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not a good sign for Giuliani
Aug. 12th, 2007 03:34 pmChristie at Firedoglake links to this piece by Wayne Barrett, who knows more about Giuliani than Giuliani does. It's not pretty (among other altar calls, Barrett points out that at Our Beloved Former Mayor's insistence, the Bunker in the Sky which was destroyed on 9/11 was placed - over the objections of city officials - so that Rudy could walk to it from City Hall, and that Rudy frequently entertained the then Ms. Nathan privately there prior to the dissolution of his marriage).
Much of this is, of course, old news to New Yorkers. What I did find to be a new and interesting bit of information:
Why is this interesting? This is interesting because, as you may recall from the unpleasantness surrounding Mr. Kerik's* ladyfriend Judith Regan (the woman with the OJ book), HarperCollins is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch also owns conservative id machine Fox News, activist right wing advocacy organ the New York Post, and now long-time Giuliani supporter the Wall Street Journal.
The Post has been paying quite a bit of attention to Mr. Giuliani and his current wife. The Post deplores all the bad stories out there about them. The Post deplores those stories - each and every one of them - in great and lurid detail (quite a bit of the material in the Vanity Fair profile of Mrs. Giuliani one of their gossip columnists deplores here was deplored first in the Post).
Mr. Murdoch is known to be very involved in setting the political direction of news coverage by his properties.
This is increasingly not looking like a good thing for Mr. Giuliani.
*and speaking of Mr. Kerik, who bets we hear more about this unpleasantness involving the Giuliani/Kerik partnership and Mrs. Pirro (already in legal trouble through the Kerik connection and also apparently not a great favorite of the Post) if Giuliani stays a front runner?
Much of this is, of course, old news to New Yorkers. What I did find to be a new and interesting bit of information:
Wayne Barrett is the co-author, with Dan Collins, of Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11, which was just published in paperback by HarperCollins [emphasis mine].
Why is this interesting? This is interesting because, as you may recall from the unpleasantness surrounding Mr. Kerik's* ladyfriend Judith Regan (the woman with the OJ book), HarperCollins is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch also owns conservative id machine Fox News, activist right wing advocacy organ the New York Post, and now long-time Giuliani supporter the Wall Street Journal.
The Post has been paying quite a bit of attention to Mr. Giuliani and his current wife. The Post deplores all the bad stories out there about them. The Post deplores those stories - each and every one of them - in great and lurid detail (quite a bit of the material in the Vanity Fair profile of Mrs. Giuliani one of their gossip columnists deplores here was deplored first in the Post).
Mr. Murdoch is known to be very involved in setting the political direction of news coverage by his properties.
This is increasingly not looking like a good thing for Mr. Giuliani.
*and speaking of Mr. Kerik, who bets we hear more about this unpleasantness involving the Giuliani/Kerik partnership and Mrs. Pirro (already in legal trouble through the Kerik connection and also apparently not a great favorite of the Post) if Giuliani stays a front runner?
