Rudy Giuliani Wrong in Saying ‘No Domestic Attacks Under Bush’

The good man should watch a rerun of Olbermann from last night and see all the attacks that *didn’t* happen on GW watch.

Shame on George for not calling Giuliani out on his ridiculous lapse in memory. One of the contributing reasons why our politicians act so partisan is because the media lets them get away with this kind of behavior.

Did you even bother to challenge Giuliani on this ridiculous statement? What do you consider 9/11 if not a domestic attack? Surely Rudy remembers it! The biggest loss we have suffered under the Bush regime is the loss of journalists willing to challenge these ridiculous revisionist history statements and instead treating them as if they are facts. Journalists, we need you to do your jobs!

1-Delegate Rudy seems to have forgotten 9/11 and Richard Reid. Both were ON BUSH’S WATCH. And shame on Stephanopolous for not calling him out on that blatant lie.

This morning, on Morning Joe, Rudy claimed no one could have anticipated 9/11. Really? What about the reports the Bush administration ignored,”Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US”. This report was released by the Bush administration on April 10, 2004. It clearly concludes we should have been in a heightened state regarding Bin Laden’s intentions prior to 9/11. Instead, Cheney, et al were focusing on Iraq.

I guess the anthrax scare doesn’t count either … It must be easy to say “no domestic attacks under Bush” if you don’t classify anything as an attack.

Why do you give people like the former mayor of New York a platform to spew hi nonsense? Here is a guy who wrapped himself in the aftermath of 9/11 for his own personal gain, and this is the same guy who put the Control Center in the Twin Towers when he was warned not to, and didn’t make sure that the police and fire departments had working radios. He marched around NYC during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, again against anyone’s better judgment, and all for his own political gain, and lucky for us most Americas saw through this.
We had the biggest domestic attack under Bush with 9/11, and did the former mayor also forget about the 2001 shoe bomb plot in December of 2001?
We are lucky to not have had another domestic attack like the one we had on 9/11, but I would bet that any terror expert would say no matter what we do, it’s only a matter of time before we have another domestic terror attack in the United States, and blaming people is a useless way to stop it from happening.
Read Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 and get the truth about the man. It’s a disgrace what he did after the 9/11 attacks. The real heroes of that day were all the people that died trying to save lives.

Ah, Move along children! Nothing more to see here other than a “Noun, verb, and 911″. Just some overrated has been yapping.

Typical political posturing from another has-been. I´m willing to bet there were a number of attempts during the Bush administration but they were stopped during the planning stages with the exception of 9/11. The problem is that the complicated system put into place during the Bush years no longer functions effectively and Al Qaida has continued to expand.
What Guantanamo has to do with this is minor.

Under Bush:
1. 911, Over 3,000 Americans Killed
2. 3 Weeks Later Anthrax Attacks on the U.S.Post Office & U.S. Congress
3. 3 Months Later, Richard “The Shoe Bomber” Reid
4. 4 Months before Bush’s Exit from Office, a U.S. Soldier in Iraq Killed, His Fellow Soldiers During a Military Psyche Evaluation, Very similar to Fort Hood Texas.
Rudy Giuliani is a Paid To Play Tool or Worse, he has Convenient Amnesia or Early Signs Of AlzHeimers Or Dementia.

Vote out all incumbents in the upcoming midterm elections. The people need to unite. The Capital class in our society has purchased both our political class and our media class. They use these assets to control us. We need to unite and not fight among ourselves. Stop focusing on what difference we have and focus on what we have in common. We need term limits to prevent the career politician from ever existing again. To easy to purchase a career politician. We need campaign finance reform to prevent the special interests of muli-national corporations from influencing our elections and we need to audit the fed.
we need to cut the purse strings of influence of the Capital Class over our society. They have us focused on BS to keep the light from shinning on them Geithner needs to be indited for securities fraud. Vote out all incumbents in the midterm elections … we need to send a message to the guy who are not up for re-election .. the gravy train is over. you do the people work or we bring you home. no more working for the K Street Lobbyist. Geithner’s indictment would get a lot of attention in Washington. Accountability now. This BS that we only look forward and not backwards as the future is too important and we face a crisis is slight of hand. We need a MEMORY. We need to prosecute all criminals. WE NEED TRANSPARENCY. YOU ARE EITHER WITH THE PEOPLE OR AGAINST US !

Maybe Guiliani is just preparing the ground planning to plead insanity when he and his mob are eventually tried for war crimes. Watch the others follow suite.

Why is the the blatant inaccuracy not pointed out in the article? Isn’t journalism ABC’s job?

If Georghe pushed back, these fools wouldn’t show up. If they wouldn’t show up, George wouldn’t have a show.
Just stop watching the programs and they wouldn’t have a show anyway.

Revisionist history at its best! If you kiss the Republican Party’s *ss a little bit more (higher, to the center), maybe they’ll like you, Rudy. Really, really like you.
Here in DC we had John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway Sniper. That’s not a domestic terror attack? The guy killed 10 people and critically injured 3 in 2002.
What our leaders need to tell us and what we need to understand is that individual terrorists are already among us. We cannot stop a single, vicious person from attacking – it’s too “random.” That’s not something a central intelligence agency like the CIA, the FBI, the DIA, etc. can stop. Most people in this country are under the impression that we can return to pre-9/11 thinking: That we *can* be safe, we can stop terrorism and terrorists. WE CANNOT. We need to change our mentality as a society and accept on a conscious level that these things are going to happen because they are inevitable. We cannot search everyone on a daily basis for explosives strapped to their chests, guns hidden in their pockets or various and sundry poisons, toxins or what have you. And we shouldn’t. We are just not as safe as we always assumed we were; that’s reality. Welcome to it!

Rudy was an idiot to beging with. Now he’s a senile idiot.

Nice job George!

I guess he doesn’t consider 9/11 a domestic attack… or he knows it wasn’t one.

News? Journalism? Challenging questions? Guess you’ve got to go to comedy central to get it. Ah well…

Look at all the Liberals…..
I think he means AFTER 9/11. HOW IS EXTENDING THE OLIVE BRANCH out to terrorist country’s working out for you?
On the day of the tragic Ft Hood shootings, he wants to give a SHOUT OUT to Congressional Medal of Honor recipients? Tacky.
How about having the debates for healthcare reform on CSPAN?
Gotta love Richard Gibbs, Van Jones, Tim (tax cheat) Geitner….great picks.

Why are you still interviewing the losers?

9/11? shoe bomber? DC sniper? anthrax? nope – no domestic attacks under bush!

“We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama,” Giuliani said.” No need to repeat the facts presented in previous letters but to say this is classic Republican BS. Right up there with they’re claim that Climate Change can’t be happening because it’s winter and cold outside. “How could that be?”. These people actually believe the Fox crap don’t they?

how can george stephanopolous call himself a journalist and let such a glaring, bald-faced lie slide right by like that? it’s absurd!

No domestic attacks under Bush huh? Guess the former mayor forgot about 9/11, the shoe-bomber, the Anthrax attacks, and the DC sniper case. Those were all classified as domestic terror attacks and each and every one of them happened during the Bush presidency. Seems like the former mayor has some memory loss issues.

Stephanopoulos,what about the shoe bomber attack and the anthrox attacks? What about 9/11? You should be ashame of yourself. The Republicans have not forgotten and it is no mistake, it is intentional in order to distort the truth. They all have been given the same talking points and hope that if they say it enough and is not challenged by the media, that it will stick.

Yeah….why have we been taking off our shoes to get on an airplane the last 8 years?

George, I once respected you, after this interview NO MORE. How as a journalist could you be so irresponsible for not challenging Giuliani’s falsehoods? Your career will forever be nothing more than entertainment NOT journalism that is something YOU should be very sad about.

“We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama,”
You look like a partisan hack for letting Giuliani spout such an obvious, documented lie without challenge. Pathetic.

I nearly fell of the Chair , when Rudy said there was “No Attacks Under Bush, One Under Obama!!Rudy must be kidding, he did not take the interview serious.So he decided to say something.

Mr Guiliani what do you consider 9/11? that was the biggest attack on U.S. soil. Are you kidding???? Thousands of lives were lost and guess what? No one took responsibility, no one apologized and no steps were taken to prevent anymore from happening. Bush ignored the 9/11 committee’s suggestions one being full body scans. This was pointed out yesterday on Wolf Blitzer by Mr. Peter Bergen International Counselor in Terrorists activities. And yet, Mr. Blitzer ignored it as did others. This president took responsibility, apologized and put steps in to help avoid future mistakes. One thing is clear…one cannot completely prevent anything from happening. There is a whole new way the terrorists are using by training loners with little or no esteem to blow themselves. That is kind of hard to track but we will try. This is a new method and we need to address it and the president is. How come no one is bashing the previous administration with all the deaths that occurred? Never did even at the beginning. The country stood by him…why not Obama? This was an attempt and no one was killed and yet you would think a whole city was destroyed with the coverage it is getting. It’s only because Obama is president…anyone else would be excused. You are the antipity of stupidity and to think I thought you were a good person when you cleaned up New York.

Way to go, George.
Nice job challenging the statement by Guilliani.
There’s no way we could accuse you of being a pathetic, mainstream media, softball pitcher…

The scary part here isn’t that he is revising history and somehow editing out the attacks on the twin towers, the scary part is the one where he advocates taking a common criminal and putting him in military custody where he can be endlessly interrogated. It’s an outrage to hear that said by a prominent politician. The military should fight foreign wars, period, while criminals should be dealt with as the lawbreakers they are. Frightening stuff indeed.

The reason all this partisan garbage gets thrown out there, is because the media doesn’t even question it anymore. George did a shameful job in not challenging these statements. I mean, “No Domestic Attacks” is laughable. 1) 9/11, 2) Anthrax, 3) Sniper, 4) Shoe-bomber
George just dutifully takes down the information and pumps it out. Our journalists have become transcribers and repeaters. It is all too common now to see these types of idiotic statements go unchallenged.

It’s ridiculous finger pointing by both sides. The fact is the US is a bankrupt banana republic. We just don’t have the funds to pay for thousands of domestic social programs or our foreign aid and adventures. The sooner all you finger points figure this out, the sooner America can be saved from this partisan ignorance by our politicians and the posters here. Wake up to the reality of what our dear leaders have done to us.

George, why didn’t you push back on that statement?
9/11 happened under Bush, the anthrax scares under Bush, Richard Reid under Bush.
How could you just sit there and let him get away with saying that?
This man has been noun, verb, 9/11 since it happened and you don’t say, hold up, wait a minute, that was under Bush?
WHAT is wrong with American media?! I am so disappointed in you.

Why didn’t Barack HUSSEIN Obama say the policeman that took out a gun for a snowball fight acted stupidly?
Wow!

Way to call him on it, George. Were you awake during your interview?

George, part of your job is to challenge politicians who make false assertions like Guliani made regarding the fact that there”were no terrorist attacks under Bush.” Didn’t ABC brief you about that? The fact that the MSM did not challenge the Bushies pre Iraq is one of the big reasons we got into that war under faulty evidence.

If there were no domestic attacks under Bush why are some of our service men and women on their third or fouth tour in Iraq and or Afganistan?.
What happen on Sept 11, 2001?.
MR. Mayor go on a computer and find google and type in (Sept, 11, 2001).
MR. Mayor how many soldiers have died or have been wounded because of the attacks on Sept 11, 2001?.

WHAT KIND OF JOURNALIST DOES NOT CALL OUT SUCH A BLATANT LIE?! IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO RETIRE, GEORGE!!! YOUR CAREER IS HISTORY TO ME!

Any journalist who does not call Giuliani has absolutely no journalistic integrity at all. It’s a sad day when Jon Stewart is a better journalist than anyone on network or cable news. If ABC has any respect for journalistic integrity, they’ll fire George.

He apparently does not understand that under the Military Commission System, they get just as lawyered up and just as fast. He would know this if he just went to the web site on Military Commissions that DoD has. Also, the military commission system has been pretty much a fiasco as we have had to invent everything and until the Obama administration came along we did not even properly assemble case files and dossiers on individual detainees.
But in the Faith Base community, facts are viewed from a structuralist, power perspective, and you have “facts” that are designed to support the narrative that gets you back in power. And I can only assume that it is some sort of craveness that the Washington based media personalities can’t challenge these memes that corrupt our democracy.

Stephanopoulos is even worse on GMA than he was on “This Week” – he lets them lie to his face and never challenges. You’re not entitled to your own set of facts!

O-Kay, O-Kay, O-kay!!! Everyone is attacking George (right or wrong.) The one who REALLY needs to have his feet put to the fire is Rudy Guilian1. I will give it to him that he mis-spoke. However, just as the naysayers derided Secretary Napalitano when she mis-spoke, so should the former Mayor be called to the floor too. His statements are just as outlandish as hers. He should be questioned regarding his biases and political posturing regarding such a critical issue.

Ok I see Rudy is still playing the opposite game. So 9/11 happened under Obama’s watch? and nothing happened under Bush?
WAKE UP RUDY! I know it’s tough having brain cancer, but I think that colonoscopy you has removed a little too much of your brain. “We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama,” What attack under Obama is he talking about? I honestly do not know of any actual attacks that were successful or carried to fruition under Obama. I do however remember something happening on Sept. 11, 2001. I also remember many, many attacks and thwarted plots against the US under Bush’s watch. Someone please give Mr. Giuliani the Key to the rubber room, he is ready to check in.

Um, ANTHRAX???
Is it worth pointing out that Bush was 0 for 2 in catching the people responsible for terrorist attacks in 2001? Even though he had, you know, SEVEN YEARS to catch either one of them?
Osama bin ladern still on the loose! And Bush in 2002: “I’m honestly not all that concerned about him.”
And Rudy Giuliani rewrites history so that the guy who let Osama bin Laden and the anthrax attacker get away is somehow not responsible. And ABC doesn’t call him on it. Just unbelievable. Not reality-based. At all.

I must say – it is particularly tough to watch two smart and previously honorable people collaboratively squander all in the name of temporary popularity advancement.
Rudy – by peddling patent falsehoods – reveals himself to be a blind ideologue no longer fit for effective governing.
George – by allowing these falsehoods to go unchallenged – reveals himself as willing to trade journalistic integrity for bland media “likability”.
And we “the public” lose on both counts – less integrity. more bad information, and two more “me too” unthinking and unquestioning chattering heads on television.

Mr. Stephanopoulos, you let Giuliani utter so preposterous, so patently transparent an outrage… and you didn’t challenge him on it? How can you call this the “Bottom Line” when you haven’t even done the simplest calculation, put two and two together?
I’m usually the one defending traditional journalism against (not always justified) charges of laziness, of superficiality, but in this case I wouldn’t dream of trying.

OK George. Why didn’t you address the 911 lie? Why on earth would you allow him to make a claim like that?

George: how humiliating. If you aren’t nimble enough as a journalist to nail Rudy on that one, all teed up for you, you’re going to end up on the late local news. 9/11, Anthrax, Washington Snipers, Richard Reid, etc.–what do you spend your time doing all day if you don’t have these factoids ready for the predictable Republican talking points. They have been telegraphing this for weeks: first Perino, then Matalin, and now a Greek chorus of lying liars.
George, you are really fitting in on morning TV, and that’s not a compliment!

I honestly despise what the media has become. Guilliani should have been called out the moment he said something false. As should all politicians. And when it comes to debate there should be experts in the field talking. There should have been security people answering or making statements. Guilliani can save his opinion for the op-Ed pages. Same goes for every topic being discussed. It shouldn’t always be politics first.

Anyone who’s paying attention knows that Giuliani was making stuff up when he claimed “no terrorist attacks under Bush.” As pointed out above, that’s not a surprise, given who Giuliani is.
The question is why Stephanapoulus, who’s a well-informed guy with a very quick brain, chose to let the comment slide. Does Giuliani now owe him one, for not splattering his face with egg?
Or is this just part of the new way that the big time press goes about doing things?

Memory serves me correctly wasn’t Anthrax after 9-11! Doesn’t that make 2 acts of Terrorism under Bush’s watch? Wasn’t Bush off the entire month of August 2001 in Crawford the month prior to 9-11?

WOW. The story here isn’t Rudy. It’s the fact that ABC News and George didn’t call him on that statement the second it came out of his mouth.
Is journalism every going to come back to Mainstream Media?

George – You should be absolutely embarrassed. This is journalism? To provide a platform to a disingenuous and irrelevant political nothing and let him spout laughably false nonsense? What are you even there for? Why not just give Rudy 5 minutes to just say whatever he wants. Our media is absolutely worthless.

Not a fan of Obama nor Rudy but I agree that this is ridiculous statement. The only thing I will agree with him is that clsoing gitmo is absurd.

George, I CANNOT believe you did not come forward and remind Guiliani just what attacks occurred under Bush; or at least state clearly that he was not being accurate or honest! Do you think “going morning” frees you from being a political reporter. Even as a political observer, you have an obligation to stand up for the truth. I WILL NOT watch your morning show again!

Come on George – Get on the air and explain why you didn’t challenge Rudy about his comments.

Shame on George for allowing Giuliani’s revisionist history!! How can we possibly take him seriously if he allows blatant lies to go unchallenged?? 9/11 happened on GWB’s watch, and that’s a fact which not even the republicans can change. I know, I was there!!

Pretty pathetic how you just let that bald-faced lie stand in the interview. Didn’t Mary Matalin make the same comment in an interview a few weeks ago? Hardly seems like a coincidence, but I guess none of these people have anything to fear from “journalists.”

“Giuliani isn’t quite correct in his assessment.”
SO WHY DIDN’T YOU CALL HIM OUT ON IT???

George Stephanopoulos is a coward for not calling Guliani on this the moment the words were uttered. He is not a journalist and has no character whatsoever for allowing it to be uttered unchallenged. ABC is about as credible as FoxNews.

Ah yes, I remember that inspiring scene of Mayor Bloomberg with the bullhorn in the wreckage. That guy should run for president!

This “interview” stands as a classic example of why the media has lost so much credibility in recent years.
Is there some reason you didn’t feel compelled to challenge Guliani’s inane assertion?
Were you dozing? Is that it? Is ABC going to have to hire a man with a pointed stick to stand behind you and give you a poke to wake you up during these so called “bottom line” interviews?

Your blog is more offensive than the interview because of your understatement that Guiliani “isn’t quite correct.” Yeah, no kidding. Your condescending tone only points to your inability to call a spade a spade and ask an obvious question to a political twit like Guiliani.
Good Job, Clownie.

Posting this on your blog is not good enough. You need to do it on air. Letting lies fly on air and only addressing them on your blog is the coward’s way.

So lets see George, Rudy tells you a bold face lie and you don’t challenge him it on on the air? Why?

What I like about this bit is how the “War on Terror” is “Global” only when it suits these folks. Apparently Madrid, London, Bali etc. etc. don’t count? Weren’t we going to “smoke them out of their holes” and “bring them to justice” and end terror once and for all?

Why didn’t you you say all this when you was in his face.

Every time someone says “terror” Ghouliani bobs to the toilet surface to chime in. Please go away Mr. 9/11, we are all sick of your BS.

George, are you serious? Do you even listen to what your guests say or do you just read a teleprompter. GET A CLUE man. Pathetic. You should apologize to your audience. Oh an even if Rudy 911 meant no attack after 911, you may remind him of the shoe bomber, anthrax, etc.
Are you trying out for Faux News or something?

WHAT SHOULD NOT BE LOOKED OVER IS THAT THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. ALL THE TIME. ALL THE TIME. IT’S JUST NOT AS BLATANT. GEORGE, CNN, ABC, CBS ARE IN BED WITH THE RIGHT WING AND IT’S DESTROYING AMERICA.

No attacks…what do you call the 9/11 attack under Bush? Here, thousands of people died and guess what…no apologies were made, no sense of responsibility were forthcoming nor did any new plans implemented after the attack. In fact, Mr. Bush ignored the 9/11 committee’s suggestions and one was full body scans. What amazes me is that Bush was never criticized, blamed or maligned when this attack occurred. Everyone rallied around him and felt sorry for him. Now, here we have an almost attack..no deaths, a president who took responsibility, apologized, and implemented things to ward off any future attacks and he is being maligned from head to foot. Am I missing something here? First and foremost, we cannot totally prevent a future attack, we can only try. There are too many factors involved and airports which are not following procedure i.e. cameras not working, and the terrorists are now recruiting these poor lonley, insecure people who are loners to give up their lives for this. This is a totally new factor to consider. President Obama has taken down this year several leaders of groups in Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan with little or no fanfare. He is quietly doing his job and yet he is never given any credit. I understand there are politics involved but what happened to pulling together as Americans. We did that for Bush..no blame here. Now we are holding this prsident’s foot to the fire for an almost attack. How come we have different standards for this president? No other president was prevented from speaking to school children and this is the president who by any standards hold education high and only wanted to say stay in school. I see a picture here that I am not liking and truthfully, I thought we were ready for a black president but I see we are not. Or else, the republicans are so hateful they will not work with our president…either way…it is a sad picture.

Just LOOK at that DEVIL, Guiliani in the picture….I SEE “HORNS” chatsy-cat conning grin. Yep, he’s part of the DEVIL Party.

I am so tired of the brain-washing of lies in this country by media types such as yourself. Why even have a media? Why ever bother with the truth and facts? The right-wingers are stinking, filthy liars – and you just stand by and let them spew crap.

Republicans are so shallow in their critisms of President Obama. The republicans think that the people of America don’t hear these critisms, or that we will forget. The republicans are so intent on derailing President Obama they are willing to destroy this country. Come election time the American people will not forget the dirty tactics employed by the republicans. Nor will we forget the UNAMERICAN sentiment displayed by republicans.

Let’s not forget the Anthrax scare, the Beltway Sniper, all the threats to women’s health clinics, even the Smiley Face Bomber.
All of these are terror attacks, as they are meant to cause terror.
America’s Mayor is an idiot.

Sorry George, but the shoe bomber case argument is so weak. It was only 3 months post 9/11 and he was stopped on a FOREIGN flight. He didn’t enter the US and blow up his Nike’s. My only wish would be that as these public figures gently insert their feet into their mouths w/ these commentaries is that they would all start referring to it as “post 9/11 world”, because frankly, that is what everything is in reference to anymore; as if the world didn’t exist prior to that. Criticism of comments like this is weak when you know full well that it is exactly the way they are referring to it.

He needs clarify…No Attacks occurred under Bush AFTER 9/11. The 9/11 attacks were planned during CLINTON’S Tenor. The policies in place at the start of 2001 were from Clinton – which Bush initially followed. Following 9/11, BUSH CHANGED THESE POLICIES…and no major attack occurred. Britian had an almost incident with the shoe bomber – WHICH RESULTED IN IMMEDIATE ENHANCEMENTS TO POLICIES – no pretending like the Dems do. AND WE WERE KEPT SAFE. FT HOOD IS BECAUSE OF THIS ADMIN POLICY CHANGES AND THE XMAS BOMBER IS ALSO. This is why the won’t release the memos CHENEY asked for to be released – the attacks that were stopped since 9/11!!!

ABC….PLEASE stop interviewing all of the old, old, old, politicans. No one trust the old anymore. It is a simple fact that they LIE!…LIE!….LIE! We want to hear from the “NEW YOUNG” politicans. They are the ones that will lead the country in the comming years. ABC you offer the same “ole” script. Giulania is not news. There is a reason why he was rejected for president. That reason has not changed. The world knows he is a LIER. There are 50 state governments, am i lead to believe that now of them have “NEW YOUNG” voices. ABC why do you continue to play broken records? Please pay attention to the word NEW(S). It says that ABC is going to tell the public something NEW. ABC, please ask yourself did you learn anything NEW from Giuliani?

Pretell…why didn’t Stephanopoulos correct Guliani? What kind of reporting is going on here!!!!!!! ?
This is exactly why many Americans are fed up with media reporting, etc. Truly disappointing to witness this!!!!

Sure, George: Pimp the fact that he forgot 9/11 and shoe-bomber now. What happened to you during the interview, when it actually mattered?!! This was perhaps the EASIEST on-air, real-time fact-checking that a journalist could have done, and you FAILED!!! Hope maybe you LEARN FROM IT!!!

You are pathetic George, go back to the fluff your best at on the morning shows.

Its shameful that a notable journalist/reporter/news anchor as George neglected the opportunity to call out Juliani for the liar he is. If we can’t trust our MSM people to ask the follow-up questions then who do we trust?

George Stephanopoulos, for God sake Rudy is not Iranian Ayatollah, you can refute his blantant lies and not be hurt in the process.

I thought George was a better news guy than that. Why the media allow people to get away with lies on national TV during interviews is beyond me. George, you fell down on the job! That’s SAD.

I don’t understand why Mr Stephanopolous is commenting about Mr Guiliani’s thoughts now. You interviewed him you could have nailed him in that interview which you and every other like you fail to at every such interview and then you get online to give a post mortem about the interview that you failed to get to the bottom to with the person personally. You Sir have failed in your conduct of the interview to point out the lacunae in the blurring blurped by Mr Guiliani.

Other thing not covered: Reid is in prison for (the rest of his life?) courtesy of the CIVILIAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM!

Seriously, George, I’d like an answer. Why didn’t you call him on this nonsense on the air instead of in your column here (where far, far fewer people will see it)? It’s a perfect example of why so many of us think journalists have become stenographers.

This is my third try to have my say: When 9/11 occurred…no apologies were made, no accepting blame, no corrections made to prevent this from happening again. This is not my statement but the statement of Peter Bergen, International Terrorists Assoc. He cannot understand why president Obama is being maligned over something that almost happened when what did happen took thousands of lives with no blame given to the incumbent president. I kind of agree with him and hope this post gets posted.

I don’t understand, George. You are a journalist but are afraid to ask follow up questions to outright lies? I think maybe you should have stayed at This Week – then you could have handled “real” questioning and not “weekday morning talk show” questioning. No terror attack – is he kidding?

Rudy is such a hypocrite – no complaint about Bush’s belated response to reeves and fact that Bush took no responsibility for anything. No complaint when reeves and other terrorists were tried in civilian courts. Biggest hypocrisy was his public statements about the competence of Bush. One thing about Rudy – he is a smart man and he had to believe Bush was an idiot. Rudy and the other republicans with there knee jerk reaction that everything Obama and the democrats do is bad when it was Bush was the one whose mess Obama is trying to fix is a complete disgrace and puts partisanship over country. Years ago, a democrat could respect the republicans for both sides tried to act reasonably although having generally different philosophies. Now,the republicans with there lies and obstructionism can only be scorned.

There were two attacks on Obamas watch,Ft hood was preventable also.After 9/11 there were no attacks under Bush,bed wetters.There were 4 attacks under Clinton,Bed wetters. At least Bush would not try to talk them to death,like Obie does.

hifidelity posted: “Seems odd that 90% of the comments basically try to come across as original thoughts when they were mentioned in the opening paragraphs of the blog (i.e. 9/11 and Reid).”
The story has changed since initially posted. This is a story that is starting to gain steam. I’m beginning to think that this might have been done on purpose since this statement was uttered earlier by two other prominent Republicans. One could argue that someone is looking for the Republicans to hang themselves with such outlandishness. Just google George’s name and it hit the news tab. A lot of the press are beginning to pick up this interview and its outrageousness.

I want Diane back, she would have challenged Rudy with his lies. George is worthless. I use to tivo GMA every morning but I do not since George is on it…

9/11 and the shoebomber happened on Bush’s watch.
Did George forget how to interview now that he is on GMA?

With Matalin, Perino, and now Giuliani making these statements that there was no 9-11 under Bush’s watch, I’m beginning to wonder if these are not slips of the tongue, but a new Republican talking point that they are trying to bring up every chance they get.
It sounds like something Frank Lutz would dream up. He and Karl Rove believe that facts don’t matter and that perception is what really counts. I think this is a deliberate attempt to rewrite history and sanitize the Bush administration’s many failures, especially 9-11, with the August 6th PDB titled”Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.”, which Condi Rice and George W. Bush just brushed aside as “old news”.

“Giuliani seems to have forgotten about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and shoe bomber Richard Reid.”
…and you forgot to call him on it in the interview.
I wish I could get your salary for not doing my job properly…..

Domestic attacks are a concern no matter who is in charge and with mass immigration, there will only be more of them.
Let’s not forget that Al-Qaeda’s ultimate aim is to take over the Western world and immigration is the means by which it can obtain a critical mass of supporters in each Western country. Given this reality, why haven’t our governments imposed a strict moratorium on all new immigration? What possible benefit can immigration bring that would outweigh the horror of life under Al-Qaeda rule?
The next politician who goes into the politically correct dance about how “we need immigration”, should be offered a quick trip to the unemployment line or better yet, Guanatanamo Bay. Do your elected representatives know how you feel about this? Your friends and family? Feel free to copy this text and forward to them.

Um.9-11,anthrax,shoe bomber, dc sniper. SHAME George for not refuting Rudy. What happened to bringing the hard news to GMA?

Republicans are bewildered as to why they are blamed for 9/11. Well, Bush was clueless and terrified in the face of a MEMO! (alQaida Determined To Strike In US).
And Giu911ani was very nearly killed in the WTC collapse!
I’d think Republicans in general owe us an explanation of their feckless preparation and ineffective, disproportionate response after the fact.
But you’d never get there featuring fearmongering and inter-party bickering without challenge, George. This won’t rewrite the history of Republican abnegation. And Republicans are quite right to be scared now. They should have no quarter in a search for answers to a vexing problem ON THEIR WATCH.

Another example of what has turned so many of us from mainstream network news. To allow that comment to go unchallenged is simply astonishing. This is the state of TV “journalism?”

George, I expected better of you. I can’t believe you let Giuliani get away with such a whopper completely unchallenged.
This has to stop. When public figures go on national television and tell what are incontrovertible LIES, they need to be called out on it. Publicly. At the time and in the forum the lie is put forth, not later on a blog that few will see.

Okay, so why didn’t you call him on it, Mr. Stephanopoulos?

It is absolutely NOT okay that Stephanopolous let a statement like that slide in an interview. This is third politician who has spun that line out there recently. A statement like that needs to be challenged IMMEDIATELY. You can not conduct an interview like that and maintain any sense of credibility.

Have to agree with the coments posted by pinetree. Bin Laden wasn’t a bad guy figthing the russians was he? And who created and supported him in the 1980′s?
I wonder how a guy in a “cave” was able
to plan 9/11? Our goverment is corrupt and will lie to us.

George – you’re a freaking joke. You didn’t challenge the statement, then put up a blog posting not challenging it, then finally changing your headline when you got some heat.
That soft focus on GMA getting to you already?

George: Are you just lazy or complicit??? Don’t let anything like FACTS get in the way! Wake up, George.

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who won worldwide acclaim for his handling of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that devastated his city….”The reality is that President Bush played a very, very big role in bringing our country through the worst attack in our history,” he said. ….Rudy Giuliani, Thursday, March 4, 2004……I rest my case

Epic fail for not calling him out!

Jrobinson .
Wow – you are very factually WRONG.
FACTS:
1. In August 2001 – 6 months after Bush was sworn in he took a MONTH LONG vacation.
2. August 6, 2001 – Bush got his Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) from the CIA.
3. August 6, 2001 PDB was titled. “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.”
4. August 6, 2001 PDB page 2 says:
“FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.
The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group or bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.”
5. Bush could not be bothered while on his month long vacation after 6 months in office to discuss that PDB with ANYONE in the CIA during the entire MONTH of August and lead into September.
6. CIA Tenent testified in April 2004 that President Bush did NOT contact ANYONE in the CIA regarding that PDB. He also testified that during his visit with Bush in August NO MENTION of the PDB came up and NO MENTION of Bin Laden came up. Tenent testified he was NOT PERMITTED to talk about either of those things.
7. Bush’s first day back from vacation was 9/11/2001 – where he went to Florida to read a book (upside down) to Kindergartners.
8. Bush did not even know what to do when the agent told Bush what was happening in NYC — he SAT THERE. It is not clear if Bush ever, ever, ever thought of the:
August 6, 2001 PDB titled: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike US”
9. As for your “War on Terror” … you mean the war in Iraq where Bush abandoned our troops in Afghanistan so he could get his hands on Oil Fields.
Look, dude, there have always been and will always be people who want to destroy any given country including, but not limited to USA. Israel has terrorist attacks at deli’s, nightclubs, city buses ALL THE TIME and NO ONE in their govt calls it “war” nor do their citizens say their leaders are clueless on security ….
Oh and … the August 6, 2001 PDB – George Stephanoplis is WELL AWARE of that PDB … and STILL let Giulani spread FALSE PROPAGANDA.

Mr. (Cheney) Torture did not even hold one national security meeting in the 8 months before 9/11, even with all of Clinton’s warnings and the history we all were aware of. Bush ignored outright warnings about AQ plotting to use airplanes (and this is only what he allowed to be released – how much more is there that we don’t know?.
I have heard Mr. 9/11 tell dozens of lies on tv and cannot understand why they have him on only to lie more. It is ridiculous.

George – do you have no shame? Are you a journalist or not? Letting Rudy re-vise history to score points is the bottom of the barrel in professional reporting. Posting on your blog does nothing to correct the issue – there are actually people out there who were probably nodding at what Giu911ani was saying. Grow a pair or let someone else do the job.

“You blame Bush for 9/11, six months into his presidency, and all he had to stop it was Clinton’s non-existent, gutted, intel system which he inherited.”
That is simply not true.
Richard Clarke tried over and over to alert the Bush administration of the threat of terrorism and specifically Al Queada. Read the memo Clarke submitted on JANUARY 25TH.
The Bush administration is blamed, not just because 9/11 DID happen on his watch, (7 1/2 months into his administration, not 6 as you stated) but because his Administration didn’t take terrorism seriously despite repeated insistence from the Clinton transition team. This isn’t opinion, it’s documented in the PDBs and Memos. There were absolutely no cabinet level meetings regarding terror threats in the Bush administration until just prior to 9/11 (as I recall, possibly after 9/11).
“And what does Obama do? He out-Bushes Bush… he beefs up the watch list, he increases surveillance…”
Actually, he’s ordering a review of the watch list and they’ve already started revising it.
The watch list was a joke. It had ballooned to over 100,000 names in less than a year after it was created (in the Bush administration). Edward Kennedy was detained for christ’s sake.
Good for Obama to order a major correction.
“The real joke is on you tools that spent that last eight years telling us the War On Terror didn’t exist. Progressives, meet reality. Now imagine what better shape we’d be in, if you’d been helping the last eight years instead of throwing rocks.”
First:
The war on terror is empty rhetoric. It’s an excuse to bomb and invade any country that we claim is harboring terrorists. It’s an excuse to support Israel (while conveniently ignoring their terrorist actions in Gaza*).
We’re at war with the Taliban and Al Queda.
Perhaps if the Bush administration had remembered THAT, Afghanistan wouldn’t have been ignored, and it wouldn’t be balancing against falling into a failed state.
Second:
The democrats rolled over to allow the Bush Administration free reign. They enabled the Imperial Presidency. They didn’t push for investigation into clearly illegal policy like warrantless wire tapping or Torture, in fact they refuse to look back now.. setting a precedent for future Presidents (including Obama) to indescriminately break the law without consequence.
They acquiesed under the constant barage of “traitor”, “Un-American”.. from Republicans if they even questioned the Bush Administration.
Conversely, the Republicans have blocked the Obama administration in their every action. They’ve got a hold on the appointment of a new Homeland Security chief. They’ve lied repeatedly about the Administration. They’ve stated or intimated that he’s not a legitimate President… the list goes on and on.
Also, the Progressive community has been very vocal in criticizing Obama while the Right wing was slavishly subservient to Bush/Cheney. No dissent was allowed. Questions were treason.
* I should explain the Israel comment. I actually heard an Israeli General interviewed where he explained why they had blockaded Gaza while they were attacking it. He explained that he hoped they would “terrorize” the civilian population into opposing Hamas. He said the word “terrorize”. Their actions during that conflict were the definition of Terrorism.

George, You blew it and this post does nothing to change that basic fact. By not challenging Giuliani on his basic claim, you have reinforced his talking point. If the truth does not matter, then your program is worthless.

Giuliani was a somewhat intelligent man until he started loafing with GWB. We find that stupidity, after all, is contagious.

GMA has declawed Mr. Stephanopoulos. Next up for Georgie…an apron and a cooking segment. They must be paying him a truck-load of cash for him to forsake his journalistic integrity.

The paraphrase the Clash: “If you’ve been here for years, we’ve already heard your song …”
Give us a break Rudy.

This sounds unethical. I would get Charlie Rangel to look into this.

What you said in this article was spot on. I only wish you brought it up in the actually interview while Giuliani was being a mouthpiece.

Boy, he really lacks intelligence. What was 9/11 Rudy, who was in office?
Who actually started this war? Duh!!

Thanks for posting the truth C. Proffit!!!
I’s absolutely disgusting that these right winger commenters actually believe 9/11 was Clinton’s responsibility.

George what the hell? My 12 year old niece was like “What about 9/11?” after Giuliani uttered that disgraceful whopper.
How is it that a 12 year old girl can do your job better than you?

Shoe–
Did he mention that Reid and anthrax happened after 9/11?

Stephanopoulos is a great disappointment. And not just on GMA. His performance in This Week was equally poor. Having followed his work during the Clinton years, it is sad to see how the mainstream media can succeed in dumbing down even the most astute and intelligent of journalists!!

The shoe bomber was tried and convicted in civilian court, yet the Repubs are yelling that the underpants bomber should be tried as an enemy combatant and, I dunno, hung from a tree or something.
Same scenario, same explosive compound, same security failures. The only difference between Richard Reid and Umar Abdulmutallab is one guy is white and one is a black muslim. Figure it out, people.

And why didn’t you point out this inconsistency while you had the chance on camera, George. Is this soft-glove approach to interviews something we should expect more from you as the new co-host of GMA?

helll, we must not watch the same news. Seems it happens ALL THE TIME, ALL THE TIME, ALL THE TIME, they are all in bed with Obama and the way left loonies!

If you’re foolish enough to listen to the Bush puppet Giuliana, he will probably tell you that the Iraqi war was justified. These people can see everything wrong the other guy does but failed to see any of the mistakes of the Bush Administartion which came pretty close to destroying this country. There are still car bombings and clan murders in Iraq. That country will never be the same after the illegal GWB war. I can understand why North Korea and Iran wanted to arm themselves with Nuclear Weapons because they saw what Bush did to Iraq. Arming themselves with Nuclear Weapons was the only recourse these countries had to protect themselves from Bush.

The terrorist attack of 9/11/01 didn’t REALLY happen during the Bush administration, because Bush wasn’t paying attention yet, so it doesn’t count. After that he WAS paying attention, sort of, but who cares about a bunch of random, unimportant people like those killed by the DC sniper?
And of course, it would be totally ridiculous to consider the anthrax attacks as “terrorism” because the targets and victims were, again, unimportant people. (Democrats and tabloid employees, as we all know, are not really human.)
Do they keep George packed in cotton wadding between shows that he doesn’t become contaminated with actual events in order that he not make his guests uncomfortable by pointing out the lies as they come out of their mouths?
Every person at ABC should be ashamed of themselves, and doubly so those with any responsibility for George being on the air.

“Giuliani seems to have forgotten about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and shoe bomber Richard Reid.”
And a host of other attacks as well, Abortion doctor killings, etc…
But during the program YOU didn’t remember 9/11 attacks either. Otherwise you would have corrected Rudy on the air when it would have mattered, but you and the the rest of the Village Media don’t see the lies until they are pointed out to you. Admit it you didn’t realize Bush was president on 9/11 until some unpaid intern told you so.

Guiliani has some nerve saying Obama should fire someone over the underware bomber. Who did Guiliani fire at the NY airport over 9-11? Where was Guiliani demanding that BUSH should fire someone over 9-11 or anyone else? He has some damn nerve……..people actually died on 9-11 and where was his complaining about Bush’s incompetence then?

So disappointed in our media, namely George S. Why would you a) have Rudy Giuliani on the show in the first place (the man is a 1st class hypocrite…though he did clean up NYC)?, and b) why wouldn’t you ask the obvious follow-up question to his idiotic remark? What happened to real journalism. Maybe you should take an extra cup of coffee in the morning to wake up and get on your A game.

It’s nice you included this on your blog, but why didn’t you stop it as it was happening? The right wing talking points for the last week or more have been things like we weren’t attacked under Bush, Bush inherited 9/11, Obama isn’t keeping us safe, and now we weren’t attacked domestically under Bush. And nobody calls these guys out. It’s very frustrating to watch day in and day out.

And George didn’t challenge Rudy at all. What a shame. He had a chance to commit real journalism and didn’t. He should resign now.

Billy Bob, the CIA handed Bush a memo saying that bin Laden was preparing to attack the US, and Bush’s response? …he finished enjoying his month long vacation.

Mr. Stephanopoulos, you should have drilled this partisan hack into the ground after his ridiculous claim that there were no domestic attacks under Bush. This is the latest republican talking point (i.e., lie) and it needs to be refuted every time it is uttered!

George, I’m disappointed in you for not calling him out on his erroneous information regarding the Bush administrations record on domestic terror attacks.

Obama FAILED the 3:00 AM call.
Here is a start:
How about of spending the $200 million a year which NYC says it will cost for Obama’s political show trials on systems and weapons to protect American citizens instead of paying attorneys for their killers?
I choose innocent American citizens, why doesn’t Georgie and his Obama?

What the hell, George? Why didn’t you follow up with Rudy’s comment about no attacks under Bush? You should have corrected him, unless you forgot too! Now I know why I don’t watch GMA. 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11/2001! Who was president in September 2001? Shame on you!

WHY didn’t you CHALLENGE him on this BS when he was saying it?
Part of the point of having a free and independent press is to call politicians on their BS and challenge them when they’re telling lies. Your job isn’t to just let these bastards say whatever they want to say; your job is to ask the questions they’ll find difficult to answer, such as:
What about 9/11?
What about the shoe bomber?
What about the anthrax attacks?
What about the beltway snipers?
What about the El Al ticket counter attack?
What about the Jewish Federation shooting?
What about the midwest pipe bombings?
What about the more than dozen various domestic terrorism incidents that provably did happen during the Bush administration?
Is Bush himself personally responsible that domestic terrorist attacks happened while he was president? No, of course not. It’s unreasonable to expect that any president can somehow anticipate and prevent every potential attack. But that’s not the point. Rudy is pretending that somehow Bush DID prevent every attack by virtue of some kind of magic shield, which is demonstrably FALSE.
And you let him say it, unchallenged. Shame on you.

So, George, if Guliani was wrong about “no domestic terror attaacks under Bush, why didn’t you call him out on it? You allowed perpetration of that meme-

Rudy’s a natural born liar, but it’s the “reporters” like George Stephanopoulos who let him and others like him get away with it. Not one PEEP out of George when Rudy spouted his nonsense. Nothing to correct the comment right then and there. Nice of you to finally note in your blog that Rudy was wrong about 9/11 and the Anthrax attacks and Richard Reid supposedly not happening on Bush’s watch, but it’s a little late isn’t it? Or do you honestly not think you need to do your job? Hell, for the salary you’re pulling down, I’d happily not NOT do your job for you (and that is a deliberate use of the two words next to each other).

Mr. Guiliani is a little wind bag who never tires of puffing himself up at the expense of another and spewing nonsensical claims in order to promote himself. His run for President couldn’t get traction because of this disingenuous approach to real issues that effect human lives.
Mr. Stepanopolus, you must be a real pal of his for letting him slide. You’re not kidding me, of course you realize his endless criticisms of the President are purely self serving. You need to pay less attention to how your getting on with Rudy and more attention being a serious journalist.

It’s a shame there wasn’t a journalist in the room during the interview, because a journalist would have called him out on that lie immediately, and not let the conversation drift on as if nothing happened.

I’ve heard the “no domestic attacks under Bush” statement several times now from the conservative right.
It’s like they are taking a play from Joseph Goebbel’s playbook on Propaganda.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating, the lie becomes the truth.

Seriously, George? Why did you NOT call him out on 9-11, bare minimum, during the interview??? HELLO???
To wit: Shoe Bomber, ANTHRAX mailings, 9-11, and Ann Coulter.

“Giuliani seems to have forgotten about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and shoe bomber Richard Reid.”
Why didn’t you remind him? You were supposed to interview Guiliani, not act as his Ed McMahon.

Why do these idiots in the media not call out the idiots that spout this nonsense at the time it is aired? Very disappointing.

“Giuliani seems to have forgotten about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and shoe bomber Richard Reid.”
And you don’t call him on it right to his face? Pathetic. Since you and your ilk seem to be incapable of anything other then asking questions and not caring about answers maybe it would be wise to have fact checkers ready at the end of each interview to confront the speaker while the interviewer slinks out of ste to insure their impartiallity. How sad.

Giuliani seems to have forgotten about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and shoe bomber Richard Reid.
Well, why didn’t you remind him?

Rudy Guiliani was not “wrong”. Rudy Guiliani LIED to you. Lied to your face. Bald-facedly. Unashamedly. Through his teeth. Lied. And you sat there. Like a lump on a log.
Reid, Anthrax, El Al ticket counter, DC sniper… shall I go on?
I saw two tools in that video.

George needs to take ownership of this major journalistic blunder. It just sinks his credibility as a newsperson. Even if it’s on GMA.

Part of the problem here is that we continue to give Giuliani a forum to voice his negativity. Can’t we just let him fade into mediocrity where he belongs?

Oh, did Giuliani forget that he made the basement of the World Trade Center his security headquarters in case of terrorism. Did Giuliani also forget that he made Bernard Kerik Police Commissioner without any educational qualifications or experience. Did giuliani forget that after 911 he did nothing but report on what was happening from day to day. Giuliani would make a good reporter, but nothing else because he wants to take all the credit for everything.

George,
The fact that you didn’t immediately correct him on his LIE and that you are still called a “journalist” is something you should be thankful and ashamed of simultaneously. Shame on you for letting this large mouth liar off the hook. But thanks for proving that the media is SO LIBERAL. Shame on your George. I look for your apology ASAP.

Sooooo….why not call him out on this blatant falsehood directly after he said it?
Oh, right. That would imply a little thing called “journalism”, which requires at least an iota of intestinal fortitude.
Let me guess. By handling this outright lie discreetly you guarantee that Rudy will come back on your show some day. What’s good for business is what’s good for America, eh George?
Pathetic.

what he meant is that there was no attack in which we had the intelligent before hand and it still happened , almost to the point that 300 people almost perish because of that . Of course , some nut-job still try to attack us , but just like in the case of Richard Reid , there was not enough intelligent info. to know about what he may have done . Here , the guy’s Dad went to tell you that his son has changed for the worst recently , he bought a one way ticket for $2200 and check in with NO luggage , the Media is trying to cover up for this Obama administration over this failure , now in civilian court , this guy will shut up to protect his 30 buddies who are waiting in line to attack us , why , because he will have his 5th amendment , well, let just hope that we can stop them somehow , but without someone talking , it will be very hard , and with the security team of this administration, let just wish ourselves Good Luck, we need it!

(dave that is…not Andrew)

Rudy says no attacks while Bush in office..and George say NOTHING??? ..journalism in Amerika folks!
what a joke

“You people are questioning Rudy on weather or not 9/11 was an attack? I think the man is well aware of i9/11 but is refering to GW’s record since 9/11. 9/11 took the entire country by suprise…”
If he meant “since 9/11,” he should have said “since 9/11.” And “since 9/11″ there were numerous attempts during GW’s administration. And the claim that no one saw it coming is laughable. Don’t be obtuse.

Being obtuse is not a very attactive trait. Its obvious that the discussion was in regard to attacks subsequent to 9/11 which marked the beginning of the War on Terrorism. Seven subsequent years of safety in spite of the efforts of the left you ungrateful misanthropes. Now what Stephenopolus doesn’t report are the changes the Obama administration has made to the system set up by the previous administration that has led to the latest breakdown. Useful idiots.

What a bunch of idiots who follow George. I guess you’re judged by the company to keep (or attract).
Reid was unsuccessful. To say that Rudy lied by not mentioning 911 is stupid plus. Rudy was talking about after 911, you idiots.
No wonder that Obama was elected, with clueless voters like these.
Calie Stephens

Georgie is still a polictical operative of the Clintonistas masquerading as a “journalist”…and which of you can speak of honesty and truth with veracity?? You techno-nerds of the WWW think anything YOU say is the truth…well, your frame of reference is severely limited in scope…Sarah, Guiliani is not the enemy, nor is GW or I…the enemy is militant Muslim Jihadists who hate our guts and want to kill all Americans, even Georgie and Sarah…who is going to protect you?? As more citizens die in America, who are you going to blame?? GW..

Billy Bob, GW’s record after 9/11 is nothing to brag about, but thanks for brining it up. Let’s see, shoe bomber, bridge cutters, beltway sniper, Holocaust museum guard, ANTHRAX killer, there’ a list of about 25. Some were thwarted attempts, some resulted in deaths, all had the goal of terror.
But sure, other that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

George S like all other media hacks refuse to chalenge the lies their polital celebrities tell for fear that such political celebrities will refuse to honor them with an interview. They are all one happy family and so will will not call them out. The media is not on our side, they protect their fellow elites.

Ummm…I think that it was PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that Giuliani was talking about the time AFTER 9/11.
Was the shoe bomber really a ‘domestic attack’? That’s arguable.
To say that 9/11 took place “on his watch” is a ridiculous statement – was Giuliani supposed to be in charge of international terrorism as well as security at Boston’s airport?
Give me a break. Do you *REALLY* think that Rudy could ever forget 9/11?

Dear George Stephanopoulos,
This little blog you have here is cute and everything. Thanks for blogging that ‘Giuliani was wrong’.
But WHY didn’t you call out his mistake on air??!!

The best thing to happen to Guiliani’s career has been 9/11. Until it happenned, his name was in the news as blatantly cheating on his wife. Sept 11, 2001 gave him new life.

Why didn’t you challenge Rudy on this lie during the interview? You wait til later on your blog, which has a readership that equals – what – 1% of the tv audience? Pathetic.

9/11. Anthrax attacks. Richard Reid. and I’m sorry but if conservatives are claiming that the Ft. Hood attack was a terrorist attack then we also have to assert that the Beltway Snipers were also terrorists.
George, your job is to call these people out, to their face, when they say stupid things .. not from a safe distance on the internet 2 hours later. your viewers deserve to view these lies discredited as soon as the lies are told, rather than read about the discredit in some buried blog half a day later.
get tough next time!

File this under the “Big Lie” theory of politics. If you say something enough times, most people will believe it. If Republicans say that there were no terrorist attacks under Bush’s watch over and over again, people will begin to believe it. What they want you to believe is that under Republicans you are safe and under Democrats you are unsafe.
I am hopeful that truth will prevail, but it’s not going to happen by itself. The media needs to come out forcefully on this and knock down the big lie.

George,
How in the world you did not refute when Giuliani lied? People lose common sense and honesty once they start earning millions!

I am not even going to address nor respond to the lack of honor and truth Guiliani comments, because he simply confirmed his ignorance. However, I will comment on my disappointment of George Stephanopoulos’s integrity as a journalist. I have always felt George was a fair commentator and reporter, who always seemed to hold everyone he interviewed on high level truth and limited spin; yet, he sat there and brushed over Guiliani’s obvious untrue statement. It’s just disappointing to watch a high quality journalist become a cartoon illustrator.

Respectfully, Mr. Stephanopoulos, this type of thing should not, MUST not go unchallenged. “No domestic attacks under Bush?” I’ve given up on Giuliani and the rest of the Republican Party long ago, but if the media doesn’t hold these people accountable, who will?

A shining example of today’s journalistic integrity. What a loser. There was a time when I actually thought George had some scruples. Not anymore.
Rudy…………a political hack if there ever was one. What a waste of oxygen.

When are the members of the media going to hold these guys accountable for their statements. Guiliani usualy can’t get thru “Hello” without invoking 9/11 but in this case totaly disregards that awful day to make his POLITICAL point. I would expect as much from the like of the lunatic fringe ie Hannity when he let Petrino rant but not Stephanopolous, what a horrible job.

Why didn’t you call Giuliani out on his blatant lie, George? Do you consider yourself a journalist? If so, do your job.

This man serves to divide, not unite the country. Stop the hate mongering, Giuliani!

This is some nice journalism George! The problem with correcting Guiliana here in your blog and not real time is that very few people are reading this in relation to watching your program. Be a real journalist and mention his blatant lie tomorrow on your show. Also, it would not hurt to call yourself out on tv for not challenging him on his ridiculous statement in real time. George, do you have any idea how many people are qualified to ask questions and not challenge them on their answers!?! Ridiculous!!!

Rudy Giuliani is a gutless lying weasel.
This coward supported Bush & Cheney for eight long years while they destroyed the U.S. economy and lied America into two hopeless unwinable wars.
Rudy Giuliani ran for President and NO ONE voted for him !!!
George Stephanopoulos is nothing but a corporate appologist for the Disney corporation.
Corporate lies and propaganda are Stephanopoulos’s one trick pony.

It’s people like George “Softball” Stephanopoulos that makes media look extremely bad.
You supposed reporters & journalists NEVER challenge statements or dig deeper with any analytical skill, especially against Republican attacks on our Presdident, especially when you know what they are saying 99% of the time doesn’t make sense.
You all need to get away from letting “soundbite journalism” get through & challenge these people on accuracy & details.
This is unacceptable George Stephanopoulos.

Come on George, man up and do your job. America has admired your interviewing skills but now that you are on GMA you are turning into a wuss. Welcome to the sissy world of Wolf Blitzer and Matt Laurer. I’m sure FOX sent you a thank you note.

George are you a hack? Why did you, in essence, let Rudy sit there and do a 5 minute ad for the GOP? Whey didn’t you confront his lies? Why didn’t you remind him of the 5 or six attacks on the US since 9/11 under Bush? Hello? The Shoe Bomber? The deadly anthrax attacks? Postal workers dead and no one caught. There were more but you get my drift. You let him go on so that the viewers got false info that there were no attacks. No good correcting it here or later. No one ever sees corrections. Was it deliberate on your part or are you a hack?

“If you have a person in the military system you can question him endlessly for as long as you have to, make sure you’ve gotten the full scope of information, and here’s the most important point, you get it timely,”
So wait, the two main benefits of the military system are:
(1) We can question them for a long, long time, and:
(2) They tell you what you want to know very quickly?
Does no one else see how those points are completely idiotic when taken together?

He is an LIER and no one call him out!! What was 9/11? It was after GW Bush was already 8 months in office.

Giuliani spots outright lies on Good Morning America and George doesn’t challenge that? Clearly, he, and ABC have no integrity and lack any familiarity with the term “journalism”. I’ll never watch ABC again, and I’m guessing thousands of others, rightfully, share my indignation.

AIR THIS STORY. You owe it to your country and to the name of decent journalism.

I’m sorry, I beg to differ with George Stephanopoulos’ “eleventh-hour” retraction-slash-Mae Culpa. Lately, even on his Sunday Show he tends to excoriate any Democratic leader, while…questioning wise, giving all past and present Republican leaders a pass. I’m not a journalist, but I know one of the first rules is…hello, “Follow-up.”
No, George clearly knew exactly Giuliani’ bankrupt-mindset was castigating President Obama. This same sort of passive press-corps…clearly so brutally browbeating during the Clinton years, are literally conditioned to yield any challenge to the GOP during an interview. And what shocking, George was right there with Bill Clinton during the whitewater, impeachment, and Monica Lewinsky witch-hunt underwritten by the most rabid of America’ far-right-wing Republicans.
Go back and review his interviews with McCain and Obama during the Presidential race…even the lead-up to the Iraq war. Even then, you could see the media difference to the GOP. I’ve gotten so tired of shouting the follow-up questions to George on Sundays, that I’ve stopped watching the show at all. Meet the Press have meet the same fate.
David Gregory is so partisan towards the Republicans…not his closeness to the former Bush-Cheney administration, that soon after Tim Russet’s death I also stopped watching his show. George Stephanopoulos needs to make a public retraction on GMA…pronto!

Stephanopoulos you should be ashamed. It is an indication of how your ascent in the msm has dulled your edge. Republicans like Giuliani have been lying like this repeatedly. They understand that if they say it WITHOUT CHALLENGE from the media millions and millions of people will believe it regardless of its utter lack of resemblance to the truth. That is one of the fundamentals of their political strategy, and it depends upon media figures like you playing into their hands and lending legitimacy to their boldfaced lies by not challenging them on the spot.
How in the world could you not know this and be prepared for it? No amount of subsequent apology will make up for the damage done to the country by your complete abrogation of journalistic integrity and responsibility. It is sad to see how the culture of celebrity and the seduction of fame has made it possible for you to become just another easily manipulated tool of the liars on the right.

The entire federal government under Bush had days worth of advance notice of Hurricane Katrina and that response was a massive failure, a government catastrophe. Rudy should just stay home with whatever wife he’s got now.

Umm? Is it just me or does anyone else remember 9/11?
What about the anthrax attacks?
I am no fan of Obama, but really, how does the media let this Rudy guy get away with bloated statements?

Hey George, your name is Stephanopholus,
not Snuffleupagus. Be a journalist, not
a fuzzy pal to these liars. Call them on
their baloney. 911 occurred on the BUSH
CHENEY watch. Not Bill’s, not Barry’s.

George -
Please get a copy of tonight’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann with Lawrence O’Donnell sitting in. The first piece skewers Guiliani…listing all the “terrorist” attacks that happened AFTER 9/11 on Bush’s watch. And what about 9/11!!!! Guiliani was blamed by many of the 9/11 families for all his failures before the attack and this man has made a fortune out of being a security expert. What a fake, heinous individual he is.
Why do you continue to give this man time and space to spew his LIES?
Give us all a break and remove Guiliani from your guest list.
And do your job the next time, George.

I like Giuliani, but he’s now a certified IDIOT. No terrorist attacks under “W”?
#1 Shoe bomber en route to NYC
#2 Unibomber (lethal terrorist attack)
#3 Anthrax in D.C.
and I guess we all well remember 911…
Giuliani…GIVE IT UP!

I have always had a great respect for ABC news and Mr. Stephanopoulos in particular. But when he sits there and allows some one to out and out lie and not call them out, I begin to wonder about your credibility. I expect this sort of thing from Fox News not ABC. I read the apology but that is not enough. I feel that there needs to be an editorial statement that Mr. Giuliani was giving false information and then set the record straight.This should be the big story. Your credibility is at stake.

When anyone in my personal sphere claims authority and then says something so ridiculously false (whether intentionally or from stupidity) I no longer give them credibility and I certainly don’t welcome to a platform where they can make more of the same to a large audience. Somehow, George, say what you will, I’m fairly certain Rudy’s going to keep coming back on your show, and likely you’re going to just sit there and let him say it, just as I see on the video here. Perhaps news commentary might actually be better if the folks who are consistently factually wrong or consistently make wrong predictions were replaced. I don’t care which shade of the political spectrum; dump the liars and the spinners from getting a platform to speak on your program.

Mr. Giuliani seems to have a very short memory.
-9/11
-Anthrax scare
- shoe bomber
- DC snipers

How dare Mayor Giuliani pretend the blood and pain caused by the 911 terrorist attack during the Bush Adminisration never occurred. Americans and specifically New Yorkers are still rebounding from the attack.
George Stephanopolus should move to Fox News where facts and reality don’t matter. Or maybe ABC has changed it’s format to fiction. God bless the heroic dead victims of 9/11.

Typical historical revisionism by the extreme left. Everyone knows a Democrat was President, terrorist attacks could never happen under a Republican.

George I watched you on Sundays and sometimes would scream at the television

George, just as you let George Will spew lies every Sunday, u are not challenging liars on your show. All Republicans lie and you so called journalists allow them to and they continue unabated. Thank God some of us read and can see through the BS. You belong on Fox where fact do not matte; shame on you I guess you too are bought and paid for.

Gee, George, maybe next time you’ll manage to screw up the courage to call people on their lies while they’re on your show. Coward!

Public Ethics – fairness, facts, and unbiased arbitration – are the hallmarks of good journalists, mature citizens, and statesmanlike leaders. This is not achieved by merely publishing 2 points of view, or ‘values butting heads as Fox does. Shame on ABC and George for shirking journalistic responsibility to clarify facts when misrepresented by proponents of particular values. Ethics must trump values to sustain a democracy.

Convenient comment coming from a man who ordered a 6000 gallon fuel tank installed into Building 7 WTC along with the Office of Emergency Management.

Do not forget the Anthrax attacks which killed Americans, and created national fear only surpassed by 9-11. Do not forget the Tennesee church shooter who went to murder children at a liberal church because he blamed liberals for his food stamps being reduced.
I am glad Obama is trying the underoo bomber in civilian court because he committed a crime against the people. The underoo bomber will be singing like a lark after he spends some time in a US prison bunking with white supremacist gang members. Why Guiliani wants the underoo bomber to be housed comfortably with his fellow terrorist buddies is beyond me. Rudy disgusts me.

Are Republicans all on drugs? Bashing Michael Steele and now coming out with “there was no attack on the US during George Bush’s administration? This is their campaign strategy for 2012, with Sarah Palin at the helm.

This is one of the greatest failures of journalism ever. You and every other journalist that tip toes around the hard questions are THE reason why people remain so ignorant and passive. Grow a pair.

George, does any of these ring a bell? Come on George, you’re not that dumb!
June 5, 2003: John Noster arrested in LA w/cache of pipe bombs, jet fuel, weapons, and assorted books alleging a worldwide socialist conspiracy.
March 3, 2005: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azana drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus at UNC at Chapel Hill, injuring 9.
April 3, 2006: Allen Weatherford arrested in MN with cache of weapons, detonation devices, fuel oil, and fertilizer intended to blow up a local courthouse.
July 28, 2006: Naveed Haq kills 1 and hospitalizes 5 in a shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
Aug 30, 2006: Omeed Aziz Popal kills 1 and injures 17 in SUV rampage that began in Fremont, CA, and ended at the Jewish Community Center of SF.
Dec 22, 2006: Derrick Shareef’s “violent jihad” attack on an Illinois shopping mall disrupted by feds.
Feb 12, 2007: Sulejman Talović opens fire at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5, injuring 4, while shouting “Allahu Akbar!”

By the way, how is the recent attack the fault of Obama? It is definitely less the fault of Obama than it is the fault of the previous president.

Terror Attacks Under Bush: 22
Deaths: 3010
July 27, 2008 – Jim David Adkisson shoots two persons in a Unitarian Church
May 5, 2008 – Pipe Bomb detonated outside Federal Courthouse in San Diego
March 7th, 2008 – Bomb detonated at Times Square Recruiting center in NY.
December 6, 2007: Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd’s clinic in Albuquerque.
May 9, 2007: Unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
April 25, 2007: A package left at a women’s health clinic in Austin, Texas contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death.
April 16, 2007 – Terrorism? Virginia Tech Shootings.
September 13, 2006 David McMenemy crashed his car into the Edgerton Women’s Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and then started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions, however Edgerton is not an abortion clinc.
March 2006 – Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
December 12, 2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana.
July 4, 2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida was the target of an arson.
October 1, 2005 – Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma killing himself in the process.
October 2002 – John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks
July 4, 2002 – An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself.
May 2002: Luke Helder injures 6 by placing pipebombs in mailboxes in the Midwest.
January 5, 2002 – 15yo Charles Bishop, expressing sympathy for bin Laden, crashes his Cessna into a Tampa Florida Skyscraper
June 11, 2001: Tacoma, Washington bombing destroys a Clinic Wall
December 12, 2001 – Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.
December 22, 2001 – Richard Reid attempts to bomb flight 63
November 2001 – Clayton Waagner mails powder-laden envelopes to 550+ Clinics, is convicted on 51 counts in 2003.
September 2001 – 5 People Killed, 17 Infected by Anthrax laden letters, $250million spent cleaning up postal facilities.
September 11, 2001 – 15 Saudis, 2, UAEs, 1 Egyptian and 1 Lebanese Hijackers kill 2,973 persons, cost billions of dollars, and cause permenant, irreparable damages to modern societies freedoms to the United States citizens.
Terror Attacks Under Obama: 6
Deaths: 15
Christmas Underpants Bomber
November 5, 2009 – Ft. Hood Gunman killed 13, injured 30.
June 11, 2009 – White Supremacist Von Brunn kills woman at Holocaust Museum
May 31, 2009 – Dr. George Tiller Murdered
February 4th, 2009 – West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Trent P. Pierce Chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board was critically injured in a car bombing that occurred in his drive way.
January 22, 2009 (2 days into office) – Matthew Derosia drives his SUV into a Planned Parenthood facility
I’m updating this list as I remember or come across them. I know I’ve missed a few (Ft Hood) but my shift is up and I haven’t the time so post the ones I missed.
An increase in number of Terror Attacks this early in the game would signify the Bush Administrations responsibility for the enabling, glorification and formation of new terrorism. Remember, Planning for 9/11 began around 1996, 5 years time to generate and carry out such a plan.
The Inability to prevent such attacks speaks volumes as to the amount of intelligence gathered by terrorists to bypass our detection systems, and the failure to keep such practices guarded by the previous administration.
One wonders how many Muslims are now willing to justify murdering Americans at home and abroad and terrorizing the general public now that they’ve seen the atrocities committed against Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Muslim interests through Bush’s Holy Warring.

shame shame shame Rudy,we know you and your party still didn’t get it yet,you need to find right way not this way you guys hurting your party with this can of lies.

Giuliani has discredited himself off the stage. I hope the invitations he receives to speak as an “expert” will be severely curtailed after this ridiculous assertion regarding terrorism.

George, I’m waiting to hear what you have to say about your dropping this ball all the way down to the basement at ABC. I know the interview was live, I know Rudy Giuliani speaks fast, and so do you, there is absolutely no reason for you to have let him get away with saying something like that. I don’t want to hear your excuses on Twitter or Facebook, I want to hear it on National TV, where you let him get away with that lie. “Countdown” last night mentioned ten (10) separate terrorist attacks on U.S. soil during the Bush/Cheney years, and I am sure there were even more. I’m waiting for your full report on the facts behind this out and out lie you let get by unchallenged. No more excuses allowed here for Republicans OR Democrats to get on national television and lie and distort the facts to the American public, who pays their salary. DO YOUR JOB OR GO HOME.

I’ll be waiting to hear what you have to say tomorrow on “Good Morning America” about letting Rudy Guiliani get away with saying ‘we’ve had no domestic attacks under Bush.’
That was an out and out lie, and you should have called him on it, or at the least someone behind the set there on the show should have jumped in front of the camera and said, “No, we can not let you get away with that – what are you saying here?”
No wonder more people get their news from Jon Stewart than from network news today. All you professional newspeople and interviewers are softies on both parties, letting them get away with out and out lies or half truths or spins on everything.
You are only hurting yourselves when you do this, there are people who catch them, just look at all these comments here.

July 4, 2002: A gunman opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport while standing in line at the ticket counter of Israel’s El Al Airlines, officials said, killing two and wounding four others before an airline security officer shot him dead.
Authorities identified the gunman as 41-year-old Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who came to the United States from Egypt in 1992 and had been living in Irvine, California, for the last two years.

George: you are as pathetic (and as culpable) as Rudy! I am reminded that Jon Stewart is the most trusted name in news, now that Cronkite is gone: George you need to study what Jon does — he would *never* let a guest get away with such an outrageous LIE on HIS SHOW! Now I happen to be from Oxford, CT, ground-zero in the anthrax attacks so I am especially offended by George (I’ve grown to expect this from Rudy and the rest of the Bush apologists). Shame on you George!

Not even to follow up with a question that would all Giuliani to clarify his statement? The media are allowing Giuliana and Mary Matalin to rewrite history right in front of our faces. How do we counteract the lies from the right if the George doesn’t even have enough sense to review ABC’s archives? After 9/11, George Bush told everyone to go shopping. Imagine, just imagine President Obama saying such a thing.

I am confused. If we do not count 911. What is the difference between the Shoe Bomber and the recent Christmas Attacks.
I worry about Rudy’s hasty judgment and spin. He is the one I worry about being our president.

George Stephanopoulos, I’m no longer
watching your show. You have ZERO
integrity for allowing Rudy’s statement to go unchallenged. Shame on you.

What, is Rudy selling a book published by ABC’s corporate parent or something?
Why even have this blowhard EX-mayor, painfully UNsuccessful presidential candidate on your show? Liz Cheney wasn’t available? Sarah Palin charges too much?
Giving these dim bulbs national access to hurl unsubstantiated, patently false charges against the President who is trying to solve problems THEY and THEIR FRIENDS created is not only stupid, it’s dangerous to our country.
You should be ASHAMED and not just for your journalistic lapse on this.

Mr. 9/11 tells you to your face that there were no domestic attacks under Bush, and you don’t even ask him to clarify that? That was pathetic, George.

Wow! It really is amazing how so many American have forgotten that during the Clinton years, national security was not at the forefront, that is why 9/11 happened. This was a plot the enemy was working on long before Bush was in office. Also, a reminder to those who forgot, Clinton was offered Bin Laden on a silver platter, not once, but twice. He didn’t take BL off the Sudanese government’s hands. Perhaps had he left his golf game and took national security seriously, 9/11 would have never happened or perhaps at least crushed Bin Laden’s plan. Remember, BL was behind this horrible attack.

NO attacks under Bush ? The arrogance and revisionist history of the past 8 years continues.It was Giulianis brilliant idea to put the emergency office in the World Trade Center (the main target of terrorism)and his refusal to fund better communications between NYPD and NY fire contributed to the lack of communication between depts. on 9-11 and may have saved lives and now this incredibly stupid statement.I guess being on camera all the time after a disaster somehow makes him a hero.I think George S. should be ashamed of his lack of Journalistic curiosity after that bold untruth by Giuliani just shows what happens when you stop being a journalist and become a smiling morning show host cupcake.Wow have I lost a lot of respect for him.

George S. and the marketing department at ABC news,
You might want to rethink the name of your site: George’s Bottom Line.
It drips with irony which should not be confused with sarcasm. Example of the latter: That was a hard hitting interview with Giuliani. Well played.

George, I know ABC is like the christian network and they pay your salary but how about doing your job as a journalist.

America, how ungrateful you are!
How dare you force Mr.Giuliani to apologize for what he did not mean. He was a hero who saved 25,000 lives trapped in the hell of the Twin Towers by organizing rescue teams of firemen and policemen, 300 of them died. He worked for weeks day and night even though at that time he was diagnosed with cancer. This is the usual diatribe between Democrats and Republicans.

Can’t Guilianni go away, he’s washed up. By the way George welcome to the Republican Party. It’s a long time since the Clinton administration,huh? Good luck with your friends(the Tea Party,Sarah Palin Michelle Balkin, Elizabeth Hasselback). Noting like selling out for a paycheck. We know that ABC is the christian channel but do your job as a jornalist.

First Giuliani gets it wrong, saying no attacks happened under Bush’s watch; then Stephanopoulos fails to correct Giuliani on this major misstatement. These two guys are making big bucks every year when so many in this country do not have jobs and are losing their homes?! What inequity!

100,000 dead in Iraq, including over 3000 US troops. Nice work, Rudy.

George Stephanopoulos wrong in not asking questions – Michael’s Bottom Line

Note to Kathy…he did nothing to prevent further attacked on the subways prior to the attack on the building and one was in the basement of the world trade center. He should not throw stones.

Guiliani (& George Pataki) – the world’s most overpaid tour guides.

Also, Mr. Stephanopoulos? Ridiculous that you let the no-terror-attacks-during-Bush’s-admin BS slide. I honestly have no idea what you believe, and I believe that that’s appropriate, because your ideology should not come into play, but you should be fired, because you never do your job, whether it’s as a moderator during debates or as an investigative reporter during interviews. You’re simply incompetent.

giuliani seems to forget where he got his glory at 9/11. the big photo opts. and george thinks to let this guy off with one of the most stupidest remarks. now you see how things went wrong for 8 years people like giuliani and george w mistelling the truth. I have a hard time watching the morning shows anymore they are one sided. republician.

We all know Rudy Giuliani is against anything the President Obama does, but to totally dismiss 911 when Bush sat in a classroom looking like a deer caught in headlights when he was informed just means that he is also suffering from Dementia. And if he is going to be head of Olympic security, God help us all.

Maybe Giuliani was talking about the Ft. Hood incident? I hope someone bothered to check that because if that IS what he meant then Stephanopolous and ABC News all look really stupid. Giuliani would still look like he’s playing politics and full of crap…but he is accurate.

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