Giuliani invokes 9/11 to excuse cell phone gaffe.
During a speech to the National Rifle Association last week, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani interrupted his prepared remarks to take an impromptu phone call from his wife, Judith. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network recently, Giuliani invoked 9/11 to explain and excuse his rude moment during the speech:
“And quite honestly, since Sept. 11, most of the time when we get on a plane, we talk to each other and just reaffirm the fact that we love each other,” he said.
“Sometimes if I’m in the middle of a very, very sensitive meeting, I don’t take the call right then; I wait. But I thought it would be kind of nice if I took it at that point, and I’d done that before in engagements, and I didn’t realize it would create any kind of controversy,” he said.
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He’s pulled this stunt several times. I believe Jon Stewart already showed his pitiful “impromptu” interuption.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:29 pmDo you think that’s on his list of “too many things I regret” list?
September 28th, 2007 at 5:31 pmAnd how do we know (If he was actually talking to someone), that it wasn’t his latest mistress, and not his latest wife?
And, me thinks RUDEE has 9/11 embroidered on all his Victoria Secrets Frillies.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:32 pmRudy: the most shameless politician in America! The phoniest of the phony. The most morally bankrupt in a party that is completely morally bankrupt.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:33 pmThis candidate talks like a teenager…’ We talk to each other and just reaffirm the fact ,we love each other’…A new movie is in the making ‘Romeo of 9/11”.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:34 pmHere is a question the Repugs ought to ask themselves before they go All In for RUDEE: If his one-trick pony is 9/11 and the NYPD and FDNY are against him, what does he bring to the party, his stellar ability to manage his multiple marriages intertwined with his multiple mistresses?
September 28th, 2007 at 5:39 pmAnother example of republicons are FREAKING lunatics!
September 28th, 2007 at 5:40 pmThis shows how bad things are going for Rudy to use 9/11 as a reason for a phone call and how hurtful to the victims and their families. I hope the New York voters are watching how their ex Mayor is be little the tragedy of that horrible event for political gain.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:41 pmMaybe it was a phone call that allowed Rudy to be a no show to all minority Debates, you never know.
How lovely that since 9/11 — when he was married to his second wife — he’s been taking calls on airplanes from his third wife.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:42 pmIf I had a nickel for every time this one-trick-pony invoked 9/11 I’d be living large in the Cayman Islands right about now.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:42 pmYou can just bet that if Rudy ever had a “Larry Craig stall moment” he’dexplain it away by invoking 9/11 in some tortured, perverted logic.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:42 pmWasn’t Rudy married to another lady on 9/11? I thought divorce was against the rules for conservative Christians. IOKIFYAR, I guess.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:43 pmGiuliani is so rinky-dink that it’s becoming pretty embarrassing. I never realized just how simple-minded and shallow an individual he is. This is so unprofessional and syrupy….icky to imagine that he would feel compelled to take a phone call from his wife while delivering an important address. Is this a behavior acceptable to a commander in chief of this country? I think not. Most people don’t even permit their cell phones to ring in church for goodness sakes.
Get a grip, Rudy!
September 28th, 2007 at 5:48 pmOne trick Pony, Giuliani! Indeed!
September 28th, 2007 at 5:48 pmEverything changed after 9/11. Now it’s necessary to call your loved ones every time a potentially nasty experience is about to happen. Every phonecall is precious and could be your last one. There’s even a lineup of people on cell phones at the Minneapolis Airport washrooms these days.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:50 pmExpect a phone call from Judy,should he become the President, while he is giving the State Of The Union address…’I love you Judy, I am reaffirming that..’ !!
September 28th, 2007 at 5:52 pmWhat I find utterly comical at this point is that Giuliani actually believed the “lie” about himself - that he is some kind of super hero because of his being in the right place at the right time. In fact, he was so ultra prepared that his control center was set up a full two days in advance of 9/11 ostensibly for Cheney’s “war games” which were occuring simultaneous to the attack. In fact, these war games obscured for NORAD which ‘blips’ were bona fide aircraft and which were the “shills”….oooooeeee! This gets more juicy by the minute.
Bush figured that his budy, Rudy, would be a “shoe in” as he was the chosen one by his position on 9/11……NOT SO FAST!
It’s clear that this one-trick pony has nothing going on between his airs as well as no other credentials to be CIC than the man in the moon. I would think he’d be embarrassed to have such a limited background and nothing to add to the global discussion whatsoever.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:52 pmThere’s even a lineup of people on cell phones at the Minneapolis Airport washrooms these days.
Comment by Dave C — September 28, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
Are they calling the stalls phone booths or call stalls?
September 28th, 2007 at 5:52 pmtarazan: ewwwwww….imagine that….and he would answer by saying: Thufferin’ Thuccotash, Judy, what color is your peignoir tonight?
September 28th, 2007 at 5:53 pmJudy is MUCH more sensitive than Rudy’s first or even second wife. I’ve heard that while she was killing puppies in the process of demonstating medical equipment, she expressed a bit of remorse.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:58 pmI bet Rudy has “9/11″ stitched into his undies.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:01 pmBefore he answered it he said, “This is my wife calling, I think.” After saying “I love you, Dear,” he should have told the NRA crowd, “Turns out it wasn’t my wife, it was my gun.” He might have caught less flack for that.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:02 pmBiggest joke of all? He’s-a-republican-frontrunner!
How intellectually and morally bankrupt do those idiots hafta be?
September 28th, 2007 at 6:02 pm#19 Veritas..,
I love it…
September 28th, 2007 at 6:03 pmBTW, Rudy, “another great blessing of the modern age” is radio interoperability! But apparently you didn’t believe in that one enough to implement it after the first WTC bombing in ‘93.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:04 pmGiuliani claims he was looking for telephone addict like Judy,for a while.They fell in love at the first phone ring.
Giuliani claims that he left his two previous wives because they are not good at it any more….The phone thing,you know…not like Judy,who rings you all day anywhere anytime.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:06 pmOf all the things going on, is this really news?
September 28th, 2007 at 6:12 pmThe bottom line is this was intentional, although I can’t figure out for the life of me WHY he would have set that call up. Wierd. What person, politician or otherwise, would take a phone call when he/she is making a presentation/speech? In the real world, I mean.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:16 pmToo bad Julie Annie was still married to #2 when 9/11 occurred. Oh well, can’t let reality get in the way of Trudy’s bullshit.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:20 pmRudy = George. ‘Nuf said!
September 28th, 2007 at 6:24 pmUh oh, concern troll.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:27 pmWith apologies to Jon Stewart, Rudy has 9/11 Tourettes: “I’m sorry about being against assault weapons before being for them. *9/11* Why would my wife be ringing me now? *9/11* So what if I’m Catholic, divorced, pro-choice and gay-friendly? *9/11* *9/11* *9/11* *9/11*
AF
September 28th, 2007 at 6:31 pmOK, JulieAnnie.
Just 911 one question.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:54 pmHow 911 many times 911 are you 911 going to take 911 the image of the 911 twin towers and 911 their victims to make 911 political hay? 911.
Oh fer the luvva Jebus!!!! What a gigantic, humoungous, stinky load of horsesh*t!!!!!
September 28th, 2007 at 6:56 pmIt’s only news when Gulianni DOESN’T invoke 9/11.
~Sean
September 28th, 2007 at 6:56 pmhas anyone mentioned that he was not married to
this lates wife at the time of 9/11?
well, he wasn’t MARRIED to her…
September 28th, 2007 at 6:58 pm…
OK, you know the song “Bohemian Rhapsody”? Insert “9/11, 9/11, 9/11″ for “Mama Mia, Mama Mia, Mama Mia.”
Must be the end of a long week.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:59 pmFor “Katy” @ 36 — See Comments #9, 12 and 29. Guess Rudy didn’t think we’d do the math.
September 28th, 2007 at 7:09 pmThe only math he knows is 9/11.
Why doesn’t he just go ahead and, a al Prince, change his name to 9/11?
September 28th, 2007 at 7:11 pmRudy’s wife must be a colossal dip-shit to call him at such a time.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:02 pm.
Someone needs to call Rudy repeatedly while he’s in the middle of boinking her … or whatever he does….
Cheers,
September 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pmI bet Rudy has “9/11″ stitched into his undies.
Comment by Great Frybread King — September 28, 2007 @ 6:01 pm
Given Rudi’s well-publicized penchant for cross-dressing, it’s likely he has “9/11″ stitched into her undies too!
September 28th, 2007 at 8:57 pmCould I despise that prick any more than I already do? Wow!
September 28th, 2007 at 9:19 pmFor “Katy†@ 36 — See Comments #9, 12 and 29. …
Comment by For Truth — September 28, 2007 @ 7:09 pm
yea, i show up late, and ddidn’t read the comments…
Rudy’s wife must be a colossal dip-shit to call him at such a time.
.Comment by nofltwlt — September 28, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
she may be a dip-shit, but i seriously doubt that was a real call -
September 28th, 2007 at 9:24 pmso obviously staged and fake…
a REAL speechmaker would have his phone turned off.
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From AP today:
“Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani compared the scrutiny of his personal life marked by three marriages to the biblical story of how Jesus dealt with an adulterous woman”
Guliani is pathetic.
He uses 9/11 to claim himself a hero when all he did was begin to do the job he hadn’t on terrorism and where that job was just to show up like any Mayor would at a terrible disaster.
September 28th, 2007 at 9:54 pmHe equates himself to those who dug in that rubble when he mostly did photo ops and attended ballgames.
He acts like taking a phone call is proof of love and the result of the terrible trauma that he claims to own.
And now he wants to hide bewhind Jesus to avoid criticism for personal failings. No one has ordered him stoned to death for adultery. I doubt Jesus would have said one should not consider whether this person has repeatedly committed adultery and walked away from marriages when casting your ballots.
I wonder what Jesus would have said if Guliani , rather than the woman who was to be stoned for adultery under the then law, had been before him and the crowd.
He might not have instead said something like “Sorry Rudy but you as a prosecutor know the law of God and the Land must be obeyed and you violated them both. Somebody give me rock! ” I doubt it but Jesus certainly would have been more sorely tested than in the Biblical tale.