Giuliani: ‘God Forbid Somebody Would Do Some Reporting On Barack Obama’s Use Of Drugs’
Giuliani: ‘God Forbid Somebody Would Do Some Reporting On Barack Obama’s Use Of Drugs’
On Saturday, the New York Times published an investigative piece on Cindy McCain that delved into, among other things, her past addiction to painkillers. Responding with outrage, the McCain campaign called the article “gutter journalism at its worst” and released a pre-publication letter from McCain lawyer John Dowd that invoked Sen. Barack Obama’s youthful drug use:
It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a terrific lack of balance here.
In an interview with Fox News today, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani continued the assault on the Times, claiming that the paper had unbalanced coverage of the two candidates and that “there shouldn’t be two different rules for Republicans and Democrats.” Giuliani, unprompted, also brought up Obama’s past drug use:
GIULIANI: You can’t even — you can’t even raise these issues. And, you know, God forbid somebody would do some reporting on Barack Obama’s use of drugs. I guess that was the point that Mrs. McCain’s lawyer made.
After raising the issue of drugs, however, Giuliani then claimed, “I don’t think the Time[s] should” report on Obama’s drug use. Watch it:
Giuliani accused the Times of “not reading their own newspaper” when they claim to have balanced coverage. But God forbid that Giuliani actually read the Times, considering that the paper has already investigated Obama’s past drug use. In February 2008, the paper published an article that relied on “three dozen interviews” and found that to his friends and associates, Obama “did not appear to be grappling with any drug problems and seemed to dabble only with marijuana.”
Transcript:
KELLY: You know, the Times has come out saying, look, we’ve reported vigorously on the backgrounds of both candidates.GIULIANI: Yeah, like heck they have.
KELLY: And those who influence them, including both prospective first ladies. They claim that they’ve about just as tough on Michelle Obama.
GIULIANI: Well, they’re living — they’re living in their own bubble if they think that. I mean, in fact, they — it’s even worse than that. If you raise legitimate issues about Barack Obama, his connection with Ayers, his connection with Reverend Wright, his connection with Rezko who bought the house for him and went off to jail — you’re accused of being some kind of a mean, vicious, narrow- minded person.
You can’t even — you can’t even raise these issues. And, you know, God forbid somebody would do some reporting on Barack Obama’s use of drugs. I guess that was the point that Mrs. McCain’s lawyer made.
KELLY: Right. Mrs. McCain’s lawyer wrote to the Times saying — just so our viewers know — it’s worth noting that you’ve not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about having in his book, Dreams of My Father, nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya, et cetera.
GIULIANI: Now, I don’t think the Time should do that. I think, you know, the presidential campaigns have gotten bad enough. They shouldn’t do that.
But if they’re not going to do it do Obama, they shouldn’t do it to McCain. And they shouldn’t do it, certainly, to Cindy McCain. And there shouldn’t be two different rules for Republicans and Democrats. And if they don’t think they have two different rules for Republicans and Democrats, then they’re not reading their own newspaper.
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Well, Mr. 9/11 - after everyone decided it was no big deal that George W. Bush was a drunk and a cokehead until he was 40....
c'mon Ru-Giu, you get it. Now get the hell off the teevee.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:35 pmJebus, Ghouliani -- shut up, ya blithering, drooling moron.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:38 pmsomebody's pantyhose is a little tight today.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:39 pmBLA BLA BLA .....How many more days until the election...14 or 13??? Is this all they have???? They just don't get it...do they America???
October 20th, 2008 at 2:39 pmMost of the baby boomer don't have room to talk and Rudy who is a cross dress and has a boyfriend name Bernie with several woman on the side paid by taxpayers of New York. Here's a man who's children wouldn't support or vote for him when he ran for President. Records have shown Rudy used the 9/11 victims money for himself and friends while letting these fireman/police suffer and die. Today we see Law Makers not only lie and steal but we see those who like Foley molest kids with no one stopping him, hiring prositutes like Vitters who continues today and Larry Craig looking for sex in the men's room of America. Rudy once the fighter for rights sold out to the Mob and the corrupt Republican Party. Rudy is working hard on getting as much of that 800 billion dollar bailout money from Hank Paulson. Yes ready is using the smoke screen he's famous for as he attacks Obama based on lies he's robbing the taxpayer blind.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pmRudy who?
I thought he had been relegated to the status of "Answer to a Trivial Pursuit Question."
The Rethugs are calling folks up from the minors, it would seem.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pmCowardly neocons once again planting the seed.
Giulianii - go put on a fresh dress and fix that lipstick.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pmSomebody needs to drag out "Dumbliani's" skeletons along with all of his questionable mafia/mob associations!
October 20th, 2008 at 2:42 pmI pray he goes into retirement after the election is over and never darkens a doorway again. The very sound of his drag queen voice irks me. Sorry didn't mean to insult any drag queens out there.
Yeah Rudy, like you weren't high the first time you slipped on one of those dresses!! ROTFL!!
October 20th, 2008 at 2:42 pmGIULIANI: You can’t even — you can’t even raise these issues. And, you know, God forbid somebody would do some reporting on Barack Obama’s use of drugs....
Well you did.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:42 pmOK quick survey how many people here have ever done drugs?
I have. Pot and mushrooms in the 70's.
Shall we go back and look into W's drug use, too? Because it occurs to me that cocaine was an illegal drug when Georgie was indulging.
I suspect that Obama and Bush were using cocaine during the same era. The difference being, of course, that Barack was a teen while GWB was still partying hard until his forties.
And wasn't Laura Bush a pot dealer in college?
PEACE
October 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pmSo Rudy, do you approve of George Bush's long history of substance abuse? Did that make him UNFIT to serve?
October 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pmHey Trudy, what about Cindy's drug use? And John's philandering?
October 20th, 2008 at 2:45 pmGiuliani then claimed, “I don’t think the Time[s] should” report on Obama’s drug use.
that be called "cover yer arz"...
October 20th, 2008 at 2:46 pmMartin Short said that McCain did well in the first part of the debate the other night until Cindy's uppers wore off.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:47 pmOh yea in the 80's too.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:47 pmEver the masters of false equivalencies, nest paw?
Did Obama snort coke? I think somewhere i read he'd inhaled, on the theory that that's what you're supposed to do with it.
i go an equivalence fer ya:
Did he knock over bodegas to get his fix?
No?
Cuz Cindy McCain robbed non-profit health care organizations for hers.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pmNo matter how rabidly he goes after Obama, republicans still won't vote for him. That's the part that's really gotta' hurt.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pmsthufferin' sthuccotash! i taut i taw a pudditat!
October 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pmThis from the man whose firm represented the makers of oxycotin ...
October 20th, 2008 at 2:53 pmMan, they are really becoming desparate.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:54 pmSmoking dope is not in the same league as doing cocaine like Dubya or cross dressing like the fine mayor.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:56 pmIf he si so worried about drug users he could put a gun to his own head and pull the trigger. That would show em!
October 20th, 2008 at 2:56 pmThis is what moved julieonly? So sad but so true. She not only was addicted but she had the monkey on her back so bad that she committed felonies to obtain the drugs just as rush did and they both got off without being punished, despite the fact that it would have been easy to prove.
justice is for sale.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:56 pmrezko baought his house for him???!
it's like they're playing the old sleep-over game of "telephone"...
October 20th, 2008 at 2:57 pmIn February 2008, the paper published an article that relied on “three dozen interviews” and found that to his friends and associates, Obama “did not appear to be grappling with any drug problems and seemed to dabble only with marijuana.”
Actually quite a few who were in high school during the late 60s and 70s at least tried it.
So what?
Just like Al Gore confessed, Yeah, I inhaled too.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pmhey rudy, god forbid anyone investigate your role in/on 9-11.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pmdid him get his little feelings hurt at the al smith dinner the other night?
October 20th, 2008 at 3:00 pmWhat about Scarah's drug use?
October 20th, 2008 at 3:02 pmOK quick survey how many people here have ever done drugs?
I have. Pot and mushrooms in the 70’s
Yup, Pot, mushrooms, LSD and cocaine in the 80's. But really, if you have Pot there should be no need for the others. I'd have Pot more often to enjoy in my own home but some idiots made it illegal. I would grow my own but it's easier to let others take on the risk. I see California has a fine, legal Pot business going. Imagine the tax revenues if it was made legal and the cost savings from anit-pot enforcement and the new jobs created and smaller crowds in prisons and happier people, imagine all the people living life in peace!
October 20th, 2008 at 3:03 pmI think it's pretty obvious which one is unbalanced hear and it's Rudina the cross dressing whore
October 20th, 2008 at 3:03 pmhere
October 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pmdidn't cindy steal painkillers from one of her charities?
October 20th, 2008 at 3:05 pmRudy & Tim Pawlenty should both be voting for Obama.
What's that? You LIKE it under the bus?
October 20th, 2008 at 3:06 pmWhat the Reichwhners fail to consider is the fact that, since his arrival on the national scene, Obama has faced close scrutiny and, despite changing some views based on current events, he has been consistent in his behavior. Flippy McSpin, on the other hand, has become unrecognizable to any who have followed his career.
The question that the "librul media" should be asking is: "who the Hell is this evil spirit who has taken over John McCain's body"?
October 20th, 2008 at 3:06 pmI have a confession to make to you all: I inhaled.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:07 pmlittle rudy "we were told the World Traded Center was going to collapse" giuliani?
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/911_Truthers_crash_Giuliani_coffee_shop_1115.html
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/05/29/206666.aspx
October 20th, 2008 at 3:09 pmThe exile into irrelevance mustn't be easy for this fascist asswipe.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:09 pmWhat the Reichwhners fail to consider is the fact that, since his arrival on the national scene, Obama has faced close scrutiny
This pisses me off as well. The right can't see this fact when they blissfully ignore requests to 'get to know Sarah Palin'.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:10 pmBill Clinton smoked pot, he was able to be President for 8 years without any real problems...until the Rapture Right decided that an out of wedlock blowjob was the beginning of the Apocalypse.
John Baldacci smoked pot, and he's doing a pretty good job governing Maine right now.
Half my college professors smoked (and half of those still do) pot and they are still intelligent human beings with a great deal of knowledge to impart to the world.
I'm pretty sure that the founding fathers problem toked once and awhile, since hemp was pretty popular back then...I have no proof of this of course, and even if they did it wasn't the blow your mind stuff that's around today...
I smoke pot and I still manage to maintain a life, a job, and stay a well-informed citizen who beyond the civil offenses of possession, consumption, traffic tickets, and the occasional public drunkenness while in college, is still a law-abiding citizen who has never hurt anyone, nor would aside from self-defense.
Barack Obama smoked pot as a teenager, does not any longer. He became a community organizer. He became the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. He became a constitutional law professor. He became a state Senator. He became a United States Senator. He became the first black man to truly have a real shot at winning the Presidency.
And he will become America's first black President.
I only hope that he TRULY becomes the change we have so desperately needed for the last 8 years...
October 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pmExactly. If many of the people so afraid of Marijuana due to the demonization it has suffered in this country were able to actually TRY IT since it was legal...
Most people would be too lit to fight each other.
Cancer patients (among others) would have some pain relief.
Legalize it, regulate it, tax it, don't let minors smoke it (I have no problem making that concession, i.e. legal age to smoke weed is 18 like cigarettes).
Do this and watch revenues grow, violence decrease, and happiness quotients skyrocket up into Candy Unicorns on Clouds with Cute Puppies Land!
October 20th, 2008 at 3:14 pmmore ludicrous and insubstanative drivel from the party that
October 20th, 2008 at 3:20 pmdelights in alienating others and even themselves when no one
else is available.
liberal traitor - What you said.
Got a deficit? Legalize drugs & tax the hell out of them...
Plus, give us our Constitutional Rights back that were taken away, in the name of the Wars on Drugs AND Terror.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pmSeriously though - there is a huuuuge difference between a young adult experimenting with drugs, and someone who steals prescription drugs from their own charity to feed their addiction.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:25 pmNewt Gingrich said smoking pot at the time he was in grad school at Tulane was just proof you were not brain-dead.
Dubya had problems with drugs and alcohol until he was 40.
Bill Clinton being a Rhodes Scholar and Barack being #1 at Harvard Law are proof they did little or no drugs.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pmKeith Says:
Dubya had problems with drugs and alcohol until he was 40.
Dubya is still a drunk.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:31 pmIn an interview with FOX NEWS, Rudy cried about Unbalanced coverage???? ON FOX NEWS????
I think that says it all right there.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:31 pmLet's see -- all of one paragraph devoted to Cindy McCain's drug past and it appears in the bottom third of the article. Below all the standard puff-piece stuff about how she shops for silver trays for her husband's staffers and adopts orphans from Bangladesh.
The fact that she slept around with a married man didn't even appear in the article (but if it had, Giuliani probably would have looked quite foolish complaining about THAT).
If McCain and his team can't even stand this small amount of heat, what in the world are they doing in the kitchen?
October 20th, 2008 at 3:31 pmRush Limbaugh got his maid's friend to buy thousands of Oxycontin in a Denny's parking lot.
Ollie North's diary says the Contras were bringing tons of cocaine into the US. Reagan funded them illegaqlly.
Patty Reagan said her mom and dad (Ron and Nancy) smoked pot at Hollywood parties in the 1960's.
Wayne LaPierre, head of the N.R.A., lies about where he went to college to hide his drug use and left-wing politics.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:33 pmI don't recall 'Mr. 9/11' complaining [earlier] when the MSM wouldn't say a silgle bad word about Senator McCain..
BTW, doesn't Giuliani have some international rogue to assist or something? Oh that's right, if the status quo isn't continued his business will suffer.. Once the Bush&Cheney criminal enterprise are out of office the gravy train will be at risk!
Another thing, although I dislike the Conservative hypocrisy, I don't like anyone's struggle with [any] unhealthy addiction being used negatively. Many of us have fought that fight in one way or another, and know that the fight is hard enough without the incredible negative publicity.
But as usual I digress - All Giuliani and the McCain-Palin supporters have left is [verbally] throwing their feces against the media wall and hoping some of it will be repeated and some undecided (??) people will be ignorant enough to let the lies affect their vote.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:35 pmI had never, never, never in my life heard of somebody getting a slap on the wrist and no jail time from the DEA themselves - until I heard about Cindy McCain's deal. That's the most egregious thing.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:37 pmpsssttt, rudy, STFU you irrelevent, cross dressing freak of nature. look at the slop you're selling on some crappy cable "news" outlet.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pmMan, republicans sure don't do "Desperation" well, now do they?
This last 14 days are going to be ridiculous, they will be throwing as many lies and personal attacks as possible, not knowing that it is backfiring on them....
....which is why Powell turned on them....thanks McCriminal for the Powell endorsement, maybe you could throw a could more our way.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm....throw a couple more our way....
little typo there
October 20th, 2008 at 3:40 pmWhen is the right-wing going to learn? Journalism is nto about finding "balance", and presenting every viewpoint on an issue no matter how wrong. Journalism is about finding objective facts. It is a fact that Cindy McCain had a drug addiction problem, and even did some bad things to get them. Journalists can report that without having to dig up equally devastating dirt on someone from the other side of the political aisle.
You don't want "balance" in your journalism, you want "objectivity". Especially since people from the right-wing have such a hard time telling the truth.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:41 pmIf someone does not know firsthand what drugs feel like, they have no business being President
"Hate Defeats Hope 2008" - share this video with everyone to keep them energized
October 20th, 2008 at 3:42 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfZxP3hOCcc
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What about Cheney?
He was using one of the most deadly drugs of all: alcohol
And he SHOT a dude on it!
Too bad they don't ALL smoke cannabis. The world would be a much better place.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pmHe's just being classy all over town today.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:52 pmAs I recall, it was Obama who self-reported his drug use as a young person in one of his two books...oh yeah, and he was also upfront about his tobacco use. But quite honestly, when Bill Clinton said he'd tried pot, but never inhaled, I cracked up. Who in their right mind wouldn't have inhaled pot?
October 20th, 2008 at 4:08 pmGod forbid a former GOP mayor try not to distract current events by bringing up non related issues!
October 20th, 2008 at 4:12 pmimpeachcheneythenbush, when I was a young adult (who didn't smoke), the first couple times I "tried" pot, I did indeed inhale incorrectly, and thus "felt" nothing.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pmSo it is possible.
But once I learned how to inhale properly....hoo boy! Let's just say, dorm room life in college took on a whole new dimension, especially with a mixture of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon!
Heh!
..."God forbid somebody would do some reporting on Barack Obama’s use of drugs..."
Yeah, God forbid somebody would do some reporting on Giuliani's and McCain's and Bush's and Gonzalez's and Rice's and Rumsfeld's and Palin's use of drugs.
There, I fixed it for you. Did I leave anyone important out?
October 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm"GIULIANI: You can’t even — you can’t even raise these issues. And, you know, God forbid somebody would do some reporting on Barack Obama’s use of drugs….
October 20th, 2008 at 4:36 pmWell Rudy...you must have been hiding under a rock or had you head so far up Bushbaby's assets to not have realized that Obama admited quite some time ago about his drug use. Suprised Bushbaby didn't try that smear.....he has shown himself hypocritical enough to try something that low. But he lets his lickspittle do that dirty work!
God forbid someone would write about McCain's repeated violation of the Uniformed Code Military Justice while on active duty. Adultery, Bigamy and Conduct Unbecoming are all federal crimes.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:45 pmThey can't legalize pot, the war on citizens is too profitable. It has also allowed them to increase thier swat like method of policing.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:51 pmimpeachcheneythenbush Says:when Bill Clinton said he’d tried pot, but never inhaled, I cracked up.
Clinton didn't explain it very clearly. Since he had never smoked a cigarette, he was not used to smoke and could not handle it. As soon as he inhaled the pot smoke, he coughed it out. You get no effect when you do that. The smoke must be inhaled into the lungs and held there. He did not do this. That's what he meant.
I say his excellent grades through high school, Georgetown, Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and Yale are proof that he did little or no drugs.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:59 pm.
... So says the cross dresser!
.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:49 pm.
To paraphrase Julie-Annie,
And, you know, God forbid somebody would do some reporting on George W. Bush's use of drugs and alcohol.
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October 20th, 2008 at 5:51 pmThere should be a distinction made between someone who has been addicted to drugs -- and in a way that affected behavior (fraudulently obtaining prescriptions to feed your habit, e.g.) and someone who openly admits to having dabbled in social use without addiction or the questionable behavior it entails.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:05 pmRudy is a cross dresser? No wonder I didn't get the jab Obama did at the dinner.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/17/obama.mccain.dinner.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
Well lets bring up Cindy's drug stealing from her own charity..she was hooked, Obama just used it some , not addicted as Cindy was, or Bushy..........
October 20th, 2008 at 7:28 pmOr W's use of drugs? Or Giuliani's? Or Cindy's?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:51 pmThufferin Thuccotash!
October 20th, 2008 at 8:17 pmGet over yourself, Mr. Giuliani. You're a fading star. You're no longer "America's mayor," if you ever were.
RUDY, RUDY!! I feel sorry for that poor man. He can't seem to get anything right. No matter what you say Rudy, you are NOT the moral compass for anyone running for office. Wasn't it you that committed adultery? Get Outta Town--now!!!
October 20th, 2008 at 8:20 pmShould have vetted his Police Commissioner. Ghouliani doesn't realize that he has served his purpose for the Republitives. Following the 2006 mid-term massacre and the debasement of the presidency by the Bush Corporation, they needed to take the temperature of the American public. Rudy, you were the rectal thermometer. A candidate of very low character has already been selected. Go away.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:31 pmWell there ya go, only the legal mind warping shit you can get your doctor to prescribe, ala Arizona Barbie, so we can keep the pharmaceutical companies raking in the dough is ok, right? What a non issue and what a putz. Real surprised he didn't tie it in with 9/11 again
October 21st, 2008 at 12:51 amThe way the liberal media went after Joe Wurzelbacher is a good indication of what average Americans have to look forward to in a Barrack Obama administration (God forbid). Access will be based on positive contributions to the Obama persona and Hollywood status!
October 21st, 2008 at 4:12 amThis is what the GOP is reduced to for strategy at this point?
October 21st, 2008 at 1:49 pm