Oh boy … we may have a TPM T-Shirt winner before the night is out.
You’ll note that just earlier this evening we promised a bounty of a free TPM T-Shirt “for the first reader to send in a clip of Rudy saying how he really never knew Kerik all that well.”
And one of our sharp-eyed TPM readers just sent in this line from the Times‘ new article out tonight (the Times is on Cash-n-Kerik-Catch-Up duty) in which the authors write that in his interview with the Times “Mr. Giuliani indicated that he should have known about Mr. Kerik’s legal problems because he had named him police commissioner and then had gone into business with him.”
Now, I’m going to reserve judgment for the moment because the night is still young and there are probably plenty more shivs Rudy to stick into Kerik’s back to salvage his post-9/11 rep and political future. But if the Times has faithfully captured Rudy’s meaning, he’s already edging toward saying “he really never knew Kerik all that well.”
Don’t fret, however. TPM reader RB definitely has the inside track now for the TPM T-Shirt. But a choicer quote may still be out there in tomorrow’s papers or later this week, perhaps even in an impromptu Rudy interview on the cable nets. So keep scanning those stories. Victory can still be yours.
