Rudy plays 9/11 card when asked about Iowa loss.
By on Jan 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Rudy plays 9/11 card when asked about Iowa loss.
Asked by the New York Daily News today if he was worried about his sixth place finish in the Iowa caucuses yesterday, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani once again defended himself with a 9/11 reference. “None of this worries me - Sept. 11, there were times I was worried,” Giuliani told the paper. Giuliani, who mentions the date frequently, has previously used 9/11 as an excuse for rudely taking phone calls from his wife during speeches.
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Oh hell - so when does Rudy NOT play the 9/11 card, eh????
January 4th, 2008 at 12:50 pmRudi, Ruby, Rudee, forgit it: yer toast, all done, it's all over now, Baby Blue...
There is a Tidal Wave named Obama that is coming and will easily sweep away all Royalist Pretenders and will consign the Bush crime family to the scrap heap of history...
January 4th, 2008 at 12:51 pmWell played, 9iu11ani, well played...
January 4th, 2008 at 12:53 pmRudy's toast. The 911 card is worn out.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:53 pmPeople are getting the 411 on him and they aren't liking what they see.
LOL... I guess he doesn't get that the whole 9/11 thing is probably why he lost so bad. PEOPLE ARE SICK OF IT. They want to move on already.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pmRudy + 9/11 card = hosed.
And I am still cracking up that Rudy came in last place and Ron Paul, all of people, beat Rudy!
January 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pmPut it on your headstone Rudy, you're history.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pmSept. 11, there were times I was worried,†Giuliani told the paper.
Too bad Roody wasn't worried enough before 9/11 to give the NYFD the working radios they had been begging him for years.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pmSeriously, he doesn't want to win people. He is an intelligent if a little self-absorbed, human being. Why would he constantly mention 9/11 KNOWING surely that we're all SICK of it? He can't be this stupid. Heck, no one can. Something is happening.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:56 pmI thought the comedy writers were on strike too.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:56 pmoh, that is just pathetic... his most transparent use of this tactic yet...
January 4th, 2008 at 12:57 pmDAMN, that low.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:58 pmGiuliani flunked Iowa 'cos his guys on the ground found their communication equipment didn't work.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:59 pmRudy needs to take his blood money and retire to Florida. Permanently.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:00 pmHe should set up his campaign headquarters in a building that is about to be demolished....oh wait, he has already done that once.
Rudy 911, your fear mongering isn't working anymore, the people are beginning to realize that it was a set up, even the repukian idiot sheeple are getting it.
Bush/Cheney/Rudy
Hague Trials '09
Buck Fush
January 4th, 2008 at 1:01 pm"Why did the chicken cross the road? Because i was there on 9/11."
Rudy's favourite joke.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pmHe can’t be this stupid. Heck, no one can. Something is happening.
Comment by robertoroberto — January 4, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
Stupid is a winning attribute among Republican candidates.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:07 pmRudy needs to take his blood money and retire to Florida. Permanently.
Comment by Leftside Annie — January 4, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
No damnit, keep him out of my state.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:08 pmAnd I thought that the reason Giuliani was being called by his wife was to make sure he DIDN'T say he was filing for divorce before talking to her first!
Old joke, but one that just doesn't get old!
January 4th, 2008 at 1:08 pmRudy has the "911" version Turet's.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:09 pmQ: Hey Rudy - what's your favorite sex position?
January 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pmA: 911.
Noun, verb, 9/11.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pmHis advisers must be Democrats because they are doing a great job of ruining his bid for the President.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pmThis one trick pony has pulled up lame. They shoot horses don't they?
January 4th, 2008 at 1:20 pmR(J)udy; about 9/11, don't wear it out.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pmsarc.
9 will get you 11 he's finished.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pmAnyone else think there is a directly inverse ratio between Rudy's chances at becoming president and Judi filing for divorce?
January 4th, 2008 at 1:24 pmBut, but, but, 9/11.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pmCLINTON DID IT!!!!!
Comment by good_golly — January 4, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
January 4th, 2008 at 1:37 pmGiuliani is a loser!
January 4th, 2008 at 1:37 pmRudy Giuliani after an auto accident:
Rudy: Call 911
January 4th, 2008 at 1:38 pmStaffer: Call.....who?
Rudy: Call 911 911
Staffer: Yes, sir, but who do you want me to call?
Rudy: 911 911, call 911 911
Staffer: I'm trying to follow you here.
Rudy: I 911 want 911 you 911 to 911 call 911 911 911
Staffer: I'm with you right up to the word 'call', sir.
Rudy: God 911 Dammit 911, I 911 want 911 you 911 to 911 call 911 the 911 phone 911 number 911 911 911.
Staffer: Sir, this is really confusing me now.
Rudy: This 911 time 911, I'm 911 not 911 just 911 saying 911 911 911 after 911 every 911 word 911. I'm 911 talking 911 about 911 the 911 real 911 911 911 you 911 idiot 911.
The Gauleiter of 9/11.... Ve haff vays of making you yawn!
January 4th, 2008 at 1:41 pmCaptain Rudy: "Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action."
January 4th, 2008 at 1:43 pmGiuliani... go and 9/11 yourself!
January 4th, 2008 at 1:59 pmApparently the "Terrorists" won, eh Rudy?
Go away. Move to Israel.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:00 pmGuiliani uses the term "9/11" like the Smurfs used the term "Smurf".
January 4th, 2008 at 2:01 pmRudy needs to understand that a steely candidates like himself can fall at the speed of gravity with just a small fire on the 6th place finish.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:04 pmDid Silverstein Properties have an insurance policy on him?
Maybe he does have a tumor which would explain the cartoonish references to 9/11 under all scenarios and hospital visit in STL. I mean, who is more cartoonish -- Romney or Guilliani? Tough question.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:32 pmIf Giuliani was asked to comment on ANYTHING without using the term "9/11", his head would probably explode.
I doubt that his sixth place finish in Iowa was due to Iowans seeing him for what he is, it's more like it that Rudy spent very little time and money there -- writing off the state as being not worth the effort.
He's probably concentrating more on states where they still dance to the 9/11 tune.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:33 pmAnd a few days ago Rudy proposed that we now call ourselves:
The 9/11 Generation
But instead of Pepsi it will be Kool-Aid.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:59 pm...who is more cartoonish — Romney or Guilliani? Tough question.
Comment by NoMoreBush
Nah, that's easy. Huckabee.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pmI 9/11 don't 9/11 understand 9/11 why 9/11 TP 9/11 keeps 9/11 bashing 9/11 Giul9/11ani. 9/11. C'mon. 9/11.
~9/11
January 4th, 2008 at 3:29 pmRudy has played the 9/11 so often, it's in as good a shape as my 1974 Brooks Robinson card that I had stuck in the spokes of my bike with the sissy bars and banana seat.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:44 pmlook for the quote... heard earlier on ed shultz, that HILLARY
played the TERROR card today, talking to the press...
she's seen the intel... there are bad guys who want to hurt us...
and evidently she's the only dem candidate who can protect us...
pathetic...
January 4th, 2008 at 4:22 pm"Was it over on 9/11 when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!"
January 4th, 2008 at 6:51 pmBetween Ghouliani & Chimpy, there's no milk left in that 9/11 cow!
Even some of the biggest supporters of the war at this point roll their eyes when Rudy pulls the 9/11 card.
You're done, Rudy. As C3PO once said: "Thank the maker!"
January 4th, 2008 at 7:56 pmHe’s probably concentrating more on states where they still dance to the 9/11 tune.
Comment by missmolly — January 4, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
I would guess those "states" are Frozen, Vegetative, Catatonic and maybe Florida.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:18 pmRude-y Julie Annie - "I just shit my pink leotards because I thought of the Islamo-fascist terrorist, I'm going to run home and hide under my bed.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-hQGgwJ5cQQ
January 4th, 2008 at 9:07 pm