<I>Meet The Press</i>: Mistresses Should Get Secret Service Protection Too!
Somehow, I don't think Judith Nathan Giuliani should feel too comforted by that...
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Continuing his surprisingly confrontational interview with Rudy Giuliani, Tim Russert asked about the stories about Judith Nathan's police protection as his girlfriend. Rudy's response was less than satisfactory, putting the onus on the decision to get protection strictly on the security, not him, and based on threats to his family and loved ones' lives. The only problem is, as Tim points out, the timing doesn't quite work out, as Judy had protection long before his affair with her was known. It's a shame that Tim doesn't follow up with a question on the hiding of the security expenses in obscure departments if the security was indeed at the behest of NYPD.
The money quote for me is when Russert asks Giuliani if by using his logic, presidential mistresses were entitled to Secret Service protection as well and Giuliani says they should.
Uh oh, Judy...that just doesn't bode well.
9/11
Wait, doesn't that mean that the Secret Service should have been protecting Monica during the impeachment hulabaloo and before? Methinks this isn't going to play well to the Clinton-hating base, not that they had that much love for Rudy to begin with.
I think its fun!!!
OMG, his lying is uncomfortable to watch! What a fraud! Stick a fork in this guy...he's done.
Well, look what happened to Marilyn Monroe.
Lie Lie Lie. and people going to vote for this Guy
Why doesn't Giuliani just come out and admit he was trying to impress his girlfriends with his "importance"?
Right, #1, he should have said "I saved NYC on 9/11. Screw you, Tim. I can have mistresses if I want, you know why? 9/11. I can fuck your wife if I want to, you know why, Tim? 9/11! Did you hear that? 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11.
Thank god for copy and paste buttons...
sure its a shame timmy doesnt follow up but of course thats all the plan...
14 points on the route to fascism
point 6. A controlled mass media.
The word must be from NBC that Rudy's not the candidate now. Why else would Tim "screw the Dems, love the GOP" Russert go after Mr. 9/11?
It's not possible for this guy to open his mouth without inhaling his entire foot, is it?
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Otay @ 7:
Really. He had nothing else to impress them with.
Well - maybe his collection of pumps and the matching lipsticks.
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This interview was the worst I've ever seen. Russert devoted about 5 minutes to where Rudy stands on issues. Intentional or just misguided?
Unless of course they're the mistresses of a Democrat. They can fend for themselves
If this doofuss was this arrogant as a mayor, imagine him as a president.
AF-1 running back and forth to Vegas, picking up hookers.
The seventh fleet stopping off in Morocco, to pick up some houris, and good hash.
Putting a rush on the Moon Base, so he'd have a place to stash his bimbos, out of reach of his wives.
Putting a coin-operated lock on the Lincoln Bedroom.
I've heard that without Viagra, Rudy's love life is not so turgid.
Thufferin' thuckatash, Tim! My family'sh been thubjected to threatsh!
Kent Graham @ 13:
Neither. Long overdue. About time this hypocrite got called on his blatant lies that he confuses with "truth."
The problem is that the star court wants rudy for his war mongering. But they've built up such a religious following that Huckabee is picking up all of their votes... and they dont want Huckabee. They want someone to ignore the poor, give tax breaks to the rich and keep abortion legal because it means the labor they need to can imported cheaply through illegal immigrants. If Huckabee gets to be President just the opposite would happen. Hell he might even do something about immigration.
So instead they are stuck with Rudy.
A lying, cheating, mobster wannabe.
Hey you make your bed... you get to sleep in it.
The U.S. is definitely not France and mistress is a pretty unflattering term. I'm not a woman, but I would think a husband who fails to defend his wife from the "mistress" charge is a lousy husband. Much more important for Rudy I guess is the mechanics of the security detail. In other words, love for Rudy means giving a her security detail, but not leaving his wife, making it public or not refering to her as a mistress. Maybe he'll smarten up on wife number 4.
Public funding for mistresses of the ruling class while millions of American children go hungry.
Qatar, this is what they should attack him on. I love the going for the throat, but can we do is over something other than sex for once. Time to grow the fuck up America.
"If this doofuss was this arrogant as a mayor, ............."
Oh he was, and worse. He's behaving himself 'cause he want's people to like him (as crazy as it sound, this is Rudy at his most charming!)
FORCE CONGRESS TO IMPEACH. Call Nancy Pelosi @1-202-225-0100 and DEMAND IMPEACHENT.
Good grief...could he possibly have tap danced around answering that question any more? That was tortured logic even by Bushwellian standards.
I always thought mistresses were supposed to get Secret Cervix protection! What's the big deal?
Wasn't this piece of filth a Federal Prosecutor? Every case he tried needs to be reopened and subjected to close scrutiny for potential malfeasance, abuse of office, or commission of a crime under color of law. This freak of nature is a criminal.
You can’t tell me this guy shouldn’t be excommunicated, unless he already has been of course.
This will all blow over if Rudy agrees to let Judith's mistresses have Secret Service protection, too.
(How 'secret' is our 'Secret Service' anyway, if everyone's always talking about it? I'll bet the Gestapo never got this much press)
His behavior with Judith Nathan was always disgraceful from the get go. I live in New York City, and everyone was pretty much disgusted by his actions. There's an Italian place that Rudy frequents near me, and the restaurant has a newspaper clipping of Judith and Rudy -- how they were first photographed together in this restaurant, and it just turned me off. She's grinning like she won some big prize and he's looking proud and most people thought you just don't do that to the mother of your children. He announced his divorce publicly before he divorced his wife, and I remember that day, and Donna Hanover's (his wife at the time) response. She is this very sophisticated, urbane woman and she was just shook up. It was very sad. I do believe were it not for 9/11 Rudy would have been ridden out of town on a rail. It's no surprise that he is estranged from his children, and that tells me a lot. I'd love to know who was making these so-called threats... it's such utter BS. I don't know who is more dispicable her or him, but they deserve each other, and he did a good woman wrong and lost his kids over it as well.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh please!!!!!!!!
He mentions "Celebrities and security" but all of them pay for PRIVATE SECURITY unless there is a credible threat that requires the FBI or CIA to investigate, not the local cops walking behind you as you walk a dog!....Celebrities may be a waste of space but at least they are not usually a waste of tax dollars!
Cat Atomic @ 17:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Had Enough @ 21:
Amen.
Kyle @ 22:
I'm sorry, but the country you refer to no longer exists.
It has been sold to east asian and west asian interests.
Marcus Aurelius @ 27:
what's amazing is that he had an atrocious record as a prosecutor and won only one of several major cases. he parlayed that mediocrity into becoming the mayor of nyc and has not looked back.
Roket @ 28:
tha nazi pope loves fascists and hates women.
Rudy says he is going to maintain his ties with his "security consulting company". He might need the job. I can't see enough people being stupid enough to elect this lying opportunist.
Pre-impeach Giuliani!
bush has put America in a coffin, rudy will nail it shut and bury it in shit.
Medical Diagnosis by Video @ 38:
Good God, what choice does a Republican have? Has there ever been a more cynical pack of peckerwoods in the history of this country? And is the average Republican who isn't sucking at the Fox teat going to make that leap to the Democratic party because even they have to acknowledge how much of a lesser evil it is? (Much, much, much lesser.)
Good God. . . if a Democrat had said this the right and the fundies would have been all over his/her ass!
Me thinks Huckabee's looking better and better if you happen to be a republican
Giulliani is about as Christian as Bush is American.
It's hard out there for a follically challenged pimp
and who was running the NYCPD? bernie baby bernie. yet he never mentioned him by name, now thats odd.
It will be interesting to see if cable new spends the next week or two talking about Guliani's laugh.
Robert: "They want someone to ignore the poor, give tax breaks to the rich and keep abortion legal because it means the labor they need to can imported cheaply through illegal immigrants."
I hope you said that in snark, I really do.
Anyway, I'm sure Rudy is onto mistress and potential new wife #4 by this time. The rocks in my front yard are more politically astute than this fool. He is running purely on the fuel of meglomania.
The whole world is watching us allow this administration and this disgusting media, rail rode the next President of the United States, into office.
Other then the 20%, idiots, that support Bush and his very corrupt operation, and I might add, many of them are also involved in some ways to want this obvious disaster to continue. Who the hell in their right mind would vote for this pervert?
How much support do you see backing beyond the 20% freaks that are just lost?.Not just this fool, but the entire gang of Republican wanna be Presidents, who all had rolls in bankrupting this country and screwing over American people of all colors and walks of life.
They are all contributors of this national disaster, Bush has mislead us into. With many of their disgusting votes and so much in other vile disrespectful low down deeds.
They have managed to cripple this country and they ask to what? It is embarassing, this media even continue to play with our minds, with all of this pretend support for these cheap crimminals.
They don't even think it is important to represent ALL the people and the words from their mouths, simply don't match the deeds. And then they lie about it.
We cannot again allow this media to screw us around, when we are communicating now in record numbers, of how important it is to first get rid of this right wing republican spin machine and the democratic spin machine will come later. They are the most important, of the two evils. Pick em off a few at a time.
Judith Nathan Giuliani = Home Wrecker!
Was there a stipulation as to the number of mistresses? Concurrent and/or consecutive.
Sounds like a good enogh explanation to me. Why can't antone here just trust this man on his word? -snark
uhhhh, what do you mean by: "Uh oh, Judy…that just doesn’t bode well."?
bode well for whom?
how well do you think ol' rudy is gonna sleep once judy gets a gander of *this* interview hmmmmmmm?
but damn, doesn't that flag look great on his jacket!!! what an american!!!
Why are all Republicans immoral? Seriously. They are not your daddy's Republican party any more. Goldwater would be considered liberal by today's right wing party.
Kent Graham @ 13:
Mr Drooliani , what about our diplomatic relations with all the other nations on the planet ?
9/11 changed everything
And your plan on healthcare for the US ?
9/11 changed everything
What about unemployment in the US ?
9/11 changed everything
And the increase in poverty ?
9/11 changed everything
What are your views on global warming ?
9/11 changed everything
Thank you for your time , Mr Drooliani
Did you know 9/11 changed everything , including my time ? I spent all of it at Ground Zero ......
I liked the "but Tim.." part.
Well, what do you want for the $400,000 of the New York taxpayers money this prick spent on "protecting" Judi. Giuliani is so corrupt, he could give Baby Caligula in the White House a run for his money.
Seriously on this one, who cares? If she was her mistress, he should have damn well had her protected, tax dollars used or not. This is interesting news, but let's not go that Bill Clinton-bashing for mistresses route please.
I thought the Republican Party liked to bill themselves as "the party of personal responsibility". I couldn't help but notice that Rudy refused to accept one iota of personal responsibility for taxpayers being forced to pay for protecting someone with whom he was having an extra-marital affair. If he wins the Republican Party's nomination, it will be concrete proof of their blatant hypocrisy. Not only that they would nominate someone with such poor "family values", but that they would nominate someone who irresponsibly used taxpayer funds, and then tried to avoid accepting responsibility for it. He should be forced to reimburse NYC taxpayers for her police protection pre-divorce (you should only get to protect one "life partner" at a time), then he should immediately withdraw from the race for the Republican Party nomination. Then, if wants to seek the nomination of the "Cross-Dressing Philandering 9/11-Exploiters Party", fine.
selmo7 @ 59:
"Protected" from whom and what ?
That's a bunch of bullshit ; the given time-frame when NYC was billed for this nonsense was BEFORE anyone and everyone knew that Drooliani was 2-timing his 2nd wife , Ms Hanover . So , what 'threats' could his ugly , social-climbing barracuda mistress have received and from whom ?
A cop ?
I thought his business clients were interesting, that everything his company did was ethical, and he repeated that several time.
But doesn't that depend on what the meaning of 'ethical' is?
, C&L
No he did not! Giuliani is a pretty despicable person, so just tell the truth about him. I don't come here to C&L to be misled. Please be accurate in your postings.
The Clinton-hating base won't care, because they're hypocrites. It's ok because he's one of them.
selmo7
I guess you don't live in New York. If you want to pick up the $400,000 tab that Rudy spent on his mistress, please get in touch with the state government in Albany. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you. And what is this bullshit about Clinton?
How who do you suppose would threaten 9/11-Rubber-Hose-Rudy?? Or any of his wives/mistresses/9/11/girlfriends?? Could it be because of 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 ??
so we want a guy that cheats on his wife, has a list of threats towards his not so worth it life? WTF so we elect this cross dressing cheater to watch him get assassinated or spend the last 10 bucks we have after the last nut job?
What if his police-protected wife, encounters his police-protected mistress, and starts a bloody catfight?
I've got to hand it to Rudy. He's always looking to the future. When mayor he used the cops as a taxi service for his mistresses. As president, Rudy intends on continuing that practice.
I'm sure that politcal groupies would really get a kick out of a secret service escort to a booty call.
Has anyone seen his commercial where he tries to align himself with Ronald Reagan and the release of the Hostages in Iran? What a short memory he must think we all have. Or is he in that much denial. Doesn't he remember it was treason that got the hostages released? The incoming adminstration sold friggin' weapons to our enemies!
Rudi's seven-year itch should be kicking-in soon, if not already.
Aaaaaannnnnnnnd the NYPD goes right under the bus.
Oh yeah, Ole Rudy will fit right in with the conservative Washington establishment and the all the neocons. He's more than willing, almost eager, to cast blame at everyone but himself.
Remember how Bush, Cheney and the neocons cherry-picked info and pressured the intel community to give them excuses to invade Iraq? Then threw that same intel community under the bus after their "strategy" failed, their lies were exposed and the heat started coming down?
Oooooh yeah. "America's Mayor" will fit right in.
Rudy is a true-blue conservative after all. He possesses the defining trait:
A pathological refusal to assume responsibility for his own mistakes.
If St. Rudy ever gets the chance the step out on Miss Judy as President (God Forbid!), I am confident that the explanation from the other side will be "Well Clinton did it". It's such a sure thing that Vegas wouldn't touch it.
Great "family values" candidate..... He was really just using the NYPD to take his mistress around so no one could know what he was doing.... using tax payers money to pay for a mistress. What a nice guy... no wonder he has a bad relationship with his kids. This guys is so far away from the average values of families across America.
This guy is an opportunist with no really moral or ethical compass.
It is disgusting that no single person has done better off the dead of 9/11 than Rudy. The lobbying company that he set up has made millions for him. This is a company that has done business with Qatar, and indirectly helped people that had protected terrorists, and it comes out today that his firm was hired to lobby and kill an important renewable energy bill on behalf utility companies. What kind of energy policy can we expect this guy to have when his firm is killing energy bills. Creating a better energy policy in this country is one of the most important issues of our times.
Why would you vote for this guy? He has absolutely nothing to offer. Ask yourself, what actually does Giuliani offer. He is a scumbag. He has show very poor judgement and character, both personally and professionally. He really did nothing pre- and frankly after 9-11. And is track record of improving New York is very questionable, as crime went down in the 90s in many other U.S. cities, and many of the federal policies of Clinton (economy) helped New York.
You can't help but notice that, unlike most of the rest of us, Rudy considers family, comma, and loved ones to be two separate and mutually exclusive categories.
Rudy lied quite a bit in this interview, and we can expect Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice to take this interview apart.
1. I didn't ask for Judi to have police escort. That's the biggest lie.
2. My assistant was subjected to threats. Really?
And there are many others
Notice how Rudy doesn't agree that a mistress should not have Secret Service protection.
Also notice how Russert is very kind to Rudy by calling Judi his girlfriend. What's up with that? Are we in high school? She was his mistress. Now wife. Always a Long Island whore.
Trittydi @ 12:
I have to agree with you, trittydi, about rudy having nothing else to impress his girfriends/whores with. Has anyone REALLY looked at him? He is bald, old, ugly, a liar, a serial adulterer and downright nasty to boot!! Some women will fuck anything for money. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Rudy's Woodie
Guylaine @ 71:
Rudy has crabs?
Hmmm, more interesting tidbits coming out against the lithsping, greasy thug we all know as The Vulture of 9/11.
Between Judy and Mitt's recent JFK "pose" for his election literature, I don't know who became more pathetic this weekend in an already pathetic GOP candidate offering.
Rudy, your campaign is soooooooo petering out - you truly are a loser...an absolute zero with no chance of becoming the GOP candidate!
Fornicator
And don't forget Rudy's desire to remain mayor post 9-11, suggesting that maybe the elections could be (ahem) postponed so that the continuity of his regime would be in tact. That lasted for about as long as it took to get the word out. Even in those days, the thought of a cancelled election was too much for anyone to consider. It was such ego for him to suggest that he was some savior that New Yorkers would want to keep around forever.
knud @ 63:
I went back and transcribed exactly what he said:
He doesn't say that a mistress shouldn't be afforded Secret Service protection---nor does he say that the notion of another mistress is inappropriate. He says that it would be necessary IF someone threatens harm.
My post stands.
selmo7 @ 59:
WTF!?
Kyle @ 22:
Sex is secondary. More important is that he is running on the "family values" ticket while married to his 3rd wife. (At least this one is not his cousin.) Even more important is that he knowingly spent public money to show off to his mistress while mayor of new york. If this is all about sex to you, you need to look around a bit.
Yes, yes, Rudy,
But you believe in outsourcing and contracting out city work. Why didn't you use a private guard service and pay them out of your own pocket? This was your affair and not related to the public works.?
Are taxpayer supposed to pony up for every affair you have and does every atty/prosecutor get the same level of protection as you?
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Rudy, If you were in fact faithful to your wife and family would that have saved tax payers money?
They need the secret service to pull the ol' lady off the young ones.
Or to film it and sell it on the internet.
haha, i think the mistress needed protection from the wife, although it could have been busywork to pad the pockets of bernie's mafioso buddies, its a victim-less crime if you're stealing money from taxpayers. I'd like to see who is involved in running that security company.
Jimmy Breslin put it best "This is a small man looking for a high balcony"
Rudy makes Bill Clinton look like the Pope!
If Rudy becomes president - can't wait for the impeachment proceedings to begin! If they went after Bill for similar behaviour - then the Repukes can't complain when Rudy is charged as well!!!
He says that there were threats and his mistress need to be protected. Wouldn't it be funny if the threats were from his wife... ha!
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You guys missed an obvious point, which I covered at my blog: Rudy was being blackmailed.
Cas @ 68:
send in the policeman's mistress
actor212 @ 94:
Oh Boy!!! A presidential candidate who behaves in a way that invites blackmail!!!
No potential national security problem there.
(9-11)
On one of his earlier comments...so his company did not work with Chavez, they worked with an AMERICAN (his emphasis) company who dealt with gas companies who dealt with Chavez. Yet, his company stopped dealing with the AMERICAN company when he decided to run for President? I call bullshit!
I also loved how he said something about being trapped in a building on 9/11. That's when Russert should have said "well isn't it true that the reason you were trapped in a building at the WTC, was because against the opinion of all your emergency management directors, you decided to place the city's emergency response center on the 26th floor of one of the WTC buildings? And in fact, that is why you were seen on the streets that morning, since your response center was damaged and you were forced on to the street!"
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