New Rudy Ad Features Bhutto Footage, Warns Of Death At Hands Of Radical Muslims
Rudy Giuliani has a new ad in New Hampshire and Florida, the only two January states left that he's contesting. The ad's message is simple, and shows just how blatant the Rudy campaign has become in their appeals to fear — that if we don't vote for Rudy, we'll be vulnerable to Osama Bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the people who assassinated Benazir Bhutto, and every other radical Muslim villain out there:
Comments (72)
dcshungu wrote on January 2, 2008 6:19 PM:Now, this has gone beyond just desperation to bordering on the "obscene."
Keith wrote on January 2, 2008 6:21 PM:How are we supposed to vote for him if we are all hiding under our beds?
lestatdelc wrote on January 2, 2008 6:24 PM:In the mode of falling trees in a forest and all... If Mr. Sex On the City sets his hair on fire and screams "Bhutto-9/11, Bhutto-9/11, Bhutto-9/11!" in order to recapture the waning attention of GOP voters and none of them look... did it really make any heat?
Anonymous wrote on January 2, 2008 6:26 PM:Awesome!
The only hint I had that it was a parody was when the guy doing the voiceover mentioned that OBL is still around. If they had left that out, I might have assumed it was a real Rudy ad.
Allie wrote on January 2, 2008 6:27 PM:Sweet fancy Moses. Now that's a racist ad that would make Tom Tancredo proud.
Allie wrote on January 2, 2008 6:28 PM:Sweet Fancy Moses. Now that's a racist ad that would make Tom Tancredo proud.
JMNYC wrote on January 2, 2008 6:29 PM:lestatdelc - That is hilarious!
Wow! I watched Rudy for 8 yrs as NYC Mayor and he has never seemed as desparate as now. Why did this guy ever think he could withstand the scrutiny of a national campaign? It has been really fun to watch him implode, though.
WHAT THE F*CK?????!!!!
Seriously, that was very disturbing to me. If that fascist ever gets to White House, god helps us all. And I really, really, really want to know who is going to watch this ad and say to themselves "Oh, yes. I am voting for Giuliani". I think even the reddest, most inbred asshole will find it racist, predatory and just f*cking bizarre without any attempt at subtlety.
This is why we have to nominate Obama!!!! He will give Rudy a SMACKDOWN of monumental proportions.
NCSteve wrote on January 2, 2008 6:30 PM:Great. Mere fearmongering doesn't get it done for them anymore, so rather than experimenting with, oh, say, sanity, Rudy escalates up to fear porn.
lampwick wrote on January 2, 2008 6:43 PM:Has Rudy hired Peter Jackson to do his ads? I kept waiting for Rudy and Kerik to appear dressed like Frodo and Sam, crawling up the slopes of Mt. Doom in a heroic effort to destroy the Ring.
Rudolph the Red Nose Giuliani wrote on January 2, 2008 6:57 PM:Wait! Wait! There is a bomb under your bed! There is a bomb under your bed! And it is full of nucklear stuff! and snakes! and nails! It was put there by a musclelim. Believe me! Don't look behind that corruption curtain, the BOMB will go off! Wait! Wait! 9/11! 9/11!
Vote for me!
Rudy is done done done-ski.
Maybe he wants Dick Cheney's job. You know, the job of darklord puppet master...
Romney plays the ignoramus while Rudy runs the country from an undisclosed location.
Hmmm. Sounds familiar.
Marlowe wrote on January 2, 2008 7:05 PM:This is edging beyond parody. Take a look at the (intentionally) satiric network promo early in Bill Murray's "Scrooged". Almost exactly the same tone.
Anonymous wrote on January 2, 2008 7:06 PM:Wow. He even included the photo of the remains of the WTC.
Crazy people unlike you.
Lots of them.
Chanting.
Even more of them.
With funny names.
One of them died.
9/11.
Be afraid.
Vote Rudy.
Lee Atwater wrote on January 2, 2008 7:15 PM:Poor Rudy doesn't realize that the wingnuts have found a new brown hoard to fear and loathe. The Muslim terrorist is so 2003. It's all about the illegals now!
Chesire111 wrote on January 2, 2008 7:26 PM:The intonation of the final sentence is rather odd. After chronicling in ominous tones all of the many and varied reasons to wet ourselves everytime someone, somewhere in the world says "Allah," there's something in the way he way he says the line:
"America needs a leader who's ready"
that sounds almost cheerful to me. It makes it sound as though Rudy's actually looking forward to armed mayhem.
It just struck me as odd.
cwnidog wrote on January 2, 2008 7:27 PM:Somebody needs to remind me, just exactly what did Rudy do to prevent 9/11 and capture OBL?
I guess when all you've got is failure, you need to prtray your ineptness as strength.
Pembleton wrote on January 2, 2008 7:31 PM:I love the use of women and little kids to drive home the hysteria of a clash between civilizations. Disgusting. Thank you TPM for helping to stop this opportunistic psychopath.
Randy G wrote on January 2, 2008 7:31 PM:Isn't that from the final scene of "Dr. Strangelove?"
PJ wrote on January 2, 2008 7:33 PM:I'm really scared now. Scared of Jeweleryanni. My that man is sick!
Peace!
J.Irons wrote on January 2, 2008 7:36 PM:No wonder Rudy hired security for his trysts - how can you bang if you think a frickin' terrorist is about to break down the door?
cbear wrote on January 2, 2008 7:45 PM: Why, that ad is pathetic. How does he expect to ramp up the wingnut hysteria without including the rape rooms?
What a loser.
Marlowe wrote on January 2, 2008 7:05 PM:
Good call.. I didn't realize that Mr. Sex on the City was actually aping "The Night the Reindeer Died" starring Lee Majors until you mentioned it.
MikeJ wrote on January 2, 2008 7:46 PM:Saturday Night Live really hasn't been funny since, jeesh, probably Belushi. Maybe I'm too old, but I just don't even get this one.
dajafi wrote on January 2, 2008 7:49 PM:LOL. Subtle he ain't!
anonymiss wrote on January 2, 2008 8:02 PM:You know, it remains a total mystery how the Democrats let the Republicans turn "Osama bin laden is still on the loose because the Republican-Controlled government let him escape" into "Because Osama in still on the loose, you have to vote Republican or you'll die."
This is what happens when you let their talking points go unchallenged. When you agree with them that today we're safer than we were before 9/11. When you refuse to admit it was a strategic error to give up on Osama bin laden and go after Saddam and his nonexistent WMDs.
They've been the ruling party for 8 years. Osama bin laden remains a threat BECAUSE of the Republican president.
You know, the Republicans made hay off of "who lost China" for decades, in spite of the fact that it wasn't the Democrats' fault. Think maybe it's time to return the favor, with a little "Who lost Osama?" Especially, um, since it IS their fault?
Patrick in Chicago wrote on January 2, 2008 8:41 PM:Unbelievable! Every time I think one of the Repub candidates has hit the limits of fear mongering and plain ol' tackiness I am surprised once again! I can barely believe it's a real ad.....
Rude Rudy's a real joke.
Have a great night
cms wrote on January 2, 2008 8:47 PM:How nice to see so many comments from folks normally at each other's throats around here together again against a common threat. Goes to show, as difficult as this primary has been in some ways, it won't take us long to rally behind whoever the nominee is. Shit like this ad is so beyond horrific I suspect no enduring grudge against the candidate who beat our favored one will last long.
If the Daily Show were around, they would have to do pitifully little with this ad to make it roll-on-the-floor, pee-in-your-pants funny. It's a satire of itself, for godsakes!
FactsDontMatter wrote on January 2, 2008 8:56 PM:
I heard one of the Fox commentators, shortly after Bhutto was killed, saying directly that this "is an election issue... If they'll shoot her, they'll shoot you!" We should vote, he said, for somebody who will stand up to them properly. He didn't really say who that would be...
And why was I hearing Fox? It was entirely accidental...
r€nato wrote on January 2, 2008 9:11 PM:Il Douche has dug satire out of its mouldering grave, propped it up, whipped out his wang, skullfucked it and then taken a baseball bat to it.
Imelda Blahnik wrote on January 2, 2008 10:08 PM:I have seen this "Il Douche" moniker several times now and every time I read it I snort --nay, cackle -- loudly. I have to commend whoever came up with the name, and if it's you, Renato, my (metaphorical) hat is off. It is priceless. As is your post.
Imelda Blahnik wrote on January 2, 2008 10:10 PM:oh, and Renato - I noticed that your post about il Douche was posted at 9:11....
Rudy Taylor wrote on January 2, 2008 10:42 PM:Rudy Giuliani: at different times either a serial panderer, a serial obfuscater, a serial war monger, or a serial exaggerator.
God help us all, because with this ad he has combined it all into serial crapheadedness.
And isn't the voiceover in the ad the same guy that does the voiceover in the Fox News promo ads and bumpers? Sounds like it to me.
Guess Fox really is on Rudy's side.
the_zapkitty wrote on January 2, 2008 11:34 PM:cbear wrote:
" Why, that ad is pathetic. How does he expect to ramp up the wingnut hysteria without including the rape rooms?"
But the old rape rooms are closed now. The operation was outsourced to KBR and KBR has replaced the old rooms with shipping containers.
After watching Count Rudy Orlok's new ad, I'm surprised he didn't fly to Pakistan and have a production crew film him bathing in Bhutto's blood. That is after all what made him "America's Mayor" in the first place, by walking on the dead at the Twin Towers. He never did a damned thing in is life to prevent a terrorist attack. All he's ever done is exploit terror attacks for political power and financial gain. He's one sick dude. He's the New Age Count Orlok, who grows stronger with each passing death of the innocent.
moondancer wrote on January 3, 2008 12:54 AM:Sad. Should have run clips from Alexandr Nevsky. With the Teutonic knights with blood crosses on their chest against the infidels. Just dont show the ending.
Big Mitch wrote on January 3, 2008 3:53 AM:Okay, Rudy. I will shit my pants at the thought of whoever killed Mrs. Bhuto, if that is what you want. Just tell me, so I will know: Was it al Qaeda, or our ally, Mr. Musharif?
If you can't answer that question, then you really don't know what you will do to fight the murderous forces of evil, do you?
And if your answer is Mr. Musharif, then why have you not repudiated Mr. Bush for propping him up?
I know this level of analysis doesn't impact your core constituency. They would have to take their heads out from under the covers. Or up their asses.
kozmik wrote on January 3, 2008 4:41 AM:Wow. Rudy is really going for the knuckle dragger vote.
Richard L. Adlof wrote on January 3, 2008 6:21 AM:Clinton must be sad that Rude-EE, her slightly less evil and a crapload lot dumber indentical twin separated from birth put out this cinematic gem before her years of experience could . . .
Michael A wrote on January 3, 2008 8:01 AM:Mr. 9/11 is going down. No more racism and fascism in this country. I actually hope he wins the republican nomination, but he won't. He would win no more than a handful of states in the general and we would have a huge landslide, unless of course clinton II is the dem nominee and then we would have a squeaker one way or the other.
Thomas Jefferson wrote on January 3, 2008 10:44 AM:and here you have it folks, the desperate face of someone who loves death.
ghouliani can go rot in hell.
Truthsayer wrote on January 3, 2008 1:11 PM:"Clinton must be sad that Rude-EE, her slightly less evil and a crapload lot dumber indentical twin separated from birth"
What a load of crap! If you think that then yoyu don't know Rudy AT ALL. If clinton was a s bad as Rudy, as you falsely claim, then your ass would be grass my friend. Rudy is vicious.
Democracy under attack??? Is he talking about NYC under Guiliani and the equally contemptible Scumberg?
Tom Wieliczka wrote on January 3, 2008 1:34 PM:Sounds like Rudy's platform to get elected is right down in the gutter with Bush's - - "Be Afraid! Be VERY, VERY AFRAID!!!!"
Did Rudy and his "terror gang" watch the news last year and see WHO killed the students at the various school shootings? Were any of them Radical Muslims?
They are playing right into "Osama been Forgotten's" hands and making everybody FEAR living another day in America.
truthhurts wrote on January 3, 2008 8:58 PM:Jenna L wrote on January 2, 2008 6:29 PM:
"WHAT THE F*CK?????!!!!
Seriously, that was very disturbing to me. "
Wat's the matter..the truth scare you? Oh well, stay under your bed and all will be well.
John Smith wrote on January 3, 2008 10:05 PM:I am a christian. I beg with all of my heart. Stop racism! Vote with your heart and not out of fear. I know that God's love shall prevail.
Jean wrote on January 3, 2008 11:29 PM:We all better get our heads out of the sand and pay special attention as to how we vote. I have no problem, at all, with Mr. Obama being a black man, I do, however, have one hell of a big problem with his Muslim background. If, God forbid, he were to be elected president in 2008, I fear that we Americans will be in for big problems with anything dealing with the Mideastern Muslim Countries.
Joe wrote on January 4, 2008 1:12 AM:Say what you want about racism and Giuliani, but remember this, it was not Giuliani that was shouting death to America in that ad.
You can ignor these people if you want, but you do so at your own peril. They want us dead and openly say so.
Giuliani just got my vote. I'd rather give Bush another 8 years but that is not in the offering
Problem is that what we see in the ad does represent the real world that's out there. Rudy is not a sugar coat candidate. He knows that we can't deal with Islamic terrorism and fanaticism the same way that we deal with illegal immigration. Denial gets us in over our heads.
If this video upsets you, think again. These people are not your friends. They are out to kill you. You saw them behead an American prisoner on international TV. Was that a Rudy ad also?
Get your head out of the sand.
Butz, Seymour wrote on January 4, 2008 1:41 AM:Great ad. Rudy is the only politician that has the gutts to tell it as it is. We need a strong leader like Rudy for President. We can't afford to have an obama or huckabbee elected if we want to remain a super power in the world.
Lhota wrote on January 4, 2008 1:54 AM:
Little Richard had it right all those years ago:
Tutti frutti, au rudy
Gives it to Judy in the booty
A wop bop a loo mop
a wop bam boom
Rudy is great. He shows no fear with the enemy. He is the only hope for America and Western civilization in the confrontation and clash with muslim and islamic fanatics!
Farouk, Strunzu wrote on January 4, 2008 2:05 AM:Rudy shows great courage in facing down the muslim treat. These muslim fanatics will not stop until they are hunted down and killed like dogs in the street. They are a violent people since the beginning of their religion massacring innocent people for over 1300 years. They need to be stopped now!! Rudy can do the job and protect Western civilization from these islamic muslim lunatics and fanatics!!
mr mike wrote on January 4, 2008 3:05 AM:the black thing don,t bother me so much . the fact that we would elect someone that is muslum worries me . i live in nyc. when the towers fell the local food mart that is owned by muslums were outside celebrating . they were like that all over the place.
L wrote on January 4, 2008 7:44 AM:Rudy Giuliani is Muslim?
Stan Mroczkowski wrote on January 4, 2008 9:15 AM:
Giuliani's ad (if in fact it's been released is not pleasant, but certainly is very accurate. The United States has been under attack from a significant portion of the Muslim/Arab world for a long time now, which includes a large number of the Saudi Arabian leadership, which has been funding most of the attacks.
The negative reaction in the many of the comments above is interesting. Are they denying that 9/11 ever occurred or do they think that it can never occur again? Is it just because it's a Giuliani ad and if one of the other candidates (especially a Democrat) said the same things in an ad would their reactions be different?
It would be nice if we could pretend that we are not in a protracted conflict with certain Arab groups, but it would be a serious error. And to a real extent the conflict is about how the Arab world can best position itself as it's oil resources become depleted. I several European countries Arabs have already been demanding semi-autonomy and separate laws for their communities.
AlJoy wrote on January 4, 2008 9:15 AM:
Good for him, great ad. The only problem is Americans cant handle the truth. Its goig to take another terrorist attach on our country for them to get there heads out of there asses. Why would any true AMERICAN vote for a Muslim. Dont you people read history. Obama would be the biggest mistake EVER for our country. The Al Queda said they were going to attack from the inside out, well here you go you idiot left wingers....DUH
KJ wrote on January 4, 2008 9:15 AM:Keith:
You have the most creative comment:
"How are we supposed to vote for him if we are all hiding under our beds?
Ditto!
Keith: youhave th emost creative comment:
"How are we supposed to vote for him if we are all hiding under our beds?"
Ditto!
askthedoc wrote on January 4, 2008 10:45 AM:Dear Ruddy,
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." – Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Assembly, Nov. 11, 1755
You drew cheers from the audicence in S.C. when you said you "never heard anything so absurd" as Ron Paul's comment. i.e., you just admitted that you haven't read the 911 Commission report, which stated exactly what Paul said!
As I recall, you didn't exactly stop the twin towers from coming down, so what makes you a security expert all of a sudden?
Cliff Carson wrote on January 4, 2008 11:42 AM:Lets see now:
1. When was it that the Muslims started hating us? Could it have been after the nice way we treated them during the Crusades?
2. Maybe it was later when we overthrew their Democratic Government in Iran to install the Shah so we could steal their oil?
3. Maybe it was earlier when we took away the Palestinian Lands and gave it to the Jews who had been prosecuted in Europe by Germans?
4. Could it have possibly been when we helped a Brutal Dictator named Saddam Hussein until he started to trade Oil in Euro's instead of Dollars?
5. How about when we promoted the Mujadeen in Afghanistan as a religous group to fight the infidel Russians and then turned them over to the Taliban?
6. Or just maybe it could have been when we invaded Iraq - you remember WMD and that sort of thing, killed over a million of them to steal their Oil?
7. Gosh why do you imagine those nasty towelheads dislike us? After all the good deeds we have done for them and after all the good treatment we have afforded since medival times you would think they would love us.
Just goes to show, a good deed never goes unpunished.
Zeek wrote on January 4, 2008 11:44 AM:I'm still looking for that new box on the ballot "none of above"..... Any help anyone?????
Me wrote on January 4, 2008 12:25 PM:Look at these MORONS who actually believe all that fear mongering propaganda. It is these uneducated idiots that the current system is counting on to stay in power.
Carlos, no offense, but where is your greencard? Giuliani wouldn't make things better for illegals.
Salman Hyder wrote on January 4, 2008 12:41 PM:Rudy needs to leave the political scene ASAP..........this will happen eventually anyway due to his hatred for fellow human beings.
robert wrote on January 4, 2008 12:59 PM:This ad racist? Hell No! If Jim Jones were still alive and he and his merry band of followers started blowing people up, flying planes in to buildings would stating the reality of it be racist? It is what it is. Just because a certain group is called out for what they are responsible for doesn't mean those charges are racist. As for scare tactics; what is the daily global average death toll of victims of terrorist war? I said, "DAILY!" Come on people look at the news, educate yourselves. The only way anyone or group or country can fight a major power is through terrorism and if you don't believe for one minute America isn't hated, you have to believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny. Forget politics and be real in your comments. Rudy isn't going to win anyways.
Greg wrote on January 4, 2008 1:24 PM:Under Rudi's, or should I say der Fuhrer's, neo-Nazi regime, Muslims would become the new Jews.
scooter migee wrote on January 4, 2008 2:06 PM:Rudy is just relying on the fact that all Americans are as dumb as they come. He wants to perpetuate the bush propaganda that you will DIE at the hands of evil terrorists. I like you am not afraid and can take care of my own. we can see that there are nothing but lies behind his campaign, and that he is counting on the fact that we will surrender EVERY right we have for the protection from our government. When IN FACT it was OUR government that let the towers come come down, fight back people PAY ATTENTION!!!! If Rudy gets elected we will loose more than we ever thought we could.
JaneAnne wrote on January 4, 2008 8:53 PM:Rudy Guiliani has done nothing but profit off of and exploit 9/11 for his own benefit. His ad would lead you to believe that he has some idea how to deal with terrorists and that he has some knowledge of national security issues. He is nothing but a big joke.
Tony wrote on January 4, 2008 11:28 PM:Rudy is a self surving asshole. Just ask the NY fire dept.
Crusader wrote on January 5, 2008 10:53 AM:To the uneducated fool that refer to the crusades as a bad thing. You must know that for 400 years before the crusades Arab muslim islamics were butchering millions of innocent people in present day countries of Syria, Lebanon, Irak, Iran, Jordan,Israel, Palestine territories,Egypt, Libia, Tunisia, Algeria , Morocco,Sudan,Spain, Portugal, Sicily, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Yugoslavia, Albania, Pakistan, India. and that the majority of these millions of people killed were Christians. The crusades were a delayed reaction by the Europeans to the Arab muslin brutality. We need another crusade to beat back the muslim treat!!!
RBLOD wrote on January 5, 2008 5:04 PM:Just remember, ALL I repeat, ALL Politicians are self serving and will say or do most anything to aquire the most powerful position (President). Take a look at this USA, this didn't just happen over night, the major cause? Politicians and thier agenda! Will the next President correct any of it? NO! Thier strings will be pulled to accomplish the agenda. Good Bye USA! TSK,TSK,TSK.
