Giuliani Moves to Contain Ground Zero Story
Rudy Giuliani is moving to contain the potentially damaging notion, expressed by critics in stories in the Daily News and New York Post, that he exaggerated his presence at Ground Zero after the attacks of Sept. 11.
(He had said that he was "at Ground Zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers. I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them.")
In a radio interview this morning, Giuliani told conservative host Mike Gallagher,
"(W)hat I was trying to say yesterday is that I empathize with them because I feel like I have that same risk. And the way I said it, I probably could have said it better, but what I was trying to say was I was there quite a bit, there are people that were there more than me, people that were [there] less than me. There were people there less than me, people on my staff, who already have had serious health consequences and they weren’t there as often as I was."
Giuliani went on to praise first responders and staff members who worked at Ground Zero and called for them to receive compensation for any illness they might have suffered as a result of that work.
"We should give them everything," he said. "I mean they are heroes in my estimation. And what I was trying to say was even those that were there less than me and the reality is that we’re all in this together and I’m there with them and I feel that I have the same concerns that they have."
Is this the most pitiful thing you have ever heard or what? Here's Rudy:
"there are people that were there more than me, people that were [there] less than me. There were people there less than me, people on my staff, who already have had serious health consequences and they weren’t there as often as I was."
This is what he is saying trying to back off saying " that he was "at Ground Zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers. I was there working with them.": Dude - he has already been busted by the people who were actually there. This is Rudy trying to own up? Plllleeeeeeaase.
Rudy - you are a lying liar. Why can't you just say that?
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Of course Ghouliani lied. He doesn't know any other way. He had the cops threaten the FDNY with force to get them off "The Pile" once they found the gold underneath. Then it just became a "scoop and dump," instead of a rescue operation.
He admitted he was told the towers were going to collapse, (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hNmf76GUCw), then later denied any such knowledge.
Rudy is just another Carpet Bagger, trying to pull the wool over our eyes. His mantra is 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, as if shouting that over and over again makes him a leader.
This is the same dumb horse's a*s who's personal insistence that the city’s Emergency Operations Center be located in the World Trade Center’s Building 7 was a disaster, because once it was struck it left no functioning command center for emergency agencies to coordinate their work.
This is leadership???
Under Rudy, the city administration failed to provide the firefighters with radios that worked properly and could communicate with police radios. The inadequate fire department radios were no secret; they had been publicly discussed for years, especially after they failed to perform properly during the 1993 WTC attack, shortly before Giuliani came into office. The 9/11 Commission noted this fact, while Barrett and Collins named names, fingering the Giuliani administration’s negligence of the long-standing security issue.
The faulty radios were so critical in 2001 because information available to police could not be communicated to firefighters. According to Barrett, unnecessary deaths resulted when firefighters were not privy to police warnings, based on information from police helicopters, that the towers were in danger of partial collapse. Unaware, firefighters continued their efforts in the towers instead of immediately evacuating. Similarly uninformed, according to Barrett, 911 emergency telephone operators were telling people in the towers to stay put, well after police warnings of possible collapse had been issued.
This is Leadership????
Rudy is a carpet bagging liar, with the unneeded deaths of many brave firefighters(some of which were friends).
Vote for Rudy?
NEVER.