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Rudy Giuliani's Glass House

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2016
Posted on Wed Aug 24, 2016 at 09:34:28 PM EST
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The Washington Post has a good editorial today on Rudy Giuliani's baseless attack on Hillary's health. Shorter version: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

It points to different parts of his speech at the RNC that could support a conclusion he is suffering from "nerve damage, stroke or Alzheimer’s disease" and heart disease, and that he's suffered a stroke.

The Post says his baseless attack on Hillary's health is a sign of his "impaired character", if not health. After criticizing his "scurrilous and debunked theories about the Democratic candidate", it says he should see a doctor.

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    Rudy Giuliani's Glass House | 27 comments (27 topical)

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    Colbert had the old video of Trump (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by ruffian on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 01:27:55 PM EST
    talking to Giuliani about perfume, with Giuliani in drag. OMG, horrifying to think of these buffoons anywhere near the WH, even on a tour.

    I don't even want to picture (none / 0) (#10)
    by jondee on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 06:59:23 PM EST
    that in my mind's eye. I bet Giuliani would make J Edgar Hoover look like Greta Garbo.

    I can just hear Trump: "are you hearing impaired, Rudy? I said get into that dress. Now!"

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    Really (none / 0) (#16)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 01:42:05 PM EST
    he never looked better

    and I'm afraid it was not a one off

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    "Cheat Sheet" (5.00 / 1) (#19)
    by RickyJim on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 08:13:01 PM EST
    Here is a recent scorecard of prominent Republicans and how they have indicated they will be voting in November.  The latest to get on the Clinton bandwagon seems to be Paul Wolfowitz.  

    Amazing (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 09:06:57 PM EST

    "The only way you can be comfortable about Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says,"


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    citing (none / 0) (#20)
    by linea on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 08:18:50 PM EST
    an official representative from the most war-mongering wing of the republican party doesnt actually help hillary clinton.

    just, you know... FYI.

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    Wolfowitz (none / 0) (#22)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 09:11:12 PM EST
    sure didn't seem to enthusiastic. It was more like Trump is making me vote for Hillary.

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    So long as Wolfie (none / 0) (#26)
    by KeysDan on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 01:08:15 PM EST
    doesn't lend Mrs. Clinton his comb, I'm OK with it.  Wolfie may have had a bolt of enlightenment producing a striking realization of what Trump is.

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    This is pretty amazing too (none / 0) (#23)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 09:15:23 PM EST

    THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/25/16
    Trump dance card empty among former White House economic advisers
    Rachel Maddow reports on the history of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and points out a report by the Wall Street Journal that asked everyone who has ever served on the council, 45 of them, going back to Nixon, and found none who support Donald Trump.

    Not a single living Econ advisor

    LINK

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    Link to WSJ Report (none / 0) (#24)
    by RickyJim on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 09:57:47 PM EST
    This should work for non subscribers and is given by the WSJ for sharing.

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    Add to that (none / 0) (#27)
    by Nemi on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 06:59:28 AM EST
    this interesting graphic from NYT, listing what utterance from Donald Trump it took for each of 110 specific Republican leaders to reach their breaking point.

    (Via Greg Dworkin on 'Kagro in the Morning', at Daily Kos Radio.)

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    One interesting bit (none / 0) (#1)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Aug 24, 2016 at 09:45:58 PM EST
    About this Rudy thing,

    Remember when he was going to run against her for the senate and had to drop out for health reasons.  

    As the say 'the goddess of irony laughed until she f@rted'

    I'm shocked (none / 0) (#2)
    by Ga6thDem on Wed Aug 24, 2016 at 09:54:07 PM EST
    the WaPo would even defend Hillary and put down Rudy. The truth is Rudy is grifting and will say whatever because he wants money. He's been to all the grifter's balls this year: Hannity, the GOP convention etc.  

    Hannity is as close to a Republican-droid (none / 0) (#3)
    by jondee on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 11:47:08 AM EST
    as there is. He's so mechanical, you can almost hear the whirr-buzz-click before he speaks..

    And what's with that slurry lisp of Guiliani's?  Could that be an indication of some undetected neurological trauma?

    You probably (none / 0) (#4)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 12:04:08 PM EST
    know about this more than I do but I understand Giuliani has worn out his welcome in  NY and is now grifting for money wherever he can.

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    The gifting part.. (5.00 / 2) (#5)
    by jondee on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 12:14:35 PM EST
    or the worn out his welcome part?

    Guiliani I hear is now in the wholesale jewelry business -- selling rat sphincters to the blind for wedding and engagement rings.

    9/11 victims and widows get a discount.

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    Actually (none / 0) (#6)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 12:44:56 PM EST
    both.

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    That's just me and my... (none / 0) (#8)
    by kdog on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 02:38:16 PM EST
    voodoo doll.  Took 20 years but it's finally working it's voodoo magic;)

    This s.o.b. has suffered from soul-anemia since he was a lowly persecutor. The loss of filter due to old age is just revealing his true self to a higher degree.  Imagine the sh*t he must say with half a bag on!

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    You have (none / 0) (#9)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 03:23:34 PM EST
    got to be loving the fact that an editorial is taking down one of your most detested people.

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    from my perspective... (none / 0) (#11)
    by linea on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 08:27:57 PM EST
    dr drew discussed this and i personally consider his analysis definitive. but really nobody cares. nobody cares about hilary's email, trumps taxes, or criticism of hilary's health.

    That actually (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Aug 25, 2016 at 09:07:40 PM EST
    Made beer come out my nose

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    And made Titos go down my throat (none / 0) (#13)
    by fishcamp on Fri Aug 26, 2016 at 06:43:49 AM EST


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    Performance art (none / 0) (#14)
    by MKS on Fri Aug 26, 2016 at 02:27:55 PM EST
    I had to read it three times...

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    Yeah, right, it's "definitive." (none / 0) (#15)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 03:19:16 AM EST
    linea: "from my perspective dr drew discussed this and i personally consider his analysis definitive."

    As was Sen./Dr. Bill Frist's video diagnosis of Terri Schiavo's mental capacities from the floor of the U.S. Senate back in 2005.

    And Sen./Dr. Frist might've been right, too, had he not been so very, very wrong. Because Ms. Schiavo's brain had shrunk to the size of a tennis ball, thus rendering her in an irreversible vegetative state as noted in her autopsy report.

    In the non-GOP parallel universe known as reality, there is a term commonly used by the laity to describe such politically motivated long-distance video diagnostic procedures as performed by Drs. Frist and Drew upon people who are not their patients.

    It's called "quackery."

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    what? what? (none / 0) (#17)
    by linea on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 06:57:09 PM EST
    i have no idea what you are talking about!! who is dr bill?

    why are you going out of your way to cherry-pick my post? i explicitally stated that nobody (as in voters) cares about clinton's emails or her personal health issues. everybody knows she's really old. nobody cares. hillary has the election locked. it isnt posdible for trump to flip the needed states and garner the needed electoral votes. i post this over and over again and you're still being mean to me. did you even watch his video? he's concerned about her level of care and the medication being prescribed. you think dr drew is a alt-right troll? are you serious?

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    I'm not going out of my way. (none / 0) (#25)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 12:11:38 AM EST
    You keep dropping the stupid right in front of me, and it's becoming rather hard to avoid. In what sane and rational world is Dr. Drew's medical opinion about Hillary Clinton considered definitive?

    As far as "Dr. Bill" was concerned, Bill Frist is a physician who in 2005 also happened to be Senate Majority Leader. Read the links provided and educate yourself about what he did regarding the Terri Schiavo tragedy.

    When Sen. Frist said on the Senate floor that he was "speaking more as a physician that as a senator" in claiming that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that Ms. Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state, he embarrassed himself that day both as a politician and as a medical doctor.

    Suffice to say that no physician is in any position to offer a "definitive" professional medical opinion about someone who's NOT his or her patient, particularly on the sole basis of a video observation. Frankly, that's just malpractice. And when it's done in the service of a particular political agenda, that's simply unconscionable.

    Aloha.

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    and also (none / 0) (#18)
    by linea on Sat Aug 27, 2016 at 07:51:34 PM EST
    i spelt "definitive" correctly. it's with an 'e' - i dont understand what your scare-quotes are meant to imply but i looked-up the word before using it (when i made the initial post) and i also double-checked it again now. i am a very good writer.

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