I'm shocked.

/ 9/11

Yes. Giuliani never hesitated to evacuate his horribly misplaced and soon-to-be-demolished office and haul his mummified ass down the street.

Honestly, how is he not aware that he's become a punchline everywhere?

spedmonkey: Honestly, how is he not aware that he's become a punchline everywhere?

If he changes his schtick, then he would be seen as inconsistent!

Well, I am glad to see him sinking. Though this ad takes his candidacy to a whole new level of desperation.

I wonder why he would think this strategy would work?

...and when traffic was backed up, keeping him from taking a limo to screw his girlfriend behind his wife's back, Rudy walked there.

Rudy, nothing stands in his way.

Sorry, Rudy. Your "America's Mayor"(tm) schtick isn't working any more

What a wanker...

At first Rudy had me laughing at how many times he would drop the "9-bomb" per minute but now it's gotten out of hand. Sheesh, I'm not even in the US and Rudy's constant nineelevening everthing annoys me.

And when the fark did we waiver? I seem to recall a fairly immediate, nation-wide response to 9/11. Yeah, Rudy...you were there and kept your shiat together we all respect you for that, but it wasn't like we were a bunch of scarred kittens, asshole.

...and once when he found he was out of toilet paper, he took the coat of a passerby and cleaned himself up.

Spunky, quick thinking and cleanly wiped.

Rudy, a man you can count on.

OK, so I'm just as tired as anyone of hearing Rudy harp on 9/11, but why is it that we can't replay footage of the towers falling? I mean in general, not for pandering purposes.

Ninja_Pancakes: Sheesh, I'm not even in the US and Rudy's constant nineelevening everthing annoys me.

Doesn't annoy me. I agree more with the posters who feel it's a punchline.

Gun control? 9/11
Abortion? Well the lessons of 9/11....
Favourite candy? Last movie seen? Cost of a gallon of gas in 2009? 9/11. 9/11. $9.11.

Rudy has become like that guy on Family Feud who answers every question with "turkey".

I prefer the footage of crazy Latino gangbangers recreating the events for a time-travelled Sarah Conner with their fingers.

Bill_Wick's_Friend: Rudy has become like that guy on Family Feud who answers every question with "turkey".

At Trivial Pursuit, the answer is always Johnny Cash.

Oh, and f*ck you, Guiliani. F*ck you with a splintered and burnt piece of NYC construction re-bar. Shameless, pandering, exploitative, two-faced, prick.

Yeah, he didn't hesitate to order thousands of body bags - which, even if they could have been delivered on time, were unnecessary. And then tried to stiff the vendor he ordered them from.

He didn't hesitate to tell people to donate blood to the red cross, which was also unnecessary, and almost all of it was destroyed within a couple weeks.

But he helped the red cross buy a lot of vehicles and upgrade a lot of their administrative buildings by telling people to donate money to the red cross "for the victims families" that the red cross decided they needed more than the victims families.

Fark you, Rudy.

Jon Snow: I prefer the footage of crazy Latino gangbangers recreating the events for a time-travelled Sarah Conner with their fingers.

You know, in a show that I expected to suck heavily, there were actually some fairly good moments, and I thought that was one of them. Clever way to wrap up that scene.

thank god he hasn't won d*ck yet

vartian: And when the fark did we waiver?

No kidding. Literally within an hour of it happening I was getting annoyed by attention-whoring sorority girls calling every single one of their relatives in bumfark Georgia to "make sure they were okay" (HINT: if they weren't in Arlington, NYC or Pennsylvania, they're okay. I'm pretty sure that the Piggly Wiggly will escape the machinations of the evil terrorists one more day) and even they didn't overhype it a fraction of what Giuliani has.

The man is a ghoul. An utter farking ghoul.

vartian: And when the fark did we waiver? I seem to recall a fairly immediate, nation-wide response to 9/11. Yeah, Rudy...you were there and kept your shiat together we all respect you for that, but it wasn't like we were a bunch of scarred kittens, asshole.

This. I can't really figure out what Giuliani did that any other mayor of a major city wouldn't have been able to do under the same circumstances. (OK, so he did do a better job than Ray Negrin. I'll give you that.)

Especially since he was probably working off emergency plans created months, if not years, in advance. It's not like everyone in New York City's government was running around screaming "OMG OMG WHAT DO WE DO NOW?" and Rudy stepped in and said, "Sit down and listen up. Here's how we get the garbage trucks running again."

Umm...how can history hesitate? Unless the explosions were somehow powerful enough to distort the time-space continuum, I'm not grasping that concept.

...and last Thursday, when several volunteers discovered that only plain cake donuts were left, Rudy picked up the phone and ordered 5 dozen more, many with sprinkles.

Leadership in a time of crisis.

I didn't see that coming.

jake_lex: I can't really figure out what Giuliani did that any other mayor of a major city wouldn't have been able to do under the same circumstances.

Heh, I have a feeling that if this happened in Chicago, Daley would've had some of his "associates" pay Mr. bin Laden a nice little visit.

/He sends one of your buildings to the ground, you tear apart his whole organization
//That's the Chicago way

That's it. I'm voting for Rudy for President of 9/11/01.

President of the US? Not so much.

I heard the version with yakety sax as the theme music was let on the cutting room floor...

You really do have a group of mentally ill people to choose from. What the HELL is going on in the United States of America??

Rudy Ghouliani is evoking the shades of 9/11 yet AGAIN?

The guy who refused to spring for proper radios fer the first responders?

The guy who left his emergency command center in the towers despite being told repeatedly that they were the freakin' target?

The guy who can't even get the 9/11 firefighters to vote fer him is still stuck on that schtick?

Good luck with that.

Phil Moskowitz: You really do have a group of mentally ill people to choose from. What the HELL is going on in the United States of America??

Okay, settle down. We recognize the problem and are dealing with it, not to worry. We won't be voting Rudy into office any time soon.

oh no no no......

Suspected BS until I watched it: pops

jake_lex: (OK, so he did do a better job than Ray Negrin. I'll give you that.)

Ray Negrin? I don't know what to say to that. It makes absolutely no sense. It has no place in the criticism. It basically just makes you look like an asshole.

vartian: We recognize the problem and are dealing with it, not to worry.





Took long enough...

pwhp_67

But see, compared to Rudy Giuliani Bush was the picture of subtlety in playing on the fears of 9/11. I mean, Giuliani comes off as subtle as Lois Griffin running for mayor, and jesus, when you look like a very broad cartoon, you're definitely not doing it right.

*The camera pans over a desolate wasteland*

*Two crows fly in screen, landing on the twisted, rusting remains of a jungle gym*

*The theme from High Plains Drifter begins*

*The camera pans to an old pair of boots, slowly rising to show a man clad in leather, wearing several sidearms and smoking a thin cigar*

*He draws and fires, the birds drop to the ground*

*The voiceover*

Rudy, tough on birds, tough on crime.

*Fade to black*

This comment from a TPM reader makes me smile inside.

Rudy's collapse is the mark of the worst presidential campaign in history. Think about it: Rudy Gulliani was the national frontrunner a year ago in many, many polls. He led virtually all of his Republican opponents, and several of the top Democratic candidates as well. Today, he has been drubbed in every race and is left in a do-or-die situation in Florida. Two of histories previous "worst" campaigns, Texans John Connally and Phil Gramm, were never considered the front-runners, never led in any polls and never had the continued, recent national exposure that Rudy has enjoyed. They spent far less money and accomplished really the same results. Generations of political historians will pick at the Rudy 08 corpse and wonder what the hell happened. Losing is one thing, but this glorious flameout is one for the ages.

Good taste and respect for the dead take a holiday.


/Ron Paul '08!

He should get a little platform with wheels on it and load it up with rubble. He could get 2 campaign workers to dress up like fire fighters and pull him around while he stands on the rubble platform talking about how why he thinks we should call him a hero because of 9/11.

thamike: Yes. Giuliani never hesitated to evacuate his horribly misplaced and soon-to-be-demolished office and haul his mummified ass down the street.

THIS. Who the heck locates their command center in an area like the WTC. Burry that farker in the ground somewhere safer from attack then the WTC.

Giuliani is suffering from 9/11 Tourette's Syndrome. (No I didn't think it up, but it's funny.)

I like how the ad starts by claiming Rudy fought corruption.

He fired an honest, incredibly respected and effective police chief to replace him with a mob-connected buddy of his.

Rudy doesn't fight corruption, Rudy is corruption.

Nestea Plunge: Rudy cared enough that he dumped unsifted fill containing body and bone fragments into a landfill.

You want the Teamsters shoulda made sausages outta it?

Our new national anthem: (feel free to set this up on a loop tape)
Bassos in unison: ninelevenninelevenninelevenninelevenninelevenninelevenninelevenninelevennineleve nninelevenninelevenninelevenninelevenninelevennineleven
Joining in on ALto Tenor: Iraq Iran Iraq Iran Iraq Iran Iraq Iran Iraq Iran Iraq Iran Iraq Iran Iraq Iran Iraq Iran Iraq Iran Iraq Iran
And joining in on chorous: Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan
Try this in your head, accapella, and imagine Corky and the Juice Pigs doing it live.

I was at the burning site way before him. What do I get Rudy?

T.M.S.: I was at the burning site way before him. What do I get Rudy?

Lung cancer.

Theaetetus: Lung cancer.

The elusive miseducated real-life LOL. You has one.

This is just wrong, Rudy. Very, very wrong. It's not an ad full of win, it's ad full of lose. And wrong.

disgusting

That famous footage of him at The World Trade Center, was him hauling ass away from the situation not to it.

If he ran away any quicker, there would have been flames shooting out of his ass.

He brought the city together? Yeah, right.

As Al Sharpton put it (and I hate Sharpton), "we would have come together even if Bozo the clown were mayor, it was a necessity.

Julie Rudianni can't find a single NYPD, or FDNY, to speak in his favor, or he would have one in tow, at every appearance.

When it comes to indiscretions, he makes Bill Clinton look like a choir boy.

Hell, even his own family won't speak in his favor.

There's something like five people who know who Hunter is and still that man has snagged more delegates than Guiliani. I'm glad no one is taking the bait. It says good things about this country.