Holy cow...scary Guliani quote...

[benEzra]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E2D9173CF933A15750C0A962958260

"We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."

(Interruption by someone in the audience.)

"You have free speech so I can be heard."

That explains a lot...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Rudy_Giuliani

[no_hypocrisy]

1. "Freedom is about authority." That is so Orwell.

[YOY]

13. It's also a crock of shit

and shame on anyone who thinks it is because they've fallen off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.

[roguevalley]

16. he's reading from Mein Kampf. What a totalitarian buzz kill.

[Kagemusha]

2. Yeah, I have no doubt that accurately sums up his view of life

It is not my view.

[Vickers]

3. Wow, has that douchebag ever taken a civics class?

I swear, I'm pretty sure most repukes have never even SEEN a copy of the Constitution, much less READ it.

[Roland99]

4. No, that's freeDumb.

Silly Rudy.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. yes the dumbing down of the free

[racaulk]

5. I thought this was 2007, not 1984.

"War Is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."

For Rudy to say that freedom is authority is very Orwellian.

:scared:

[Buzz Clik]

9. Another goody:

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

And that pretty much summarizes what Rudy was attempting to do.

[Buzz Clik]

7. LOL! Holy shit! Another lunatic. "Virginity is about submitting....

"Virginity is about submitting your body. Virginity is about the willingness of every single human being willing to cede to an authority figure a great deal of discretion about what you do."

Rudy has lost his goddam mind.

Seriously, people. Is this the best the GOP can muster? McCain has driven over a cliff. Rudy has a death wish. Romney is trying to redefine himself while pretending we won't notice. We've got an ancient actor. I'm beginning to believe that we could run just about anybody and beat these idiots.

[B3Nut]

8. What a horrid, overbearing twit!

Was he perchance wearing a brown shirt when he vomited forth those foul utterances? Fie upon him, dammit!

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[DeSwiss]

10. I just love reading the old quotes from Mussolini.....

....what!

:sarcasm:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. He is taken the principle that my freedom goes as far

as it infringes on yours and twisted it... but hey, HE IS A REPUBLICAN, what did you people expect

[AtomicKitten]

12. Giuliani sounds like Cartman.

[Kool Kitty]

14. Yes, but without Cartman's charm.

Funny that this made me think of "South Park", too. I was thinking that when there is another "Biggest Douchebag in the Universe" contest, Rudy will be up there accepting the prize. The "American Prospect" magazine (May, 2007, issue, www.prospect.org) has an excellent article entitled, "If You Knew Rudy Like I Know Rudy..." written by Michael Tomasky. He is vile.


If you are really interested in what Rudy has said and done, get a copy of the little red book, "The Sayings of Generalissimo Giuliani", edited by Kevin McAuliffe, published by Welcome Rain Publishers in 2000. Pre-9/11, but full of great info. Hopefully the press *ahem* will pick up on some of the things in the book and start to really question this guy.

[GeorgeGist]

15. Freedom from authority ...

must be Hell for Rudy.

[The Gunslinger]

17. Ok let me see if I got this right....

Freedom is all about being loyal to authority and not having freedom???

This guy now officially scares me.