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.
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.
What you and your pals find objectionable about my posts, is that unlike you, I post facts.
Is this the best you can do? LOL
LOL........you hit every point and then some! :-)
Of course not. But it was all that was necessary at the moment.
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.
That mantra is useless when addressing liberals.
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
“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. ;^)
In order to keep your posting privileges? ;^)
OTOH, you do believe and agree with LIBERAL talking points and propaganda...when it is an aid to your blinkered, biased views.
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.
No. In order to counter your sorry "point."
GIULIANI: A DRAG ON THE TICKET
It does. It involves bias, lies, and prejudice.
You have yet to refute or “counter” a single word of a single post I have made to this thread.
And yet I’ve still made you look ridiculous.
Why not point them out, VD, instead of empty charges?
Only in your own mind. LOL
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