READ: Longtime NYC Reporter’s Epic Takedown Of Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Love’

Lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks at a press conference after appearing in court to call for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against video game giant Activision by former Panamanian dictator... Lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks at a press conference after appearing in court to call for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against video game giant Activision by former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega outside Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Noriega sued the gaming giant in July 2014 claiming his likeness was used without permission in the company’s 2012 “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” game and that he was portrayed as a murderer and enemy of the state. In court, Giuliani noted that he could not sue for the numerous portrayals of himself in books and film and argued that Noriega should not able to sue Activision Blizzard Inc. for his portrayal. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) MORE LESS
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s recent accusation that President Obama does not love America prompted a scathing takedown of the Republican politician’s ideas about “love” from one of the journalists who knows him best.

Journalist Wayne Barrett, a former reporter and editor of The Village Voice and the author of “Rudy: An Investigative Biography,” left no embarrassing stone unturned in his epic takedown published by the New York Daily News.

Turning Giuliani’s words against him, Barrett reviewed the ex-mayor’s spotted history with women, his consulting gigs for dictatorships, and his evasion of military service.

Take a peek at the op-ed:

Ask Regina Peruggi, the second cousin he grew up with and married, who was “offended” when Rudy later engineered an annulment from the priest who was his best man on the grounds, strangely enough, that she was his cousin. Or ask Donna Hanover, the mother of his two children, who found out he wanted a separation when he left Gracie Mansion one morning and announced it at a televised press conference. …

Rudy may have forgotten the half-dozen deferments he won ducking the Vietnam War, even getting the federal judge he was clerking for to write a letter creating a special exemption for him. And remember Bernie Kerik? He’s the Giulaini police commissioner, business partner and sidekick whose nomination as homeland security secretary narrowly preceded indictments. He then did his national service in prison.

Read the whole thing at the New York Daily News.

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  1. First there was Mittens and the 47%, now there’s Crazy Eyes and the ‘love’ comment.

    Maybe the GOP Cocksuckers should think again about that line ‘keeping your friends close,’ and change it to ‘keeping your big mouth shut.’

  2. Avatar for enon enon says:

    putin is the type of leader rudy!911 loves:

    “Putin decides what he wants to do, and he does it in half a day, right? He decided he had to go to their parliament — he went to their parliament, he got permission in 15 minutes.”…“[H]e makes a decision and he executes it, quickly. And then everybody reacts. That’s what you call a leader,” Giuliani said.

  3. Dear GOP:

    You keep using that word, “love.” I do not think it means what you think it means.

  4. If memory serves New York elected Rudy mayor because he promised to reduce crime. Once elected he turned the police department loose on black and brown people. He isn’t a racist or anything. Of course, the New York voters who elected Rudy knew what he was going to do. They aren’t exactly pure themselves.

  5. The op-ed is brilliant!!! It’s scathing and leaves Giuliani flayed and dissected; a bloody corpse of hypocrisy.

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