9/11 workers outraged by new Rudy claim

[babylonsister]

9/11 workers outraged by new Rudy claim

BY CELESTE KATZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Friday, August 10th 2007, 4:00 AM


Rudy Giuliani drew outrage and indignation from Sept. 11 first-responders yesterday by saying he spent as much time - or more - exposed to the site's dangers as workers who dug through the debris for the missing and the dead.

Speaking to reporters at a Cincinnati Reds ballgame he caught between fund-raisers, the GOP front-runner said he helped 9/11 families and defended himself against critics of how he managed the attack's aftermath.

"This is not a mayor or a governor or a President who's sitting in an ivory tower," Giuliani said. "I was at Ground Zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers. I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them."

His statement rang false to Queens paramedic Marvin Bethea, who said he suffered a stroke, posttraumatic stress disorder and breathing problems after responding to the attacks.

"I personally find that very, very insulting," he said.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/08/10/2007-08-10_911_workers_outraged_by_new_rudy_claim.html

[beachmom]

1. This is just the beginning of the attacks on Rudy. I've heard from

many New Yorkers that he was thoroughly despised prior to 9/11, and then when he tried to thwart democracy (by insisting on staying longer, when it was Bloomberg's time to relieve him), people re-remembered why they hated him. The truth needs to come out about Rudy Guiliani.

[Alexander]

2. The only reason Rudy has a chance - "I was there" on 9/11.

Chelsea Clinton was there, too, Rudy.

Does that, by itself, make her qualified to be president?

[Disturbed]

3. Rudy G. is a charlatan.

RWingers just love his authoritarian bullshit. New Yorkers know what an Asshole he is.

[EFerrari]

4. Let's bookmark this Rudy info because he likely will be their candidate. nt

[babylonsister]

5. Hopefully someone will have the brains to air all his dirty laundry.

But then again...

[Disturbed]

6. Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11

Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11
On the stump, Rudy can't help spreading smoke and ashes about his lousy record
by Wayne Barrett

Nearly six years after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is still walking through the canyons of lower Manhattan, covered in soot, pointing north, and leading the nation out of danger's way. The Republican frontrunner is campaigning for president by evoking that visual at every campaign stop, and he apparently believes it's a picture worth thousands of nights in the White House.

Giuliani has been leading the Republican pack for seven months, and predictions that the party's evangelicals would turn on him have so far proven hollow. The religious right appears as gripped by the Giuliani story as the rest of the country.

Giuliani isn't shy about reminding audiences of those heady days. In fact he hyperventilates about them on the stump, making his credentials in the so-called war on terror the centerpiece of his campaign. His claims, meanwhile, have been met with a media deference so total that he's taken to complimenting "the good job it is doing covering the campaign." Opponents, too, haven't dared to question his terror credentials, as if doing so would be an unpatriotic bow to Osama bin Laden.

Here, then, is a less deferential look at the illusory cloud emanating from the former mayor's campaign . . .

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0732,barrett,77463,6.h...