Have to say he was the keynote speaker at a conference I attended shortly after 9/11 and he was very impressive. And I spoke to a number of people who had joined him for a private dinner the night before and they all said the same thing. But somewhere between then and now ....
Can It Get Any Worse for Rudy Giuliani?
The former mayor’s response to a hostile encounter with a grocery worker on Staten Island has left even his defenders baffled.Ginia Bellafante“When did Rudy Giuliani go off the rails?” is a question that many Americans and New Yorkers in particular have been asking for years now, arriving at no obvious consensus. Old-time observers of the local political scene like to revisit the time, two decades ago, when he famously berated an advocate of ferret ownership during a radio show, telling him that he needed “help” and that his “excessive concern with little weasels” was a “sickness.”
On the other hand — and maybe this is the point, there was an other hand — the guy had called into the show repeatedly, sometimes in the middle of the night, harassing people on staff, Mr. Giuliani argued. Maybe when you are dialing in at 3 a.m. to move the needle on ferret policy you really should be talking to someone.
Roughly a year later, in another turn unlikely to have won fans among practitioners of civility, Mr. Giuliani announced that he was leaving his wife, Donna Hanover, at a news conference in Bryant Park, having failed to tell her first. But really, what was to be done? Although he was running for the United States Senate, he was a man in love, someone who was putting politics “at least second,” he said to a stunned press corps, “maybe third, maybe fourth, somewhere else.” Soon he would drop out of a race that would ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/nyre ... liani.html
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