrayed as a bourgeoning alternative lifestyle “could damage his campaign” among conservatives and particularly Southerners. The secondary message is that Southerners and conservatives are homophobic and intolerant.

The AP used the "Hey, I'm just putting the facts out. I'm not responsible for how people interpret them," technique, that is popular in the media and is often used to send a message without having to say it outright. It is a safety mechanism that allows them to make people understand that message without actually having to say something. It's a sophisticated method of gossiping.

After over five paragraphs discussing his frilly frocks and electability, the AP finally just came out with part of it:

For conservatives who already are leery of backing Giuliani because of his support for abortion rights and other positions on social issues, the feminine clothing may also remind them of his support of gays while mayor — despite the fact that the majority of cross-dressers are not gay.

Still, a poison-pen mailer or e-mail could easily imply a connection, observers say.

“I’m imagining the negative ads — they could use this as sort of an oblique reference to all of those positions,” said Clemson University political scientist Dave Woodard.

So, “a poison-pen mailer or e-mail could easily imply a connection.” Or an AP article. Kudos to the AP for pretending to deliver an LGBT-positive piece that somehow managed to insinuate that there is something wrong with Giuliani.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; election; giuliani; msm
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To: showme_the_Glory
His wasn't the "marshal" of the gay pride parade.

As mayor, he has also marched in the St. Patrick's Day Parades, the Columbus Day Parades, the Von Steuben Day Parades, the Kosciusko Day Parade, the Puerto Rican Day Parades, the Israeli Day Parades, the Haitian Day Parades, and all of the numerous other parades that are held annually in N.Y.C.! It's what mayors and other politicians do.

101 posted on 04/17/2007 4:43:38 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: dmw
HORSEFEATHERS!

What you and your pals find objectionable about my posts, is that unlike you, I post facts.

102 posted on 04/17/2007 4:44:52 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Petronski
You already know the answer to that question.

Is this the best you can do? LOL

103 posted on 04/17/2007 4:45:56 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: motzman

LOL........you hit every point and then some! :-)


104 posted on 04/17/2007 4:46:55 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Is this the best you can do?

Of course not. But it was all that was necessary at the moment.

105 posted on 04/17/2007 4:51:21 PM PDT by Petronski (FRED!)
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To: nopardons
” I post facts.”

You said that to me twice now. Why aren’t I convinced? I guess because I don’t believe liberal propaganda—not now—not ever.

Conservatives do NOT vote for liberals.

106 posted on 04/17/2007 4:59:53 PM PDT by dmw (Conservatives do NOT vote for liberals.)
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To: dmw
Conservatives do NOT vote for liberals.

That mantra is useless when addressing liberals.

107 posted on 04/17/2007 5:00:46 PM PDT by Petronski (FRED!)
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To: Nathan Zachary
Their opinions about NAMBLA became a small minority in the 1980s. The carefree, anything-goes attitude of the previous two decades was replaced by AIDs, Ronald Reagan, the moral majority, and a return to "traditional" values. Roe v Wade compelled Christian conservatives to enter the political arena; and they quickly followed the lead of Anita Bryant in realizing the tactical effectiveness of using the newly discovered problem of child sexual abuse to attack gay men. Without bothering to consider NAMBLA's actual positions, gays groups quickly distanced themselves from NAMBLA, expelling the group from their pride marches and events. Feminists followed suit, and came to associate NAMBLA with the patriarchal society that they believed had been subduing women and victimizing children since feudal times. Most importantly, local police departments across the country saw the recently launched war on "child molesters" as not only a campaign to protect children, but also as an unassailable way to increase their funding. It is in this context of social change, political retreat, and opportunism - not in the homeland security mindset of today - that a reader is best able to appreciate "A Witchhunt Foiled."

In December of 1982 the FBI, in concert with local law enforcement agencies, launched an investigation into whether NAMBLA had any involvement in the 1979 abduction of six-year-old Etan Patz. The investigation began after authorities raided the apartments of two NAMBLA members, and discovered several photographs of a young boy with roughly the same features as Patz. In the next week two New York City newspapers, the Herald American and the New York Times, reported that the Patzes had denied that the boy in the photos was their son. This did not deter law enforcement, however, and the FBI (including a young US Attorney by the name of Rudolph Giuliani) proceeded to leak misleading information to local media outlets in the ensuing weeks in an effort to generate enough public pressure that NAMBLA would fold. The New York Post, the Boston Herald, and the Daily News - coincidentally newspapers that were all owned by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch - printed sensational new stories, without any substantiation, that accused NAMBLA of being a "sex club" and a "porn ring." As all of this was unfolding, the FBI reportedly offered to release one of the detained NAMBLA members if he would confess that NAMBLA had assisted in Patz's kidnapping. He persisted in his denials.

Witchhunt Foiled: The FBI Vs. Nambla

http://www.amazon.com/Witchhunt-Foiled-FBI-Vs-Nambla/dp/096154970X?tag=dogpile-20

108 posted on 04/17/2007 5:01:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth shall set you free))))
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To: Petronski

“That mantra is useless when addressing liberals.”

I know, but every once in a while a liberal gets ticked off reading it. When that happens—it puts a smile on my face. ;^)


109 posted on 04/17/2007 5:08:22 PM PDT by dmw (Conservatives do NOT vote for liberals.)
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To: Petronski

In order to keep your posting privileges? ;^)


110 posted on 04/17/2007 5:30:23 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: dmw
You don't believe facts, because facts don't help nor further you agenda.

OTOH, you do believe and agree with LIBERAL talking points and propaganda...when it is an aid to your blinkered, biased views.

111 posted on 04/17/2007 5:32:45 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: motzman
The libs are playing divide and conquer---and many "conservatives" are helping them.

I'm not voting for Giuliani, primary or otherwise. He won't make it out of the primaries anyway, because he is the MSM candidate for the GOP nomination. What most Rudy supporters fail to understand is that they are being sold a bill of goods by the media.

The news media sees an election coming, and of course they want McCain to be our candidate, since he is the favorite RINO in the Senate. So, Rudy decides to run, and Romney looks like he might run, so the MSM promotes them as the only viable GOP candidates. The GOP then decides which of these 3 has the best chance of winning, and lines up behind their "best hope." This is the plan of the left. They will hype the ones they want us to nominate, then tear them down if they get too strong.

These guys all have their kryptonite. For Rudy, it's pictures of being in drag. If Rudy wins the primaries, these pictures will be in every article about Rudy Giuliani, bet on it. On a deep level, people will look at them, and derive impressions, which will affect their voting. I personally get just a little ill looking at them, because he really doesn't look that good as a woman, but you can tell he's really trying. Ickk!

McCain's kryptonite happens to be Charles Keating and the whole S&L debacle, and the treatment of his first wife after he got back from 'Nam. Romney is an easy target, because he is a Mormon, and I'm sorry to Mormons, but if you dig a little into the history of the Mormon church, you find that a lot of faith is needed to believe in Mormonism. Read The Kingdom of the Cults.

Romney will not be President, Rudy will not be nominated, and McCain will probably be the next Republican President if he can beat Hillary, and if the Left and the MSM have their way, which I think they will, judging by how many people eagerly jump on the 3 chosen bandwagons.

112 posted on 04/17/2007 6:01:42 PM PDT by webheart
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To: nopardons
In order to keep your posting privileges? ;^)

No. In order to counter your sorry "point."

113 posted on 04/17/2007 6:20:14 PM PDT by Petronski (FRED!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

GIULIANI: A DRAG ON THE TICKET


114 posted on 04/17/2007 6:22:22 PM PDT by Silly (plasticpie.com)
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To: areafiftyone
LOL! Now this sounds soooo familiar doesn’t it?

It does. It involves bias, lies, and prejudice.

115 posted on 04/17/2007 6:59:52 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (If you think the world's dangerous, and you need a tough guy... that's me [Rudy] --Newt Gingrich)
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To: Petronski

You have yet to refute or “counter” a single word of a single post I have made to this thread.


116 posted on 04/17/2007 9:07:13 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

And yet I’ve still made you look ridiculous.


117 posted on 04/17/2007 9:59:00 PM PDT by Petronski (FRED!)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
It involves bias, lies, and prejudice.

Why not point them out, VD, instead of empty charges?

118 posted on 04/17/2007 10:00:13 PM PDT by Petronski (FRED!)
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To: Petronski

Only in your own mind. LOL


119 posted on 04/17/2007 10:10:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Projection: You must read it, learn it, benefit from it, grow and prosper in spite of it.
120 posted on 04/17/2007 10:13:40 PM PDT by Petronski (FRED!)
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