On the February 7, 2007, edition of MSNBC’s Imus in the
Morning, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews heaped praise on GOP
presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. Matthews called the former
mayor of New York City, former federal prosecutor, and Reagan’s
special envoy to Haiti, “the kind of gutsy, street-corner
politician we all grew up with” who “stood on the
corner during the fire and told us what was going on.”
Matthews said that he would like “[a] guy who wasn’t
on the ranch during Katrina -- who was out on the street corner
answering questions.” Matthews added: “I’m so
sick of Southern guys with ranches running this country. I want
a guy to run for president who doesn’t have a [expletive]
-- I’m sorry -- a ranch. Wouldn’t that be good?”
Matthews again touted the progress Giuliani made in improving
olfactory conditions in New York City, asserting that “subways
didn’t smell like pee anymore” and that “[e]ven
the phone booths in New York have always smelled like pee.”
Matthews made similar claims on the February 5, 2007, editions
of MSNBC Live and Hardball, both noted by Media Matters for America.
Matthews also claimed that Giuliani “made you feel like
you had a right to walk the street safely” and added, “I
think the country wants a boss like that, you know? A little bit
of fascism there. Just a little bit. Just a pinch of it.”
Giuliani knows a lot about pushing and encouraging pinches and
slaps of fascism.
Lessons on Torture and Murder by Rudy
In April 1982, as 2,100 Haitians sat in an American prison, their
reward for escaping the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier,
then Associate Attorney General of the United States, Rudolph
Giuliani, told the courts and the public that these people should
be repatriated because, as Giuliani put it, “The refugees
had nothing to fear from the government of Jean-Claude Duvalier”
(roving bands of the Tonton Macoute notwithstanding).
In statements to the federal courts and the press, Giuliani said
that dictator “Baby Doc” Duvlier had personally assured
him that Haitians returned from the United States were not persecuted.
“Political repression is not the major reason for leaving
Haiti,” Giuliani concluded.
Years later, as mayor, Giuliani would let another group of blue-uniformed
thugs torture and terrorize Haitians and Black people, as he unleashed
the NYPD to enforce “Giuliani Time.”
In 1997, after Justin Volpe had raped Abner Louima, who required
surgery to repair a ripped colon and a set of new teeth (knocked
out with a feces covered nightstick). Giuliani sided with lying
cops who tried to cover up the horrific abuse. I guess Giuliani
felt that the city should not have paid Louima $8.75 million in
compensation for the night of hell – but then again, Giuliani
did not have to pay the bill!
In February 1999, after four of Giuliani’s thugs gunned
down an unarmed, African immigrant, Amadou Diallo, from point
blank range – only hitting Diallo with 19 of 41 shots from
a distance of five feet, Giuliani defended their poor marksmanship;
efforts to have the trial removed from NYC and then the acquittal
of White thugs who assassinated an innocent. The city settled
for $3 million.
When New York’s murder machine killed Patrick Dorismond,
we really learned what Giuliani’s pinch felt like …
and we could imagine what Il Duce might bring to the nation as
president.
In March 2000, Plan Giuliani encouraged two cops to descend like
vultures on a couple of marks – aka Niggers. An undercover
cop approached Haitian immigrant, Patrick Dorismond, and a friend
and propositioned them to buy some marijuana. (I think Giuliani
would call this – detective work). Dorismond and his friend
responded in a way that would make Nancy Reagan proud –
he said “No.” But moreover, Dorismond tried to get
the “drug dealing scum” away from him and began to
attack the drug pusher! What was Dorismond’s reward for
being the object of a sting? He was assassinated – shot
pointblank in the chest, because he REFUSED to buy drugs from
a cop! As an epilogue, the city paid the family of Dorismond a
$2.25 million settlement.
Those are the hallmarks of Giuliani time. Cops who gun-down innocents,
try to peddle drugs, and rape men in handcuffs. By the way, Volpe
and his attorneys blamed Louima’s internal bleeding and
near death experience (which included broken teeth) on faggots.
Not only are Giuliani cops thugs, butcher and liars, but homophobic
pussies as well.
9/11 Rock Star?
Let’s move beyond one facet of the criminal record of Giuliani
and look at events that made the lispy womanizer a media darling.
How did the Mayor handle 9/11? In reference to 9/11, Matthews
made the claim that Giuliani “is a front-runner because
the voters like this guy because during 9-11 he was the one guy
there on the street corner, not hiding like all the other pols
did.”
Yes, I remember it well … Giuliani was out front, with
then EPA head Christie Todd Whitman, whose credentials were that:
(1) she had lost an election; and (2) had served as Governor of
New Jersey – a high-polluting state. Claiming the the air
was clean - with reassurances from Whitman and Bush, Giuliani
pushed New Yorkers to return to work – while the fires still
raged and toxics filled the air. After nearly three weeks, when
chemical tests showed that the air in New York had asbestos, fiberglass,
and dust from pulverized computers, glass and concrete - levels
that are now manifest in respiratory ailments, sick-leave, disability
and death, the “guy on the street corner” said:
“Although they occasionally will have an isolated reading
with an unacceptable level of asbestos … it’s very
occasional and very isolated. The air quality is safe and acceptable.”[1]
In legalese we call this type of fraud, criminal conduct. But
then again, such trivializing of an environmental disaster like
the implosions of WTC buildings 1, 2, and 7 symbolize the care
that neo-cons, the petroleum industry, Big Pharma, and agri-business
have for our environment and planet. Il Duce has shown his stripes.
He supports dictators, does not mind sticking the public for the
bill when SWAT teams and delusional cops gun down the innocent,
encourages the drug war and all its inherent corruption (once
at a fund-raiser in South Texas, Giuliani he told attendees that
we could stop drugs entering the US from Mexico by getting better
human intelligence, i.e. more cops inside the cartels?!), likes
to commit adultery, shows loyalty to his sex partners by putting
them on the public payroll, and ignores or denies environmental
catastrophes. Yes, this is exactly the kind of person whom Chris
Matthews and Imus would applaud. I knew the press was filled with
liberals. Then again could I expect anything different from Matthews,
a guy who worked for Tip O’Neil and wrote for a paper in
San Francisco?
From the Horse’s Mouth
Here is a partial transcript of Matthews from the February 7
edition of MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning:
MATTHEWS: The subways didn’t smell like pee anymore. Even
the phone booths in New York have always smelled like pee …
And this guy cleaned it up, and he made you feel like you had
a right to walk the street safely. I think he did a great job.
… I think the country wants a boss like that. You know,
a little bit of fascism there. Just a little bit. Just a pinch
of it.
IMUS: Well, the lame observation being made by a lot of folks,
maybe it’s not lame, but -- that he can’t get the
nomination because, you know the right-wing nuts, you know --
MATTHEWS: that is such conventional wisdom, it is the kinda crap
… Look, if you go down to Jackson, Mississippi, you go to
Atlanta, Florida, you go anywhere in the South to men’s
clubs for lunch, who is the number one speaker they want? Giuliani.
You go around the suburbs of New York, Philadelphia, Detroit,
Chicago, … all those suburban areas … [people] say,
“I still love my city I want to go back. This guy Giuliani’s
saving my city for me.” I mean, I felt that way about Eddie
Rendell in Philadelphia. We love good mayors ‘cause we love
our cities, and Giuliani’s the city guy.
And I’m so sick of Southern guys with ranches running this
country. I want a guy to run for president who doesn’t have
a fucking -- I’m sorry -- a ranch. Wouldn’t that be
good? A guy who wasn’t on the ranch during Katrina -- he
was out on the street corner answering questions. Giuliani was
answering questions.
[...]
MATTHEWS: I think Giuliani’s the kind of gutsy, street-corner
politician we all grew up with. When there was a fire, the police
commissioner showed up with the fire commissioner and stood on
the corner during the fire and told us what was going on. We miss
that.
IMUS: Oh, I love the guy -- no, you’re not -- you’re
preaching to the choir here.
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