Oh grow up. I was commenting on Letterman not Giuliani. But -- three hundred plus rescue people went inside those buildings and lost their lives. Rudy went -- as he should -- as the mayor, not a rescuer and no one told him the buildings were going to fall.
Letterman went on and on (and on and on) about G's 'courage' even saying how important it was to 'pretend' to be courageous even when you weren't. Why did he say that? Why did he interrupt Regis who was trying to say something nice about W?
Answer: Being half-informed and obsessed with his view that W is an incompetent he really believes the 'W ran' line. (Did Rudy have to order our pilots to shoot down American airliners? How many NYC mayors have been assassinated? Ans: none, zero, nada.). According to William Safire (Letterman can't read?) the terrorists even had the code name of Air Force One. (Were the terrorists gunning for Rudy? Did they even know his name?) Even Peter Jennings behaved properly on this matter as MRC now explains citing all of his comments on the 11th about W.
Anyone who criticizes Bush for 'running' is a scum bag. Letterman by hyping his Rudy comments and his silence on W is doing exactly that. Rather gave him a chance to second his (Rather's) comments on Bush and Letterman failed to speak.
Other posters (#13, #16, #23) seem to agree with me.
Oh give it up,
Are some of you REALLY upset because Dave left a few people out? Didn't mention our beloved President? Relax a little and give the guy a break. From what I've seen, Letterman said what was in his heart and the perspective of a NYC resident, Rudy is most certainly the man who did the best possible job of maintaining order in the middle of this chaos.
Letterman's failure to mention W. is hardly an overt act to portray the man in a bad light.
By the way, does anyone have or know of a link to this video that does NOT require RealPlayer?
Thanks