Rudy can fail, and must

What’s so remarkable about the rise of Rudy Ghouliani is that the facts are irrelevant, just as was the case of Young Bush preceeding 2000. Then, the callow (in his 50s!!!!), clueless, spoiled brat who always got his way because his daddy’s friends helped him out of one mess after another (a story clear as daylight if you looked for it) completely foretold the incompetence, callousness, ignorance, and meanness that has led to the disasters of his reign. But the media just kept parroting the party line about restoring dignity and honor to the office, blah-blah-blah (and everybody still mouths the GOP lying point about Gore claiming to have invented the internet). Now, Rudy keeps repeating “9/11” and “terrorism” so that he’ll come across as the man on horseback a fair number of Americans crave. Kevin Baker and Wayne Barrett dissect this nonsense and show us the clannish, profoundly creepy little bully underneath the makeup. Baker argues that he’d be worse than Bush. Barrett lists five of the biggest lies. Personally, how anybody could support him after the Bernie Kerik episode is lost on me, but of course facts are pretty irrelevant to modern image-making. Brand Rudy is set in stone and the Big Lie is hard to overthrow. Certainly the corporate media isn’t going to set the record straight.