Rudy Giuliani was, at one time long ago, "America's Mayor." This was post-9/11, when America needed a hero. Giuliani fit the bill. His fall from grace is even more disturbing, given the lofty place from which he fell. He is now a cartoon, a blubbering idiot, a fool. And a danger to our country.
Giuliani was reveling in his role as "TV lawyer" for our current Liar-in-Chief while in Israel yesterday. His stupidity in denigrating Kim Jong Un publicly was on display in this one comment: "Kim Jong Un got on his hands and knees and begged for it (the canceled summit), which is exactly the position you want to put him in." Nothing like humiliating the man with whom you want to have a serious conversation about something as critical as denuclearization. As of this writing, there has been no response from North Korea, but my guess is that Giuliani's comment did not meet with compassion and understanding from "Little Rocket Man."
But that's not the most important takeaway from the Israel debacle. Part of Giuliani's spiel involved his take on Stormy Daniels. Defending his boss against the accusations leveled by Daniels, Giuliani chose to step back in time several decades to denigrate women by attacking their looks and implying that a woman's worth is based on her appearance and her occupation.
"Excuse me, but when you look at Stormy Daniels? I know Donald Trump, look at his three wives, beautiful women, classy women, women of great substance. Stormy Daniels?" (Sorry that I can't insert the scornful noises and looks that accompanied these comments.)
The irony of someone who looks (and acts) like Giuliani dissing a woman for her looks is just beyond the pale. And holding up the THREE wives of his boss, one of whom was a nude model, as icons of womanhood just boggles the mind.
"So, yes, I respect all human beings. I even have to respect, you know, criminals. But I'm sorry, I don't respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman or a woman of substance or a woman who has great respect for herself as a woman and as a person and isn't going to sell her body for sexual exploitation."
Did he just say that a criminal is worthy of more respect than a woman whose chosen career doesn't meet with his standards? Did he blatantly invoke a double standard in that his boss uttered the infamous "grab 'em by the pussy" comment? Does he really think that there is anyone left on this planet who does not believe that his boss willingly cavorted with a porn star and paid her to keep quiet about it?
In a conversation with Chris Hayes on All In, Elie Mystal of Above the Law summed up what's going on here by labeling it a "puritanical game" and casting Stormy Daniels as Hester Prynne. If this is Making America Great Again, I want out.
And Rudy Giuliani is an ass.
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