Political Football

The left and the right doesn’t want Rudy running because they know he can win.

I still puzzle @ why the right fears him so. The race is exceedingly volatile right now and will continue to be through Super Tuesday (FEB 5). It’s my understanding that Fred is really short on cash, so he’s on a bus in Iowa up to the caucus. Huckabee had an audience of 50 when in town today.

It’s the holidays.  I still wonder how many people will show up on January 3rd.

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/tabhartas.cgi/16394

Chris Matthews, no friend of Republicans, was horrified on his 12/21 broadcast because he ran with the story last week about the big flap about Rudy’s payroll paying for his “mistress trysts” – which is now being retracted – by everyone. He posted this banner on his show on 12/21 (below). Chris Matthews is actually extremely embarrassed – you can watch it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_LWWu5S9uI
if you want to use the bandwidth….

Chris was musing out loud if the NYT will “give back” the 10 points he lost over this last week… I wonder where it may be covered elsewhere – it’s not showing up on FOX News – which seems to be all about Fred or Huckabee – except for George Will…. And they talk about Blogs needing to be regulated……  bleh…..  The Main Stream Media, becoming more irrelevant every day.
 

December 21, 2007

The Buried, Unquotable Exoneration

The New York Times exonerates Rudy Giuliani from charges that he moved travel expenses around through subsidiary agencies in order to hide his affair with his now-wife, Judith. People looking for that exoneration on their feedreaders will find themselves frustrated. Not only did the Times bury the story on one of its blogs, it put it in a graphic format that doesn’t allow for copy-and-paste. In fact, it isn’t even shown as an entry on the blog itself:

All eight of Mr. Giuliani’s trips to the Hamptons in 1999 and 2000, including the period when his relationship was a secret, were charged to his own mayoral expense account, according to the records.

In fact, the amount of money transferred through those agencies represent an insignificant percentage of the total cost of those travel expenses. Furthermore, the Times found that Giuliani had started spreading the costs of travel through subsidiary agencies two years before his affair with Judith, which makes it rather obvious that the motive was not to hide his infidelity. Russ Buettner ends by concluding that Giuliani’s accounting had nothing to do with his relationship to Judith.

One might believe that these conclusions might make a few headlines, given all of the attention paid to these allegations. Anderson Cooper asked Giuliani about this pseudoscandal during the nationally-televised CNN/YouTube debate, after all, and Giuliani’s record as mayor might be of particular interest to a New York City newspaper. Instead, the Times seemed to go out of its way to hide this report and its exoneration of Giuliani on accusations of manipulating public records for his own personal motivations.

Of course, even a front-page report on this wouldn’t unring the bell; the damage has been done, and it has been considerable. It looks like the Times wanted to make sure none of it got undone. (via Power Line)

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