August 22, 2007

GIULIANI: Hunting Season Comes Early

Fred Thompson's not so thinly-veiled blog attack on Rudy Giuliani's 2nd Amendment record scored conservative criticism of Giuliani. Fred blogged: "Now, the same activist federal judge from Brooklyn who provided Mayor Giuliani's administration with the legal ruling it sought to sue gun makers, has done it again. Last week, he created a bizarre justification to allow New York City to sue out-of-state gun stores that sold guns that somehow ended up in criminal hands in the Big Apple."

NY Sun's Ryan Sager posted an email Team Giuliani response: "Clearly they're attacking Mayor Giuliani because he's the front-runner. The news here is the first 527 attack is from Fred Thompson and not George Soros."

Instapundit reacts: "A weak ad hominem response from the Rudy camp. This round goes to Fred. ... this issue will hurt him if he makes more responses as weak as this one." Race4'08s Tommy Oliver adds: "Personally, I think Thompson is right on this issue, and it will be a test that Giuliani will have to overcome once the primaries really start to pick up."

GIULIANI II: Why Does Salon Hate Baseball?

Conservatives defended Rudy Giuliani from Salon claims that Giuliani spent more time at Yankee games then at Ground Zero in the wake of 9/11. NRO's Jim Geraghty notes that Salon started their GZ/Yankee clock on 9/17 ignoring all 9/11-9/17 Rudy/GZ time, and also included all of Giuliani's travel time to Phoenix, AZ, in his Yankee support time. Geraghty claims that with these changes, Rudy did spend more time at GZ than at Yankee games.

The Corner's Jonah Goldberg adds: "The only point I think he could have emphasized more is that no New Yorker - as far as I am aware - begrudged the Mayor of New York going to the World Series when the Yankees were playing. ... Only Salon's morally unclouded Hindsight-O-Vision could see the problem six years later as the stark moral shortcoming it was."

Also at The Corner, Ramesh Ponnuru reads the Village Voice's Rudy 'takedown' and concludes: "It goes through Giuliani's "five big lies about 9/11." The first three are, if true, pretty devastating. ... It would be nice if the Giuliani camp put out its side of the story. If he wins the nomination, we are going to be hearing a lot more about Barrett's allegations."

Posted by Conn Carroll at August 22, 2007 12:37 PM