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More Giuliani 9/11 Lies Exposed, He Only Spent 29 Hrs. Total at Ground Zero

Posted by Adam Howard at 12:00 PM on August 17, 2007.


Adam Howard: Turns out Rudy made mostly cameo appearances after the September 11th attacks.
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The New York Times reports that Rudy Giuliani has massively overstated, (surprise, surprise) the amount of time he put in at Ground Zero in the days and months following the terrorist attacks on September 11th. The article says:

A complete record of Mr. Giuliani's exposure to the site is not available for the chaotic six days after the attack, when he was a frequent visitor. But an exhaustively detailed account from his mayoral archive, revised after the events to account for last-minute changes on scheduled stops, does exist for the period of Sept. 17 to Dec. 16, 2001. It shows he was there for a total of 29 hours in those three months, often for short periods or to visit locations adjacent to the rubble. In that same period, many rescue and recovery workers put in daily 12-hour shifts.

As the folks at Talking Points Memo point out, that's a roughly 10 hours a month average compared to the average rescue workers, who typically averaged more than 400 hours on the site. We recently reported on what should go down as a fatal gaffe from Giuliani, where he boasted that he "spent as much time [at Ground Zero] as anyone...I was here five, six times a fay for four months. I kind of thought of it as living here." He then proceeded to say that in essence he too was a 9/11 worker.

A Queens first responder, Marvin Bethea, had the perfect retort: "Standing there doing a photo-op and telling the men, 'You're doing a good job,' I don't consider that to be working."

Long-time New Yorkers, or people like me who grew up in Jersey watching him make an ass of himself from nearby, have long suspected that Giuliani's vicious mean streak, his thin skin, his love of exaggeration and self congratulation and his blindness to the realities right in front of him would make him an enormously embarrassing presidential candidate, doomed to fail. But apparently lying about your response to the worst terrorist attack in our nation's history is a surefire way to become the GOP nominee.

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Tagged as: 9/11, election08, giuliani, 9/11 rescue workers

Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Aug 17, 2007 12:21 PM   
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So, now we have a new Republican Math for Heroism

29 hours for a rich asshole = 12 hours days for actual rescue workers

working on daddy's campaign = actually serving a tour of duty in Iraq. (well, at least now we know the logic behind Bush saying he finished his military service....)

And both are still not only viable candidates, but front runners.

Sick.

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Rescue Workers do not support Giulinani
Posted by: fanny666 on Aug 17, 2007 12:51 PM   
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wow!
Posted by: Dboy on Aug 17, 2007 3:54 PM   
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He sounds like the PERFECT replacement for George Bush...he just oozes Presidential.

Dboy

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» RE: wow! Posted by: ZenQuixote
"It's Giuliani time"
Posted by: frank69 on Aug 18, 2007 5:57 AM   
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As the NYPD used to say while beating up blacks and browns, "It's Giuliani time." Based on his lies about the WTC site, we know that "Giuliani time" means liar, liar, pants on fire!

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Two liars out -- one more trying to get in.
Posted by: JayMagoo on Aug 18, 2007 6:28 AM   
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Two of the White House's most notorious liars, Karl Rove and Tony Snow are leaving, which means with only George W. Bush there, they are running low on liars. Guiliani wants to bring the White House's quota of liars back up.
I know guys who lived at Ground Zero, guys who put in days and weeks searching through the rubble for body parts, and that big-mouth a-hole Rudy now wants us to believe posing for pictures there equates with that.
Republicans love Guiliani, and it's easy to see why. He's one of their own.

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what about the time Giulliani spent BEFORE 9/11?
Posted by: kellysgarden on Aug 18, 2007 7:10 AM   
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Giulliani also spent time at 9/11 BEFORE the attacks, in his bunker in WTC7. He was complicit with his foreknowledge of what was going to happen, shown by his statements afterwords that he "was told the towers were going to collapse."

He certainly has much blood on his hands in this regard.

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Rudy Kazootie for Dogcatcher
Posted by: larryracies on Aug 18, 2007 7:59 AM   
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Savvy New Yorkers have long known that Rudy Kazootie is a
nutcase control freak who is totally unsuitable to be president.
The appropriate slogan shold be: Rudy Kazootie for Dogcatcher.

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» Rudy for Dogcatcher ?? Posted by: zipper696