Giuliani wasn't looking in the mirror when he "wrote" in his ad in today's NY Times: "These times call for statesmanship, not politicians spewing political venom."
He is after all the king of venom, both personal and political. Rudi is the man who illegally released sealed records of a juvenile defendant, after the man was well in his adulthood. Why? Because the police had 'accidentally' killed him. Rudi wanted to smear the dead and prove that the man had not been an "altar boy" as a youth. ( A law suit ended with New York's having to pay $2.25 million to the dead man's family.)
So when he buys a full page ad accusing Hillary Clinton of being venomous, he should know what the word means. Apparently not.
Giuliani's ad tried to tie Hillary Clinton to an ad paid for by MoveOn.org, an organization whose membership has been highly critical of her. Giuliani states that the ad calls General Petraeus "General Betray Us." This is already a distortion - the ad expressly hopes that his testimony to Congress would not earn him that nickname.
What Clinton did say is that "his progress report on Iraq required [the] willing suspension of disbelief." In no way is that the same as accusing Petraeus of betrayal. And what she said was completely reasonable. Petraeus' was not the only recent report to come out on Iraq. Three non-partisan government reports - one from the the General Accounting Office, secondly the National Intelligence Estimate, and lastly from The Independent Commission on the Security Forces in Iraq - all painted a portrait quite different from that presented by Petraeus.
With a lot of respect for people who've spent their careers in the military, they are not infallible. Much of the country granted a "willing suspension of disbelief" when General Powell spoke at the U.N, and our nation, as well as Iraq, has suffered enormously as a consequence. Giuliani's ad listed some of Petraeus' impressive achievements, and I'd bet that they are similar to those of Generals Zinni, McPeak, Shinseki, Hoar and Newbold, amongst many others. Yet he did not complain when they were attacked by the administration and its allies. Casting these career military men as anti-Semites, opportunists, or incompetents did not bother Giuliani at all.
Today, Elizabeth Edwards is reported as saying "Someone who's spent their life in the military doesn't deserve "General Betray Us," and I can believe that she did so. I also believe she would have objected to the accusations hurled by Bushies at so many other Generals.
It's no surprise to a New Yorker that the first really negative and dishonest ad was made by Rudi Giuliani. It is surprising that he would speak of venom without seeing the snake in the looking glass.
(h/t memeorandum)
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Posted by: Antastincak | June 05, 2012 at 10:00 AM