We told you earlier about the new Rudy Giuliani ad which seems to bring the Rudy reality fully in line with Rudy parody. The ad is basically ‘vote for me or it’s a big Islamofascist whuppin’ comin’ your way! In other words, campaign Rudy has now devolved into a primal 9/11, 9/11, 9/11 scream.
But when you actually read the script, there’s something even weirder. The announcer reads (italics added) …
An enemy without borders. Hate without boundaries. A people perverted. A religion betrayed. A nuclear power in chaos. Madmen bent on creating it. Leaders assassinated. Democracy attacked …
The whole people is perverted? Depending on how you interpret the ad, Rudy’s either saying that Muslims as a people have been ‘perverted’ or the people of Pakistan are perverted.
Either way, that seems more than a little problematic.
I’m not sure ‘perverted’ is a word that Rudy really wants to be pumping into the campaign either at the moment. But there does seem to be a more serious issue here. The premise of all our anti-terrorism efforts — from the sanest variants to total-spectrum Islamofascism malarkey — is that we’re not at war with Muslims in general but with a particular breed of Islamic extremism. But this ad isn’t saying some people. It’s saying ‘a people’, i.e., all of ’em. And that seems to mean pretty clearly that the whole community is ‘perverted’.
That’s the pickle Giuliani’s New Hampshire surrogate John Deady got into last week when he said that Rudy’s mission was to send all the Muslims “back to their caves.”
You can see the ad here and the script here …
