Giuliani is a fucking idiot!

Giuliani: It's not Terror if it's not Islamic [Updated]
by DanK Is Back


Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 05:00:48 PM PST

In an amazing feat of acrobatics, Rudy Giulani went on CNN today to try to talk his way out of his claim the other day that "no domestic terrorism" had happened under Bush's watch. It was an attempt to backpedal while keeping foot firmly in mouth.

What he meant to say, he said, was that there had been no domestic terrorism under Bush's watch since 9/11.

What about the anthrax letters a month later, Wolf Blitzer asked him?

He ... said the anthrax attacks of 2001 don't count, because they never proven to be done in the name of "Islamic terrorism."

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In other words, it only counts as terror if it's "Islamic terror."

Every time I think these Republicans have gone as low as they can get, they find a new level to sink to. If I were Giuliani, I would not go any time soon to the offices of those senators and congressmen who got those letters, or anywhere near the families of those who died from handling them.

Maybe Giuliani was setting up to excuse abortion clinic bombings and doctor shootings; since those are done by "Christian" fundamentalists, they can't be acts of terror by his definition.

Then there's the Beltway Sniper, who "terrorized" the DC area for 23 days in October 2002 - Bush's term - before he was caught? As the Washington Examiner put it in its headline:

Beltway sniper fights execution as region remembers terror

The DC region, it seems, has a different definition of terror, not to mention a better memory, than Giuliani.

Giuliani also said that his reference to "domestic terrorism" on Obama's watch was meant to be the Fort Hood shootings. That was designed a dodge to avoid comparing the shoe bomber (Bush) to the underwear bomber (Obama). But in saying that, he in effect denied that the underwear bomber was a domestic terrorist, since he only gave Obama a score of 1 terrorist.

Giuliani still hasn't learned a lesson from Politics 101: When you're in a hole, stop digging.

I'll leave the last word on the subject to WH Press secretary Gibbs:

"There were a number of things that didn’t quite seem to jive with the better part of reality," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said at Friday’s briefing. "I think he mentioned there not being any domestic terror attacks in the previous administration... It’s interesting that the mayor of New York had forgotten that." ABC News blogs

Update [2010-1-8 20:17:5 by DanK Is Back]: I rushed this a bit because I wanted to go watch Countdown. Lawrence O'Donnell was on subbing for Keith, and he led with this as the lead story. Since I do not have any bugs planted in MSNBC's office, I can only plead GMTA.

O'Donnell listed a number of other attacks that took place on Bush's watch that can only be called "Islamic terrorism" such as the attack on El Al's Los Angeles airport counter in 2002.

In some ways, I prefer O'Donnell to Olberman because he is calmer, cooler, sounds more rational. This time he was clearly, visibly, angry over Giuliani's lies - and he called them that in so many words. Very effective.

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