A Rudy Awakening

I know, I know, he’s an easy target, and I don’t want to beat a dead horse, but I think every American should watch this video and then never listen to Rudy Giuliani ever again:

Quick Rudy Update!

What a great way to follow up yesterday’s post! The big political news coming out of New York today is that Rudy Giuliani is not running for Governor of New York in 2010 as was previously speculated. Instead, sources tell the New York Daily News that Giuliani will run for Hillary Clinton’s old Senate seat, to which Governor Paterson famously appointed Kristen Gillibrand earlier this year. This would set him up better for a possible 2012 Presidential run—oh, if wishing made it so!—since New York state is pretty much ungovernable right now.

This is all good and juicy, but more important than the politics, doesn’t this just feel right?

After all, the primary job of a US Senator is to be a hugely pompous blowhard. Who better than Rudy?

Rudy Giuliani and the Deep Unseriousness of the Right on National Security

With Sarah Palin on a national media blitz, the amount of false reality out there naturally increases by a huge amount. Palin lives in her own little impenetrable world; she’s the commensurate victim. Why anyone believes a word she says is beyond me.

(An aside: I don’t think Palin expects to be a credible conservative leader—she’d rather be a popular conservative celebrity. As Ana Marie Cox said on Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night, you don’t write a book taking revenge on staffers if you want to build a campaign in the future. Likewise, you don’t quit your only major elected office if you want to be seen as a qualified presidential candidate. So let’s agree, for now, that Palin’s lies are those of someone craving the spotlight as an ends, not a means.)

But this post isn’t about Sarah Palin’s false realities. It’s about Rudy Giuliani’s, and those of the right’s “experts” on national security, which I think are far more dangerous.

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