DISQUS

PHB · 2 years ago

You should list support and fundraising for NORAID, the US fundraisig branch of the IRA, a terrorist organization that has caused more deaths than Al Qaeda.

Rudy isn't serious about anti-terrorism, he was happy to support terrorists in return for the Irish vote.

Grandma Crabby · 2 years ago

If you want a continuation of the Bush regime, vote for Rudy. He is backed by Karl Rove and the whole gang. Rudy G. could very well be the WORST of all the candidates. Of course he has a lot of competition for that coveted spot.

Quinn McLaughlin · 2 years ago

Who cares if he cross dresses or whom he married? Gimme a break. There are real things he did wrong that are much more important. Why go after his personal life? Just like the republicans would.

Fran Nobile · 2 years ago

Endangered 9/11 workers isn't on the list! Many civil service workers will die because of his negligence.

James Rubie · 2 years ago

I believe Rudys biggest mistake is being married three times. Why? As a gay man most Republicans and heterosexuals are somehow threatened with the notion of same sex marriage. It is a civil right and who knows maybe we will do it better than heterosexuals. Because we want it more...

Barbara Johns · 2 years ago

in all fairness, cross-dressing doesn't really belong in here. i don't care if the next president wears a potato sack, as long as they know what they're doing. unfortunately, rudy appears to fail in this regard, and that's why he shouldn't be prez!

Steve Brant · 2 years ago

I grew up in NYC and lived here when Rudy Giuliani was mayor. He is a control freak on the order of President George Bush who also acts in dictatorial, "the rules don't apply to me" way. If American wants another president like George Bush, they should elect Rudy. I personally think he would wind up beating Bush in the history books as being the worst president in American history, because he would drive America off the cliff that President Bush has us headed towards. He is a very dangerous man, from a psychological as well as ideological perspective. And I thinks - as the past 7 years have shown - personal psychology matters... especially when the person has an absolutely dysfunctional, dictatorial personality!

Tribeca · 2 years ago

I believe Rudy got a nice campaigne contribution for locating the emergency command center in WTC #7 and that's the reason #7 collapsed - it's emergency generator diesel fuel caught on fire.

Tribeca · 2 years ago

I believe Rudy got a nice campaigne contribution for locating the emergency command center in WTC #7 and that's the reason #7 collapsed - it's emergency generator diesel fuel caught on fire.

Mary H. Hughes · 2 years ago

I am kind of surprised at this tack you're taking. It looks like a promo for one of those sleazy gossip shows. I have no problem with docu-style fact reporting but this is the type of video that has no place in politics, in my opinion. Let's leave people's personal lives out of it. Can't we just stick to their record and the issues that will affect us? Slime breeds slime. It has to stop somewhere.

Susan Kidder · 2 years ago

It's not actually where he put his command center, but rather the questions that still remain on the various detonations heard by firefighters ... who were then told to shut up about them ... and the collapse of Towers 1, 2 & 7 (especially 7 which was hit by no plane that I remember), etc. Rudy was part of whatever ... and I'm clear we don't know yet ... went down on 9/11. He's totally unfit to hold any further office.

Doris Meadows · 2 years ago

Anyone considering a vote for Giuliani should be required to read "Grand Illusion."

Through his poor decisions and his ignoring the terror threat to NY, specifically to the Twin Towers, this terrorism "expert" made NY far more vulnerable to terrorism.

Mary H. Hughes · 2 years ago

I am kind of surprised at this tack you're taking. It looks like a promo for one of those sleazy gossip shows. I have no problem with docu-style fact reporting but this is the type of video that has no place in politics, in my opinion. Let's leave people's personal lives out of it. Can't we just stick to their record and the issues that will affect us? Slime breeds slime. It has to stop somewhere.

carlos · 2 years ago

this video is horrible.. You making progressives people look as stupid as republicans in the Clinton days whey they were concerned about his personal life. Don't feel obligated to come out with a video every week, you're better off not making one than creating crap. believe me, we are on the same side, but this is embarrassing.

JohnQ Public · 2 years ago

Rudy's biggest mistake is that he believes that he is in any way even remotely qualified to be President of the United States!

Todd Smyth · 2 years ago

Excellent list. So hard to choose one but voting for him would be the worst of all.

michelle foster · 2 years ago

After 8 years of George Bush, we need someone who believes in diplomacy and has the ability to work with others whith differing opinions and compromise. It is well-documented, that as Mayor of New York, Giuliani did not speak with those in the City Council, who had differing opinions, and that he had an explosive temper.

Secondly, Giuliani wants to continue the Bush policy of taking the fight to Al Queda in Iraq. This is fostering hostility towards the U.S. and creating terrorists.
We need a new policy.

Finally, where is the outrage among Republicans that while married to Donna Hanover, Giuliani publicly escorted Judith Nathan around town AND brought her into their home at Gracie Mansion??!

Malcolm S. Brashear · 2 years ago

Rudy Giuliani has no concept of what American Democracy stands for and is completely amoral. He's no hero, he's a criminal.

Peter Klimovitch · 2 years ago

Rudy....Give it up! You are not fit for the office!

Nick Pease · 2 years ago

Hey, leave this guy alone -- he'll be the biggest pushover candidate in Republican history!

Alexandra Self · 2 years ago

Go to Wayne Barrett's book Grand Illusion, or the amazing but hardly seen film on Rudy "Guiliani Time". That's where you will get far more substantial material on Rudy's lack of govering ability!!!

Patty · 2 years ago

If you mean this as a chuckle, it works. If you mean it as serious thought-provoking commentary, you have to lose the cross-dressing, marry-your-cousin and adultery stuff. Or you'll end up sounding like bottom-feeding O'Really and his ilk. There is plenty of scum to go around with this guy, no need to discuss dresses and pearls.

Mostyn Thayer · 2 years ago

Even worse than leaving the emergency response center within the Trade Center, was his decision to abandon the search for remains of firefighters within the towers, once the primary object of his search was found -- the countless gold bars that were within a bank vault in the collapsed Trade Center.

Mark Kraemer · 2 years ago

The real problem with Rudy (and with ALL republicans) is their habit of REWRITING HISTORY to suit their political purposes. From 9/11 to Iraq, to the war on terror, to the mortgage loan crisis, to ethics in government, etc., etc., republicans don't honor the past by telling the truth about it.
That's why I'm a Democrat.

proscriptus · 2 years ago

Jeepers, it's the like the election vs. David Dinkins all over again...someone break out the old Howard Stern tapes.

Stephanie Donald · 2 years ago

There are many problems with Rudy Giulani but to use his "drag" episode as a reason to hate him is homophobic and as a lesbian I take great offense at your use of this issue! Kindly remove it or I will report this to the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Defamation Association so you can line up behind reggae groups and Jerry Lewis for owing the homosexuals of America an apology!

Robert O'Brien · 2 years ago

I found your inclusion of Personal issues, and problems with children and marriages to be offensive, and I'm glad the vote tallies reflect my feelings. If Rudy was one of the "Family values" hypocrites, those things might be apropos. Surely there are enough of Rudy's political and leadership mistakes to more than fill 30 seconds.

Sharon · 2 years ago

The faulty radios for firefighters is #1, but putting the emergency command center in the World Trade Center is a close second. The fact that he (apparently) used the command center as a trysting place with Judi when he was cheating on Donna is another mistake.

Maurey · 2 years ago

I wouldn't support him for numerous very serious and disturbing reasons but let's stay away from personal slander and his not so perfect personal life... unless we want to say that the campaign to get Clinton out of the Whitehouse was legitimate... there is so much to work with on Rudy without resorting to dumbed down smear tactics... just get the truth out on real issues.

Paul Winkler · 2 years ago

Drop the drag "issue". Who cares about that aside from homophobes anyway? Let's go after him on REAL issues.

David Bridges · 2 years ago

C'mon, couldn't you find something worse than cross-dressing? If Giuliani had an anti-gay record, I'm sure you'd be all over that - but I think it's a little hypocritcal to call his cross-dressing a "mistake" assuming you're pro gay rights. Let's look at the real issues, and not whether or not he wore a dress. I'm no fan of Giuliani, but when I saw him in drag, it raised my opinion of him; he's obviously comfortable with his sexuality and we know he's not a closet homosexual like former Sen. Craig!

F Margo Hornback · 2 years ago

So glad to see my two number ones on your list. My husband is a firefighter - communication is Job 1 in Emergency Response and Guiliana was responsible for the placement of the Emergency Ops Center where it became part of Ground Zero, and culpabe in bad radios. However, you left off "making millions IN Iraq."

Brian Leonard · 2 years ago

As a former New Yorker, I agree with Steve Brant. Giuliani turned NYC into a police state and will try to do the same for the whole country if he's President. My biggest nightmare is a Hillary/Rudy showdown with Rudy winning--I really think it's possible. We need to spread the word that he's unfit to be President.

Marie Gipson · 2 years ago

This campaign goes in the wrong direction! It reminds me of something Karl Rove would think of. Doesn't Rudy (like other Republicans) have enough POLICY mistakes for us to talk about, without going after the personal stuff? You won't get a lot of support from lefties by making fun of his cross-dressing or his marital history.

Sam · 2 years ago

My first reaction to this was one of serious disapproval and I am embarrased to have supported an organization that would put this out. I'm not withdrawing my support, but stick to the issues. Keep doing things that matter and don't lower us all to the level of attacking a candidate's relationships with woman as a gauge of their merit for office. There is plenty of substantive material to bring to light. You have done that before, but not with much dignity here.

Robert · 2 years ago

Let's keep to real issues. His personal life is his and for us to stoop to the levels of caring about the number of times he has been married, some silly cross dressing or his estrangled children is pathetic. That's for TV Gossip shows.

Shannon S · 2 years ago

I agree with some of the other postings . . . attacking his personal life is no better than FOX News. Who his daughter would vote for and what he wears are not issues I would let affect my decision and you should not promote those prejudices. I believe in everything Brave New Films stands for, but please take a better look at the info you are putting out in the world. You may start to alienate your audience instead of reaching them.

peter scully · 2 years ago

How about in 1994 when he stood in front of the twin towers and dared the terrorists to knock them down?

e dahmen · 2 years ago

Brave New Films appears to be getting off track when it attempts to slander a politician for political choices a member of his family makes (this is out of his control) or for how he chooses to dress or express his gender identity. If BNF wishes to critique his voting record, or his official conduct as mayor of ny, that is fair play. Otherwise, live and let live.

lenore Scendo · 2 years ago

I'm a NYC resident and was here during Rudy's "finest hour". I am not a fan of his and would never vote for him but I decry the personal smears that account for much of your criticism of him as a candidate. There are many other criticisms you could launch without resorting to the degraded discourse the REPUBLICANS have put to such unfortunate use.

lenore Scendo · 2 years ago

I'm a NYC resident and was here during Rudy's "finest hour". I am not a fan of his and would never vote for him but I decry the personal smears that account for much of your criticism of him as a candidate. There are many other criticisms you could launch without resorting to the degraded discourse the REPUBLICANS have put to such unfortunate use.

lenore Scendo · 2 years ago

I'm a NYC resident and was here during Rudy's "finest hour". I am not a fan of his and would never vote for him but I decry the personal smears that account for much of your criticism of him as a candidate. There are many other criticisms you could launch without resorting to the degraded discourse the REPUBLICANS have put to such unfortunate use.

jgilliam · 2 years ago

Concerning the comments about personal life.

This is just supposed to be a funny teaser. We have several more videos coming that are very serious and get into the substance you're looking for.

One of the poll responses is "daughter supports Obama for president". Clearly this is a bit tongue-in-cheek everyone!

Tim Jerome · 2 years ago

I aways thought his two biggest mistakes were:
1) Selling off all those little pocket parks and gardens to developers.
2) Unleashing the murderous Street Crimes unit on the Black population.

Vita Brighton · 2 years ago

Hey, I'm no Rudy Giuliani fan - far from it, but for God's sake, his personal and family life is no affair of mine, and frankly, the fact that he does drag for charity is a GOOD THING. Can we PLEASE stick to the issues? He's a megalomaniac, and a right-winger on issues that matter. But this stuff is cheap. I didn't appreciate it when THEY did this type of thing Bill Clinton, and I don't appreciate it now.

You asked.

Vita

jgilliam · 2 years ago

Concerning the comments about personal life.

This is just supposed to be a funny teaser. We have several more videos coming that are very serious and get into the substance you're looking for.

One of the poll responses is "daughter supports Obama for president". Clearly this is a bit tongue-in-cheek everyone!

anthony marshall · 2 years ago

Rudy also outlawed dancing in bars in New York City. Also look into his handling of Amoudo Diallo and Patrick Dorsmond deaths by police.
New York was a police state under Rudy. He polorized the city.

Linda Erman · 2 years ago

Ugh--really. We can do better than this, can't we? Talk about ineffective; this ad just makes me feel sorry for the guy. Yuck!

robert rahway · 2 years ago

I am a Democrat! However I found this condemnation so pitiful, and so Republican in it's small mindeness. Who cares if he likes being in drag! His handling of 9/11 was heroic. I was here! we all went through it together. Bushes apearence days later was so after the fact and felt so unnessary, even he realized it. And has probably never forgiven Giuliani for making him look like what he is . An enaffectual jerk. His marrige is his own affair. This video really is pathetic. Grow up!!!! If I didn't know better I would have thought this video was made by the current diasgraceful small minded administration. All of whom should be impeached and arresrted as war criminals.

Robert Protzman · 2 years ago

The media made a hero of Mr. Giuliani for his so-called "leadership'' during 9/11. His mere presence seemed to be enough to convince them of the importance of his role during and after the attack. Real facts that have emerged over time since 9/11, however, paint a different picture, don't they? Giuliani is thought of as "tough,'' because he reportedly brought about a decline in crime in NYC. Perhaps so, but he did it be trampling on people's constitutional rights and unfairly targeting and rousting blacks.
Giuliani's public and private behavior paint a picture of an immature, irresponsible, arrogant, egomaniacal and downright phony man. Is that what we want for president? Haven't we already experienced that?

Jake Krohn · 2 years ago

I'm not a fan of the guy, but can't you rise above personal attacks on his marriages, familial relations, and his propensity to dress like a woman? I would actually think the last thing would make him more attractive to the left, not less.

This harks back to the undue attention given to President Clinton's personal life. It's too bad to see the other side resorting to these tactics too.

Ernst · 2 years ago

This is pathetic. The first 20 seconds are dealing with his private personal life, and the fact that he once dressed in drag. That's a mistake? This kind of personal sabotage based on right-wing notions of what constitutes "family values" is really really depressing. I hope you'll get rid of this video and rethink what you're trying to do here.

Mitch Gurney · 2 years ago

Biggest Problem with Rudy?

Being owned lock stock and barrel by Corporate America...

Sally · 2 years ago

IMO, the open adultery is a true key to Mr. Mayor's character.

You make a commitment when you marry, and each partner should live up to the commitment. Maybe it doesn't work the first marriage. Stuff happens. But if you decide to marry again, you should have damned well done your homework and have fixed exactly in your heart and mind what YOU needed to do to make that marriage work.

It's sort of like public office. You make a commitment to the public to do your job well and stick with it in good times and bad.

Apparently Rudy never got the message about fulfilling commitments. He didn't commit to his wives. He didn't commit to his family. He didn't commit to the city (really, Bernie Kerik!). He didn't commit to the firefighters.

If you're looking for someone to support, I'd suggest looking somewhere else. This man is a piece of slime and it's about time he crawled back into whatever river he crawled out of.

Karen Stamm · 2 years ago

Rudy's biggest mistake was being a provocative racist. For eaxmple, when he was running for mayor the second time, he cheered on thousands of out-of-control demonstrating cops who carried racist signs and chanted racist slogans against NYC's first black mayor, David Dinkins. He is a reliable racist and if he gets conservative support, it will be because they know they can trust him on this one issue.

I don't care about his personal stuff but I am amazed at his promotion of incompetents and sycophants, Bernie Kerik, for one, which means that he, like Bush, values loyalty more than talent or qualifications.

toni · 2 years ago

Worst mistake:

Complicity with Bush administration over air quality and removing evidence, support beams, etc., from WTC after 9/11.

Larry Carney · 2 years ago

I've made all kinds of mistakes in my life too, but one of them won'td be voting for Rudy Giuliani.

Larry Carney · 2 years ago

I've made all kinds of mistakes in my life too, but one of them won'td be voting for Rudy Giuliani.

Brian Dillon · 2 years ago

As a New Yorker and a person who has worked hard to get capable women and men elected to Congress and to the Presidency (intelligent, commited Democrats who want to serve the people, not the corporations), I find this YouTube presentation infantile and harmful to the Democrats' cause. I urge you to take it off the Internet before it does us any more harm. Steve Brant's comment here is a wise one. Giuliani is, as the excellent Harper's Magazine piece, makes clear is even worse than Bush. But for SUBSTANTIVE reasons: bad not good mayoral performance, ignorance of national and international issues, hair-trigger temper, arrogance and bullying, faulty judgment (his support of Bernard Kerik is but one of dozens of examples). The biggest mistake of all is YOURS
(and ours) if you continue to air this.

Lotfi El-Bayoumy · 2 years ago

We've had enough with these right wing fanatics.

Bernard White · 2 years ago

this is horrible. what's wrong with a man whose married 3 times? what's wrong with a man who has humor enough to "cross" dress? what's wrong with a man who changes his thinking on the complex complex topic of abortion?

i'm sure there are plenty of real things wrong with rudy giulani's stand on the issues.

but you so called liberals who trash a man's private lives and turn to the FOX form of smear campaigning make me retreat from all the noise.

Barry Gabriel · 2 years ago

He gave mussolini's grandaughter the keys to the City(NYC)and called him a great man. As you know the grandaughter is an avowed Facist. Nobody has called him on it. Does this mean that everybody agrees with that assesment. Check the archives of NY1 news. It happened early in his first administration and was covered by NY1 news.

P Justice · 2 years ago

I think one of the choices should be his attempt to demonize Patrick Dorismond, who was killed by the NYPD for "just saying no" to an undercover narcotics officer. Instead of responding to the incident by ensuring a thorough and just investigation, Giuliani announced that the victim was arrested for a minor crime as a juvenile! Doesn't that speak volumes?

Timothy Villard · 2 years ago

Rudy represents the continuation of all that has gone wrong in this country over the past seven years. Look no further than his foreign policy director Norman Podhert, a man who takes the sickness of neoconservatism to new depths.

Marc Latimer · 2 years ago

Everyone forgets that he subjected all the rescuers in the area to toxic debris and claimed that he put himself in harms way as well. His worst crime is that he is using 911 to try and make himself look like a hero when he profited from the disaster.

William McClelland · 2 years ago

Would it be too much to ask that we try to distinguish his actual mistakes, which have affected the lives of thousands of citizens (like endangering rescue workers and the faulty radios), from personal issues like his marriage(s) or cross-dressing at an event. If you want to go after this guy, you have plenty of ammunition, but if you talk about things like his not getting along with his kids, you're diluting your case. Stick to the things that matter! This is not a good ad, especially considering how good they have been in the past.

Judy Shelton · 2 years ago

I object to the targeting of cross-dressing in this vieo. Cross-dressing is not a character flaw and doesn't impact how Rudy will govern. We should keep focus on his lies, his ruthlessness, and his poor judgment.

Eric · 2 years ago

Re: the response "Concerning the comments about personal life. This is just supposed to be a funny teaser," you missed the mark.

A teaser is supposed to show a little of exactly what you're going to get in the real thing, and that's what everybody seems to think when they see this. It's what I thought. Are you saying that the full video doesn't include how many divorces he's had and how he likes to go in drag? Cause looking at the teaser I honestly doubt that those things were going to be omitted from the finished product.

It includes a compulsion to go in drag in the same list as endangering workers. That's rough.

"Looking bad in drag", as quoted from the audience survey is a lot better way to approach that one for humor, but I'd recommend avoiding the whole angle.

jeanie · 2 years ago

His worst mistake was firing the people who spoke up to him while he was mayor, including the commission of the Police Department and the man he hired to "save" the school system. Rudy is a super control freak, he thinks that what he has to say is infallible (like another Italian guy somewhere else). It really is his way or the highway. We don't need another person like that. I could care less about his cross dressing, his marriages, or what his daughter thinks. What scares me most is that this man thinks he is always right. Been there, done that. Nope.

Earl Umfleet · 2 years ago

Here we go again. I would hope the christians would not fall for another bush look alike. Neither on is a christian and their actions speak louder than words.

cyndi · 2 years ago

These attacks on his personal life demonstrate a real poverty of intellect on the part of the attackers.

David W. Long · 2 years ago

No conservative Republicans of any kind, please. It is obvious that all such people have all but ruined all that once was good in our country and the world.

Rachel Lewis Murphy · 2 years ago

All ten (10) have shown that he is irresponsible and wrong.

PeaceLove · 2 years ago

This is cheap shots rather than substantive information. While Giuliani's record in NY contains much to be criticized, his personal life doesn't belong on the list in any form. What about Giuliani's unwillingness to condemn the idea that the President can lock up anyone he wants at any time without charge?

Don't Limbaugh the Left! Stop with the sleazy personal attacks and stick to the issues.

Brigit Drake · 2 years ago

If Rudy can win with his long "laundry" list - then it's time to move to Canada.

John Valente · 2 years ago

I find the whole notion of this exercise a waste of time and resources. I don't support Giuliani, but I support even less attacks on any one that are not relevant to their ability to hold public office. Looks bad in drag? Divorced and remarried? Estranged from his kids? Who cares?

I'm removing my name from the mailing list, if this is the road we're headed down, you can go without me.

R. Reid · 2 years ago

Shame on you for equating "cross-dressing" with mis-managing 9/11 and adultery. Regardless of why he cross-dresses, it is an ignorant person who considers this a mistake or a sin. Open your mind.

sue · 2 years ago

I think it's not just his flip-flopping on the abortion issue per-se, but his flip-flopping in general. That, and how he handled (didn't) 9-11 in general and how he took the spotlight for himself instead of doing what he should have been doing--backing up the rescuers.

Nancy Griffin · 2 years ago

It's so difficult to choose just one as the biggest mistake of his career, and I remember so many more - evicting the homeless from their palatial sleeping accommodations under the Grand Central Station steam pipes, for instance - but the choice of command center seems emblematic of his ability to make good decisions. He clearly does not have that ability. All the other mistakes available to choose flow from that one. He's a flip-flopping, self-aggrandizing wannabe with no philosophical or moral core. We already have one of those and look where it's gotten us. And aren't the Republicans the ones who pretend to occupy the moral high ground, wherever that elusive piece of real estate lies? I don't see Rudy's marriages, divorces and public shenanigans as compatible with their facade of moral righteousness. How about his announcing his imminent divorce at a press conference, while his as yet uniformed wife was inside Gracie Mansion? Is that presidential? Is that the kind of 'decider' we want in the White House? Do we have a new concept for choosing the president - the Limbo Philosophy? How Low Can We Go?

gene johnson · 2 years ago

Anyone who remains estranged from family has not learned how to deal with the daily conflict that is involved in being a human being living with other human beings. I wouldn't trust anyone like this to be a leader of people.

Kali Smith · 2 years ago

It was hard to choose. I think flipping his views on Abortion issue is 100% his choice. He shares a lot of company in the Republican party.

The blame for the decision to put the command center in the WTT needs to cast a wider net including the state governor at that time.

Not even or adequately testing the system for Firefights & other first responders to the scene also entails a wider circle of blame.

NewYorkertotheCore · 2 years ago

I'm a Dem & a Liberal & usually love your films but you mut redo this, take off the cross-dressing and marriage stuff, and yank it off your site. I do however that it is somewhat relevant to expose how Rudy flaunted his affair with his now-wife Judy Nathan and wanted her to come into Gracie Mansion while his current wife and kids were still living there. That was shoddy and the right-wing so-called Christians should be aware of that more than his 3 marriages.

Bottom line is, Rudy is a knee-jerk HOT HEAD. He is just like Bush, although smarter. But his intelligence will not be used effectively.

He is a man of extremes, too. Yes, he "cleaned up" NYC, but at what price? It is now one big generic upscale shopping mall that is overrun with upscale tourists who have taken over and acted like the streets are Disneyland.

And even though he is pro-abortion, he is not an advocate for legal abortion. He will throw that issue under the bus. I fear he will do the same with gay rights issues.

Once again, as always, Republicans and Conservatives go for the fast-food, superficial, sound-byte candidate. Look at how they loved Arnold for his star power. They see the calm version of Rudy on Fox News and the images from him on 9/11 and that's all they need to hear.

jaytron · 2 years ago

Again, this is just a teaser for a series of very serious, very hard-hitting videos that we will release shortly. We put together this teaser to get the word out. The upcoming videos will NOT focus on his personal life. They will be dealing with the type of issues that we ALL agree are the most important to focus on.

J. Sandberg · 2 years ago

The USA is embarrassed enough!
Is this what the Republicans mean
by "family values" ????????????
Liar, Liar, Giulianis's lingerie's on fire.

JJS

Avoiding harrassment · 2 years ago

Giuliani's mismanagement of the 911 events, and the way he presented himself as a hero in the aftermath, are pretty good reasons not to put him in the White House. The anti-choice pandering to the religious Right is enough to make me not want him in the White House. But this ad sucks: it's an attack ad. We can't bitch about the Republican machine that impeached Bill Clinton for making poor choices in his personal life, and then turn around and try to indict a Republican for making poor choices in his personal life. This is really dirty pool. And just using the word "flip-flop" puts you in the same muddy waters as the Republican attack machine that kept Bush in the White House in '04. "Leadership failures"? Fair game. "Married three times"? You don't do yourselves proud by playing on that. "Looks bad in drag"? That's just plain stupid. We don't need Progressives playing by Karl Rove's handbook. This ad really makes Brave New Films look like a gang of idiots. Take it down.

crloftin · 2 years ago

I thought everyone had forgotten Bernie Kerik... as I'm sure the Giuliani machine had hoped we would. I'm so glad to see this is still an issue... for me it is THE issue that typifies him... Many of the others are just subsets of the type of problems we would have if be were actually elected. The Bernie Kerik issue is more telling of the type of individual he surrounds himself with and the type of person be would bring into his administration. Haven't we had enough of the "White House inner-circle" being so detached from the real needs and wishes of mainstream Americans? He simply does not pass a "scratch-and-sniff" superficial examination.

Tamara dabney · 2 years ago

I could care less if our president is a cross-dresser. It wouldn't be the first time. Plus, I like drag queens. Buuuuut, no, really, the guy is clearly just in love with himself and greedy for power. Why else would his children hate him? Why else would he change his opinion on abortion as it suits his favored constituency? I want a President who stands for something you can count on. I can't stand George Bush, but if he's got one thing going for him, you can predict what he'll do (choosing the worst, most destructive strategies EVERY TIME). With Rudy, you've got a real wild card. America really doesn't need that right now.

Lisa Hammermeister · 2 years ago

Your daughter doesn't support you. This is very telling. You think you are a hero, sir you are not. What did you do before 9/11? Wasn't the Trade Center bombed before? What did you do about that?

Lisa Hammermeister · 2 years ago

Your daughter doesn't support you. This is very telling. You think you are a hero, sir you are not. What did you do before 9/11? Wasn't the Trade Center bombed before? What did you do about that?

Kathie Pomeroy · 2 years ago

Rudy is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the Republican party now. He refuses to listen to people who know about things (radios, command center) he says one thing and does another (family values), he lies (list too long to post), he appoints unqualified, stupid and corrupt cronies to positions of power (Kerik et al) and he thinks that no one will notice that while he put a face on the 9/11 response, his REAL response was just more of the same - nothing of any substance. PS - I think he is another closet perv of some sort (all the cross-dressing). AND a huge hypocrite. As usual, nothing new.

No More Mr. Nice Guy! · 2 years ago

In response to commenters who are complaining about "personal smears" - as always with rethugs, IT'S THE HYPOCRISY, silly! Guiliani is just another rich white extreme-righter who thinks laws and morality only apply to the little people.

LABIENZ · 2 years ago

Flip Flopping on abortion for votes. Anyone who considers abortion takes a lot of thought before making the decision. I want to keep the right to be ale to make that decision. Rudy probably doesn't care, but he needs those conservative votes so another anti-abortionist is born.

betty c · 2 years ago

Widh the ubnderstanding that she was identified at the time as the following, my question is Why would any decent person want the 'Gracie Mansion Whore' to be first lady. It's bad enough that she - the current wife - moved into Gracie mansion with Rudy and his kids before the divorce was final, but that it took a court case to get her evicted. Read the article in Variety. She makes Martha Stewart , and Leona Helmsley look like real angels.

Janice · 2 years ago

This was a toss up between the faulty radios and the Command Center. Both decisions showed poor leadership, and lives were lost on both counts being arrogant with the location of the Center is a no brainer!

Virginia Paxton · 2 years ago

My biggest beef with Rudy is hes backing the NAFTA Superhighway by giving legal council to Centra who will construct the highway.I think he is nothing but a traitor to the United States and her citizens.

Gail · 2 years ago

He's a self-absorbed, unaccountable, dishonest, self-serving jerk, and has been since he first hit the papers. If your children don't speak to you, that's pretty telling. There are a lot of people like him in the world; thank God they are offset to some degree by people of integrity and honor and generous hearts, or we would be truly doomed. I'm no saint, God knows, and very very far from being the person I hope to become - but next to Rudy I look better than I deserve to, which is more than a little scary to me.

Shane Burns · 2 years ago

Sorry, but this one is full of cheap shots. Not worthy of your other work.

Gail · 2 years ago

He's a self-absorbed, unaccountable, dishonest, self-serving jerk, and has been since he first hit the papers. If your children don't speak to you, that's pretty telling. There are a lot of people like him in the world; thank God they are offset to some degree by people of integrity and honor and generous hearts, or we would be truly doomed. I'm no saint, God knows, and very very far from being the person I hope to become - but next to Rudy I look better than I deserve to, which is more than a little scary to me.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Sorry, but this one is full of cheap shots. Not worthy of your other work. How is having three marriages relevant to anything. And a daughter who supports Obama doesn't seem like a character flaw. Stick to issues that matter not cheap personal shots.

marshall · 2 years ago

This is pretty much an ad hominem attack on Giuliani's character. Leave it in the can.

Micheal E. Evans · 2 years ago

Giuliani is one of the worst dangers this country has in it`s midst ,He is a known and profound liar and a propogandist for killing the constitution and using it to profit on this so called war on terror which would make like many others including the other village idots that got loose war criminals that need to be hung publicly for there treasonist crimes to our great nation and starting an illegal war!!!!! What a legacy to leave behind Rudy MASS MURDER!!!!!AND WHAT A TO PROFIT ,EXTERMINATION BY PROPOGANDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anonymous · 2 years ago

This latest offering from Brave New Films is truly disappointing. The conservatives used spurious attacks on Bill Clinton's marital fidelity to distract the nation from real policy matters. Is that the tactic that Brave New Films plans to use against Giuliani? Rudy's aboutface on abortion is a troubling matter which warrants discussion; nothing else on the list merits inclusion on a list of real policy issues. Is the purpose of this website to raise legitimate questions regarding Giuliani's stance on the issues or merely to try and alienate him from social conservatives?

Emmett Grogan · 2 years ago

Start your engines! Even when somehow mouthing some accidently aquired truths,Giuliani is dissembling through that perpetual shit-eating grin.SS/savanarola with a smile. . .

JERRY · 2 years ago

i cant vote because in 10 seconds you cant tell the real person he is he dosent stand a chance against ron paul americas #1 choice for president ron paul is the only real choice for president

RichFair · 2 years ago

Hey, let's target the Republican candidates that have a better chance of beating a Democrat, not Giuliani.
Giuliani will lose a lot of the moralistic right wing and that 20-30% who will not vote (or vote for an "independent") will result in a Democrat landscape.
On the other hand, they might vote for a TV hero or (reluctantly) a Mor-man.

RICHARD SHADE · 2 years ago

RUDY IS BOUGH AND PAYED FOR BY CFR AND THE GLOBAL ELITE. A VOTE FOR RUDY IS A VOTE FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION AND OPEN BORDERS.

Dan Whitesell · 2 years ago

To whom it may concern: I don't like Rudy Giuliani either, but your video on his faults stays on the level of tabloid, yellow journalism and does not even make an attempt to expose the real Giuliani, who is an enemy of working people and a shameless representative of corporate interests.
Until you are ready to expose these real issues and leave the tabloid journalism to others, you are not going to improve things.

Dan Whitesell · 2 years ago

To whom it may concern: I don't like Rudy Giuliani either, but your video on his faults stays on the level of tabloid, yellow journalism and does not even make an attempt to expose the real Giuliani, who is an enemy of working people and a shameless representative of corporate interests.
Until you are ready to expose these real issues and leave the tabloid journalism to others, you are not going to improve things.

Yvette St. Onge · 2 years ago

Great 30sec teaser... I can't stand this candidate. Can you do one of these on Hil?
I can't stand her either. I'll be sending this to all my friends.

rcf · 2 years ago

As a Democrat, this guy as the Republican candidate for pres is wet dream. Come on all you right wing nut jobs - VOTE RUDY!

Maria · 2 years ago

Shame on brave new films for shaming Giuliani for cross dressing. I find his politics repugnant in almost every way, but treating a cross-dressing incident as though it is worthy of scandal is insulting to gender-variant and transgender individuals everywhere. And are you really throwing stones at him for being divorced? Couldn't you find any more material of substancel?

Tommy · 2 years ago

I don't like Giuliani and I usually like Brave New Films but this film is no good. In fact, it's the worst I've seen from you guys. What happened? Cross dressing and the number of marriages? Not really good arguments about policies, are they? Don't fall for mainstream tactics!

Richard Flake · 2 years ago

Rudy Guliani's mistake? Being a Republican.

Bikerdude · 2 years ago

I want to see more on how Rudy and Bernie used the 911 event to enrich themselves. How their self-serving greed may be hurting the citizens and the victims.

Deb · 2 years ago

The worst thing about this man, in my eyes, is that he refers to himself as a Catholic. I don't think so.
Going to mass twice a year does not a Catholic make.

Gail · 2 years ago

I'm glad to hear that this was a teaser, because it was an attack ad. I don't think we need to stoop that low to be effective, and I would hate to emulate the Swift Boat Veterans style of ad - I don't believe that approach does anything but demean those who employ it.

Edward Fuquay · 2 years ago

I cannot relate anymore to any republican! I am sick and tired of their hypocrecy. Being a republican is Rudy's biggest mistake!

David Metz · 2 years ago

If Guliani somehow gets elected/selected president, we Americans ARE stupider than we look!

Natasha Lloyd · 2 years ago

I'm a liberal and do not support Giuliani. But, let's play fair. His family stuff and the cross-dressing (at least 6 of the 10 "mistakes") are personal and irrelevant to the opposition. Stick to his professional blunders, which are indeed significant and stand on their own without the personal attacks. I don't appreciate when the other side stoops to these tactics with candidates I support, and I don't believe in playing dirty when it seems convenient to my position. It seems that others who have voted on this site also feel that his "personal" mistakes are not relevant.

F. Jones · 2 years ago

There are so many more legitimate things you could have included, this video is really shameful. This is the kind of pandering to the lowest common denominator you highlighted in "Outfoxed". This is far more unfair than anything Michael Moore has done. You should apologize to all your fans and supporters for associating us with this tripe and making us look stupid for ever paying attention to you. Shame on you, Greenwald.

Joan Alliman · 2 years ago

I will not vote for this man or any other Repulican in this presidential year. The Radical Christian movement may have no impact in 2008 because the so-called moral conservatives, including our president will not be invited to jump on their bandwagon (at least I hope not. I truly believe in Jesus Christ and I think it's sad that many things have changed in our country but I am not sure politics and religion should be so closely tied together. I will vote for whoever the Democratic party nominates. It is time for a change.

michael mangino · 2 years ago

I think the biggest mistake was putting him in office in the first place.I really have nothing good to say about the man.so I'll just leave it there

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I think the location of the command center was placed in harms way for a reason. Do not trust Rudy...

Emmett Grogan · 2 years ago

Start your engines!see "Giuliani time" full length feature documentary.
Every time Giuliani manages to mouth some truth through that perpetual shit-eating grin, he's dissembling.
A smiling SS/savanarola wannabe. Beware of this authoritarian monster..

Ralph · 2 years ago

None of the above. His worst mistake was asking the candidates who were running to succeed him as mayor to let him continue in office because of "extraordinary circumstances." This is not how an elected official in a democracy should think.

Lawrence Gill · 2 years ago

He got rid of the 911 evidence before any investigation. In my opinion, he was part of the 911 conspiracy.

marc · 2 years ago

Carting away all the steel before forensics could have a look. A traitor and accessory to mass murder. In on the State sponsored terrorist act carried out by elements of the shadow govt. that calls the shots. Crimes against humanity. Want more? Why do you think he legislated for poor quality radios? Only one answer possible.

LadyM · 2 years ago

He says he is not for Illegal Immigration yet he was mayor of one of the biggest Sanctuary cities in the country. He can't manage his own life (3 marriages) and now he wants to run our Nation! I wouldn't vote for him if he was the only one running!

josh · 2 years ago

cross dressing? who cares... you all should know better than to highlight that...

damian · 2 years ago

I see it's gonna be a nasty campaign again. What a shame.

Laura · 2 years ago

I think the most despicable thing Giuliani ever did was ordering the debris and human remains of 9/11 victims to be used to fill potholes.

Chris Gillespie · 2 years ago

I think his biggest mistake is HE HAS ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT BLOW-BACK IS and that our horrible foreign policy in the Middle East is putting US citizens and our nation in a security at risk. This goes along with the fear mongering neo-cons promote and he actually believes.

h douglass brown · 2 years ago

Giuliani doesn't appreciate the art of caring, that's why a man who spent most of the time after 9/11 hopping from photo op to photo op>

Russell Buote · 2 years ago

It is my opinion the rudy was complicit in 9/11. Funny how his penthouse in building "7" had a multi million dollar renovation. Why hurricane wind proof glass and separate oxygen system and elite computer system? Then building "7" was imploded on 9/11. Coincidence. Maybe.

Robin Wilder · 2 years ago

I'm disappointed by the attack on his cross-dressing. While I understand that your intention was to have republicans repudiate him for "moral" shortcomings as they did with Sen Craig, I feel that you are also making a statement about cross-dressing. I supported you with the movie on Iraq, but now I feel that you aren't my friend any more!

Pat · 2 years ago

I think that cross-dressing, the cousin married, being married 3 times, and having a daughter who supports Obama should be removed from your list. They're personal decisions that are not directly related to his ability to govern.

On the other hand, it's significant that he's estranged from his children, announced his intention to divorce to his wife (at home) when he spoke at a news conference, and that he made multiple mistakes regarding 9/11 and other issues in NYC.

I hope that we don't imitate the Right's personal attacks as a method of discrediting politicians.

Daniel Barnett · 2 years ago

None of your above choices are what's worst about Rudy Guiliani. The worst thing he did was say that he wanted to blow up the Board of Ed, and endorse private school vouchers and merit pay for teachers.

Kenneh Laster · 2 years ago

Rudy Girliani had prior knowledge of the buildings coming down on 911. This pig allowed a lot of emergency workers to be killed and justice will prevail against him someday!!!!!!!

Mark Rappaport · 2 years ago

You left out a couple of really good ones!!!
How about him letting Donna Hanover, his second wife and mother of his two kids, letting her know he was divorcing her, at a press conference, before he evn told HER?
How about the Patrick Dorimond story--when an undercover agent tried to trap a black guy into selling him, the agent drugs? The black guy was innocent but Guiliani announced publicly that he had had a police record--which although true is completely illegal. But RG wanted everyone to know that his cops were right and the black deserved what he got--because he was black, no doubt.
And what about the Amidou Diallo story?
And what about...???
I think you guys need to do more research. There's lots of dirt under Guiliani's rug.

Jo Heck · 2 years ago

His violation of first amendment and third amendment rights deserves mention, as does his Mafia connections. Also his behavior in the immediate aftermath: removing all the steel so that it couldn't be examined and also so that remains couldn't be identified. He's quite a despicable human being.

Susan Rowe · 2 years ago

ALL THE ABOVE should on this list

What is Rudy's biggest mistake?
1866 votes total

daughter backs Obama for president
estranged from children
married three times
Bernie Kerik
emergency command center in #1 terror target
looking bad in drag
"open and notorious adultery"
flip-flopping on abortion
annulled marriage to second cousin
faulty radios for firefighters

Mark Rappaport · 2 years ago

And how could I have forgotten him wanting to shut down the Brooklyn Museum because it had, in his little mind, "offensive" art? That kind of censorship ought to give a spicy foretaste of things to come...

Steven Hensler · 2 years ago

Rudy's greatest mistake is thinking that he can win the election to be president. The only greater mistake will be that of the shrubite voting public that responds to fear and hate and will, therefore, vote for the man and actually elect him president.

By the by - look up the studies on sleep deprivation and the percentage of adults in the USA who suffer sleep deprivation - therein will you find at least some of the reason that fear-mongering and hate-manufacturing work so well to control the voter.

M. Wold · 2 years ago

Let us not expose Giuliani too soon. It might be better to wait and see if he gets the Republican nomination.
In the meantime, I think a better approach might be to first investigate why and for what reasons he is, at this moment, leading the field of Republican candidates. What is it about Giuliani that appeals to these voters - Republican. Start by querying those who support him and when his so-called strength(s) and appeal have been determined then put together a video that attacks that strength and undermines that appeal.
After all, that is what Rove et al did to Gore and Kerry. It is known as "know your enemy". Also, it is strategy and not jump-the-gun tactics. (So cool it.)

JJ · 2 years ago

I would say his biggest mistake isn't on the list, and yet he keeps making it.

His whole campaign is built on the raw emotion of 9/11. He's been dubbed "americas mayor" and yet he, like Bush uses 'verbal terrorism' to terrorize the United States. Abusing words like "freedom", "9/11" "when i was mayor of new york..."

Hey remember that one time, when Ron Paul told the truth, and then Rudy spewed off some "terrorists hate our freedom" rhetoric, making him look out to be a hero, and Paul to look like an ass?

I hope people realize that this guy is a total fraud. Anybody want to continue the Bush dictatorship legacy? elect this guy.

Richard Baker · 2 years ago

I think his biggest mistake for the way he brags he cleared crime from New York City. Yea, sure. Ask the people of Newark, Camden, Atlantic City, and Trenton NJ, also Allentown area, Philadelphia area,Reading Area, Harrisburg area of Pennsylvania about where the criminals went.

chris grundstrom · 2 years ago

RUDY IS JUST ANOTHER CROSS-DRESSING, DOUBLE-SPEAKING, LYING, TWO-TIMING, LOUD-TALKING, (MAKE THE PAST GO AWAY)PSYCHOPATH IC, SOCIOPATHIC, LYING POLITICIAN who would sell out his whole family and the world on a simple political whim and who is exactly like all of the rest of his genre, destined to rule diddly in hell.

Katie H · 2 years ago

We should be so lucky to have a president that has enough of a sense of humor to cross-dress. However, there is no excuse for his treatment of post-911 volunteers & workers. How many families were destroyed by his indifference to the health hazards and his obstinate insistence that he was in control and life was returning to normal. Life never returned to normal for these families, and yet here he is, riding on their backs to satisfy his political aspirations. Shame on you, Rudy!

Anon · 2 years ago

Lets not wallow in the mud with them, please. Who cares about his marriages or affairs? Leave the personal stuff out of it. Lord knows, his handling of 9/11 CAN be his undoing IF we will keep the focus on how much responsibility he bears for so many deaths.

Charles Kuhn · 2 years ago

Rudy is not different then Bush. Doesn't tell the truth!

Joan Jackson · 2 years ago

As a lifelong Democrat, I find cheap political tricks like this distasteful no matter who they attack. Enough already! We need thoughtful political discourse in these perilous times.

barbara miller · 2 years ago

He's a Republican. What was the other reason I need?

Patricia Flanagan · 2 years ago

If God forbid, he is elected President, we can kiss America goodbye!! He has been described as being like Bush, on STEROIDS!!

Anonymous · 2 years ago

As an Italian myself I am afraid that many Italians will vote for this clown just because he's one of us.Beware he's a rich self serving neo-con,he is not for real sincere middle class people.PLEASE BEWARE!

e yarus · 2 years ago

It would never occur to me to vote for Giuliani but I look forward to the videos.

Adam West · 2 years ago

In my own opinion, hugging Sharon with photo opts & also his trip to Israel receiving an award from the Israeli Government and photo Opts! The Israeli/Palestinian situation should be condemmed by the US but unfortunately with the support of AIPAC giving donations to our politicians in Washington, our strong support for Israel, whatever funds donated to the politicians will be given back by the taxpayers of America to the Israeli Government.

julie shapiro · 2 years ago

if he gets the nomination we are moving to Canada.

kim piracci · 2 years ago

Since when do liberals concern themselves with cross dressing? Come on! Let's not be big hipocrates like so many conservatives.

Willy Banta · 2 years ago

Cross-dressing is not a mistake. It doesn't hurt anyone. You come off as homophobes with that.
Replace that with the fact that he said that he knew the towers were going to come down. THAT WAS A BIG MISTAKE FOR HIM, AND AN OPEN DOOR FOR US!!

Giuliani was confronted in the Bronx on May 31 by Sabrina Rivera, a truth activist whose boyfriend’s father was a fireman who died on 9/11. She asked Giuliani why he and his staff had received a special warning that the twin towers of the World Trade Center were going to collapse, when the people in the buildings never got that warning. Giuliani’s response contradicted everything he has ever said about 9/11 – he denied that he had ever received a warning that the twin towers were going to come down. We never though the towers would implode, stammered Giuliani.

But that is not what Giulaini had told Peter Jennings of ABC news on the afternoon of 9/11. At that time the Mayor said: “I went down to the scene and we set up headquarters at 75 Barclay Street, which was right there, with the police commissioner, the fire commissioner, the head of emergency management, and we were operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was going to collapse. And it did collapse before we could actually get out of the building, so we were trapped in the building for ten, 15 minutes, and finally found an exit and got out, walked north, and took a lot of people with us.” [ABC News, 9/11/2001

Why isn't that in your 30 seconds?

Roo · 2 years ago

How about the Patrick Dorimond story--The comment got it wrong.
Dorismund was SHOT DEAD IN THE STREET when 2 undercover agents tried to press him into selling drugs while he worked the door at a bar. He had nothing on him, no weapons, drugs nothing. As the black community went nuts in NYC, Giuliani reveals the dead man's SEALED arrest record, stating "this guy was no altar boy" that was sealed because he had not committed a crime in over 5 years.
Okay, 1) White cops cluelessly ask a black bouncer for drugs. He gets mad. Kill him. Make no apologies. 2) Justify his wrongful death by showing the man had once been arrested. Which of course means, if youve ever been arrested, your death at the hands of police when you are not doing anything wrong later in life isnt something we should care about. 4) Illegally Expose a sealed arrest record, meaning, even if you smoked weed 20 years ago in college, we can dig it up to justify your death. Especially if your not white! Than theres Diallo, another dead black guy, cause of death, NYPD. Than theres Louima a black guy gang raped by white cops' nightsticks. They got cushy solitary confinement, rather than the lifetime of prison rape they richly deserve. Actually, half the Republican party deserves a lifetime of prison rape, but when they catch em, they only get white collar Fed jails, where they get to hang out with 80's junk bond felons and Nixon officials.

Ronald Wharton · 2 years ago

How the events of September 11th can be considered a strong point for this man is unfathomable to me. He did nothing outstanding in the immediate aftermath and has profiteered immensely from the tragedy, making millions in speaking fees and consulting roles. He is a major disgrace and if we had a news media doing a proper job, he would be exposed as such.

Moriah Mattingly Jones · 2 years ago

Rudy represents his right-wing party well - afterall, they ARE the epitome of hypocrisy, greed, deceit, maliciousness and blatant propaganda. Yep, good 'ol Rudy is almost as big a fraud as his 'pal', King George. On many occasions, I believe he's also just as mad!

Don Peters · 2 years ago

WON'T GET MY VOTE----2 REASONS
1. REPUBLICAN 2. its RUDY

Molly · 2 years ago

You left out the time he blamed the troops for not guarding the munitions dumps in Iraq

TimothyGilmore · 2 years ago

Giuliani's command post in Bldg. #7 was the cause of bldg. 7 being "pulled" the way the Towers were. He knew of the impending attack and was part and parcel of the Cheney/Bush/Saudi attack on the WTC. to create a new "Pearl Harbor" so we could begin "O"peration "I"raqi "L"iberation.

Pamela Light · 2 years ago

I can't stand Rudy Giuliani! He Just Like BUSH. Now do we want another BUSH!!
Ron Paul 2008 Nope for America!!!

Barbara Drane · 2 years ago

If you admire, trust and believe Bush, you will just love being made a fool of by Giuliani.

Larry Thomas · 2 years ago

Without a doubt, in my opinion, Rudy's worst mistake was being MIA when asked to participate in the Iraq Study Group.

shagnaski · 2 years ago

Letting the police force run rampant then defending their grostequeries.

Ricardo · 2 years ago

I am still going to vote for Rudy, regardless. The truth is that he is the best candidate running for president. I've lived in NY City for over 25 years, and remember what the city was like before he came into office. If he can do the same for the country, he could go down in history as the greatest president ever. This is just my opinion.

Matt P. · 2 years ago

There is one item you forgot to mention about Rudy Jiuliani. He came out publicly and supported Mario Cuomo (a Democrat) against George Pataki (a Republican) in Pataki's first run for governor of New York. It almost cost him his membership in the Republican Party. I believe he was Mayor of New York City at that time. Matt P.

Ann Burridge · 2 years ago

I hope the republicans nominate Rudy. That way, anyone the Democrats nominate will win.

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Mark · 2 years ago

Can't we have real debate without trying to convince people someone shouldn't be president because they wore a dress on a comedy show? Since when do teenagers tend to agree with their parents?

Don't get my wrong, I'm not voting for Giuliani, but those aren't mistakes, they are pathetic attempts at an attack ad.

Carole Kuzan · 2 years ago

Rudy's worst mistake is that he is arrogant and I believe he has never acknowledged the good deeds of the many people who have made this world a better place through their compassionate acts of selflessness and wisdom.

He attacks those who hold different views from himself.

Don Peters · 2 years ago

JUST LIKE OUR so called PRESIDENT, let me be
clean about this, SQEAKEY CLEAN.....BUSH OR
GIULIANI HAVE NO BALLS....(PERIOD)

Sarah · 2 years ago

Please stick to the public policy mistakes and don't get mired down in the marriage/adultry/divorce or the silly references to his children and cross dressing. The radios, placement of the command center and flip-flop on choice are serious. Don't bring down the level of debate like FOX does by including the silly stuff.

Kaye Fissinger · 2 years ago

The man's on a power trip, nothing more, nothing less! If you like things the way they are, or if want to see them get worse, then cast your for for Rudy.

jaytron · 2 years ago

Remember, this is just a teaser - it's meant as a fun way to draw attention to our upcoming videos on Rudy, which will be much more serious.

Hob Gadling · 2 years ago

I am sorry to say that I am a bit disappointed by some of the choices in this list. We,re not right-wing hypocrits who claim to be perfect. Some of these "mistakes" might be mistakes on a personal level, but don't have anything to do with his abilities as a leader, unless, of course, like most Republicans, he claims to be without flaws...

1- "Married 3 times" So what? It's his business. It might be a mistake if you,re a Republican but not a progressive.
2- "notorious adultery": again, that's his private business, unless he claims to be a true and faithful husband.
3- "2nd cousin": As far as I know it's weird but not illegal isn't it?
4- That his daughter backs Obama doesn't mean anything, only that his daughter may not be a conservative.
5- "estranged from his family", again doesn't mean a thing, unless he boasts the opposite or is a "classic family" proponent, which I don't think he is.

As for the rest, they are real mistakes and them alone should be considered to show his incompetence...

George Lakoff · 2 years ago

Rudy recently claimed that health care is a commodity just like flat screen tvs, and that just as flat screen tvs came down in price through the market, so could health care. The analogy is outrageous. You don't die or live a life in pain without a flat screen tv, but you might without health care. HMO's make their profit by denying people health care. TV manufacturers don't make a profit by denying people tvs or tv use, TVs are a one-time purchase; health care is ongoing. Nothing bad happens if you can't afford a flat screen tv. A lot of bad things can happen if you can't afford health care.

Roger Beck · 2 years ago

Rudy's biggest 'mistake' is not a mistake so much as his 'thin skin'. Rudy doesn't take to criticism at all. The reporter who asked him that question risked having his ears burnt by asking such a question. Rudy's attitude is one of scorn for his critics. His temperament rules him OUT as presidential material.

rc butler · 2 years ago

Some of the list is pretty silly, who cares if he dressed in drag, maybe that shows a sense of humor. Nor do I care how many times he has been married. However, the accusations of his mismangement of the pre and post 9/11 crises do not bode well. Also, on the list should have been encouraging people to return to the 9/11 area before it was safe and not making sure that safety precautions were followed and not properly compensating injured volunteers.

ctranch · 2 years ago

By far the lives of the fire fighters that could have possibly been saved had he done what he should have done with the radios is top of my list, and I also think he and others conspired to have something to do with the whole tragedy of 9/11. William Rodriguez testifies to all the explosions that started BEFORE the 1st plane hit the North Tower! Just what did Rudy know? He wasn't in his command center. Why did Building 7 fall later that day with no plane hitting it? Where were the fighter jets for almost 2 hours that protect our skies? It goes on and on. Many questions have not been answered!

Cynthia Timko · 2 years ago

He's just one big hypocrite: marriage, social issues, etc. an "exaggerator" (how much time at Ground Zero?), bad judge of character (Bernie Kerik), supports Bush and, I have to rely on native New Yorkers for this, sounds like a little dictator. Everyone makes mistakes, but he sounds like your basic opportunist to me. I would just warn those looking for an alternative to Rudy to beware Mitt. He's only had one wife, but he's just a slicker opportunist, just as bad a flip-flopper and just as eager to be the tough guy and has about as much sensitivity to real people as Rudy.

DeAnne Dingwall · 2 years ago

I feel he was in complicity with forknowledge of the 9/11 strike as the administration. If not, why was he not operating out of his fancy secure self-contained floors in Bldg 7? Was it being used by others as a grand overview site? Oh, no doubt, he is one of the Liars.

aw · 2 years ago

What about when the hateful racist bastard refused to let Yassir Arafat into a symphony.

DIANE PODLOGAR · 2 years ago

RUDY KNOWS THE SECRETS BEHIND THE 911 ATTACKS.
HE IS AN EVIL, SOULLESS BEING THAT IS A PERFECT FIT FOR THE NEO-FACIST GOVERNMENT RUNNING THIS COUNTRY.

bugs · 2 years ago

Rudy the republicans want to call him America Mayor.
God I hope not,,, Rudy is a joke.. a laughable joke.

Mary · 2 years ago

I'm sorry, but this is a bit petty at best. Please, more issues-related mistakes -- there are plenty.

ron heringhauser · 2 years ago

The one and only candidate is Ron Paul. There is no other choice. Dr. Paul is America's last and best hope.

Rosalinda · 2 years ago

I don't see on your list how he DID NOT take every precaution for exposure to fumes on workers, firefighters, and others.
Make some research on the consequences of such incompetence. Is this the leader some people want?

Marilyn Larson · 2 years ago

I do not think he has what it takes to be president. His only experence,I think, was mayor of New York and that does not cut it for me.

Joan Sanders · 2 years ago

I would vote to focus on his professioanl mistakes,Command center, assuring workers that Ground Zero was safe, and the firefighters and rescuw workers; brief on the serial marriages and family, perhaps skip the cross dressing?

Juli Davidson · 2 years ago

I lived & worked in the city while, as Mayor of NYC, Rudy G. used strong-arm tactics to change the nature of Times Square and West 42nd Street. The neighborhood needed cleaning up, but he turned it into a Disney-lite destination. The Way He Did It Was Very Totalitarian. If we think Bush-Cheney don't listen well to others, Rudy has shown himself to be a most didactic ruler in prosecutor's clothing. I would be very afraid if he were to follow Bush into the White House. Executive Branch Uber Alles! Yikes.

vincent passiatore · 2 years ago

What would we face with Rudy Giuliani. ANOTHER REPUBLICAN. probley more lies like bush and cheney. a bigger war in the middle east. a world war like george bush wants to attack IRAN. more massive debt to america and its people. probley no or less social security.( THE RICH IN AMERICA WOULD GET RICHER) if it continues like it is in america there will be no more middle class. we will be just like our nabor Mexico. wealthy and poor people. is this what america is about?? I DONT THINK SO. what america need's id our citizens to organize and take back our country. in fact both GEORGE BUSH AND DICK CHENEY SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AT ONCE. they have both violated our UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. SO HAVE THE DEMOCRATS BY REFUSEING TO ACT AND IMPEACH BOTH THESE TYRANTS. we the people must act before its to late. sincerely i remain Mr. passiatore.

Larry Penna · 2 years ago

All I know besides these facts is that he's suppose to be WORSE then Bush, & I thought no one can be any worse, NOW I know it.

pauly · 2 years ago

How about the fact that after the gold and silver were found under the WTC, he ended the search for remains of firefighters. He had them, the surviving firefighters, removed forceably from the site by the NYPD. After that, it was scoop it up and take it to the dump! What a man!

alan kardoff · 2 years ago

Rudy's biggest mistake was joining Bush in declaring the 9/11 site air was safe to
breathe. The EPA knew it wasn't, but Bush
mandated a postive report. Also Rudy spent
more time at Yankee Stadium than WTC. But
this was good. He messed up royal. Keep him away.

Carmen Richards · 2 years ago

Rudy Giuliani is a narcisistic politician, engaged in adultery, who always used the
9/11 gruesome events to promote himself.

F. Mondana · 2 years ago

I agree that Mr. Giuliani is not the saint his camp makes him out to be. He is led around by his emotions and as such fails to give many issues an honest assesment.

I have a bit of an issue with those directly involved with 9/11 though.
The days and weeks after the attacks saw a wonderful unity that hadn't been seen in American society since WW2.
Everyone agreed that mistakes were made but few ever thought that commercial jets flown into buildings could happen here in the U.S.
During the past 18 months, that spirit has dwindled and most everyone involved is now waging a battle over "who was there more and did the most".
To be crude, every single person hailed as a hero on that day, now stand on a field and wave their dicks at each other or they are trying to get even more money from the tragedy.
The latest is the lung disease issue. I spent 9 days at that site with 25,000 respirators, ear, and eye protection devices and even radiation tags. Of that number, 2,202 pieces were taken by those going into the hellhole.

There are many of those getting sick who did miss out on equipment but one person who knocked a bag of $35.00/piece respirators and cartridges from my wifes hand and said "nobody wants that fucking bullshit" is now a poster child for the movement that shows our brave men and women were not cared for as they risked thier lives.
He was not the only one to refuse help.
I wonder if he remebers that incident as he positions for the truckloads of cash that will certainly head their way.

Terri Murray · 2 years ago

Rudy's real sins are far more egregious than the ones depicted here. He is a hater of the Constitution and left more scuff marks on the First Amendment than any politician in American history while acting as mayour of New York. Time and time again the courts had to stop him from breaking the law by violating New Yorkers' freedom of speech and assembly. He gave racist NYPD officers carte blanche to abuse and even (at times) torture suspected or alleged criminals, before they had even been charged with any crime. He defended cops who had abused their badge to commit sadistic and perverse crimes against defenseless civilians, most of whom were black or hispanic. All of this is well-documented. For more information please contact Normal Siegel at the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Frank · 2 years ago

As a life long Democrat, after listening to Ron Paul Congressman from Texas ,I truthfully think he is the ONLY honest politican I can trust. Four years of daddy Bush, eight years of Clintons and now six years of baby Bush and counting. We had the worst so trying four years with Ron Paul could not be anyworse and could be a lot better. Open your ears and listen to what he says. Thanks, Frank

Digz · 2 years ago

He was too busy cashing in his 9/11 undeserved notoriety these last years to help out rescue workers who became ill. He defended Bush's shameless response to Katrina. You want this guy in a crisis? He'll chase cameras around and prance even more than Bush on top of an aircraft carrier. Bush on steroids indeed. Bought, paid for and made by the corporations to defend their only interest, money.

Anna G. Neal · 2 years ago

Rudy Guillani is about as bad as what is in the white house now. Who in their right mind would vote for a person who has this kind of record. Oh well!!! aMERICANS SEEM TO HAVE LOST THEIR WAY, DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THIS KINKY CHARACHER MIGHT BE YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT!!!!!!!

Garry · 2 years ago

He wants to be with the 'in crowd' so badly, he'll say and do anything....
The sad truth is , Rudy will always be running behind and trying to catch-up no matter what the cost...

Greg · 2 years ago

If this is the worst you have on Rudy, then you need to get used to him being President for the next 8 years.

Carmen Richards. · 2 years ago

Friends, let us not waste time on this phony individual!!!
His behavior and his life style speak loudly against him!!

Carmen Richards. · 2 years ago

Friends, let us not waste time on this phony individual!!!
His behavior and his life style speak loudly against him!!

jaytron · 2 years ago

Please stay tuned for our Real Rudy video series. This video is just a teaser for the hard-hitting pieces to follow. These pieces will focus on Rudy's performance/leadership issues that many of you have brought up, and NOT personal issues. Take the teaser at face value- a funny take on his many mistakes used to stir up interest. The upcoming videos won't disappoint.

j. r. gonda · 2 years ago

NO to Rotten Rudy!

Dr. Gerald Levitis · 2 years ago

Rudy's defining moment, in which he made the mistake of showing the public what kind of person he really is, was when he told the TV audience, without first telling his wife, that he was going to divorce her. He is amazingly nasty.

Howard · 2 years ago

I think this guy, Giuliani, is wicked. He is out for power and glory at the expense of the everyday man. He'll gravitate toward the corporate and the elite and do their bidding because it will make him rich and powerful.He has all of Faust's desires and has surrendered his soul. We can save Giuliani from hell if we don't vote for him, maybe.

David Rizzo · 2 years ago

I don't like Rudy but this video is not of the progressive mindset I expect from Robert Greenwald. I think the inclusion of him in drag and making that an option to vote for biggest mistake is the kind of tactic Rove would take to motivate homophobes against Rudy. I'm very disappointed you've stooped that low.

LeesiD · 2 years ago

The next biggest mistake Rudy made is entering the race to become the GOP nominee

Ping · 2 years ago

Drop the attacks on his personal life and relatives. Focus on the issues and attitudes that will tell us what kind of president Rudy would be.

Bob Vann · 2 years ago

There are plenty of things for which you can fault Giuliani, probably none of which are included on your listing. Many of the things you list would only be considered "mistakes" by an extreme-right wing ideologue. Others may, or may not, be his doing. Look, again, at his time as mayor and pick up on some of his truly eggregious faults in how he dealt with people, backed rogue police, treated artists, etc. He is damned near as profound a sociopath and egotist as Shrub.

Linda Osborn · 2 years ago

It seems that you have forgotten the police state NYC was under Rudy's thumb. Does Amadou Diallo, racial profiling and the infamous Street Crimes Unit ring a bell?

Olivia Alperstein · 2 years ago

Wow, that was a hard choice? I chose locating an emergency command center in a #1 terror target, b/c that's a mistake that cost lives. I think that one of his mistakes that you should have included is his position on LGBT rights- it's not surprising, but he lost a big chunk of the vote that way.

Also, there is nothing wrong w/ cross-dressing or looking ugly as a cross-dresser. Plus, the bad thing about Giuliani and abortion is his current position on abortion- that is, he was pro-life the last time I checked, but then again that was a few weeks ago.

Auburn Celtie · 2 years ago

After being educated in a fine Jesuit University this extremely questionable character proves his lack of morals and character by marrying 3 women, one of which was within the third degree of kindred (against Catholic law, not to mention genetic compromises). No ethics, no morals and no conscience are blatant red flags. Compound this with is completly ignoring repairing the Firemen's radio communication systems after 1993 WTC blasts...you have to be callous (and or) a moron not to have remediated this blatant issue within his command. Then his bushlike loyalty to thug Bernie Kerick....Rudy's shown us his character, typically amoral Republician. Rudy, go back under the rock from whence you crawled, your are repugnant.

Barbara Gunther · 2 years ago

Anyone can seem wonderfully strong after the fact. and he was, but just suppose that, for once, he had listened to the advice of others, chose a different site for the command center. supported updating first responder communications -- I could go on and on but . . . . do we really need another arrogante, I can do no wrong tenant in the white Hose?

Anonymous · 2 years ago

You people rigged the poll on Rudy's worst mistake. You left some things off the list of options. To my way of thinking, the absolute worst was claiming he'd spent as much time at Ground Zero in the wake of 9/11 as most of the firefighters and policemen. That one was really unforgivable.

Bobbi Cowan · 2 years ago

I would never consider voting for this grandstanding jerk to begin with, but was glad to see so many in agreement as to the worst of his mistakes. I know that Faux News will be pushing for him if he retains frontrunner status, and his faults are so transparent that America will see him for the poser he is. Go Hillary!

John Griffiths · 2 years ago

I was looking for some meat, and got a childish smear (dressing up in drag is a plus in my book by the way). I'm voting for Dennis K or Joseph B in the primary (Clinton and Obama if they're the ultimate ticket) . . . but this actually makes me like Rudy more. Maybe this'll work for the huhhhhh-hhhuuuh-hhhuuuh crowd.

Biff · 2 years ago

He lies and lies. Also he will be a liability to the Republican ticket here in Flyover Country. I think his candidacy would be great for the Democrats.

Go Rudy!

Mo Mo · 2 years ago

That was stupid... I could not agree more that Rudy would make a horrible president but this was a waste of time. His divorce, dressing in drag. WHO GIVES A CRAP? He could suck a cock on Live TV and if I thought he was a good man and would make a good leader, I would vote for him... Grow up, don't be just like the neocon douche bags who use this shit to smear someone... There is plenty of stuff to fire at Rudy without having to resort to that.

Susan M. Satya · 2 years ago

Hi again,

Wish you'd called me first (lived in NYC, lost a friend that day, very involved in all the issues you touch on: worked next to City Hall, directed Program of NYC's VSA: the largest victim services in the country, etc.)

The faulty radios was just ONE of the ommissions in equipment for rescue workers that have led to their untimely and unnecessary deaths.

So I would have phrased it:
o LYING to rescue workers and downtown residents; and FAILING to heed or present the available documented information of what equipment and information RESCUE WORKERS and those living & working in the Ground Zero are NEEDED TO STAY SAFE.

Also:
Cross-dressing is NOT a trivial issue for transvestites (most straight men: often coming from childhood trauma). The ridicule and trivialization is not a little steeped in the denigration of women and the sexism of our culture (yours showing? would you have ridiculed Hillary for wearing a men's tie?)

Presenting such ridicule and trivialization only makes you look needlessly trivial and silly (distraction from what needs to be taken seriously) and hurts transvestite people who don't deserve it. It hurts them, women and your project, not Guiliani.

Stick to highlighting how the REAL HEROES were and are the rescue workers and those who helped each other in those towers and below,
NOT someone who stayed in a safe control center lying to those in distress and ignoring what was needed.

WHICH I WOULD HAVE PHRASED:

o Pretending to be a hero and lying to NYC and the ones who were indeed REAL heroes.

Unfortunately, only those I think of as his worst crime and there wasn't a box for it.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Guiliani isn't even remotely on my list of possible candidates, but please don't stoop to criticizing him for cross dressing! Even if it puts him in a league with J. Edgar Hoover, cross dressing isn't an indicator of questionable character. Putting that on your list is just kinda sad.

Grant Shafer · 2 years ago

Giuliani can best be characterized as a fraud of 9/11. As did Pres. Bush, Giuliani made the appropriate noises and was photogenic following a tragedy which he made worse by locating his emergency command center near a building which had already been attacked and by denying adequate radios to firefighters who had requested them after the first attack. Giuliani learned nothing from the first World Trade Center attack. I hope that the voters are more intelligent than Giuliani is.

Maria Satterfield · 2 years ago

I know that NOBODY can be a worse president than Bush, but Rudy Giuliani would be a very close match. Both of them live in a fantasy world, Bush with his dreams of being a real world leader and Giuliani with his dreams of being a real 9/11 hero. Bush has already proven to be a disaster, let's not give Giuliani the same opportunity.

Peggy · 2 years ago

I'm a little confused about why being married multiple times is a mistake, or why having an anulled marriage is a mistake. Last time I checked, neither of those were illegal. I get tired enough of the morality talk coming from the right, I don't want it from the left as well.

Klaus Smedegaard · 2 years ago

This is a great initiative. I know that there has been made a critical documentary about Rudys years as major. Itwas about to be released, but then 9-11 happened and it was canceled. I have tried to find it, but whit no succes. Maybe you know something about this.
Keep up the good work.
Best regards from Denmark

Maria Satterfield · 2 years ago

I know that NOBODY can be a worse president than Bush, but Rudy Giuliani would be a very close match. Both of them live in a fantasy world, Bush with his dreams of being a real world leader and Giuliani with his dreams of being a real 9/11 hero. Bush has already proven to be a disaster, let's not give Giuliani the same opportunity.

Richard Sentner jr · 2 years ago

As I look at the list, I'm thinking this must
be a joke.It's as though we were to take ser-
iously the notion that Bill Clinton's worst crime was his involvement with an intern. Here I am taking this seriously and saying that you should scrap all the sexual topics and concentrate on Rudy's tenure as mayor
during which he showed an animus towards
communities of color and civil liberties
generally and continued to serve as an apolo-
gist for the worst crimes of the police against minoirities, particularly African
Americans. To take your list seriously is to
begin to understand why American liberals are
so seldom taken seriously these days.

Richard Winger · 2 years ago

You should have an "other" category for the vote. I didn't vote because I would have had my own idea, but your format doesn't permit that.

lila garrett · 2 years ago

There are reasons not to vote for Rudy Guiliani, but you have listed none of them. He instructed the police to be brutal to minorities when he was Mayor of New York. For this many of the gentry loved him, but those of us who care about humanity did not. However your intrusion into his personal life, your swift-boating him on his behavior during 9-11, you assumption that his children are right to shun him are all irrelevant. This kind of attack is hitting below the belt....a practice that has become common since Bush took office. The climate of politics eminates from the White House. No wonder campaigning has become so loathsome. This video is a disgrace.
Lila Garrett

Karen Kreutzer · 2 years ago

Say what you will. Before Rudy took over as Mayor of New York City, the place was a nightmare. Crime and corruption. It was not safe to even walk, really, anywhere. After he became Mayor, he made it a place most anyone could like and live. In general, Safe for residents, safe for tourists. He did a great job. To criticize a man on his personal performance in his own life is cowardly and small minded. To see the real results of the efforts of this one man on behalf of others was inspiring. I don't care that he has changed his mind or made mistakes...who, who does anything, doesn't? He did a great job. He was courageous and decisive against overwhelming odds and he won. I was there. I saw it. But I guess you didn't want to hear this........and certainly won't put it anywhere.

Freddie · 2 years ago

I don't know, Ask his wife, or his first mistress, or his second wife, or his second mistress or his third wife... need I go on?

John Hargenrader · 2 years ago

Not to mention, the raiding of New York's homeless shelters in the wee hours of the morning looking for vagrants with unpaid loitering tickets.

jaytron · 2 years ago

This teaser video is meant simply as an entertaining way to get into the subject of Rudy being the wrong man for the job. Stay tuned for our upcoming REAL RUDY series for a serious, detailed look into the reasons this man should not be considered a legitimate candidate.

Jacob R Clark · 2 years ago

This shameless huckster, whose checkered past will hopefully be fully exposed, swore he'd never use 9/11 for political gain. So much for integrity. As a former New Yorker, who lived under his disastrous reign, I fear for America should this demagogue in an off-the-rack suit become Der President. People, watch what you wish for, you just might get it! And I'm tellin yuh, ya don't want this. He'll make Dumbya look like a li-brul!

Stuart Drewer · 2 years ago

I think the reason this has fallen a bit flat is that you have serious mistakes mixed in with "humorous" mistakes. Should be one or the other...

Rich Riggs · 2 years ago

We have had Bumbling, lying, inarticulate, constitution ignoring, mean spiritited, imperialistic, Bush for too long. Replacing him with someone who is only an improvement by removing inarticulate from the list is an insufficient improvement.

Mary Jones · 2 years ago

He is the typical traveling salesman from the past. Remember the old farmer's daughter jokes? I would not trust him on any issue.

Peter Corodva · 2 years ago

Rudy G is a lying piece of crap. He is part of the cover up of 9-11. He knows something he isnt telling. Screw him and the political machine that would allow him to even be considered for President

Sam Geoghegan · 2 years ago

Is it really necessary to comment on his personal activities such as cross dressing and marrying his cousin? That's a little too close to Fox-style ‘journalism’ for me. I trust that your life has been nothing short of perfect.

Molly Reed · 2 years ago

He's a bad man, but to bring up the "in drag" thing isn't really fair. To anyone. Especially drag queens. He was on a comedy show ferpetesake.

P McDowell · 2 years ago

You missed the most important mistake that Rudy Giuliani made...his unrelenting use of the tragedy of 9/11 for political means. He is strongly reminiscent of the shrub's "you are either with us or against us" when he was trying to look like a man.

Mike Shore · 2 years ago

Judi Nathan as 1st lady. Are you kidding me? A goofy looking slut who went after a married man as 1st lady? What would we call her? First UNLady? First tramp? Your slutness? Judi Nathan should have been a choice for biggest mistake although his incompetence with WTC center command would still win.

jaytron · 2 years ago

The video is just a teaser. Just a funny way to introduce our Real Rudy series. The subsequent videos that will be released are not about his personal life, they are about serious, weighty issues surrounding Rudy's track record as a leader.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Guliani is the scariest of all the candidates running in '08, because he has jumped on the "tough on terror" bandwagon that the present administration has used to justify every breach of the Constitution and laws of civilized societies. Everyone who reads this should submit questions to the next CNN You Tube debate (Sept. 17 I think) and ask about the failures/mistakes he has made. Even if he refuses to take part in the debate, the failures will be highlighted in the videos for the world to preview. For more truth about Guliani's overblown worldview of himself, read "Grand Illusion" by Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins.

Phyllis Palmieri · 2 years ago

I voted for my first and second choice: first, the radios; second, the open and notorious adultery. These two seem to encompass the others, which could have included the mismanagement of the aftermath-and the premath-of 9/11.

Ina Ayliffe · 2 years ago

No to Rudy

David Ferrell · 2 years ago

We already have a White House FULL of criminals. Do we need the MAFIA in there too? Say NO to RUDY!!

robby b · 2 years ago

i'm not republican. i am not a giuliani fan.
typically i am a fan of BRAVE NEW FILMS...

but the video clip is low-brow mud slinging. i expect more from brave new films. shame on you for lowering yourselves to the level of your opponents.

Warren G. Jones · 2 years ago

If he did anything at all as mayor on 9/11 and after but made photo ops, he was only doing his job as mayor!

Wayne Blum · 2 years ago

This guy is a joke. He should be jailed for his mis-handling of the emergency responses to 9-11. How many immediate deaths or deaths in the following years of rescue workers from exposure to deadly fumes is he personally responsible for? What about the "love nest" at ground zero? I hope he runs and the truth about him buries the bum.

Nicholas PETROFF · 2 years ago

I just think that Rudy is amoral political opportunist and a FLAMING ASSHOLE. PERIOD!

Ken Buxton · 2 years ago

One "mistake" was during his early years as mayor, when his emphasis was on chasing drug dealers out of NYC, he fired his police commissioner for calling too many press comferences and being too "visible"---rather than letting him (RUDY) take the credit.

Bernie Berg · 2 years ago

Storing thousands of gallons of fuel in Bldg 7 of the WTC ranks with the bulldozing of community gardens in Manhattan. Kerick is right up there too. Call it a three-way tie, for the most outrageous chicanery. And using the 9-11 tragedy for photo ops to promote himself.

Bernie Berg · 2 years ago

Storing thousands of gallons of fuel in Bldg 7 of the WTC ranks with the bulldozing of community gardens in Manhattan. Kerick is right up there too. Call it a three-way tie, for the most outrageous chicanery. And using the 9-11 tragedy for photo ops to promote himself.

Mike · 2 years ago

You could strip me naked pour honey all over me and then tie me to an anthill and I'd still never vote for a Rerpub ..

Dan Deibler · 2 years ago

Giuliani's biggest mistake... Can being born count as a mistake? No? Then I'd have to go with being the biggest douche in the universe.

Ray Jones · 2 years ago

The entire list of derogatory behavior is wrong for any presidential candidate, not to mention republicans are always bad-mouthing democrates for the very negative issues. Talk about living in a glass house. It's a shame that he says anything that will get him elected--flip-flopping on abortion, open and notorious adultery, faulty radios for firefighters, and the list goes on. How can anybody take this man serious; and he is the leader of the republican party. That does not look well for the USA.

Marv Melnick · 2 years ago

Giuliani, a GOP stereotype, deceitful, dishonest, a flip flopper liar loser.

Edward R. Arnold · 2 years ago

Rudy's biggest mistake unfortunately was not one of the ones offered. His biggest mistake without a doubt is that bilious comment "I'm one of them." Aside from the fact that this man was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, the fact to remember is that Rudy's life was never at risk.

montyatsea · 2 years ago

I can't believe Brave New Films stooped to gay baiting Rudy. Who cares if the man dressed in drag. Compulsive Cross-Dressing? Smear is a smear but don't stoop to the level of the right by evoking homophobia. Pathetic and disgusting. I dislike the guy and call myself a liberal progressive but after this film, I want off your list.

Marta · 2 years ago

Sorry. I wasn't trying to go anonymous. I forgot to include my name.
previous post may be deleted for redundancy


Giuliani is one of my most UNFAVORITE people in government, and there are many, many legitimate issues to attack him on. For instance his overinflated view of his "heroic" deeds on 9/11 is pure BS, his flip-flopping on abortion rights, and so on.

However, I could NOT care less how many times he has been married, or that he does comical skits in drag. These are the kinds of attacks that normally come from the Evangelical right-wingers.
The so called Democratic party has gotten more and more conservative--look at the top contender-Hillary, a Republican in drag. It's making REAL liberals sick of the entire process.
We are becoming the enemy.

Chuck · 2 years ago

Why do foolish, marginalized Amerikans continue to vote for multi-millionaires to represent them. Why do you think they are rich and you are not? Anyone who continues to vote for the Democrap or Repuklican candidates deserves their current & future wars to kill their children. You're real enemies are the Giuliani's, Bush's, Clinton's et al of the world. Any idiot Amerikan that "thinks" they are getting unfiltered information from the corporate news media should yank a tooth out of the hollow head and wish for a quarter from the Tooth Phairy. Get real people and do your damn homework before they get us all killed. Think, think, think then do something different cause it's your kid that is going to pay the price.

jason schaefer · 2 years ago

I'm not a fan of Giuliani, but to use his history of cross-dressing against him doesn't seem very progressive. Rather, it seems like discrimination of cross-dressing by privileged heterosexuals. Why not, instead, focus on the hypocracy of Mr. Giuliani engaging in cross-dressing while being a member of a political party long known for its intolerance toward those with unconventional sexual desires?

Hugo Dwyer · 2 years ago

He has no heart, no soul. He cares only for his own political and financial gain. He has used and abused his family, the New York City Fire Department, the New York City Police Department, the prosecutors office, the people of New York, and the victims of 9/11 in order to fulfill his selfish desires. He will do the same to the United States of America, if he is given the opportunity.
Rudy Giuliani is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with this country. He belongs on the same list as Alberto Gonzales, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George Bush (both), Reagan, Nixon, and Leona Helmsley.

fridah land · 2 years ago

although there are many mistakes Giuliani has made, most of which are not highlighted here, including gross support of police brutality and abuse, especially against people of color in NYC, i hardly think cross-dressing - though i agree he's unattractive whatever he wears - is a "mistake" or something we should be up in arms about. his mistake there is just not being sincere about it.

jamie chase · 2 years ago

If you want some chilling footage of Guiliani, watch his speech to the Republican Convention in NY 04.
Splice the scenes where he uses the word terror/ism
and you will see the goulishness.

Sharon Zirschky · 2 years ago

Oh..My..God...

Travis · 2 years ago

Can't you find anything better to criticize Rudy about? I don't give a damn--I probably won't vote. But isn't there some better reason to hate him? What about his close affiliation with NYPD--come on, those guys gotta be corrupt (LAPD aren't the only cops that are corrupt in this country.) Seriously, guys.

relevant thoughts · 2 years ago

Most of Rudy's biggest mistakes have not been mentioned here, although I lived through them under his "regime" while he ran NYC.

1)Promoted racial profiling and police brutality while he was in office, and arrested many/most of the homeless, or took them and bussed them out of the city to just drop them off elsewhere (with no food, shelter or help) so he could demonstrate how he "cleaned up" the city.

2)Deliberately and spitefully bulldozed city gardens that were a very valuable source of food, entertainment, bonding and education to many of the poorer neighborhoods. These gardens helped heal and bring many communities together as they kept many children off the streets and taught them to get involved and do something productive with their time. Often there was an adjacent available empty lot that was available for real estate but Mayor Giuliani antagonistally bulldozed the gardens, auctioned off the land and left the abutting land untouched.

3)Mayor Guiliani sold NYC out to large chain retailers and "Disneyfication" while stripping it of all of the character that made it NY.

4)Most thinking people who actually lived or woked in NYC during his regime knew his as Mayor "Hitler".

Dennis Reed · 2 years ago

Why list mistakes in Rudy's personal life? As I see it, Bill Clinton's non-sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky, was not a mistake. He wanted to do that. He enjoyed that. And it did not affect his ability to be President, except for the Republican response to it, in any way. So I think things like how many marriages Rudy has had, that he likes to do drag, or that his underage daughter was in an online community for Obama do not affect his political job performance in any way and should not be issues.

By the way, Rudy's daughter was a minor and the woman who exposed that she was in the Obama group violated the rules of the website hosting the Obama online group. That woman who reported on Rudy's daughter was subsequently banned from that website for violating its rules. And the fact that Rudy likes cross-dressing is great! I think we need more Presidential candidates who cross-dress.

I won't vote for Rudy or for any Republican presidential candidates because I strongly disagree with their policies. I also think there is enough about 9/11 and Bernie Kerik to legitimately criticize Rudy, both of which pertain to his previous job experience and his poor judgment while on the job.

Karen M · 2 years ago

Actually... I think his biggest mistake is thinking that he could be an effective president. It's not to late to stop the effects of that one.

eb · 2 years ago

Blogged at DontVote4.us

Great job on the vid!

eb

john · 2 years ago

The disgraceful way he treated the NYPD both at 911 and contractually where by the time he left office they were way behind all major municipalities across nation

john · 2 years ago

The disgraceful way he treated the NYPD both at 911 and contractually where by the time he left office they were way behind all major municipalities across nation

Helen Gex Greer · 2 years ago

Ultimately, his personal and family life is his own business. I don't really care that he's dressed up in drag, it doesn't hurt other people. But, faulty radios for firefighters proved deadly. There are also better places to have an emergency command center than in a terrorist target.

Dan · 2 years ago

Name 10 New Yorkers that would have voted for him on Sept. 10, 2001 ?

Emmett Grogan · 2 years ago

How about when he was asked by the new York times about the series of accusations of molestation made by numerous victims of the recently defrocked priest Alan placa, his lifelong best friend, who had officiated at his first marriage ceremony, arranging for the bogus "annullment", and performed the funeral ceremony for his mother,
Giuliani replied "the world would be a better place if there were more Alan placa's"...
Placa still has a job at guiliani partners..

So many choices, and oh so much time to ventilate them.bring him on please!

See "Giuliani time" dvd for serious description/analysis of this dangerous man's history.

BEEJAY · 2 years ago

If anyone knew the "Real Rudy" including Rudy himself, he wouldn't be in the race to run for president. He would be running from himself. The problem is, which self??? He doesn't seem to know!

Joel Hildebrandt · 2 years ago

Rudy's biggest mistake? Trying to pass as a "liberal" Republican. HA!

Ruth Usrey · 2 years ago

I hope the Republicans DO run Rudy. The right wingers will crucify him.

Joell Palmer · 2 years ago

Are you KIDDING!?!
Your going to poke at his SOCIAL problems!?
Why not actually go for something political? I thought this was a political type site, not a social mud slinging site. OHHH Ya, Thats Why... No Democrat OR Republican can bring up Politics because they are all voting for BAD Policy, and running our country corrupt. Geezz you DePublicans are all the same...

Shelton Lankford · 2 years ago

How about his receiving a warning that the towers were coming down and failing to ensure that the firefighters inside the buildings were warned. A team had just reported in that Bldg WTC 2 had two pockets of fire on the 78th floor that they could handle with a couple of lines. Less than ten minutes later the buildings were demolished in what appears to have been a controlled demolition. Rudy is on record with ABC News as having received the warning while in his temporary command center. He now denies being warned.

Jonathan M. Ehrlich · 2 years ago

You seem to have left a few options out of your poll:

-Lying to the public regarding the saftey of the air around lower Manhattan (I'm a civilian who once worked in property management. What I saw on the streets of lower Manhattan over the few weeks after the attack were clear to me that there was a severe air quality risk by the steps they took and didn't publicize.)

-Turning the police on the FDNY at the site

-And worst of all, despite his many failures and lies about the day, He continues to try to use September 11, 2001 for his own personal ends.

Mildred Howard · 2 years ago

I am from Missouri and I have kept up on national and world affairs all my life, and this campaign has shown this man to be just another facade for leadership! Surely the Republican party can do better, but what were they thinking when they chose BUSH!!!!!

Michael Gebbia · 2 years ago

I wouldn't support Rudy Giuliani for any political office let alone the Office of President of the United States. He is just another Republican hypocrite who uses values and war as diversions to obscure the real problems facing our nation. Of all the issues you cite, being married 3 times or being adultrous are "mistakes" you should stay away from. More than 50% of marriages in this country end in divorce. The Catholic Church among other religions hold that anyone divorced and remarried is adultrous. In that regard there are many adultrous Americans. There are many Americans who live and have lived in multiple relationships without the "benefit" of marriage and in many instances far more than three. Such relationships according to some individuals and religions are adultrous and "sinful". There is much evidence to support that many individuls who remain in relationships, married or otherwise, are utterly miserable.

Allan Taghon · 2 years ago

Rudy looks like in dark shadows like a boogey man wanting to grab something.A flipper fer sure

bruce Scheer · 2 years ago

I do not like Rudy Guilliani but your choice of mistakes are really bad. Why would his daughter supporting Obama be a Rudy mistake? His personal life issues are not important only his hypocrisy. It is his opportunism, autocratic demeanor and anti worker policies that make him one more dumbass republican hypocrite. We have a lot of those choices don't we?

Genaro Figueroa · 2 years ago

GOUL-liani is just one of so... so.. many very well paid hacks of the MEDIA and the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. A TRAITOR and CRIMINAL who conspires with the CORPORATIONS that PROFIT and also BRIBE politicians of both parties. The REPUBLICAN party and it's phony!! CULTURE OF LIFE.The DEMOCRATIC party who's ALIBI!! has always been the WELFARE of the people. All politicians with any REAL POWER, have long been paid for. They all have no regard for the interest, concerns or the well being of our country and it's citizens. That is why it's always been a RICH MANS war!! and a POOR MANS fight. They are all COWARDS,TRAITORS,and CRIMINALS of the highest NEW WORLD ORDER.

Baysider · 2 years ago

The illegal disclosure of Patrick Dorismond's sealed juvenile record wasn't one of your choices. However, to me the hypocritical disrespect for the law and implicit racism define Rudy G.

Hjalmer · 2 years ago

Rudy Guiliani strikes me as a phony and a grand opportunist. He has capitalized on 9-11 for six years now. To the vast, brainwashable public, it was the simple fact that Rudy was mayor of New York on 9-11 that makes him somehow "tough on terror".

It's a joke. But don't put it pass Americans to vote for him in droves based on that single, ridiculous sound bite.

Polly O'Malley · 2 years ago

These are nothing (except for putting the emergency command post in the World Trade Center after it was attacked the first time and not replacing the faulty radios). Rent and watch the DVD "Giuliani Time". It spans Rudy Giuntiani's career in Government and exposes his families Mafia background and his denial of it, which no one is talking about. His destructive reign as Mayor of New York and how his political career was in the toilet until 9/11. This man is extremely DANGEROUS!

David Nelson · 2 years ago

He aggressivly fought AIDS funding for the poorest in NYC
during his first and second term
googleTARGET RUDYto find the info
I personally along with many others was arrested 4 times fighting him for a dissempowered group
this was his first action as mayor
THIS SAYS IT ALL

Harriet Belkin · 2 years ago

I'm a confirmed democrat/Bush hater. I would never vote for Giuliani, but this video is grossly unfair and makes me tilt to the other side. Shame on you! This does all the things we're so appalled at republicans for doing.

Patrick Considine · 2 years ago

I really don't think much of a guy who changes wives more than I change cars, engages in open and notorious adultery, and flip flops on abortion to suit his supposed supporters. After all, I'm a liberal, and I chose politicians on ability over personal faults. But what's unforgivable is how he pretended to be the hero of 9/11 after so much of the tragedy could have been prevented by him. Well, I'm not a republican so maybe I'm not morally fit to judge. Wonder if his base is going to see past those pecadillos for practical reasons, though.

A.Lizard · 2 years ago

You forgot to list on your poll:
deliberately lying to emergency workers about the > environmental hazards at the 9/11 site which prevented them from taking adequate
safety precautions.

Carol F. Yost · 2 years ago

I participated in this little campaign, but I think that, although I am definitely NOT a Rudy Giuliani supporter, this had the quality overall of a National Enquirer smear of a person. Robert Greenwald, you are capable of so much better than this, you should not be associated with it at all. I voted for the radios--one of the two really serious charges included. The fact that his daughter supports Obama is not one of his mistakes that's her choice. His relationship with his children is his own personal business. Ditto his marriages, really. And I don't care how he looks in drag.

William Marshall · 2 years ago

Disgraceful, cynical, brazen and utterly unworthy to lead a free people.

tim perrins · 2 years ago

I get that it's supposed to be funny, but the only thing that separates that video from every other attack-ad is the lack of ominous music & voiceover. Why should I care, or be amused by, how many times he's been married? So you found some clip of Rudy dressed as a woman, which you present with no context, and I'm expected to mock the man based on that?

What about rational arguments and the pursuit of, you know, truth and accuracy? Seriously, it's more of the same tedious spin that one would expect from, say, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.

And like the Bush Administration, Brave New Films is not above seeking any available "evidence" to support a pre-existing agenda, which is the OPPOSITE OF SCIENCE.

Lavinia Reno · 2 years ago

Actually Rudy was about to "go under" when 9/11 saved him -- New Yorkers were fed up! Items on the list -- I could have selected each one. Wouldn't vote for him or FOR any Mormon!

Donot SpamMe · 2 years ago

I wouldn't vote for him no matter what, but that was the case before watching this video.. I DONT FUCKING CARE if is wears womens cloths, or how many times he is divorced..
I VOTE ON ISSUES.. and there werent any here, so this is just another mud bath..
I probably feel more favorable toward him now as this does no one any good.

ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES NOT BULLSHIT!

Joann Rieks · 2 years ago

Rudy Giuliani doesn't have the qualities , intelligence or the integrity to be the leader of America . Among all of his many negetatives , he even wanted Bernard Kerik ( mafia ties )to become the head of Homeland Security . Folks , you better do your research before you vote for this man !!
Thanks , Joann Rieks

Jim Young · 2 years ago

Mr. Giuliani's biggest mistake is running on a platform that supports the Iraq war mistake, subscribes to the policy of intervention and imperialism in foreign affairs and the denegration of the Constitution of the United States of America. His platform only promotes the continuation of the un-American regime to which the citizenry of the United States of America have been subjected to for the past 50 years in disregard to the needs and desires of our citizenry.

Dave March · 2 years ago

Hi. I think your attacks on Giuliani thus far are sophomoric and asinine. You fault him for being candid enough to admit he's made significant mistakes? I think that level of honesty is refreshing in todays' politics.

You fault him for having adulterous relationships. Yet, I bet you supported Clinton and his countless dalliances. That's called hypocrisy.

And then you attack him for his daughter's political agenda and because he 'dressed in drag'. Give me a break!

Don't get me wrong, I have no plans to vote for Mr. Giuliani; but that's because of his stance on the war - also for how he comported himself during the last Republican Convention.

Your slime techniques don't help. In fact they may well backfire. I have more sympathy for him after viewing your 30 second video assault. Now if you had some serious allegations to make - that'd be a different story.

Regards,

Dave March

mike · 2 years ago

He knows 9/11 was an inside job and most likly he was part of it.

matt · 2 years ago

funny, only now the revisionists come out with their smear attacks against our next president. too bad the clintons and all their baggage are your frontrunners or else these ridiculous smears might have a chance. the whole world appreciated rudy's leadership on and after 9/11, no amount of false revision will change that.

Dan Tompkins · 2 years ago

I don't understand why cross-dressing is listed among Giuliani's mistakes. I suppose that it makes some sense if this is a video directed at Republicans, but I think that this spreads exactly the type of narrow-minded intolerance wich makes Giuliani and the rest of the Repubs so scary. I hope that this is taken into consideration when the full video comes out.

Jose · 2 years ago

He looks like Benito

Gene · 2 years ago

How about the truth that he's a facsist, and a racist who did more to damage race relations in NYC and relations with the police and ordanary citizens than any of NYC previous mayors. And Bloomberg is continuing his disasterous policies except he's even a more intrusive micro manager than Rudy Hitleriani.

Barry Ulman · 2 years ago

Perhaps Giuliani's biggest mistake has been to play the big hero in the 9/11 attack, actually a big lie. He has been capitalizing on 9/11 and using it to boost his campaign.

William F. Torpey · 2 years ago

You left out wanting to stay on as mayor even after his term ended -- sort of like Bush would like to do if he can completely rewrite the U.S. Constitution.

Gene · 2 years ago

Ghouliani could care less about the air quality in Manhattan, after 9/11. Hell he didn't care about the air quality before then either. Case in point: When the West Nile virus was first discovered on the East Coast, many cities agressively used pesticides to fight off the disease carrying mosquitoes. Hitleriani was also among them. But NYC began spraying lower Manhattan (where I then worked, and now live) immediately after 5:00 PM, at the height of the rush hour. He and the then NYC Health Commissioner (probably just a dermatologist with pull at the Mayor's office), told us the pesticides were harmless and safe. The two pesticides that were used Scourge and Anvil, are products I am familiar with as I have a chemical background and have marketed farm chemicals. Both products are KNOWN carcinogens. But Rudy said they were safe. If this (frankly if anyone of them are the best this once great country can produce as presidiential candidates), is dictatorship all that far behind? I personally feel in my heart and soul that there will be another 9/11 style attack, before the upcoming presidentiual election. And that the powere that be will call for a suspension of the Constitution, and allow Bush to extend his stay in office. If that's true, Ghouliani won't matter

Matthew Mesher · 2 years ago

I would like to add to the list, assuming the reports are true, the master suite in the emergency response bunker in the world trade center that Rudy used to cheat on his second wife with soon to be third wife. It makes you wonder why he wanted the emergency response bunker to not only be within walking distance of city hall, but for the suite to have its own, private elevator.

David Davis · 2 years ago

How can we rank all his mistakes? That is impossible. Why didn't you mention his play-along on the 9/11 fraud?

Meredith Sheane · 2 years ago

Think Rudy's going to keep us safe from terrorists? Think again. He's based his entire campaign on his actions on 9/11 - as if he was the Hero-in-Chief. Forget about it. The guy's a total canard. And talk about "family values?" Yikes!

Wm. A./ Janet M. Corkran · 2 years ago

As ex-New Yorkers, we have always known that he has an EGO the size of Manhattan, and yet is an opportunistic blowhard with the morals of a 42nd St hustler. The real Rudy will be defined in an instant by most of the N. Y. Fire Dep't. Security expert?? Bullshit!!!!

just remembering · 2 years ago

Has anyone mentioned the time he got caught on live radio being complicit in a coverup of a mafia style hit by police officers? President? Is there no justice?

Gene · 2 years ago

The only reason this is even a topic and that Adolf Ghouliani is even running for president, is during the many photo ops areond and near Geound Zero, regrettably he looked more presidential than the AWOL ex druggy/drunk wannabe pilot who was president and who couldn't even show up at the site until three days later. The ex druggie/drunk wannabe pilot did get his "DeMille close-up" during his own "Mission Accomplished" moment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln less than two years later when he was re-enacting the heroic fictional President Thomas J. Whitmore, the Gulf War combat pilot who leat our courageous fighter pilots into victory against malicious alien forces in "Independence Day. Or was that Iraq?

Beth Epstein · 2 years ago

What difference does it make how many times Rudy was married or for whom his daughter intends to vote? For pete's sake, if we want to take politics to a higher plane then let's stop indulging in all this adolescent finger pointing. Let the man x-dress if he wants to! It's time to bring the debate back to the issues, ane Brave New Films should be leading the way instead of fanning the flames.

Caleb Mattison · 2 years ago

I'm not a republican, and definitely not a Guiliani supporter, however I despise this idea. Quit the shmear campaign, quit the opponent bashing. Focus on who you like and why, and what changes we need to make, instead of all the things Giuliani may have done in his life. They really won't make a difference.

John-Christopher Ward · 2 years ago

Most of these 10 questions are trivial and a waste of our time, unless this is a cheap tabloid. Get serious and ask real questions. This merely cheapens the issue.

heroay · 2 years ago

Good Ol' Nefast Rudy still has to answer for his role in 911, at the fortress in WTC7.

debalazo · 2 years ago

Guido was a KEY in the 911 treasonous attack in 911. He hurriedly disposed of the prime evidence of the crime, the reason for the collapses, by shipping to China the steel, that conventiently was cut into truck sized lenghts. No hole to hide, Roody!!

jack hickey · 2 years ago

One of Rudy's friends a priest involved in the RC child molesting cases. Rudy gave him a job.How many other losers and law breakers?Kerik and this priest are not the only two.

Sue Santoni · 2 years ago

The country would be in grave danger if Rusy were elected president. His 9/11 exploits fool only those who weren't actually here in NY on 19/11. We know him for the fool he was.

Jan Coy · 2 years ago

Giuliani will say anything to make himself look good like "I'm One of Them." regarding the 9/11 Rescue Workers. Was it preplanned by this country or why did he ship all evidence over to a third world country without the FBI or Fema examining it for gold, metals or bombing materials or TNT. Why did it fall in about nine seconds when never before has a plane caused that. Why was Marvin Bush supervising the Towers and why were bomb sniffing dogs removed on Thursday before 9/11. Why were drills so plentiful the week before the Towers came down. Why have all visual tapes been confiscated by our govt and never shown? Nothing fits about visuals or audios. 9/11 was a bunch of lies. Why? Employees told to stay home on 9/11?

demonizer · 2 years ago

None of these reasons are very horrible things. The thing I object to about Giuliani is who he will be having as associates if he is president. He has little compassion, he is shameless about taking credit for things, and he is hungry for the spotlight. He is also positively disposed toward the people in this country who have the most potential for destruction. This ex-mayor should fade into obscurity.

George Renowski · 2 years ago

just another pol, but dangerous. Has Mussolini type principles

Robert Lederman · 2 years ago

Wonderful video!
Giuliani may be the biggest liar I ever met (and I met him more than 100 times), but in this case, he's not lying. There are not enough hours in a day to list all of his mistakes. I won 5 Federal lawsuits against him for having me falsely arrested 41 times because he didn't like my anti Giuliani art. Most of his critics focus on his personality rather than digging deeper. We all have flaws but those human personality flaws are not why we should fear him as President. If you want to really understand the sinister nature of Rudy Giuliani and who is behind him the #1 keyword since he was a young lawyer right through 9/11 and today is David Rockefeller. The WTC, 911, supporting Bush, Iraq, the Manhattan Institute (the Rockefeller/Exxon/phamaceutical company, CIA founded think tank where he got all his "ideas"), eugenics, racism, cutting welfare, attacking political art, his direct Nazi connection...it's all background in understanding why the media has presented him as our next president since the day of 9/11. The NWO has already voted and their choice is Rudy Giuliani. See my youtube page for videos
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Steve · 2 years ago

In the grand scheme of things, who cares if he cross dresses?
I'm not a fan of Rudy Giuliani, but I'm less of a fan of unwarranted personal attacks as part of the political process.
I lost a little respect for the Brave New Films on this one.

Peter Sirois · 2 years ago

While working at industrial sites, I was trained to act as a first responder with local fire departments and haz-mat teams. One does NOT set up a command center in an area unless it is ABSOLUTELY SECURE. What did Rudy Giuliani know about the "attack" on the World Trade Center that most of the rest of the world did not? What's that I smell? Is it smoke? Or is it the smell of conspiracy?

Carla Feinkind · 2 years ago

You forgot to mention how he divided the city by class and race as well.

Ray Lynch · 2 years ago

This man made 9-11 a cottage industry. Makes wr profiteers look like patriots. Why isn't anyone hounding him about the $$ he made because he was mayor on 9-11.

Kathy Gannett · 2 years ago

I also was offended by this film. I was expecting to be educated about Guliani when I watch a video made by Brave New Films. I was a contributor to "Iraq for Sale" but I would not contribute to this film. This film does not emphasize his policy and programatical mistakes! It emphasized his persoanl life.

Gay Zielske · 2 years ago

I HATE the self-righteous posturing. And this goes for the whole bunch, dems and repubs.

Max-Joseph Montel · 2 years ago

I'm no Giuliani fan, not by a long shot. It's his politics and public actions that turn me away from him. This ad was 2/3 ad hominem attacks. It doesn't seem like the best or noblest way to point up his political shortcomings.

Richard Schwartz · 2 years ago

Guiliani spoke against the establishment of a civilian complaint review board. Complete and unapologetic support for the NYPD became a hallmark of his tenure ....

The symbol of this campaign was Giuliani’s plan to drive “squeegee men”--homeless people who wiped windshields at traffic stops for money--from NYC streets. Giuliani’s cops went after them with a ruthlessness that foreshadowed much greater brutality to come. As the campaign got underway, an off-duty cop shot and killed an unarmed “squeegee man”--and defended his actions on the basis that the man was a “criminal.”.....

Treating misdemeanors as equal to more serious crimes meant ratcheting up the level of violence and repression in poor, minority communities. The underlying assumption of the new “stop and frisk” policy was that all Blacks and Latinos were potential criminals. A report by then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer found that Latinos were stopped 39 percent more often than whites under the policy, and Blacks were stopped 23 percent more often.

The year before Giuliani took office, 720 people were arrested for misdemeanor marijuana-related offenses; by 2000, the number had jumped to 59,495--an increase of 4,549 percent. During a 10-month period in 1996, 50,000 people detained on misdemeanors were strip-searched by the Department of Corrections.

These kinds of aggressive policies gave a green light to the NYPD to terrorize Black and Latino communities.

When unarmed cousins Anthony Rosario and Hilton Vega were shot in the back and killed while they lay face down on the floor in 1995, Giuliani called the officers and congratulated them on their performance. When Anthony’s mother, Margarita Rosario, began organizing in protest, Giuliani told her that her son died because she was a bad mother.

This attitude was exemplified most starkly when cops tortured and sodomized Abner Louima in a Brooklyn police station in 1997. Even after the killing of Amadou Diallo--shot 41 times in the hallway of his building in 1999--Giuliani maintained his defense of the police and his opposition to any kind of reform of the NYPD.

Giuliani and his supporters defended these actions by claiming that “tough on crime” policies were crucial to a decline in crime statistics. But a look at the statistics shows that the drop in crime began 36 months before Giuliani took office--while Dinkins was still mayor. In fact, the 1990s saw a national reduction in crime, due largely to demographic and economic changes.


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IN REALITY, the dramatic escalation of repression was needed to manage a city that saw an expansion of economic and social polarization during the Giuliani era.
Despite the Wall Street boom of the 1990s, living standards for working class and poor New Yorkers actually declined. By 2000, one in four New Yorkers lived in poverty--basically the same rate as during the 1989-1992 recession a decade before, and nearly double the national average. That same year, New York’s homeless population reached its highest point since 1989, and the city had a shortfall of 390,000 affordable housing units for low-income renters.

These statistics were the result of deliberate policies on the part of the Giuliani administration. Throughout successive budgets, Giuliani cut funding for municipal employees, schools and other social services, while cutting taxes for the wealthy and Wall Street.

Some of the most devastating attacks came through Giuliani’s restructuring of the local welfare system.

In one of the most sweeping attacks on recipients, Giuliani converted welfare offices to “job centers,” introduced “workfare” requirements, cut funding and actively discouraged and prevented poor people from getting the benefits they were entitled to. In 1994, 27 percent of applicants were rejected from welfare. By November 1999, 75 percent of job center applicants and 52 percent of applicants overall were rejected. In the four years following welfare reform, the food stamp rolls were reduced by 35 percent.

These figures weren’t the result of recipients moving off welfare into new jobs. In fact, of the first 5,300 people to enter the city’s job search program, only 265 people were placed.

Instead, people were forced off the rolls and into the Work Experience Program (WEP) to perform previously unionized jobs at sweatshop wages. Thus, between 1991 and 1999, the WEP workforce in the Parks Department grew from 170 to 2,389, while regular Parks employees dropped from 4,285 to 2,101. WEP workers in the Parks Department made $1.80 an hour--compared to an average wage for Parks employee of $8.65.

At the same time, 13,000 students in the CUNY public education system were forced out of college and into workfare programs.

Numerous investigations uncovered the cruel methods used to cut the rolls. At one point, a scandal erupted when it was discovered that welfare centers were “losing” food stamp applications--thus, making it impossible for recipients to apply.

Giuliani’s treatment of the homeless was equally callous. At one point, he housed homeless applicants for emergency shelter--including children--in a former jail. During his administration, spending on affordable housing was cut by 44 percent, and the creation of apartments for the homeless declined by 75 percent. At the same time, police conducted aggressive sweeps to keep the homeless off city streets and out of view.

The real legacy of “Giuliani time” is a city where Wall Street executives celebrate enormous bonuses with spectacular meals, washed down with trophy wines--while the poor are increasingly pushed to the margins. A city whose tourist centers glitter while service cuts leave garbage to accumulate on the streets of working-class neighborhoods. A city where the NYPD’s thugs in blue continue to terrorize minority communities.

At a time when a majority of Americans believe that the war in Iraq should end and more money should be spent on vital social services, Giuliani would represent a return to the heyday of the “Republican Revolution”: a war on the poor that threw women and children into the streets, civil liberties gutted, and “tough on crime” policies that devastated Black and Latino communities.

kelly · 2 years ago

I know it's just for chuckles, but the inclusion of his daughter's comments isn't really a "mistake" by Rudy (or his daughter for that matter). His biggest mistake is lying about his positions and faking conservative values for the sheer greed of becoming president. He is what he has done in the past and not the person he will pretend to be in order to become president-- he should be continuously reminded that 9/11 occurred on HIS watch and that none of his actions prior to the attack (or after) mitigate his failures: the location of an emergency command control center within a prime target or the failure to secure better equipment for the firefighters in NY. If he was an employee at a company and performed in such a way, he would surely have been fired. 'Nuff said...

Pam Kulig · 2 years ago

Bernie Kerik scares the hell out of me. Tasers are dangerous torture and if he had his way, all at any age. He owns the effing company for God's sake!. He totally frightens me and to think he was appointed to some job by Bush. He is Gooliani's worst mistake. At least he's what made me wake up to the real Rudi

margaret sneary · 2 years ago

The man is a buffoon!

Pam Kulig · 2 years ago

Since half my comment disappeared, I'll repost so it makes sense. Bernie Kerik scares the hell out of me. Tasers are dangerous torture and if he had his way, Tasers would be used by anyone, on anyone, anytime for anything to any age (even children). He totally frightens me and to think Bush appointed him to some top job. Kerik is Gooliani's worst mistake. At least he's what made me wake up to the real rotten Rudi

David A · 2 years ago

Rudy is horridly unprincipled, and really has no place in high office of any kind.

Jacqueline I. Ruhl · 2 years ago

As Presidential candidates go, Rudy Guiliani is a big fake; an opportunist who is using 9/11 as his strongest and only 'come-on' for his candidancy. We need a president who is the real thing; one who is sincere about his commitment to the American people. Rudy is not that person.

carlos ginebra · 2 years ago

America in its history has never been as divided as we are today, purposely acomplished by this president as a political strategy. As a new yorker I saw this divisive policy first hand at a local level during Rudy's term as Mayor. Do we want another four years of me versus you mentality? Divide and conquer may be a good strategy for selfishly ambitious machiavelli individuals to use to get elected but is that what we want as a country. If you want a 'United' States of America to move forward together for a better future Rudy is not your man.

Stephen Sheehi · 2 years ago

Guiliani is a sly and disingenuous character. He has also employed now the most right wing and counter productive "advisors" to forge his foreign (and particularly Middle East) policies including Daniel Pipes.

However, this video should be re-edited by it is not-so-subtly HOMOPHOBIC and moralist. Giuliani and other must be called on their policies. Personally, I WOULD vote for him if he were a compulsive cross dresser ESPECIALLY if he is not hiding it! Also, that he has been married three times means nothing. GW (unlike his father) has most likely been a faithful husband (if booze and coke are not considered) but he is an extremely unethical and dangerous man as we have learned.

Let's stay on the substance and avoid cheap mud slinging that is itself COUNTER to our own political views, foremost homophobia.

DA · 2 years ago

Rudy is horridly unprincipled, and really has no place in high office of any kind.

He also raised fees for hard working limosine and taxi drivers from a few hundred bucks to around $5,000.

Cat Walters · 2 years ago

We all have family problems, and we all make mistakes, none of us is perfect.

I wouldn't care if Rudy was married 12 times if he weren't associated with a party that constantly promotes 'family values' yet can't seem to live up to their own hype.

But to campaign on the tragedies of 911, to try to make it all about him and the great things that he did, particularly when we know that he didn't care at all about the NYFD or NYPD prior to or during the event is simply pathetic.

Whether he's in drag or not ... Rudy is a joke!

Pam Kulig · 2 years ago

the folks who are calling the video smear tactics I think may be missing the point. It's not about the cross-dressing, multiple marriages, marrying family members, children who don't particular like you, etc., it is about the hypocracy of the Republican "family values" guy having absolutely no family values by the Republican definition. Hypocracy with a big H. That's all the film is really getting at in some way. Another Republican doing exactly what is being sold by Republicans as "bad values" and is being used to divide our country. Its the hypocracy that is so gauling. I am sick of being classified as someone with no "family values" as defined by the Republican party and then there is a guy like Gooliani who does exactly what he is screeching against. That's what this film is about. He speaks out of both sides of his ugly and scary looking mouth.

Jinx · 2 years ago

Since when is "looking bad in drag" a "mistake"? I think some of these questions are just silly, and even though I am no fan of Mr. Giulani's, I kind of feel sorry for him. If this mindset continues, there's no hope we'll ever have a gay president.

Martha Saywell · 2 years ago

I am not a supporter of Giuliani. However, I cannot bring myself to take part in voting on his mistakes. It is a "smear campaign" tactic. I have always despised the smear tactics of our current "administration", and I thought that Brave New Films was against them too. I am very disappointed.

Matt P. · 2 years ago

Rudy Guiliani is a war profiteer. He setup a security firm (Guiliani, Inc.) in Iraq shortly after our invasion in 2003 and also trained Iraqi police. And I'm sure was handsomely rewarded as all loyal Republicans contractors are. Bernie Kerick was over there for awhile running the operation. Evidentally the training didn't accomplish its purpose, The Iraqis still aren't able to stand up.
You ever wonder why this administration was unable to get bullet-proof vests, and oher items, to our troops. I believe it was because they only let contracts to certain Republicans. That shows where their real patriotism lies. Matt P.

Jay · 2 years ago

I was shocked to find this type of offensive material coming from Brave New Films. First of all, this isn't satire, it's just agitprop parading in language and imagery of stereotypes and prejudice. Giuliani isn't threatening enough to warrant creation and dissemination of material which insults so many people, alienates fans of Brave New Films from your messages, threatens your brilliant funding and distribution system and, ironically, makes Giuliani more sympathetic. You should seriously consider asking whoever created and posted this stuff to your otherwise brilliant arena to take a vacation and reconsider what they've done. And, while they're away, you should take all this stuff down and file it under, "Oops!" You don't want somebody to have fuel for a 30 second reel on "Robert Greenwald's Greatest Mistakes".

Suzanne Jarnagin · 2 years ago

Thank goodness for smelling salts. I was so upset by the list of "Mistakes" that I swooned atop the fainting sofa before I got to the "Enjoy our funny teaser" line. I couldn't believe BraveNew Films would be focusing on Dressing in Drag and Rudy's number of marriages. Revived by the salts and directed to the aforementioned line, I am relieved. Very relieved. BraveNew Films are my favorite films.

K Steven Zimmerman · 2 years ago

You guys left out some big ones:
1. Weak response to Amadou Diallo massacre
2. Censorship of Museums thru withdrawal of funding.
3. Repeated refusal to permit peaceful protests.
4. Creating hostililty among police towards minorities which led to Abner Louima broomstick sodomization
5. Taking credit for "cleaning up the city", which was really result of improved national economy and additional police put on the streets by Clinton.

Cmon guys, get with it - Rudy will be able to shrug off his family like all the other pols. Keep your eyes on the ball & stick to the real issues, like civil rights and the fact that this "hero" didn't save anyone on 9/11, and worse, let it happen on his watch while not doing all he could to empower the emergency responders which lead many of them to die.

Uber-Lib

jayy · 2 years ago

1) As far as I'm aware, marrying your second cousin is NOT always viewed as strange or as suspect as is marrying your "cousin" (first cousin).

2) You make it sound like Giuliani's cross-dressing in theatrical and video endeavors (ala Shakespearean acting) "co-starring" Donald Trump somehow demonstrates questionable moral fibre. Umm, I don't think so.. from what I understand, many world leaders do that every summer, during their annual campout in sonoma county, at the exclusive mens' retreat at Russian River's Bohemian Grove! Now THAT would make a fun video :)

3) You insinuate that Giuliani is a compulsive cross-dresser, that he can't stop himself, that he has no control over it. I doubt that too. Flamboyant and outgoing: yes. Compulsive? Doesn't look like it to me.

You were wrong to add these to your video. Because, there are plenty of other valid points with which to politically skewer him, if that is your intent. And I don't mind seeing those, if it's the truth. But don't sacrifice the truth in order to try to score cheap points. It just makes YOU look cheap. And you have a good thing going here, don't cheapen it. (For the record, no, I've never married my cousin, or cross-dressed. Well, maybe once in a theatrical play in college. Am I now disqualified from politics? Hmm.)

Patrick Goldsmith · 2 years ago

I met Rudy in 1992. I had been run out of my art gallery on East 11th Street by the High Lords of Latein Kings- because they had been tipped off by local police (the infamous 9th precinct) that I was a block-watcher and had reported drug activity.
When I confronted Rudy with the corruption in the 9th precinct -he responded with -
"we've put 350 new uniformed policemen on the streets". - (!!!!!)
I asked him how that would end the corruption that I had been speaking about- at which point his aide came over and ushered him off...
So, for me - his BIGGEST mistake was implicit support of police corruption in NYC.

David Lieberfarb · 2 years ago

This site has overlooked the numerous unnecessary lawsuits he instigated while mayor of New York. While I hate to use the word "Nazi" loosely, a friend of mine has hit upon what I consider an appropriate description of Giuliani: "Culture Nazi."

Tom Barcus · 2 years ago

As much as I admire Robert Greenwald, I don't think this 30 second clip hits the real issue about Giuliani. The greatest fear I have of Giuliani is his Hitler-like attitude towards anyone who is different. He truly is a person we should all fear, unless we enjoy a police state.

Annemarie · 2 years ago

See the excellent article in Harper's Magazine, "A fate worse than Bush" -- please make sure to link to it, read it carefully.

Leon E McCants Jr · 2 years ago

Rudy Giuli is as bad (and perhaps worse, if that's possible) a liar and crook than George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, et al. combined! I read an article in Rolling Stone entitled: 'Rudy Giuliani - Worse Than Bush' and I agreed with every word of it. NO REPUBLICAN IS QUALIFIED OR DESERVES TO BE ELECTED PRESIDENT (EVER AGAIN)!!!

Gregg Grinspan · 2 years ago

I get concerned when your attempts to discolor some of the Republican candidates allows you to use "compulsive cross-dressing" as a negative picture. Aren't we trying to stop that kind of homophobic bullshit on the part of others. Be careful not to become overly vicious in seeking peace. Know what I mean? We lose credibility the same way Larry Craig lost credibility when the Gay-basher got himself popped. Rudy can't make peace in the world because he doesn't have the emotional tickets to get it done. End of story. He's not a strong enough person. Not because he likes to wear a wig, because he doesn't have what MLK had. We need a leader who's not afraid to face down the money and get the human job done.
Get your message straight. Don't make us look bad. You can't give a snake a chance by allowing him to see you hiss. Capisci?

John A Santomasso · 2 years ago

You missed one other possible answer. The proverbial (D)-All of the above.

LiQuiD · 2 years ago

Rudy is a servant of evil, he should be thrown in jail instead of running 4 president.

Margie Goulden · 2 years ago

I don't agree with this "Rudy-bashing". I will never vote for the man, but dropping to the level of finding all the nit-picky "dirt" about him is denigrating his personhood. Some of this information (especially regarding his daughter supporting Obama) is controversial. From the vote results, it appears that your readers are more concerned about his mistakes as a leader, and I am glad to see that.

nathan · 2 years ago

RUDY GIULIANI IS A DISGRACE TO THE ITALIAN
NATION AND PATRIOTIC ITALIANS OF THE U.S.
HE IS A MURDERER ALONG WITH BUSH, CHENEY AND
ALL THE NEO-COMS FILTHY SCUMS BECAUSE OF THEIR DESTROYING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER WHILE IT WAS FILLED WITH PEOPLE. RUDY IS ALSO A CRIMINAL FOR ILLEGALLY DISPOSING OF THE EVIDENCE OF THE 911 COLLAPSE -- THE STEEL HE ILLEGALLY DISPOSED OF SO FAST.. WE SHOULD BEGAN TO PILLARY THE SENATORS WHO ARE SITTING
BACK AND LETTING THESE DESPOTS GET AWAY WITH LITERAL MURDER

Joan Palermo · 2 years ago

I don't think Rudy Giulani has the ability to be a president. He touts his credible experience as what happened on 9/11. He is too stern and does not have the right personality for the role of a president. Many fire fighters in New York were furious with the way he handled 9/11. I predict when the truth gets out about the callowness and insensitivity about this man (the way he handled his divorce, for example) he will lose his status and will not be in the running for the presidency. Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson (although lazy) look much better. For a daughter not to be supportive of her own father and for a son not to even speak to his father bodes very badly for Giuliani. I predict that he will not be a choice for the voters.

Casey Ryan Mather · 2 years ago

I have supported Brave New Films over the years, but this recent Rudy Giuliani video about Rudy's follies in 30 seconds seems off point...and I'm being kind. Cross-dressing, divorce, and adultery have nothing to do with his leadership skills, and in fact make me only like him more because he is HUMAN! I could go off on a tangent about false piety and the judgment that springs from a "pious" person, but it's too...off point. Giuliani's handling of 911 may have merit and his views on abortion also have merit, but leave the poor man's private life out of the picture. Let me end this comment by saying that I don't particularly like Giuliani, and I'm upset that I have to stand up for him to a group of people who should know better. Don't get me wrong, I still support you guys and the work you're doing, because I believe that despite the occasional flaw, your films, for the most part, are informative and important to hear. We're all human, we all have quirks, and NOBODY can or should live up to the unrealistic standards of perfection that we foist upon each other. So stop foistin’ already.

Ruth · 2 years ago

Rudy was playing off the real heroes of 9/11 from way back when the rest of us New Yorkers were still pulling together trying to help each other. This guy was supposed to be a leader, but even after we knew that there were no survivors, Rudy kept the City workers on 12-hour shifts doing clean-up at Ground Zero as if it was a desperate rescue mission. (Good for keeping his mug in the press, maybe? Cheaper on the City budget, maybe?) OK, granted it was hard for anyone to face that their friends weren't coming back. But Rudy totally ignored his duty to protect the living by insisting that all workers have maximum personal protective gear--and use it at all times! It was obvious that deadly fumes and particulates were coming out of those fires. But no, Rudy had to pose on the pile without a mask. Rudy couldn't insist it was time to change to shorter shifts. Rudy couldn't insist that commanders command their men to wear their respirators or get off the pile. No, Rudy was being macho vicariously, and those workers are sick now.
While we're at it, we might mention that it was Big Shot Hero Rudy who insisted that it was fine for all of us to go right back to work in Lower Manhattan (especially Wall Street!) a few days after the towers fell, even though most locals thought it should be a federal superfund site. So many more New Yorkers will be getting sick, too.

Casey Ryan Mather · 2 years ago

I need to make myself clear. What I meant to say in my last comment was that the only two decent points that were made that have any negative reflection on Giuliani as a leader were the abortion issues and the 911 issues; the rest of the stuff in the video was irrelevant.

jim morris · 2 years ago

Leave Rudy alone until he gets the nomination, that's all I ask.

Margaret Rego · 2 years ago

Giuliani IS the worse of ALL the candidates! They are for the most part ALL a bunch of hypocritical, totally selfcentered, selfish persons that only care about getting their names in the history books (big deal!) BUT GIULIANI IS THE WORSE! TAKING CREDIT FOR SIMPLY BEEIN THERE SEPT 11 AND USING (BADLY USING) ALL THE PUBLIC RESOURSES AT HE'S DISPOSAL (AS MAYOR OF THE RICHEST, LARGEST CITY IN THE WORLD) AND EVEN THEN NOT DOING IT RIGHT!!! AFTER THE MORRONS IN OFFICE AT THIS TIME, WE DO NOT NEED AN ASS LIKE GIULIANI. A MAN WITH NO MORAL FIVERS IN HE'S BRAIN!!! IF AMERICA WANTS TO LOOSE WHATEVER IS LEFT IN IT OF WHAT IT ONCE WAS... THE LAND OF THE "FREE" , THE LAND OF OPORTUNITIES, ETC. BRING IN GIULIANI SO HE CAN FINISH THE JOB AND WIPE THE STREETS IN WASHINGTON WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG AND THE CONSTITUTION. THAT WILL DO IT!!!

Ron Bell · 2 years ago

Sorry but this theme/video/questionaire reminds me more of a Karl Rove dirty trick than responsible political debate. Think back to what you thought of the Republicans bashing Bill Clinton for his affairs, i.e., his own personal life. I think it's highly hypocritical for democrats to judge Guliani's political credentials by his personal life. And using pictures of him in drag is highly prejudicial, akin to using photos of Michael Dukakis riding in a tank, looking unintentionally goofy. I expect better of you guys. Please ditch this effort and apologize to Guliani and your membership.

Mark · 2 years ago

The reason why he put his headquarters in bldg 7 and installed demolition charges therein is to destroy the evidence that he along with other administration officials helped plan and execute the demolition of both the north and the south towers. The planes did not bring those buildings down, and the fires were not hot enough to melt even a single ounce of steel.

pauline wagner · 2 years ago

He did not announce his"special friend",until the Cardinal,who had helped annul his 1st marriage,had died. What a coward!

Sherry Bendall · 2 years ago

It is almost beyond belief that there are still people in this country who support Bush, much less Giuliani. When will people ever wake up and look at the facts. Giuliani committed a huge felony by removing the debris of the World Trade Center before it had been inspected by the proper authorities. Ignoring the law is the modus operandi of the Bushies and would be continued to the great detriment of our country by Giuliani.

forurby · 2 years ago

It was a toss-up between the firefighter's faulty radios and command center placement. I choose the command center because placing the center in a secure location would have alleviated the commuication problem.With the center a part of the disaster,commuication was compromised.

ferne kron · 2 years ago

He`s a 14carat phoney ! Ask New Yorkers and survivors of 9/11

Wes · 2 years ago

Just say no to tRudy911.

Karen Parker · 2 years ago

Please don't dilute the message on the very important reasons why Guiliani shouldn't be president with the trivial or the strictly personal. I don't care if he married his second cousin. I care that he has the kind of arrogance which leads him to subvert the Constitution, fire people who have different opinions or tell the truth, and things like that. He has so many of the character traits that made George Bush a disastrous president. The fact that
George Bush kept his britches zipped up didn't make him an acceptable president, and the fact that Giuliani married his cousin or engaged in some cross-dressing frolics isn't what makes him unacceptable. I don't want to see sleazy ads even if they oppose the people I oppose. Guiliani would make a terrible president. Please make your ads stick to the real reasons he would be a terrible president.

Jeanne · 2 years ago

Of course the radios for the emergency response teams is right there... he was the person most responsible for for so many needless deaths of the police and firemen and yet he'd like to blame anyone but himself.... glib , we don't need another glib

Anne · 2 years ago

Rudy's "good" image is false and entirely the fault of the media. Why don't some rich liberals buy stations? The right has them all.

Jane Hapgood · 2 years ago

Rudy Giuliani is a farce. He tries to pass himself off as a serious canidate for President. In fact he would be worse than Bush....listen to what New Yorkers say about Giuliani...they can't stand him. Look at the sneer he carries on his face....another big DUD!

LL · 2 years ago

Please NO!!! No President Giuliani!!!

Genia Stoddard · 2 years ago

Rudy had the sanitation Dept. round up homeless people off the streets of NY and they were driven to upstate and droped off. Two of them died of exposure. I read this in I believe the NY times back in 99 or 2000. The man is a murderer.

ralph a. ponzar, jr. · 2 years ago

i am not a fan of Rudy Giuliani, but most of the reasons you have listed are, as far as i'm concerned, not real reasons, and only weaken your attempts at discreditation. maybe they're attempts at being funny, but if they are, it can only be used effectively by the right to discredit the progressive.
"estranged from children", "looking bad in drag", "married three times", "anulled marriage to second cousin","open and notorious adultery", and "daughter backs Obama for president" are all the kind of points that republicans would try to claim were strikes against their democratic opponent, and in my mind not relivant to the question at hand.
the biggest reservation i have to Rudy Giuliani is who he is serving. i don't think it's the people. i think he's way too connected to the power elite, who in my mind, are a very dark force that does NOT have the best interests of the american people at heart. this is, in fact, my biggest concern with all the "major candidates" running for president, Hilary Clinton, as much as any republican. Dennis Kucinich (spelling?) is much closer to what i'm looking for in a presidential candidate.
sincerely,

ralph a. ponzar, jr.

Lisa Cooper-Keil · 2 years ago

I am pleased to see that the majority of votes cast in the "Giuliani's worst mistake" pole focused on his political life rather than his personal life. Who he sleeps with or marries is none of my business - how he manages policy is!

Frank Hamilton · 2 years ago

Rudy G. didn't really have the 911 thing under control.
His statement about "thank god for george bush" was the biggest obstacle to his attempt at the presidency.

Jennifer · 2 years ago

Great piece on Salon.com about Rudy's mistakes: www.salon.com

We need to get away from the attacks on politicians' personal lives. Rudy's consistent adultery and estrangement from his children certainly makes me think he is a jerk. However, we should focus on the egregious errors he made s mayor. I'm so sick of him using September 11 as his sole qualification to be president. He made Times Square safe for TGI Friday's and let NY's first responders down. THAT'S his true legacy.

Brian · 2 years ago

Is all transgender behavior a mistake or just cross dressing?

Not your best work guys. In fact, kind of embarrassing. He's an easy target - you didn't need to go after him with an offensive conservative value system.

Vaughn · 2 years ago

While I was on vacation in Hawaii, I was told that Rudy gave his homeless one way tickets to Hawaii making them Hawaii's problem. Is this true?

Judith Gilbert · 2 years ago

Rudy Giuliani was a dreadful, polarizing mayor. He had no compassion for the poor, or homeless people with AIDS---in fact, this is a man without the gift of empathy, aligning himself with people of bad character, like Kerik--as for his judgment at 9/11, I think he made mistakes but at least he was there---but one high-functioning day in a time of crisis doesn't qualify him to be president---his personal life, the most ominous aspect of which is his childrens' estrangement, is another unpromising aspect of this man's character.

Joseph Silverbird · 2 years ago

Not a good man PERIOD!

Bill Jenkins · 2 years ago

This is bad as what the candidates do. This is not the solution.

LJ · 2 years ago

His biggest mistake is running for the Presidency.

Dr.Anthony R.Peluso · 2 years ago

His expansive, megalomanic-like self-perception is and will be his greatest weakness. BUT we need a MEDIA that really does NOT let this expanding self-illusion get away with it.Barrett and Collins have aptly labeled him the "GRAND ILLUSION".The more he talks about himself and his "accomplishments" the FURTHER FROM REALITY he gets, BUT the right questions have to be asked, etc.

Karen Keating-Secular · 2 years ago

If you liked Bush, you'll LOVE Rudy! Take it from this New Yorker--he is a big time fascist. Not to mention he has the worst judgement in the world--like putting Command Central for terrorist attacks in the World Trade Center--which had already been attacked by terrorists, and was one of the top targets in this country. Rudy would be the fire we jump into to escape the frying pan we're already in! NO RUDY!!

A.J.D'Agostino · 2 years ago

His "Broken Windows" program where he ran thousands of juveniles through the system for turnstile jumping, drinking from an open bottle or can and a host of other minor violations. I personally know three people who were stripped searched for turnstile jumping. Also, Rudy was chastised by a federal judge twice for violation of civil rights. There is a New York artist and activist, Robert Lederman who was arrested more than 40 times and never once charged with a crime. Mr. Lederman sued Rudy in federal court and won. But did this stop Rudy? Even after losing in court, Rudy still conducted his vendetta against this activist who constantly criticised him.
If one was to study Rudy's two terms in office, they would find countless civil rights violations, police brutality against blacks (remember Amadou Diallo, shot 41 times, Abner Louima, sodomized with a broom handle, the neck deep corruption, (Bernard Kerik)and on and on. By the end of Rudy Ghouliani's second term, even those that voted for him, hated the turd! The items you have chosen for people to vote upon pale in comparison to all the crimes he committed while in office. Please dig deeper and knock this arrogant fascist pig off his pedestal. If he becomes president, I'm moving to a friendlier place like Sudan!P.S. How many of you New Yorkers remember his cattle fences in Manhattan. It is unfortunate that he survived his prostate cancer.

William Dazey · 2 years ago

As a person that has been ostracized by my family because of an incurable disease(MSor congenital, degenerative back) , lack of income(unrecognized by the medicare system), resisting the mowing of the yard(doing my part in the fight against global climate change)or an opposite view of all the positions of this asministration, coming together in these troubled times is most important.

Nick Kuvach · 2 years ago

Can you find footage in some archive somewhere of Rudy standing on top of an automobile with a bullhorn and giving a long harangue before a crowd of largely drunken off duty police officers in front of city hall. They were protesting Mayor Dinkins and proposed cutbacks in police overtime. Rudy was running for mayor and looking to get the endorsement of the police. Rudy is on film yelling into his bullhorn that, "Dinkins wasn't fit to be a washroom attendent." Screaming, racist, out of control...really Rudy at his best. I once saw a video tape of this, I don't remember where, but it's got to be out there somewhere.

Martin Vuerhard · 2 years ago

This Jerk-Off is a politician, what do you expect?

Marc · 2 years ago

I don't think any of your choices qualify as Rudy Giuliani's "biggest mistake". Surely, the fact that his children do not support him is not "his mistake".

I oppose Rudy Giuliani as President because I don't agree with him on policy.

Personally, I think his answer to George Stephanopolous' question was both appropriate and witty. (Still, I am not voting for Rudy.)

John P. Rouse · 2 years ago

All of his mis-steps were indicators of not too stable person. However the decision concerning the command post location indicate exceptionally poor judgement, which is what we need in our next president.

Bob Zimmermann · 2 years ago

I really like that you're exposing Giuliani's sordid past, but honestly I'm a little offended that "Cross Dressing" is on the list of "mistakes". Cross dressing is not only harmless, but it is a part of a lifestyle for many upstanding individuals. I like the message of the video, but I don't think it's a good idea to alienate a decent percentage of the people who oppose Guiliani's policy and character.

TJ · 2 years ago

At least the man has faced adversity and the enemy and has made all the mistakes while practicing as mayor. Obama and the others will make THEIR mistakes while leader ( since none of them have ANY experience or backbone) of the free-est and most powerful nation on earth. Think about THAT for while....

Nico van Engelen · 2 years ago

I typically enjoy your commentary on the issues and have found them to be justified until now. I don't care for Mr. Giuliani very much, but I despise low blows even more. Attacking cross dressing and marring your cousin which are both very legal and in my view normal expressions of the human condition make me look at your organization in a new light. Please, keep it positive and stick to the political facts. You will lose the support of many if personal attacks and low blows become part of your regular routine. We are better then that and so are you. Lets try to be above the slander and take a higher ground. He has done enough to warrant critique with out us engaging on this level.

Thanks,
Long time supporter
Nico van Engelen

Anita Linker · 2 years ago

Giuliani's biggest mistake? Thinking of himself as presidential material.

mark mendoza · 2 years ago

My vote would go for arresting the victims of the neocon Administrations, and the enforcement of Zero Tolerance, and its translation to the cut back on civil liberties by Tony Blair in the UK.

Adrienne Eisenberg · 2 years ago

You are missing something really big on Rudy: His law firm Bracewell & Giuliani had a hand in shaping the 2005 Energy Act, which gives private for-profit companies the power of federal condemnation (eminent domain) as well as federal subsidies. this is a huge windfall for the coal industry. Now, Giuliani's firm is representing one such company, NYRI, who have plans to take hundreds of miles of private property and to destroy the "Wild and Scenic" Delaware River Corridor, all to build massive high-voltage lines that will carry energy from coal-burning power plants, worsening global warming...etc.
Also, take a look at his campaign contributers, he even has former ENRONer Richard Kinder among other oil, gas, and coal interests. Giuliani's firm is the most aggressive lobbyist for the coal industry.
Please contact me if you want more information the disastrous consequences of the 2005 Energy Act.

Hollis Henry · 2 years ago

Ruby's biggest mistake, in my humble opinion is "open and notorious adultery". Thank you for making this video.

cebm · 2 years ago

All of the above.

Mary Ann Martorana · 2 years ago

I never liked this guy then I saw his performance on 9/11 and thought he looked pretty good despite everything else. When I heard about what he did to the FDNY that caused so many of them to be killed I knew my original evaluation of him was correct. He is unfit to be in public office of ANY KIND.

G. Nijim · 2 years ago

Giuliani is also a racist. He is openly against Arabs and Muslims.

underbear1 · 2 years ago

It wasn't on the list, but Rudy p*ssing off every queer in the country, when he was housed by a gay couple after his ugly public divorce, and marched EVERY year in Gay/Lesbian Pride parades...Rudy you messed with folks who know how to hold a GRUDGE.

ithaka · 2 years ago

I support what you do but I don't support including the following mistakes that reflect RG's personal life: being married 3 times, marrying his 2nd cousing, looking bad in drag, open and notorious adultery, his daughter supports Obama, estranged from his children. These issues are between him and and his family!

Let's leave the personal out of politics and focus on the serious issues: flip flopping on abortion, faulty radios for fire fighters. Don't go the way of mainstream news and Fox news.

Mike Adams · 2 years ago

I don't think that it is appropriate to discuss a candidates personal life, unless they have been clearly hypocritical about what they advocate in public and do in private. I also don't think that showing him in drag out of context is a good thing - so he was in drag? Who legitimately cares?

Stay focussed on the issues - we don't need to become more Rove-like.

Patricia Moore · 2 years ago

I tried to answer "all of above" in your poll. The man is not fit to be president!!

He also presided over one of the most corrupt Police Dept's in the country. Remember the young man who was sodomized, the suits filed for brutality against members of department--there was no outrage from Rudy.

His business dealings after leaving offie.

Telling his wife via TV that he was getting a divorde--what kind of character does this man have????

People need to be reminded where he was in the hearts & minds of Neew Yorkers before 9-11!!

Folks need to be reminded how unsupportive he was of New York Firefighters & Police personnel he was!

Pat Moore Fort Wayne In

Karl · 2 years ago

Come on, a top figure in the 9-11 cover-up has to have something really serious in his mistake bag. Have people asked him why he thinks our trillion dollar air defence system couldn't stop passenger jets? Or how WTC building #7 managed to fall down without being hit?

Richard · 2 years ago

Republicans are too conservative and many or all follow in Bushe's foot steps. Can't vote Republican at this time, not that Demacrats are any angles. And I hope the rest of the country wakes up for once.

Gene · 2 years ago

I love how the press, spin doctors the (anticipated, yet feared Rudy vs. Hillary rematch). In the first place there isn't a rematch. There never was even a match to begin with. Rudy vs. Hillary I (using the Ali vs. Frazier II analogy) never happened. Rudy NEVER even officially announced his candidacy for this race. (Come to think of it he has yet to formally file for the presidential election as of today 9/5/07, though he has until the end of this month to submit the formal papers). When he was diagnosed with prostate cancer he felt it best not to run because he didn't wish to put any additional strain on his family (real cute Julie Rudiany). What family? By then he was already getting regular blowjobs from Christine Lagano (when Donna Hanover even caught them in the act, while he was boffing Judi Nathan and even cheating on his soon to be new ex-wife and soon to be new new wife [watch out Judi]. That was bad enough. Or could it be that Hilary was trouncing him 60% to 40% in the early polls. Not only did NYC voters think he was shit, but so the did the voters in NYS as well.

Robert · 2 years ago

I thought only Southerners married their cousins?
But putting a command center in a building that the "bad guys" had already tried to bring down once before, has to be a pretty stupid move.

Gene · 2 years ago

The point about attacking Hitleriani's personal life not withstanding. How can anyone with an open mind and a clear conscience ever feel sympathy for such a slug is beyond human comprehension?

Gene · 2 years ago

Thank you Arnold Joseph for your comments. However. How does your biblical disertation relate to this post. Unless you are trying to warn us all that Adolf Hitleriani is. . . THE ANTICHRIST. I shudder at the mere thought of it.

Christopher Leech · 2 years ago

Another republican full of crap. The hypocracy is just unbelievable, but then again look at the people they target.

jimCotton · 2 years ago

We need to get the truth out about Rudy !
http://jimcotton.blogspot.com

Parvati · 2 years ago

It was difficult to choose which one was his worst mistake---they are all so serious and reflects on his poor character and poor leadership abilities. But the fact that he did not provide firefighters good communication systems which resulted in so many of our first responders dying seems to be murderous.

Adriatica · 2 years ago

All the above. Hypocrisy ain't good.

I agree with LJ fifteen hours before me: running for President. He let Hillary get into the NY Senate by dropping out of the race himself.

So his biggest mistake is actually running for President.

jason wysocki · 2 years ago

Rudy Giuliani will never become president. You can count on that.

David Silva · 2 years ago

We New Yorkers know that Giuliani has made enough mistakes that you don't need to include petty things like "3 marriages," "cross-dressing (what's wrong with cross-dressing?)" and "daughter supports Obama (which isn't even Giuliani's fault)". Most importantly, he lacks the ability to compromise or work in coalitions, which are absolutely necessary in a President (as demonstrated by our current President's failure on both counts).

Catherine · 2 years ago

There's a huge difference between public service and self-serving. Haven't we had enough of self-serving politicians?
There's only one true public servant running for president.

george neville · 2 years ago

What relationship did Rudy have with Marvin Bush, whose company was in charge of security at the WTC? His consulting co. is also representing the Spanish co. that is to build the TransTexasCorridor of the SPP that doesn't exist according to Bush.The mob never disappeared, they just put on coats and ties. Hilary and Rudy-cut from the same cloth.

Pat · 2 years ago

If Rudy ends up President of the USA because of the negatives of Hillary Clinton (the obvious Democratic choice of all the Media Talking Heads), then we deserve what we get for not getting active and voting in the primaries where the real choice for President will occur. Hillary will bring out the Republican base and there's a very good chance that much of the Democratic base will become Independent. In that case, do we lose the Congress, too?

New Yorker · 2 years ago

Let's talk about what Rudy did to poor women, men and children who were applying for welfare benefits. Do you know how many lawsuits there were when Giuliani ignored the NY State Constitution on giving aid in a timely fashion? How many people did he make homeless? too dam many.

How many children and old people went to bed hungry because of Rudy? How many addicts and alcoholics did not get treatment because of Rudy?

And last how many times was Rudy told to remove the diesel storage tank from the roof of his bunker at the WTC? It was deemed unsafe and he ignored the instructions to remove not once, not twice but three times.
The bastard ran and survived. Not so for his staffers who died in the bunker.

President? He was an embarrassment as mayor of NYC.
Now lets hear the gossip from NYC cabbies who say he was knocking Donna around, getting "handy" with her.
a wife batterer as president?

Lindy · 2 years ago

Scrubbing the crime scene with over 1000 bodies known to have still been missing and shipping it all off to China a.s.a.p. was what made Rudi a "made Man" in the "Club." He's a player now. He did his job. Blood on his hands - just like the Bushe's, Nixon and LBJ. Rudy is a Bushman and needs to be put on trial for his own testimony surrounding the events of 9/11 instead of running for president.

Rev. C. Walking Turtle Mann (U · 2 years ago

Um, Mr. Giuliani seems at times to seek to out-Mussolini Mister Bush. Both of them Bush bonesmen, really. With a hard-edge dash of Stalin thrown in for a "fair and balanced" police-state factor. (Maybe that's the "Wannabee Factor" at work; he seeks favor with Bonesmen though he himself is no Bonesman - and halleujah to that.)

Um, that silly cross-dressing thingie that titillates and panders and excites irrational revulsion all in the same swell phoop amongst the more media-driven in our midst is IMHO just something that the eurocentric Caucasian-dominated culture that now operates with nigh-impunity on this continent (called "Turtle Island" by my best ancestors) and all around the whole groaning planet these days harbors to frighten its children. This, too, shall pass.

Friend Greenwald, I have observed the norm and all manner of deviations therefrom with regard to gender-standing and gender-bending for fifty-odd years now. So maybe Yours Truly just might have something to contribute here.

In my humble opinion, what two adult human monkeyfolk do in their own mutually consented sex-sharing space is all right by me, so long as no child is included and nobody at all is sickened, dies, or is made a slave as the result. I think an occasional merry and colorful display of Something Completely Different is very healthy in a plurality-based culture, though. Only let that celebration be genuinely healthy and it is wise to continue in the practice. It makes a fine day-long circus, and the people provide their own bread besides.

Think of it that way, White Man, as we organize ourselves against all your lies and forcible taking of life and property to your own degraded, self-destructive, planet-murdering ends! We are here, we look queer, but why ever should anyone middle-roadlike just pander and incite any fear of us Funny-Hatted, Odd-Dressing Ones when WE hold the keys of Life, the Universe and everything (metaphorically as well as really) in ways that others just cannot?

And why EVER might ANYONE EVER use us all as some kind of revulsion-point, fer Goodness' sake at the very least, if not for that of Holy Ever-Living Genuine Christ Universal, already?

Oi, what a world, what a world!

FWIW, I have met a few cross-dressin' men whom I found essentially adequate to manage just about any normal business activity or human affair with no trouble. The rest of 'em tended toward the self-centered manipulative behavior that spoiled thirteen-year-olds often resort to, only backed by the deviousness and lethal self-service that only a forty-something might ever muster. THis combo, one finds, tends to work much to the detriment of those around them until they are stopped, sat down and set straight.

But that is crossdressers like Mr. Giuliani. There are many other elements in that lump, all of whom are different in one maner or another.


Sad to say, the track record of the S/M types, the B/D types, and (sorry, guys but it's what I have found!) *especially* the Dom/Sub player types, in particular, has proved dismal in actual field trials of actual attempts at winning and holding public trust, whether seated in in any public office or not. It seems that once they taste that sweet-'n'-steamy, absolute, overlord-like power over their bed partner in the "scene" (a species of foreplay like unto none other), they (sadly) tend to over-reach and extend their ham-handed "play" out into the lives of many, many others who have given no consent at all to be so played with or upon, EVER.

Just like all common garden-variety assholes will tend to take up to play inappropriately with pretty much just anyone, every time.

Ambitious-minded leathermen, kindly do take heed to this and take it to heart! It is the CONSENT of those "teeming masses" whom you would govern that is SACRED. Remember this and be wise.

So just leave the whips and paddles, the chains and manacles, and all that mind-bending thrallmaker wordplay in your bedroom (except on Pride Day, then why the heqq not show off the gear a bit?) and enjoy it both full-consented and OFF the job, NOT on it like two or three with whom I have already collided!

Just as with the song:

"Stop your messin' around!
Better think of your future!
Stop your foolin' around -
Makin' trouble in town.
A message to you, Roo-DEE!"

At least the object of the lyric was addressed as still being young enuf to turn around and reform himself. I think that Mister Giuliani is too old a reprobate for any reasonable expectation of recovery from what by now has concretised into his actual character. It does appear he will in all likelihood just "die in his sins", as some would put it.

So these things I say:

First: Let Mister Rudolph Giuliani pass from this world at his appointed time - in peace, having done no further damage nor any harm at all to any other.

Second: Let him do so in obscure and generally comfortable surroundings, far from any taint of having ever been President of this Bush-degraded and not-yet-redeemed, once-great Constitution-bound Republic of ours.

Third: Now I address Creator (Kind Holy Creator and none other!) thus: Creator, let that Rudy Giuiani man learn WELL, gaining and keeping genuine WELLNESS from his mistakes. He, too, must evolve - or die the death that does not end.

Just like everybody else.

Thank you!

An old Turtle has spoken. Let it be made so.

Carolyn · 2 years ago

Too extreme, and mini sound bytes aren't believable. Are we going to pick on Rudy's personal life and criticize others for picking on Clinton's? This seems like joining the low life. If he has political positions that we disagree with, let's stick with spotlighting those.

Catherine Wheeler · 2 years ago

I thought it the ultimate stupidity to try and base a presidential campaign on his 'heroics' of 9/11. Had it not been for him, we wouldn't have lost so many lives. He needs to hide in shame over that and I certainly hope the 'Real Rudy Video' will harp about his mistakes there loud and clear. Thanks for all you're doing!

Cos · 2 years ago

I don't like this one at all. The other videos focus on real flaws, this one is a mix. We should not be making fun of politicians for doing anything gay-friendly, for getting divorces, etc. Sure, Republicans hate that stuff - so let *them* attack it! We can point out hypocrisy, but that's not what this video does.

I hope you pull this video off the site, and replace it with something better.

Cynthia Manley · 2 years ago

Paul Campos in a column todat (9-6-07) called Rudy Giulani "the self-anointed Saint of 9/11" . The column is about hypocrisy (the tribute that vice pays to virtue - La Rochefoucauld) and makes much of his adultery and divorce. BUT Keep attacking based on his mistakes after 9/11 to take him off his self-constructed altar.

David Drahmann · 2 years ago

Lest we all forget Rudy's attempts to stay in office and postpone the election.... all we need is another "imperial" president. Who knows what he would do with Presidential power to wield if he was trying to suspend the democratic process at the City Mayor level?

I think he's one of the MOST dangerous republicans out there and reminds me way too much of George W.....

Josh · 2 years ago

We need to be careful. personal attacks and low-blows are amusing, but they deafen reasonable voters to our message. we need to focus on his political failures (of which there are indeed many to choose from).
also, i saw a gays for guiliani video on here, and whoever's running this site is using that as a deterrent to voters. wtf is that about? whoever posted that needs to graduate from their 7th grade homophobia and learn some fcking tolerance. i swear, you all talk about Democrats In Name Only? take a look at yourselves, and the hate you're promoting. sht.

William Merigan · 2 years ago

Pretty disgusting analysis. One comment said this was supposed to be a humorous first effort. Sounds like Karl Rove's humor.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I give a crap that he married his 2nd cousin. I give a crap that he dresses in drag. I give a crap that he has been married 3 times - although I find his personal decisions about adultury and family questionable.

My concern is concrete information about his career and the decisions he has made that would affect his leadership of this country. I have a gut feeling that he did not do much, if anything, in regards to 9/11, but is simply riding a popular tide simply for showing up. I want information to back that up or knock it down. I also want concrete information about if, when and how he would get us out of this crazy war, and what his international policy would do to keep us out of wars with the rest of the Muslim world.

Jo · 2 years ago

FINALLY!!! Signs of intellegent life out there regarding the "hero of 9/11", made-for-TV Rudy, the most devestating public hypocrite beyond Dick Cheney!

Jo · 2 years ago

FINALLY!! Signs of intellegent life out there regarding the "hero of 9/11", made-for-TV Rudy, the most devestating and costly public hypocrite beyond Dick Cheney!!

JP · 2 years ago

If another damned mediahead calls Herr Rudolf "America's Mayor" I'm going to get violent.

But, here's the real question - why was he running a scripted terrorist attack "wargame" in London at the very time and location of the "7/7 London Bombings"? Is it funny that the wargames were "coincidentally" identical to the actual attacks, or is it just disgusting that Herr Rudolf is another "false flag" domestic terrorist with a Presidential medal?

It's time to wake up, People. There's a reason this fascist wants to take your guns away.

ccmb · 2 years ago

Well,I'd have to agree with many of the comments that state that this looks like a schmere job that Fox news would put up. I do agree that RG did not handle the 9/11 at all well but I don't agree with the way you presented it. Try again with something like:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-325448...
Now this is interesting. You guys should get together!!!!

Sue Klaus · 2 years ago

Rudy IS one of the mistakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmmtMpxsv0M

priscilla Lee · 2 years ago

I'd rather you not waste time bashing his cross dressing (I am less offended by the drag show than by the sense that you judge him for it. Is drag morally wrong? RE the multiple marriages (and why even mention the 2nd cousin- "kissing cousin" marriages are fine, no?) and adultery (how many of you folks live in glass houses?) references- those are the kind of tactics Fox would employ!

Adair Cole · 2 years ago

Posted by Jay (1 day ago):

"I was shocked to find this type of offensive material coming from Brave New Films. First of all, this isn't satire, it's just agitprop parading in language and imagery of stereotypes and prejudice. Giuliani isn't threatening enough to warrant creation and dissemination of material which insults so many people, alienates fans of Brave New Films from your messages, threatens your brilliant funding and distribution system and, ironically, makes Giuliani more sympathetic. You should seriously consider asking whoever created and posted this stuff to your otherwise brilliant arena to take a vacation and reconsider what they've done. And, while they're away, you should take all this stuff down and file it under, "Oops!" You don't want somebody to have fuel for a 30 second reel on "Robert Greenwald's Greatest Mistakes"."

Echoed. The tactics employed in this video are disgusting.

Graham · 2 years ago

Right, because the firefighters and their families are all a part of the left wing consipracy theory.

Giuliani will only be a more sympathetic character in the eyes of neo-conservatives, whose times has clearly come and gone.

Whoever created this stuff? It was made because the vast majority of NYC emergency personnel understood that Giuliani made grave mistakes and then rammed "9/11" down the throats of the public.

Jay's comments only pertain to right wing conservatives, which is fine, but it will never fly for those in the middle who will decide the election.

manny schotz · 2 years ago

the dude is wearing a DRESS?!?!

a cross-dressing commander in chief?!?!??!

give me a break.

from now on it's JUDY RIULIANI.

can somebody put that on a T-shirt over the cross-dressing photo and sell me one?

Ray · 2 years ago

He a flippin' idiot, liar and typical republican!!!!!

sooty · 2 years ago

You do a disservice to the credible elements of your Giuliani criticisms--the 9/11 debacle, firefighter radio problem, etc.--by including this cross-dressing/married his cousin crap. Let Giuliani's own record sink his candidacy, and leave out the out-of-context Enquirer-type jabs.

Erich Riesenberg · 2 years ago

This particular video is pathetic. As distasteful as it may be, most candidates have personal failings and many good ones don't run because of smears like that. Don't waste our time talking about who he married or slept with.

His hatred of gay marriage while deflowering his own is interesting. If you want to juxtapose his hypocrisy on gay issues as you have with abortion, that is relevant. In isolation those failings are personal.

Lee · 2 years ago

What is the most reprehensible thing about Rudy? His shameless cashing in on 9/11.

Kevin · 2 years ago

Why is everyone saying that 1) committing open adultery, 2) marrying your 2nd cousin, 3) divorcing your wife on TV, all done by Mayor Guiliani, are private and personal matters? He was an elected official doing these things. Therefore, just like Bill Clinton, these aren't personal, private matters. He's a public official elected by the populace of NYC. Where were all of these posters when Bill Clinton was being raked over the coals? Hypocrisy? Yes. By these exact people. As a New Yorker during Ghouliani's terms, I can say, flat out that on 9/10/2001 New Yorkers were DONE with Mayor Guiliani. We were just anxious for him to get the hell out of office and spend the rest of his days in a retirement home. Think I'm joking? Ask a New Yorker. Ghouliani's a fraud, a fake, a liar, a cheat, and a crook. End of story.

Bob Greenstein · 2 years ago

along with Clinton and Schumer, the complete abandonment of the then residents of Battery Park City and unbfortunates in the dust line... complicity with Whitman and others to protect the Lower Manhattan Business District... anybody ever report on toxic materials other than asbestos?? mercury
lead, cadmium, dioxin???????

Polly · 2 years ago

Hi Brave New Films,
I wrote an email to you when I first saw this short clip. I came back because I still want to hear your explanation of why you used Mr. Guliani's cross-dressing as one of his mistakes. I respectfully request that you give your viewers your reasoning behind this inclusion. Like others have commented, it's not what I would have expected from you. Despite his other numerous errors, this overt prejudice has held my attention...

PETER POAGE · 2 years ago

THIS IS FEEDBACK...I'm not impressed w/ this piece but the following are the reason's I THINK it is counter productive: The problem with this glib presentation of Rudy G.'s biggest mistake is that it mixes executive decision errors and lack of professional honesty with personal matters that are not neccesarily indicative of professional judgement flaws. This mix takes away the crediblility and impact of the lack of integrity and judgement displayed in R. G.'s job performance. I did not watch any more of the tapes on Guliani until I had received an email reply to my 1st complaint which told me that you were serious about exposing REAL problems with this man's character. The references of adultery, cross-dressing, and troubled family relations may indicate a flawed character BUT taken out of context and as sensational as these charges are it smacks of character assination.
Thanks for your efforts, Peter

David hatch · 2 years ago

Aside from a lifetime of mendacity about himself, an even more depicable failure was his allowing government spokes people to repeatedly assert that the fumes, plume, dust aerosol particulates, and from half million to perhaps 2 million pounds of asbestos in the towers, were not dangerous requiring maximum respiratory protection. He himself said it was not a problem. Narcissist, lying killer.

jayaramireddy · 2 years ago

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cxb · 2 years ago

Briefly, Giuliani is easily one of the most corrupt politicians in US history and I was a paid researcher for 5 YEARS, watching this man's press conferences and more. He's gotten caught lying about everything.

Just take a look at GiulianiScandals dot blogspot dot com for a laundry list of many media lies about Giuliani. He cannot lose the election b/c you can fool voters most of the time, esp after you give billions in corporate welfare to the NYTimes, Post, NBC, ABC, Time/Warner, etc.

He is the choice of the corporations and his endless scandals will never be known to most voters.

Even Hitler and Stalin didn't declare war on dancing like Psycho Rudy did. Even Rudy's allies called him psycho. (EX: The NYPost when Rudy decided to put the command center into 7 WTC.)

cxb · 2 years ago

1. It is completely relevent that Rudy married his second cousin, b/c he said, with a straight face, that he didn't KNOW for 10 years. Even Rudy's allies have often said he's a major liar.

2. When it was exposed that Rudy's dad was a mobster, at first I thought "so what?", until you get ALL the details. EX: Rudy used ANY familial relation to mob as a way of firing city employees.

Tell Republicans about the TRUE Rudy and watch what they say. The problem is, the corporate media are all backing Crook Rudy.

cxb · 2 years ago

GiulianiScandals dot blogspot dot com

If you want more dirt on this supercriminal.

Polly · 2 years ago

Please!
Give us an explanation about your use of his crossdressing as a flaw!

You may have been kidding, but we can't know that until you say something!

Michael Tempesta · 2 years ago

Rudy is sad indeed...however he is only the symptom of a much larger problem.
Everyone who hates Rudy and the rest of the GOP "tow the line" candidates needs to seek out and support...

PUBLICALLY FUNDED ELECTIONS and REAL CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

Our current system is a legalized form of bribery.

We give your campaign millions and you give us favorable legislation. No one gives that kind of money for anything and doesn't expect something in return.

Oh...and for all you Hillary supporters, she is the biggest corporate taker of them all! She will be beholden to all those corporations especially from the health insurance industry. And as the cost of running for office goes up so does the level of loyalty to those who contributed to your campaign because each dollar becomes ever more critical to success.

Save your democracy by supporting PUBLICALLY FUNDED ELECTIONS!!

Power to the common people!

paul Revere · 2 years ago

RON PAUL 2008!!!!!!!!

Terry Glynn · 2 years ago

As a good Democrat - I think the Republican nominee should definitely be Giuliani. I mean lets not make a race out of the next Presidential election.

unrudy · 2 years ago

What disturbs me most is how quickly the scene was cleaned up, so no real investigation was possible. It would certainly help with the conspiracy theories. Sounds like someone on the inside covering tracks. And sending evidence to China?

he stopped firefighters from trying to dig for more people and co-workers prematurely. WhY?

Lu M. Shananaquet · 2 years ago

Giuliani totally sucks! Anyone who votes for him sucks! He is the biggest phony who ever walked then streets of New York! He has no values, no values, no ethics and is morally bankrupt. A very 'bad apple' in the Big Apple. Get rid of him before he corrupts the whole barrel!

Eileen Renno · 2 years ago

You just lost me with the ad hominem remarks. Character assassination is the last resort of people who can find nothing else to criticize. This is not the case with Giuliani, as you well know. So why stoop so low? When you use the enemy's tactics, you reveal that you have become as the enemy. As Audre Lorde wrote, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." Please take me off your list as I no longer want to be associated with your organization.

Chris Roberts · 2 years ago

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CHRIS ROBERTS · 2 years ago

WTC 7--- WTF???

Dan Jones · 2 years ago

Ad hominem remarks?

Sorry, I re-viewed the video, but I didn't hear any by the NARRATOR, which are all that matter. Sure, the angry relatives of lost firefighters made personal remarks, as is quite understandable. But it is emphatically not the duty of the producer to edit out all those colorful words. The narrator's voice was remarkably muted, which is how it should be in documentaries.

eyeopener007 · 2 years ago

We live in a state of corporate fascism, treating this planet as business in liquidation, exhausting its resources and destroying its environment. Man is but one species amongst billions of other species on this planet. No one gave man dominion on this planet except man himself. How egotistic has he become?! Nature’s god is angry at us. Shame ---Shame…
It all boils down to what Reagan did in 1988, bowing to pressure from the right, by abolishing the “Fairness Doctrine". The fairness doctrine was the law of the land since 1932. Abolishing the fairness doctrine allowed channels like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to come to existence. Ninety two percent (92%) of radio talk show hosts now are right wingers. Public airwaves belong to the public and the fairness doctrine must be restored. Insist that the presidential candidates promise to restore the fairness doctrine and to bust the 5 media monopolies which control our thought process. Demand public finance of election.

eric oriol · 2 years ago

Every white journalist or blogger should have his or her work revised by a Black person>>>.Even the most progressive amongst white folks always come up short on issues of political science>>>>Robert Greenwald has yet to ask why those firemen were allowing Rudy and his administration to endanger their lives with malfunctioning radios>>>>Why did grown men and woman with so much power in their hands allow one asshole to dictate his will upon them?>>>>As an ex New Yorker who lived in New York during the David Dinkins days,I can assure you that Dinkins would have never gotten away with that>>>Gulliani had this reputation for being tough on Blacks and poor people in general;Something which made him very popular with racist members of the police and fire departments of new York>>>I guess as long as he was leading the march of hate against others,anything he did was fine>>>>>The discussion always has a racial component to it which is hardly ever examined>>>>.
The lesson I draw from all the problems we are dealing with today,including Rudy,is that white people have allowed other white evil people to spread hate all over this land with the misunderstanding that the hate was only going to hurt others>>>>Like the virus that it is,hate will one day spread like wild fire and engulf us all,unless we reject it altogether.............

eric oriol · 2 years ago

You people need to understand the game being played here......Whenever one of the political parties put up such a dimwit loser as Giuliani as a candidate,it is because they do not want to win the election.>>>Just take some time out and watch a wrestling match and you'll understand what I am saying>>>>Bush senior passed the baton to Clinton,,,he passed it to Bush Junior and he is about to pass it to Hillary>>>>Jebb or one of the twins may be next>>>>>We are being played big time by these motherfockers and we keep falling for the bullshit over and over>>>>All of us need to stay home on election day 2008 and let them play their stupid games without our help.....

Mark Allenby · 2 years ago

"white people have allowed other white evil people to spread hate all over this land with the misunderstanding that the hate was only going to hurt others>>>>Like the virus that it is,hate will one day spread like wild fire and engulf us all,unless we reject it altogether" Yes, Mr. Oriol it us white folks fault. When the crops dry up or massive floods kills people, i'd like to fess up. It's us white folks... yup, that's it - white folks. The evil doers are all white. Boy do I feel fetter now after baring my soul. Perhaps if you weren't so IGNORANT I would have approached your comments in a more serios manner. Do you also think 9-11 was an inside job set up by The President of the USA? Are you carrying a "flat Earth Society" card in your wallet? I'll bet I could sell you a bridge...how about it... it's a nice one. You know folks, those of us that are actually not racist, and that's a lot more people than Mr. Oriol or the les than stellar husband and activist Jessie Jackson may think can see racism as clear as daylight. Weak people will come up with excuses for why they aren't happy until the second coming, but one thing is for sure... it's NEVER their fault. Try opening your mind a little - I promise it will only hurt a little bit, but like they say - no pain no gain!

christianslayer · 2 years ago

Mark Allenby,
It is better to keep your mouth shut and let them wonder if you are stupid than to open your trap and remove all doubt>>>>What I was trying to say is that these asshole firemen who perished on the day that Bush had the buildings destroyed,deserved what they got>>>>If Giuliani was not a white racist like they are,they would have been on his ass like white on rice and made sure that their damn radios were working properly>>>Can your racist white ass imagine what the American people would be doing right now if Bush and Cheney were both Black>>>I guess you can't since that would require a little bit of extra work on your part>>>>Lazy jerk.Again,i will repeat that stupid white people like you are allowing other white people to destroy our country because they have convinced themselves that only Blacks and other non whites will suffer>>>>>>If you can't understand that,you are more stupid than you sound

Stan · 2 years ago

How is cross-dressing a mistake? When was the last time cross-dressing was a crime or such a taboo thing to do? Just curious what this has to do with a 9/11 command center or faulty radios, etc.

Sig Freud · 2 years ago

It is perfectly appropriatre to comment on Giuliani's errors in the failure to obtain functioning radios and the unwise location of the emergency command post. It is entirely inappropriate and counter-productive to refer to his private affairs.

B MATHEWS · 2 years ago

I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH THE RELEVANCY OF RUDY GUILIANI'S PAST BEHAVIOR INCLUDING HIS CROSSDRESSING. AT A TIME WHEN AMERICA IS TRYING TO IMPROVE ITS IMAGE AROUND THE WORLD CAN YOU IMAGINE THE WORLD NEWS HEADLINES SAYING "AMERICA HAS ELECTED A NEW PRESIDENT" SHOWING A PICTURE OF RUDY IN HIS MARILYN MONROE GETUP. WE WILL BE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WHOLE WORLD. MAYBE IF THE MEDIA HAD TOLD AMERICANS THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S DRINKING, DRUG USE, FAILED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND BEING AWOL FROM THE NATIONAL GUARD WE WOULDNT BE IN THE PREDICAMENT WE ARE IN NOW. AMERICANS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT. ESPECIALLY NOW.

B MATHEWS · 2 years ago

PERHAPS BRAVE NEW FILMS SHOULD CONSIDER MAKING A VIDEO SHOWING WHAT THE WORLD PRESS WOULD LOOK LIKE IF RUDY WAS ELECTED. SEEING IT MIGHT MAKE IT MORE REAL FOR PEOPLE.

Laid Back Farmer · 2 years ago

Let's not forget that Rudy's law firm is handling the "Great American Land Grab" down in Texas so he can have the "Trans-Texas Corridor" for his foriegn client! This Corridor is an expansion of NAFTA so that the jobs can be shipped to lower wage Mexico.

http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc/index.htm

T.L. · 2 years ago

The thing I worry about the most is that despite these issues there is a whole host of ignorant people still supporting him, people that would serve their country best by supporting someone like Dr. Paul. Also this cross dressing lisping f*ck is completely backed by the CFR, so if it plays out like I think they are trying to usher in a Rudy G. presidential administration. It sounds scary, hell I know but I think that is what they really want to achieve. That would be a true testament to how the Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Com., CFR (Council On Foreign Relations), COR (Club of Rome), can manipulate our system and our people on a mass scale. If they think they can get away with it without a revolution breaking out they will do it. Im sure if they start to feel the heat they will manipulate in either Clinton's or Obama's way and you can be sure both of them are bought and paid for by the CFR. These people have contingency plans for everything, they even assume the worst and then come up with a plan based on that also, they also have a plan if a revolution does break out, believe it or not. The best thing we can do is abolish the systems that give these groups their power and the major one is the Federal Reserve, that will do a lot to weed out a lot of their powers, then the IRS and other unnecessary and unconstutional agencies. Anyway all of this is left up to the people regardless of what the media (their propaganda machine) want you to believe, individual people and citizens as a whole have a lot of power. We can usher in a Paul administration, and we can force the hand of these groups and when they do act everyone will be able to see what is really going on, and that should get the rest of those fence sitters back with us.

T.L. · 2 years ago

"MAYBE IF THE MEDIA HAD TOLD AMERICANS THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S DRINKING, DRUG USE, FAILED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND BEING AWOL FROM THE NATIONAL GUARD WE WOULDNT BE IN THE PREDICAMENT WE ARE IN NOW." This statement assumes that the votes and elections weren't rigged, which it was proven they were by a lot of groups especially the black box voting team. It also assumes that people didn't know bush jr. was a bad guy, once again it's not and it was a commonly known thing that the Bush family "are no good" as my grandmother told me when I was a young child was Bush Sr. was in office. If she were alive now she'd have a heart attack knowing Bush Jr. was put into office. The elder members of my family have told me for a very long time of the Bush families misdeeds. Perhaps the real problem is the complacency of the general population, as long as others keep thinking for them and everything is convenient they do not care much about anything else. We need to wake those people up to what is happening. At this rate by 2010 our country will cease to exist for all intents and purposes and we will be identified as citizens of the North American Union, and then by 2015 citizens of the "Global Union". If thats the direction you want to head in, fine but I will not have it as long as I'm alive.

Dennis · 2 years ago

I enjoy most of the Brave New Films videos a lot. But I find this one extremely offensive, espeically for a progressive website. For one thing, I don't think Rudy's personal mistakes, like multiple marriages or even marrying his cousin, are fair game to judge his political career except for example when he allegedly used taxpayers' money to see his girlfriend and to provide security for her before he was married to her. I don't think Bill Clinton's sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky was fair game as it had absolutely no affect on his job performance. Whether Rudy had 3 or 300 wives doesn't affect his career.

But what I think is so offensive that I am asking for this video to be yanked is that the video calls Rudy's "compulsive cross-dressing" a mistake. That is extremely offensive to transgender and transvestite people. I am a gay man who doesn't cross-dress. Yet I think Rudy's cross-dressing is a good thing. I think more people should be OK with cross-dressing, and that anyone who calls it a mistake is a bigot. I would rather have Rudy be himself by cross-dressing than trying to fit the "norms" of society bullshit that everyone has to dress a certain way based on their gender.

I will not vote for Rudy because of his policies and alleged corruption when he was mayor. Yet his wives, his relationship with his kids, and his cross-dressing are definitely not reasons to reject someone for President. Unless, of course you are a Republican and a neo-con.

habodabi · 1 year ago

I agree with Dennis. Cross dressing is a non issue. Please remake your video without reference to a person's personal behavior unless that behavior effects their job and the people around them. Rudy Giuliani wearing make up and dancing with a feather boa sounds like harmless fun.