Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Baby Have You Seen Her




















BY NOW you've probably already heard about Rudy Ghouliani's 17-year-old daughter Caroline's Facebook page, on which she seemingly supports Barack Obama for Prez over her very own pops. In that she should be congratulated for having good taste.

But more to the point, if Republicans can continue to make an issue of Chelsea Clinton, which they obviously still do, then should the media/blogosphere be admonished from having a proverbial go at Caroline G; after all, if all is fair in love and war, is this not wartime? More importantly: Is our children learning? Didn't think so. But make no mistake about it: even if I didn't stumble on the above photo of Senator Lindsey Graham holding that stunningly simplistic, childish sign [OSAMA OBAMA AND CHELSEA'S MOM SAY CUT y RUN!!!], we would still be making ample room for all and sundry anti-Rudy news & views, including reprinting the following pictures of his surprisingly winsome daughter. 'Swat we do here on WardensWorld, inasmuch as we can be said to do much of anything here.

We will admit to a certain amusement bordering on jubilation when we found out earlier this year that Rudy's golf-obsessed 21-year-old son Andy -- that chubby kid we used to see in the '90s with the always-becapped Hizzoner in the stands at Yankee Stadium -- wants nothing to do with his old man now, understandable given the undeniably shabby circumstances surrounding Rudy's divorce from Donna Hanover.
It was with another large dose of mirth closing fast on elation that we more recently received apparently reliable reports that pompous Rudy attended his only daughter's high school graduation ceremony only to abruptly leave before so much as speaking with her, apparently more than just symbolic of their less than rosy relationship. In Rudy's defense, I'm sure he had a paying speaking gig somewhere to jet off to, a speech undoubtedly extolling his puffed-up role in 9/11; I mean, if he didn't have time to join the Iraq Study Group, you think he's gonna hang around a mere school to mingle with a bunch of proud parents? That's such pre-9/11 thinking.

Vanity Fair just unleashed a blistering take on the current Mrs. G -- entitled
Giuliani's Princess Bride -- in which nobody is willing to go on record saying anything remotely positive about her. On the contrary, apparently people were tripping over themselves in the rush to publicly castigate her toxic personality. Before you bemoan the piece as a partisan hatchet job, remember how the press (mis)treated John Kerry's admittedly scary wife. Just saying.

But it's not just Rudy's closest relatives who are looking more and more like chinks in his flimsy, contrived armor; over the weekend, a former close aide (Jerome Hauer) told the U.K. Telegraph that Ghouliani would make a "terrible president," all but calling him the worst human being ever: "He's a control freak who micro-manages decisions, he has a confrontational character trait and picks fights just to score points. He is the last thing this country needs as president right now." Ah, a guy after my own heart. But then that's not new news to anyone who lived under Ghouliani's ham-handed reign of blustery hubris.

It's also worth repeating, if for no other reason that someone somewhere somehow may not have heard what by now is old but still relevantly embarrassing news, that at least two prominent members of Rudy's campaign inner circle have come back to cast some righteous aspersion on his basic people and organizational skills. Not that the buck ever stops with Rudy (see Kerik, Bernie; also "mobbed-up sleazeball").

In June, according to CNN.com,
"Giuliani’s South Carolina chairman resigned after he was indicted on drug charges. Giuliani insists he should not be judged based on the behavior of certain individuals associated with his campaign or mayoral administration."

The drug was evidently crack cocaine, which is not only alarmingly déclassé in the year 2007, but it's what you'd have to be smoking to still believe in Rudy's chance of being elected.

Back on July 5, when Ghouliani was campaigning in South Carolina, the disgraced Thomas Ravenel's now-thoroughly-blackened name repeatedly surfaced on the lips of inquiring reporters, and Rudy was forced to make a statement seeking to quell the damage, presciently intoning via the side of his crooked lying mouth: “I think everyone knows that in families — no matter how big they are — tragedies happen,” the GOP presidential hopeful added. “Bad things happen.”

Indeed they do, Mr. Mayor, and indeed they would. Less than a week later, the fecal matter continued to hit the high velocity air circulator in the form of the David Vitter hooker scandal, wherein Rudy's Southern regional campaign chair was quite lit'rally caught with his pants down. According to my sources at Wikipedia:

On July 10, Jeanette Maier, the "Canal Street Madam", alleged that Vitter was a customer on more than one occasion in the 1990s, when Maier was identified by federal prosecutors as operating a $300 per hour brothel.[27] The Times-Picayune reported that "Maier offered no evidence or documents to support her claim."[28] Maier said that Vitter "was not a freak. He was not into anything unusual or kinky or weird," and that he favored one prostitute in particular, Wendy Cortez,[29][30][31][32], the name of the prostitute that Vitter had been accused, during his 2004 campaign, of having had a lengthy affair with. Vitter denied that allegation during the campaign.[33] On July 12, Cortez told The Times-Picayune that Vitter was "a regular customer" during his time in the state legislature, but that they "did not have a romantic relationship." [34]

Vitter is unlikely to face criminal charges due to statutes of limitations.[35] Vitter apologized to GOP senate colleagues but avoided the press who repeatedly attempted to talk to him. [36]

In May 1999, Vitter replaced Congressman Bob Livingston after Livingston resigned due to an adultery scandal.[1][37][16] Vitter said about Livingston's decision to resign, "It's obviously a tremendous loss for the state .... I think Livingston's stepping down makes a very powerful argument that Clinton should resign as well and move beyond this mess," referring to the Monica Lewinsky scandal of President Bill Clinton.[38] In 2000, his wife, Wendy Vitter, commenting on the same scandal, said, "I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary. If he [Vitter] does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me," referring to the incident of Lorena Bobbitt severing the penis of her husband and to Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton.[37]

So in the future, whenever you see the word Republican next to an elected official's name, remember that it's shorthand for Greedy Shameless Lying Hypocrite, as evidenced by the following:

"While the Lousiana state Republican Party offered guarded support,[39] national Republicans offered forgiveness.[40] The liberal magazine The Nation predicted that the Republican Party would be in a "forgiving mood," pointing out that if Vitter did step down, Democratic Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco would likely appoint a Democrat to take Vitter's place until a special election took place, thus increasing Democratic control over the Senate.[41] Marianne Means, a syndicated columnist for Hearst Newspapers, reported that Republican senators gave Vitter a "loud standing ovation," which she characterized as hypocritical by contrasting this with the Republican attitude toward President Clinton's marital infidelity."
Ah, the hallowed halls of the U.S. Senate!
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The terrific political blog Wonkette had an update today on the Caroline Giuliani Facebook story, if by update you mean excuse to print a bunch of photos of Rudy's daughter in various stages of apparent intoxication. This recent sordid downturn for the worse aside, Wonkette has had a notable resurrection lately, really coinciding with founder
Ana Marie Cox moving on last year. Coincidence or not, lately their biting satirical tone and brand of black humor is a perfect comic disinfectant for the almost daily dose of noxious effluvia emanating from the White House. Plus, the site's commenters might be the Internet's most reliably hilarious.

Now, as to how Wonkette got hold of the pictures and under what circumstances, that's a big yawn to me at this point, but you can hit
Slate.com if the details are important to you. Someone got hold of a few Facebook fotos, which, as one spot-on Wonkette commenter put it, encapsulate what passes for cool among young wannabes:

"What's with all the pictures of teens and 20-somethings smiling for the camera holding up a nearly full glass/bottle/can of whatever? "See! Look! We are having FUN! We can prove it by grinning like an idiot and holding up liquor! Ha! Take that old people! We are daring and care-fucking-free!" Yawn."

That's what's known as nailing it, commenter JAMIESOMMERS, whoever you are.

Anyway, we reprint some of the better Caroline shots, along with some witty remarks from the learned smart-asses of the Wonkette peanut gallery. The only background you need to know is that according to the person who "supplied" Wonkette the pix:

"My sister went to elementary school with Caroline Rose G before she switched to Trinity School and apparently Caroline friended her even though my sister and her group of friends think that Caroline is catty and only friends with gay boys (like father, like daughter?). So my sister had no qualms about letting me send you these facebook pictures of her former schoolmate, including some she had de-tagged, but were found on mutual friends’ accounts. Enjoy."
We will enjoy. In fact, we already have...














Wonkette reader comments:

"Christ I'd hit it!"

"Of course she's single! This girl is a bigger fag hag than her daddy! Look at those boys she's with!"

"I hate to say it, but she looks a little like a non-sociopathic version of Ann Coulter."

"Who, or what, is seated beside her in picture number one? It looks like the daughter of Miss Jane Hathaway, a woman voted Least Likely To Conceive by the Class of '38."

"Rudy will make lemonade of this. Here's his next debate one-liner:
"Yes, my daughter supports Obama. Now can you right-to-lifers running against me finally understand why I support abortion?"

"She looks exactly like her mother, actually. a touch of rudy around the mouth. no doubt as to paternity, but obviously got the better of the gene pool. looks like a normal wholesome gay loving college girl. if rudy was MY daddy, you can bet my daddy issues would go a lot deeper than fag hagging and supporting black Democrats for president."

"So let me get this straight. Rudy has been married three times so far. He has a track record of being vindictive, petty, angry, of taking things personally and having a thin skin. He is a cronyist of the first order. His grown-up kids are estranged from him. And the topper is that they don't even support him to become President, and presumably they know him better than anyone else. I used to think this was the sort of irrelevant fluff that one comes to expect of the MSM, but now I'm leaning in the other direction. The man doesn't seem to have anyone who likes him. Hell, even a loser like Mike Dukakis could secure 80% of his own family's vote."

"Help me out, team. In the (first) photo, is that a young adult born as a female who is compressing her boobs and hasn't discovered the miracles of waxing/bleaching the 'stache, or is that a young adult, born as a male, who is taking female hormones? Not that I want to get all fixated on the gender spectrum here, or that I'm judging or saying you gotta be at one end or the other of the gender spectrum, but I think young Caroline might be more than just a fag hag....just imagine how Rudy will do in that South Carolina primary if it turns out she's hanging with Upper West Side teen trannies."





















10 comments:

Magnus Maximus said...

Lindsey Graham is a puke stain. Every time I hear his lazy southern drawl I get mental images of lynchings and Kennedy's head being blown off.

As far as Ghouliani, his one note campaign ought to fizzle shortly after the start of the primary season. Americans are starting to catch onto the 9/11 fearmongering technique.

Denier said...

Thanks for checking in, Max. I agree: there's something frighteningly Manchurian about Graham also. I'm sure Rove/Cheney have somehow blackmailed him like they did McCain into complete mindless subservience to the Mission. I hope you're right about Americans catching on. I'll believe it when I see it. But Rudy has yet to have a true meltdown moment that will show the rest of the heartland what we NY-ers know: underneath the civilized demeanor, the guy's a total nutjob. Who else would go near his basket case wife but someone with deeply rooted identity issues.

Magnus Maximus said...

I hope I'm right too. I'm trying to be optimistic, which probably makes me a sucker.

It's amazing the way Rudolph lucked into his image as 9/11 hero. Apparently all you have to do to become a Legend is have your PR guy rub some soot on your face and hand you a bullhorn.

Anyways, even though it's early I'm nervous about 2008. Dems seem confident in victory, which puts me even more on edge...

Denier said...

I agree. I think I'm gonna throw my endorsement to John Edwards. And not be default. I think the last thing the country/Democratic party needs is a polarizing figure like Clinton; plus I'm disgusted by Americans being ruled for over 200 years by Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton.

Edwards is the only one talking about the incredible economic hijacking of the country by the Bush/Cheney crime family. 5 more million in poverty; millions losing health insurance, pensions; foreclosures up; real income and wages way down. And of course the tax cuts, CEO's making more than the rest of the work force put together. Unions have shrunk since Reagan; from 25 percent to 7 percent of the work force.

And Bill Clinton is no hero in this: NAFTA, Telecom Act of 96, his own PAtriot act after Oklahoma City bombing. Hillary is corrupt, I'm convinced of it now. I think there was something foul about Vince Foster and a lot of other shady suspicious stuff regarding the Clintons. I love Edwards keeping the heat on by mentioning lobbying, NAFTA, etc.

Obama is too young, too inexperienced, too glib for me, but as a VP candidate with Edwards, then you may have something.

Ghouliani is looking like the favorite for now, so assume Rudy heading the ticket in '08, but who's his vice pres. We can be sure it will be white & male, and that it won't be Ron Paul!

BTW anybody would have come out smelling like a rose as mayor of NYC following 9/11. What -- Bloomberg would have shrunk from the spotlight. Rudy is a pack of lies masquerading as a candidate. If the Dems can't hand him his ass, they deserve to lose, assuming the election is on the up and up -- a mammoth assumption of course. The current Village Voice rips him a new one this week, exposing his campaign stump speech for the work of fiction it is. Problem is the red staters don't read the Voice, they read Readers Digest, and they ain't running no exposes of America's Mayor anytime soon.

jimithegreek said...

HEY, GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN!
GOOD ONE!

Magnus Maximus said...

I started out disliking Clinton, but after seeing her strong performance at the Howard University debate, her siren call had me numb in the face and glassy-eyed. She's a good candidate (which of course is entirely different from being a good senator/president.) In short, I was almost tricked by her concise answers and clever talking points! Fortunately my priest was there and exorcised her foul shadow before my couch started levitating. I'm not a fan; I think she's a Grade "A" Phony.
That being said, they all are, to some extent. But of course that's politics. The real question is which one would steer us down the least ruinous path for the next four years. I like Kucinich, but well haha. Realistically, Edwards or Obama. I'm probably leaning Edwards right now. You're right about his populism, he's alone in that (amongst the serious contenders, anyhow.)
As far as Big Dog, I agree. In the 90's he spread our legs real wide for the deregulation crowd, not to mention his slashing of social spending. The fact that he's branded a "liberal" is completely risible and illustrates how far to the right the so-called center has been moved in the last thirty years or so.
And Jesus, I can't believe that BushCheneyRove and Co. are gonna get away with the incredible amount of evil shit they've pulled. If we had the same press we did during the watergate era, they would have been chased out of Washington by now. Instead we have the "liberal" New York Times' Michael Gordon and Judy Miller schilling for them, while the reporters doing real and honest investigative work are branded as nuts and ignored. Even the once great Woodward has become a Tool. Sweet Jesus what's happening in this goddam country....

Serge A. Storms said...

I remember when Chris Farley used to play Rudy's son on SNL. Rudy used to make me laugh, in a good way. He was self effacing, had a good sense of humor, and had he run in 2004 may have stood a chance. Now he's really kind of sad. It's like he forgot that it wasn't just 9/11 that made him one of the more popular mayors in New York's history, but he's clinging to it like it's Linus's security blanket.

I'm also not surprised that his own kids wouldn't vote for him. If my dad were running, I wouldn't vote for that prick either. At least he can always look back and say "at least they're not the Bush girls..."

I think Mit "Jesus was an American" Romney already took a pot shot at Giuliani about the ordeal, proudly stating that his kids were helping with the campaign and all that.

I also eagerly await the day McCain finally snaps on stage and takes down the other candidates in a hail of obscenities and gun fire.

On the other side of the fence, I don't know if you caught Hillary's outburst about her support of lobbyists, but it wasn't very well received.

In closing, Bill O'Riley is a colossal douche bag.

Denier said...

Yeah, I caught Romney saying his sons were not in the military but they were traveling around the country helping Romney get elected. You see, wars are for other people; that's always been the Republican mantra. If this fight against terrorism really were a war for civilization, then why aren't their sons and daughters manning the ramparts.

Serge, I'll say this much: If Giuliani somehow becomes president then I swear to god I am moving to Belgium or Denmark, or maybe Canada. Whoever has better food. At that point the country would be lost. Ghouliani is easily the most paranoid public figure since Richard Nixon. The McCain of a few years ago would have wiped the floor with Rudy, but that maverick straight shooter has been replaced with the scary replica McCain that we've seen recently. The only Republican with the balls to stand up to BushCo is Chuck Hagel. But unfortunately he decided not to run. Somebody save this country from itself!!

Serge A. Storms said...

Go for Belgium. They're geographically placed for culinary excellence.

I don't know who I'd vote for, but if the pickings are as slim as they were the last election, HELLO NADER!

Denier said...

Still hoping John Edwards can gain momentum. Or maybe Al Gore or John Kerry decide to get back in. Now Al Gore Jr., that's a man I could party with. The guy's car was like an apothecary on wheels: vicodin, pot, xanax, valium...

I too voted Ralph Nader in 2000. In New York it didn't matter, but let's face it: it did cost Gore the election in Florida. But Nader's argument that the Dems and Repubs are merely two wings of the same bird I think is disingenuous. Only a Republican turd like Bush would have blown all the goodwill we had back after 9/11. But of course I'm fully convinced We knew the attack was coming and did nothing to stop it. In fact we covered up warnings from all the major intelligence agencies and obstructed investigations left and right (see Minnesota, San Diego FBI field warnings).

Max and Serge, if you read one book about 9/11, make it the War on Truth by Nafeez Ahmed. He documents all the different ways the Bush administration let the attacks happen, from how they reorganized the NSA and intelligence agencies to the failure of NORAD, etc. It is startling and will give you goose bumps at what it implied. Then hopefully it will piss enough people off to reopen the investigation. But alas I doubt it. The 9/11 Commission was an even bigger whitewash than the Warren Commission, and that's saying something!