He Is Our Guy
If only all politicians had the leadership skills of our guy Rudy, New Yorkers from the left and the right lamented. .
Yet when I woke up this morning, I could not get over how quickly and completely the solemnity of Sept. 11 has vanished and been supplanted by
Nothing actually.
The NYFD ball caps that proliferated in Culver City in 01 and 02 have vanished. So has every other instant symbol of that supposedly unforgettable day.
New Yorkers Not Culver Citians
Our dear friends on the Left, famous for their short attention spans, told us six years ago that all Americans should become honorary New Yorkers, out of sympathy for the massive massacre and upheaval they had suffered on Sept. 11.
Weeping Europeans deigned to become honorary Americans forever.
Until the day they died or the next Bulgy Britney MTV special was screened.
Mess at Mosque Last Year
Even last year, we were lectured, like slow-minded children, that we should never forget the gravest date in American history.
As recently as 366 days ago, Sept. 11 still was a big deal.
Do you recall that last Sept. 11, a cluster of raggedy yahoos, spoiling for a fight, assembled at the King Fahad Mosque on Washington Boulevard to see how many scuff marks they could put on the sacred date?
Came the deluge and we should not have been surprised how the powerful far Left reacted.
The Igniting Decision
Faith and begorrah, on as fine a morning as Paddys pig ever saw, last February, Mr. Guiliani declared for the Republican nomination for the Presidency.
Overnight that wonderfully reflective time span the man who formerly was the toast of New York City and the Western world became toast himself. He didnt change. The Left did.
Our non-judgmental friends on the Left, who only would kill their mothers if they had to, or if she voted Republican, with fearless fire in their eyes, set out to burn down, to invalidate, Mr. Giulianis bid.
The strategy was crayon-simple.
Tearing Down a Hero
Since his candidacy was built around his heroics of Sept. 11 although his resume shows far more impressive mayorly success as a law-and-order leader the Left furiously began delegitimizing Sept. 11.
It is hardly bulletin-worthy that the Left has lost its way when it comes to reasoning and strategizing. They have lost 5 of the last 7 Presidential elections, and 7 of the last 10, with nutty tactics just like this.
A daily tidal wave of anti-Giuliani newspaper and television propaganda Sept. 11 is vastly overhyped, he has been married 3 times, his children are going to vote for anybody else, and his newest wife, my golly, prefers brown shoes in the daytime has knocked 9/11 down to the stature of 10/21 or 12/13.
Drifting into Irrelevance
The culmination came 3 days ago. The New York Times, of all people, wearing as straight of a face as the far Left can muster, protested that Sept. 11 has been overstated, overmourned. The Times, once august, has descended into a journalistic whorehouse the last 4 years under its latest far-left editor, Bill Keller, and its farther left publisher, Punch Salzberger, and daily they give us fresh evidence.
Digest this, for example.
Last Sunday, 2 days before the 6th anniversary of Sept. 11, Times reporter N.R. Kleinfeld actually wrote: Many people feel that the collective commemorations, publicly staged, are excessive and vacant, even annoying.
If Mr. Giuliani is defeated next year for the nomination, I expect the Times will say what many of us always hope the Left will admit when it has grossly misbehaved: Just kidding.
