Required reading....

Matt Taibbi is Rolling Stone's most valuable writer at this point, and he does a spot-on teardown of the Guiliani hype machine. I never understood the deification of that man, anyway; its like applauding a child who shat themselves - you're gonna have to clean up after them anyway, but you're giving them an A for effort. The whole article is well worth reading, but here's just a snippet.....

Rudy Giuliani is a true American hero, and we know this because he does all the things we expect of heroes these days -- like make $16 million a year, and lobby for Hugo Chávez and Rupert Murdoch, and promote wars without ever having served in the military, and hire a lawyer to call his second wife a "stuck pig," and organize absurd, grandstanding pogroms against minor foreign artists, and generally drift through life being a shameless opportunist with an outsize ego who doesn't even bother to conceal the fact that he's had a hard-on for the presidency since he was in diapers. In the media age, we can't have a hero humble enough to actually be one; what is needed is a tireless scoundrel, a cad willing to pose all day long for photos, who'll accept $100,000 to talk about heroism for an hour, who has the balls to take a $2.7 million advance to write a book about himself called Leadership. That's Rudy Giuliani. Our hero. And a perfect choice to uphold the legacy of George W. Bush.

Ouch. Read the whole article by clicking here.

Besides, between his 3 marriages and drag-queen gay-pandering past, in the Republican party he's like Nipsey Russell stumbling in on a KKK meeting. Between him and John McCain, the Bush machine's ass is getting both cheeks covered, while Mitt Romney is trying to channel Reagan so the McChurchies don't remember he's a heathen cultist, and Fred Thompson is sort of forgetting first that nobody really watched that much Law and Order, and there's a difference between being John Wayne or a more serious "Hoss" from Bonanza.


Good luck.

PS: you do have to give points to Rudy for out-Dracula-ing Robert Novak.