Key Giuliani Adviser Sounds Off on Bush Foreign Policy Mistakes

Fox News ^ | November 12, 2007 | Mosheh Oinounou

[libstripper]

Thanks for posting this Human Events article about an interview with professor Hill. It's a lot more detailed than the Fox News article I posted. It also allays a lot of the concerns that were raised by the Fox article. I urge everyone who's read the Fox article to read this one.

[highball]

My take on this is that if you can’t find anything the presidential candidate has said that is contentious and might upset his supporters, find a remark by someone on the candidates staff who said something that you can then link to the candidate by implying that the remark reflects the candidates views. It’s called “guilt by association” and is a time tested MSM technique.

When "Rudy Giuliani’s chief foreign policy adviser" makes statements about foreign policy, it is very fair to attribute the remarks to the campaign proper.

But people do sometimes go too far. In that case, Rudy will come out and rebuke his advisor, publicly distancing himself from the remarks and perhaps even firing the advisor, if he feels strongly enough that the remarks do not reflect his position. If he does, this is no longer an issue. Until then, it is.

But we'll see Shouldn't take long for Rudy to hear about this. If he does not agree, we'll know soon enough.

[ridge]

What about the Giuliani foreign policy mistakes? Giuliani sent his mob crew to Iraq. Kerik totally dropped the ball on his responsiblity to train the Iraqi police. Then again Kerik’s mission might been related less to Iraqi’s law enforcement more to his crime ring.

[George W. Bush]

Any of you see this one yet?

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Judith Regan Sues Murdoch Empire

Publisher claims firing done to protect Giuliani presidential bid

NOVEMBER 13--Judith Regan, the volcanic publishing industry figure who sought to publish O.J. Simpson's "I Did It" (and trysted with Bernard Kerik in an apartment overlooking Ground Zero) today sued Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate for defamation, claiming that she was unjustly tarred as an anti-Semite when fired last year. In a blistering $100 million lawsuit filed today in New York State Supreme Court, Regan, 54, accuses several defendants, including Murdoch's News Corporation and HarperCollins Publishers, of orchestrating a smear campaign that was intended to advance the Murdoch political agenda and protect "Rudy Giuliani's presidential ambitions." According to Regan, Murdoch employees were aware of her personal relationship with Kerik and, fearing she had damaging information on Giuliani's former police commissioner and business partner, "knew they would be protecting Giuliani if they could preemptively discredit her." The Murdoch firms did this, Regan charges, by claiming she made anti-Semitic statements during a phone conversation with a HarperCollins lawyer. However, the ousted editor alleges, the offensive statements were never made-an assertion she says is backed up by a temporary secretary who listened in on the call in question. An excerpt from Regan's sprawling 72-page complaint (which even quotes from the tawdry sex suit once filed against Fox News Channel star Bill O'Reilly) can be found below. The entire lawsuit, in a PDF form, can be downloaded here. (4 pages)

Judith Regan Sues Murdoch Empire - November 13, 2007

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Murdoch favors Hitlery and is going to throw a big fundraiser for her. Rudi is his backup plan.

I haven't seen a thread on this yet at FR. I thought one of you might have more info to add to this to kind of flesh it out. I think it's up on DrudgeReport now too.