Growing Up Giuliani

There is as much bull ____ on this page as in the article

And just what do you have against morality? America is a nation of laws and has flourished because of it. Sine the secular progressive moral relativists have taken over in the past 20 -30 years, they have brought this nation to a point that her continued existence as a sovereign nation is in mortal jeopardy. The laws of our nation were founded in Judeo-Christian principals whether the historical (hysterical) revisionists have the moral courage, (guess not) to admit it or not. There is a reason that the 10 Commandments are on the Supreme Court's wall and not just for decoration. Only if and when this nation goes back to her MORAL roots, do we have a chance to survive. ALL that said, Guliani, Romney, Clinton and the other "frontrunners" are ALL moral relativists. You need not be afraid of Guliani because he is Catholic. She is a CLAIMANT Catholic but wise people judge by action, not words. And Guliani's acts bely the fact that he is NO Catholic, by ANY stretch.

Andso: First of all Rudy's FATHER moved him out of Brooklyn. At age 7 when he moved, Rudy was in no position to make a decision based on race or anything else. On the one hand, anyone who got a few bucks together joined the great post-war migration out of Brooklyn to Long Island - the American dream, house in the suburbs, G.I bill made this possible for many Americans. On the other hand, maybe Rudy's father was a racist. Just about everyone's father was back then. As I posted elsewhere, growing up on LI was not like growing up in Nebraska, Missouri, or Ohio. NY was the great melting pot for recent immigrants but we didn't melt easily. There was enormous diversity but groups self-segregated into ethnic enclaves. The word "diversity" itself wasn't in the vernacular and it certainly wasn't celebrated. A mixed marriage was Irish - Italian. Italians were at the bottom of the heap and were universally discriminated against. The statement that Rudy's father bought a home in Garden City is factually incorrect. No way would Rudy's father been able to buy into Garden City coming from Brooklyn. No way would he want to. His world and the world of those upper-middle class residents of Garden City woud/could never intersect socially. Back then there were ways for undesirable types to be excluded from purchasing a home where they weren't wanted. There was no such thing as anti-discrimination legislation. Garden City wasn't "virtually" all white back then; it was all white, comprised of affluent WASP sand DAR members and proudly so. But every other surrounding community was virtually all white also; they just were less affluent. The times have changed. Lots of Italians live in Garden City now. Just goes to show that after a few generations every immigrant group becomes part of the mainstream and makes a contribution. But I've digressed...

So, if you can't actually have a "legitimate" interview with a person, it's impossible to be fair? (That's YOUR logic, not mine.) That is, a legitimate approach to handling a situation where the person doesn't speak with you is to identify any and all potentially negative information, whether it's false, politically-motivated, or just mere opinion, and just print that? There's plenty of factual, truthful, and reliable information out there about Rudy, all of which paints an extremely positive picture about a classic American success story. Newsweek ignored all that, and instead chose to run with the innuendo and the anti-Italian, anti-Catholic slurs. (I'm still waiting for someone who supports this article to say something even remotely interesting or worthwhile - my guess is that I have a long wait ahead of me.)

Placa only escaped prosecution b/c the statute of limitations had run out. A Suffolk County grand jury concluded that he molested several of his students. And that's to say nothing of how he, like Bernard Law, Roger Mahoney, and other church officials, shielded priest abusers from detection so that they could abuse even more children. Like Law and Mahoney, Placa won't see any jail time for that, but he should. You should get your facts straight before you try to defend the indefensible: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Db2UPUkGyw .

The quote is not because he's Catholic, it's because he's a liberal and socialist, expressing typical liberal socialist viewpoints. Guliani is Hillery without a skirt.

Um, not quite. I can't disagree with you more, so let me attempt to educate you. This article tries, on occasion, to give the appearance of fairness, but it is so one-sided that it fails miserably throughout. It was written by a person who had an agenda, clearly - but this person's agenda has so clouded his/her judgment that he/she can't even pretend to write a fair article. Here's an example - I'm running against you for political office, and during a debate I say "Many have accused you of being a child molester, but I would never stoop to such negative campaigning tactics." You see what happened there? That's what this article does again and again. There are subtle methods whereby an author can work in bias - but this article is over the top. This is not even close to being a "fair" article. In fact, anyone who believes that this is a "fair" article is, as you say, only showing his/her previously held anti-Giuliani position.