Rudy was just on CNN being interviewed by John King. King asks Rudy if he thinks Sarah Palin is bad for the GOP. Rudy says no, she's great for the GOP. King then asks Rudy about NY-23. Giuliani says that NY-23 is a district with a lot of problems with Obama's health care proposal, and says Even the democratic congressman just elected in NY-23 voted against the Health Care Reform Bill
Lie starts at 1:40
Except Owens was an enthusiastic yes vote on health care reform.
Boom goes the lie, Rudy. More Rudy Malfeasance after the flip.
Compare this post 9/11 politically GOP correct Rudy Statement:
Returning some of the Guantanamo detainees to New York City for trial, specifically Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, has now brought us full circle - we have regressed to a pre-9/11 mentality with respect to Islamic extremist terrorism. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed should be treated like the war criminal he is and tried in a military court. He is not just another murderer, or even a mass murderer. He murdered as part of a declared war against us – America.
To pre 9/11 Rudy on the 1994 Conviction:
demonstrates that New Yorkers won't meet violence with violence, but with a far greater weapon -- the law.
Instead of being blamed for negligence on 9/11, Bush and Rudy made a career exploiting the tragedy. They should both be laughed off any stage they seem to rush to when the topic of 9/11 comes up.
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UPDATE X2: We are the media reform we have been waiting for. That is why I wrote this diary. A complicit media may be the #1 obstacle to health care reform, and averting climate change. We have to call these people out! This story is all over twitter now, and on the rec list of a very popular site. CNN does notice this kind of thing. That is why Lou Dobbs is gone! It's time for the silent majority to stop being silent, and demand better from our government, and our media. Please use the link above and send a message to CNN demanding an on air correction and apology from John King for his failure to correct Rudy Giuliani. This was not some esoteric point of fact, but a major recent national story.
CNN went out of its way to tell everyone how close the vote was, John King knew the bill passed with a 2 vote margin, and was brought home from democratic congressional victories in California and NY-23. It was a big story that the first big vote Owens cast was for health care reform. Not calling Rudy out was completely unacceptable.
If John King wasn't complicit, he is just not intelligent enough to play a journalist on TV.
UPDATE: Media Matters reminds us that Rudy praised a civilian trial of a terrorist suspect as recently as 2006.
Fox News' Neil Cavuto allowed Rudy Giuliani to criticize the Obama administration's decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) in the U.S. criminal justice system in New York City as a "terrible, terrible mistake" because KSM "should be prosecuted in a military tribunal." Cavuto did not ask Giuliani to reconcile his statements with his 2006 reported praise of the federal trial of Zacarias Moussaoui -- who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- of which he said: "It does demonstrate that we can give people a fair trial, that we are exactly what we say we are. We are a nation of law."
Media Matters