The familiar herd instinct of the mainstream media is powerful, unswerving and often plain wrong. While editors and producers are supposed to make judgments based on a combination of news value and public interest, their choices often seem to be based on nothing more elevated than an allergy to complexity or an affinity for smut. And occasionally, as in the case of Rudolph Giuliani during this past week, the sudden appearance of not one but two juicy investigations overwhelms the system's capacity to absorb and regurgitate.
You have to give Rudy credit for some things. Afterall, between having the city of New York pay for travel for his extra-marital affairs and his ties to dealing with and trading with "the enemy" Rudy has all the correct characteristics to make him a fine Repignofascist leader. He'll be right out of the mold of the Bushies, Henry Hyde, Mitch McConnell and Tom DeLay...to name just a few of them.
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