Video: Sad yet staggeringly ironic Giuliani mayoral campaign ad
posted at 2:41 pm on March 8, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Thanks to a reader who tipped us to this. It just hit YouTube today courtesy of someone calling himself “richd2000″. Wouldn’t you know it, it’s the first video “rich” has ever posted.
It’s listed at YT as having aired in 1993, but that’s incorrect. It’s from his 1989 campaign and it raised eyebrows at the time because of the possible conflict of interest involved in Donna Hanover being an anchor on the local news.
It’ll raise eyebrows again now, but for a completely different reason.
Here’s related video that’s also old, albeit not as old as that first one. It’s from Monday’s Situation Room and it features our favorite curmudgeonly jackass reacting a little too strongly, snidely, and strangely — once again — to some person or event that he doesn’t think much of. The peg this time was Andrew Giuliani telling reporters he has “problems” with his father because of how he treated his mother. As most New Yorkers will remember, a seven-year-old Andrew famously mimicked Rudy’s gestures and acted up on the dais during Rudy’s inauguration speech in 1993; non-New Yorkers need to know that to understand what Cafferty’s talking about here.
Update: Meanwhile, James Dobson is paying some attention to a guy who’s — supposedly — not even running.
Update: Rudy being blasted by the International Association of Firefighters? Sure. Look who the union president’s campaigned for.
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Man, they are really grasping at straws at this early stage of the game…Rudy must have them running scared.
DoctorDentons on March 8, 2007 at 2:48 PM
In my opinion, he’s done so much bad stuff, that no one really will pay attention to it.
Just like when Minnesotans elected Jesse “the Body” Ventura as gov several years ago.
(Shudder)
Dr. Gecko on March 8, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Cafferty inciting child abuse? Think we can get the FCC to take some of his money?
- The Cat
MirCat on March 8, 2007 at 2:57 PM
“He should have been slapped upside the head back then, maybe that’s why he’s so outspoken today.”
Abuse advocate.
Matticus Finch on March 8, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Ouch. Guess Donna won’t be making any commercials for him this time, huh?
dalewalt on March 8, 2007 at 2:59 PM
What a lovely man Jack Cafferty is.
Allah, any chance of digging up the SNL sketch featuring Chris Farley as Andrew Giuliani? I don’t think I’ve seen it since it originally aired in 1994, but I recall it being chuckle-worthy.
flip on March 8, 2007 at 3:11 PM
This from a woman who later decided to play a vagina onstage…
jeffshultz on March 8, 2007 at 3:12 PM
Do you sometime get the feeling we have collectively lost our mind?
honora on March 8, 2007 at 3:24 PM
You’re right…Cafferty is a curmudgeonly jackass.
Rudy also had a heckuva lot more hair back then!!
asc85 on March 8, 2007 at 3:29 PM
Cafferty is simply classless. His jackassery is defining the word “jackassery”.
(I know jackassery is not a real word but it fits so well)
x95b10 on March 8, 2007 at 3:30 PM
It should be a real word ! It fits SO many people.
DoctorDentons on March 8, 2007 at 3:42 PM
Cafferty’s problems stem from an inability to avoid any establishment that serves liquor.
jaleach on March 8, 2007 at 3:51 PM
Cafferty is like some sort of angry, bitter troll mad at the world for some long-forgotten offense. I find him oddly likeable.
JaHerer22 on March 8, 2007 at 3:53 PM
Honora asks: “Do you sometime get the feeling we have collectively lost our mind?”
I’ve been saying that about you Democrats since McGovern.
georgej on March 8, 2007 at 3:54 PM
It depends – is Paris Hilton still famous?
If so, absolutely.
Slublog on March 8, 2007 at 3:59 PM
Donna needs to go back to talking about her vagina..
Wade on March 8, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Ok, here’s a question for you to mull over: when Paris Hilton fills out her 1040, what does she put in that box “occupation”?
honora on March 8, 2007 at 4:06 PM
What does Paris Hilton put in which box?
Enrique on March 8, 2007 at 4:09 PM
..the better question would be what doesn’t Paris….oh never mind.
Bad Honora!!
honora on March 8, 2007 at 4:11 PM
Donna needs to go back to talking about her vagina..
Wade on March 8, 2007 at 4:03 PM
That’s a distasteful, rude remark! and happens to be out of place on here (from what I’ve heard) this won’t hurt Rudy…election 2008/not 2007!
mimi on March 8, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Seeing you have no clue about what you post, let me educate you. Donna starred in “The Vagina Monologues“. Mimi, did you understand what AC said? Probably not.
Wade on March 8, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Maybe Mimi wouldn’t have gotten mad if you would have said,
“Donna needs to go back to talking about her
vagina..box…..”PinkyBigglesworth on March 8, 2007 at 4:48 PM
Be careful you don’t want to go to the B word prison.
Wade on March 8, 2007 at 4:57 PM
I remember well Donna’s press conference that day and I wasn’t the least interested in NY politics. But it was clear that she was blindsided and very very hurt. I felt soo sorry for her.
If they start showing that video, it will be bad news for Rudy.
Rightwingsparkle on March 8, 2007 at 5:06 PM
Uh…”If”?
eeyore on March 8, 2007 at 5:23 PM
With all the bad news since 9/11, with the nastiness from 2000/2004, with the country so divided and contentious, with no skeleton-free candidates on both sides, it will be hard to ‘nail’ any candidate on this/that past.
In Newt Gingrich’s view it will/should be about a substantive debate, actually a series of them – and may the best man/woman then win.
Entelechy on March 8, 2007 at 5:28 PM
…plus how many loads or how much tonnage of ‘dirty laundry’ can we handle between now and Nov. 2008. By then it should all be laundered, or we should be completely indifferent to it.
Entelechy on March 8, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Remember that movie “Seven”? Someone should make a movie that figuratively knocks off all the major candidates based on the 7 deadly sins.
So we got Richardson for LUST; Rudy for LUST; Hillary for PRIDE(?); Obama for SLOTH (ok, that’s all close as I can get for parking tickets); Gore for GLOTTONY
Well, needs work.
honora on March 8, 2007 at 5:32 PM
honora,
You may be on to something there. Heh.
Rightwingsparkle on March 8, 2007 at 5:55 PM
All of the major candidates and potential candidates have a few graveyards in their closets.
As to Wife #2 being hurt by the announcement… it’s not like it was a true surprise. Their marriage was over and amicable divorces that involve children, other people, and a long relationship don’t exist. Examining the specific bad acts of a divorce isn’t really useful, since they’re all bad in their own special cruelties. Newtie isn’t exactly a paragon on this either.
libertarianuberalles on March 8, 2007 at 6:17 PM
Don’t be so hard on Jack. He has a reason for his almost perpetually bad mood. He explained it in the very same forum (”The Vagina Monologues”) as the former Mayor’s wife. It came before Donna Hanover’s “Rudy Doesn’t Like Mine Anymore” and after Paris Hilton’s “There’s No One Left Who Hasn’t Seen Mine” I believe his reading was entitled : “Sand in My Vagina- How it Just Ruins My Day”
So back off and give the poor guy a break, k?
NightmareOnKStreet on March 8, 2007 at 6:31 PM
Cafferty, by appearance and speech patterns, seems to be an on-air drunk. (I’m not joking)
Pam on March 8, 2007 at 7:32 PM
“Where is the vagina monologues booth?”
Wade on March 2, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Seeing you have no clue about what you post, let me educate you. Donna starred in “The Vagina Monologues“. Mimi, did you understand what AC said? Probably not.
Wade on March 8, 2007 at 4:21 PM
How many times you gotta use this??
mimi on March 8, 2007 at 7:58 PM
Will the Real Slim Rudy please stand up?
Honora, you can have Rudy for Adultery!*
*I expect writer’s royalties for that idea….
Tim Burton on March 8, 2007 at 8:24 PM
I loved Farley as Rudy’s son in that SNL skit!
Pam on March 8, 2007 at 9:04 PM
mimi (sic)… It is the truth and you don’t seem to grasp that. Take it up with Donna, she is the one talking about her vagina. She is the one with ‘a distasteful, rude remark!’ about her vagina. I only post her behavior and you got snotty with the messenger. Typical lefty. Can’t face the subject so attack the messenger. No matter what you think or say will not change the fact that Donna talked about her vagina. There I said it again.
Wade on March 8, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Cafferty has no room to critize the way anyone acts on TV.
csdeven on March 8, 2007 at 9:42 PM
Wade on March 8, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Wade, I’m understanding these points. I’m not here to make a personal attack on you or someone else. A long week is coming to an end, I wish you the best..and did check out ‘Wade’s Inn’ you have the wrong idea about me, smile friend :)
mimi on March 8, 2007 at 10:01 PM
Cafferty, similar to “He should have been smacked over the head, the kid was fat and obnoxious, and maybe that’s why he’s so outspoken today” (from recollection).
Is Cafferty talking about himself?
Entelechy on March 8, 2007 at 10:24 PM
Glad to help – but who the heck will we vote for then?
Entelechy on March 8, 2007 at 10:43 PM
notice how honora’s spelling gets worse as she gets increasingly drunk as the day wears on? By ‘high tea’ time she’s out cold–that’s why she never posts after 4-5 pm
Cafferty, like honora, is a mentally ill drunk–perfect for CNN’s audience
Janos Hunyadi on March 9, 2007 at 1:47 AM
No worries Mimi. My Blog is only something to amuse me. Please accept my best wishes for you.
Wade on March 9, 2007 at 8:47 AM
Shhhhh. You don’t want to wake your mom up.
honora on March 9, 2007 at 10:44 AM
There’s the rub!! Oh and Newt for adultery, though I don’t think that’s one of the Seven.
honora on March 9, 2007 at 10:46 AM
That’s what I meant with Newt (and, heh, I wrote that before all the articles of today, which write as if it was just revealed that he had an affair at the time – idiot reporters – we all knew it then, what’s the news today?)
We don’t have to stick to the script of “seven”. Your idea was fun. Thanks and have a great weekend. Regards,
Entelechy on March 9, 2007 at 12:28 PM
What the hell…?
mikeyboss on March 9, 2007 at 3:44 PM
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