‘Mr. 9/11′ Tries to Be Mr. Guns updated
Gag me.
You could only cringe at witnessing Rudy Giuliani’s appearance before the
National Rifle Association yesterday, starting with the preposterous I-love-you-dear
call he took from would-be First Lady Judi Nathan in the middle of his even
more preposterous makeover on gun control.Giuliani’s aides swore up and down afterward that Nathan’s call was a genuine
attempt, not put-up, not set up, by the Mrs. to reach her husband. My goodness,
how was Nathan to know that Giuliani was speaking to an organization that
might be pivotal to his White House ambitions?(snip)
“I’m talking to the members of the NRA right now,” he said. “Would
you like to say hello?” Apparently Nathan preferred to play the wallflower,
and Giuliani cooed on, “I love you, and I’ll give you a call as soon
as I’m finished. Okay?” Then, after listening considerately for a few
seconds, he replied: “Okay, have a safe trip. Bye-bye. Talk to you later,
dear. I love you.” … ..
As part of a gun owning household, Rudy doesn’t fool me at all. As an aside, his assault weapons ban baloney is just more of the same from people who don’t understand the gun industry. The simple truth is the assault weapons ban didn’t ban assault weapons. Anyone could still buy the parts to make a gun into whatever he or she wanted. It was a feel good, sound good, do nothing piece of legislation that didn’t ban the weapons, but gave people a false sense of security while simultaneously giving politicians a false win. Hey, but Democrats and Republicans still pander on that point anyway. But I digress… My husband’s
reaction to Mr. 9/11′s rat-a-tat-tat makeover was positively explosive, especially
when he had heard Rudy’s response to the MoveOn.org ad. As a former wingnut and N.R.A. member (as well as a gun expert),
the Clinton witch hunt perpetrated by Rush Limbaugh and his fellow wingnuts (at the time) in the late 1990s so disgusted my husband that
his conversion to the Democratic party, which began before we met, was total and simply solidified
when Bush came to power. But hearing that Rudy was speaking in front of the
N.R.A. touting the Second Amendment being as important as the First Amendment
didn’t go over too well with Mr. Marsh, because it reeked of hypocrisy after his MoveOn reaction. (Never mind Mr. Guns confuses the two amendments.)
“They passed a line that we should not allow an American political
organization to pass. … .. We are at war right now, whether some people
want to recognize it or not.” – Rudy Giuliani (h/t Marc
Abinder)
It sounds very much like what Ari Fleischer said right after 9/11 when warned Bill Maher.
“… .. reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.
Rudy sent the same signal to MoveOn.org. Evidently ‘Mr. 9/11′ believes in cafeteria constitutionalism too.
If someone doesn’t understand the First Amendment, once was against the Second
Amendment, now flips on the latter while damning certain Americans who utilize
the former, I’d say that person’s integrity is officially down the drain on anything remotely resembling
a coherent political philosophy. But it seems to fool Republicans who are so desperate for a decent candidate they’ve even tried to resurrect Ronald Reagan through the cadaverous Hollywood Fred. War heroes won’t do for wingnuts.
UPDATE: Oh, and about that phone call from Princess Judi, it’s happened before.
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