With each passing day — and each bellicose, over-the-top, spittle-enhanced pronouncement — Rudy Giuliani is revealing that he has the soul of a thug and the disposition of a tyrant. It’s clear from his hyperbolic rhetoric that he has fully bought into his own phony myth — painting himself as a two-fisted tough guy, the mayor with the “S” on his chest and the dust from the fallen twin towers on his shoulders. The surprising thing isn’t that Giuliani is channeling Rush Limbaugh, tossing red meat to the lunatic fringe that has taken over the GOP. It’s that the media are letting him get away with it.
November 4, 2007 5:30 AM