Frameshop: Giuliani "Bungled" 9/11
In most New Yorkers' eyes the most heroic thing Rudy Giuliani ever did was either (a) dress up like a middle-aged version of Marilyn Monroe or (b) stop combing the hair from his armpits over the bald spot on his head. Neither of them are stellar choices, but Giuliani was the mayor who turned the city into a shoot-first-verbally-attack-later style politics.
So, thank goodness for the New York city firefighters. These brave souls, who work hard everyday to save lives, have set aside money and time to make a video that debunks the myth that Giuliani did anything useful in the fight against terrorism before during or after 9/11 (besides make a fortune in speaker's fees).
All we really need to know is that after the World Trade Center was attacked by a truck bomb in the 1990s, Rudy Giuliani made sure that the headquarters for future terrorist attacks was in the World Trade Center. The only thing worse would have been to put HQ in the actual truck that blew up.
Watch the video and spread the word. The real heroes of 9/11 were the firefighters who risked their lives amidst a leadership that had planned poorly and was impotent on the day. Their message about Giuliani is one that needs to be heard by us all.
© 2007 Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop
I don't know about you, but I can't help but brace myself for the coming right-wing smear campaign against firefighters. Fox is going to be all over this one. Or else the story will be buried in an avalanche of Democrat baiting or more op-eds about John Edwards haircuts.
Posted by: Scott Radtke | July 12, 2007 at 10:57 AM
I go with (b).
Posted by: Maida | July 12, 2007 at 12:17 PM
In addition to pointing out the bungled location of anti-terrorist HQ in the WTC, I would have liked to see you go in depth about the reason approx 300 heroic firefighters died on 9/11: because communications between them and their directors did not exist. The managers wanted to tell them NOT to go up into the Towers, but they could not because the frequencies did not match. WHY did they not match? WHY were 300 heroes murdered for a simple technological blunder. It was not the first, and will not be the last. But Giuliani's responsibility to see that firefighters could communicate should
be brought out.
Posted by: Aspasia | July 12, 2007 at 01:19 PM
The frame will be firefighters = democrats = terrorists.
Brace yourselves, framers.
Posted by: mudkitty | July 12, 2007 at 04:36 PM