The Daily Background
| Established fact: Republicans have bad memories
by Arlen Parsa
You would think that of all people, Rudy “a noun, a verb and 9/11” Giuliani would not make a statement as stupid as this one.
The HuffPost also helpfully recounts:
“Um, really?” wrote ABC News reporter Rick Klein on Twitter. Later he added, “even if Rudy MEANT to say post-9/11, what makes this incident different than [shoe bomber] Richard Reid, I wonder?” Of course, Giuliani could have been referring to the Fort Hood shootings rather than the botched underwear bombing.
A day earlier, Giuliani falsely claimed that the shoe bomber attack occurred before September 11th.
Curiously, the Associated Press did a long write-up of Giuliani’s Obama criticisms but omitted the startling mistake. George Stephanopoulos, who conducted the ABC interview, included the quote in a blog post but did not question it.
Shortly after this interview, Rudy appeared on CNN to explain his mis-statement:
Unfortunately (but not unsurprisingly), Rudy’s still not being truthful. No major terrorist attack has happened in the United States during President Obama’s term. One failed terrorist attempt does not a major terrorist attack make. And, as was noted by the ABC reporter earlier, Richard Reid’s failed shoebomb attempt happened after 9/11 and was very similar to the attempt that just occurred on Christmas. There were of course more deadly domestic terrorist attacks during Bush’s term after 9/11, such as the anthrax mailing scare, which caused the death or injury of about two dozen people.
You forget the terrorist attack at Ft. Hood. We have had two attacks and there will be many more, Let’s ask the Isrealis how to deal with people being blown up in Starbucks. BHO won’t have thought about that.