It's like they're not even trying

[tahnan]

Rudy Giuliani: "We had no domestic attacks under Bush; we've had one under Obama."

When Rudy Giuliani forgets about 9/11, the world is in a very, very strange place. It's like an ordinary person forgetting the word "the".

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[cnoocy]

And wait, what about the shoe bomber? And, and... aagh!

[lsl.livejournal.com]

Avon here. Not to mention the mysterious postal anthrax situation.

[ericberlin.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, while this was one of the dumbest things I have ever heard anybody say, I THINK he meant to imply, "...in the post 9-11 world." But even THAT, as cnoocy notes, fails to take into account Richard Reid. If Giuliani wants to dismiss that because it didn't work, then you pretty much have to dismiss this new one, too, don't you? In short, lots and lots of duh.

It's too bad these news interviewers are so rarely fast enough on their feet to challenge these incredible statements at the moment they are made.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure he meant "in the post 9/11 world". But that's still not really a fair starting point; it's not as if 9/11 happened mere days after Bush took office, or that there were no warnings, or the like.

This has become a standard Republican talking point, either implicitly saying "since 9/11" (like Giuliani, or Dana Perino a few months ago saying "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term"), or explicitly saying "since 9/11". That makes it sound like 9/11 doesn't really count somehow. Yes, it changed the world and the way America sees things, but I don't think that means that we can pretend it didn't happen during the Bush administration, not once we start keeping score as Giuliani seems to be doing.

[zougwa.livejournal.com]

Fox News will find some way to defend this.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

I keep checking; there's nothing on FoxNews.com about Giuliani more recent than the December story that he's not running for the Senate. I'm looking forward to seeing them try, though.

[arfur]

I'd seen this story, but...

It's like an ordinary person forgetting the word "the".

...I hadn't considered it as a tragic form of aphasia. Huh!

But.. 9/11 changed everything!

[aumshantih.livejournal.com]

Including linear time, causality, and definition of truth.