Giuliani: I'll Mediate The Writers' Strike

The New York Sun's Josh Gerstein reports on Rudy Giuliani's trip to Southern California Tuesday when he was bombarded by media asking him his views on the Hollywood writers strike.

After Rudy stated a litany of reasons why politicians should not be involved in strike negotions, he then offered to mediate the strike.

"I don't know the issue," Mr. Giuliani replied dismissively, starting to sound not only neutral, but perhaps entirely unaware of the paralyzing walkout. Mr. Giuliani then disappeared into the building to do a radio interview and make other calls. Most print reporters left. However, the TV folks remained on stakeout and one successfully cajoled the ex-mayor into taking another shot at the question as he headed for his waiting SUV. "A public official, a candidate for office really shouldn't get involved in that. There are so many disputes. I settled several difficult labor disputes when I was the mayor and the best way I did it was to not have much of an opinion on it and not get too involved in it and then to act as kind of a mediator. I think here we've got to let them work out the collective bargaining process, wish them well, understand the tremendous impact this has, you know on the public, on all the artists that are involved, all the writers that are involved, all the owners that are involved and just wish them well on getting it resolved," Mr. Giuliani said. He added, with a chuckle, "You know. It's very unlikely, but if they needed my help, I'd be more than happy to help, as a fair-minded mediator. I can think of two big strikes in New York that I helped to settle, but I'm sure they have a lot of people that are willing to do that." And with that the ex-mayor of Gotham headed for Iowa and the Dakotas, and, presumably, a blissful escape from pesky questions about the Hollywood strike.

Read the entire story about Giuliani's conversation with the media here.

Read more about the writers strike on Huffington Post's writers' strike opinion page and writers' strike news page.

Read more about Giuliani's latest media scandal involving Judith Regan, Bernard Kerik, Rupert Murdoch and top executives at News Corp and Fox.

Comments

[TiaPaula]

03:54 PM on 11/16/2007

I'm all for the writers. Anyone who can write a coherent sentence is O.K. by me. I misspell
alot but that only because this shit makes me crazy, excited and depressed all at the same time. Multi tasking for bipolars.

[Mutineer]

12:25 AM on 11/15/2007

What I want to know is, when you marry your cousin, how do you decide who sits on the bride's side and who sits on the groom's side? Seriously, can anybody answer that?

[LaFeminazi]

06:19 PM on 11/14/2007

Drat I am now singing this

On the twelfth day of Christmas, Karl Rove sent to me

Twelve trolls a whining,
Eleven lobbyists griping,
Ten repugs a-creeping,
Nine senators lying,
Eight broken amendments,
Seven DINO’s spinning,
Six spies a-bugging,
Five Step-ford wives
Four Black-water agents,
Three Freedom fries,
Two lame ducks,
And a Neo-con in a pear tree!

I gave him a life-term without possibility of parole.


Night all.

[WARisEVIL]

06:18 PM on 11/14/2007

Dominatrix who claimed to have S&M sex with Bush said to be missing
by Jon Ponder
Wednesday Nov 14th, 2007 11:10 AM

Leola McConnell, the former dominatrice and militant for civil equality for people of all sexual orientations — who claimed in her memoir, “Lustful Utterances,” to have had S&M sex with George Bush in the 1980s — is feared by friends to be missing...

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Dominatrix who claimed to have S&M sex with Bush said to be missing

Jon Ponder | Nov. 14, 2007

Leola McConnell, the former dominatrice and militant for civil equality for people of all sexual orientations — who claimed in her memoir, “Lustful Utterances,” to have had S&M sex with George Bush in the 1980s — is feared by friends to be missing, according to this report:
“I hide from no man. I fear no mortal man of flesh and blood, regardless of the title he wears.”
–Leola McConnell

Several people who regularly communicate with her have told us they have not heard from her in a few weeks, and attempts by us to reach her have been unsuccessful to date. McConnell had told friends recently that she was growing increasingly concerned that her allegations about politicos who had used her services would somehow cause her harm.

Ominously, in a defiant email last spring, McConnell wrote:

A recent article in a tabloid newspaper, The Globe, claimed I was in hiding in fear for my life.
Well, I hide from no man. I fear no mortal man of flesh and blood, regardless of the title he wears.

McConnell also claims to have firsthand knowledge that Bush had an affair in the mid-1980s with Victor Ashe, the former mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., who has served as the Bush’s ambassador to Poland since 2004.

In an article about McConnell’s book last month, I wrote, “What is evident is that McConnell has no hard copy evidence that she whipped the future president and called him bad names. Proof of this: She is neither fabulously wealthy an

[lornejl]

06:09 PM on 11/14/2007

Giuliani: I'll Mediate The Writers' Strike

And if Gynecologists go on strike, I will gladly fill in for them "

[Fightnmad]

06:00 PM on 11/14/2007

I just took another look at the pic of Rudy.

He's getting ready to blow fish kisses on the window, isn't he?

[VogonsCryptolect]

05:49 PM on 11/14/2007

Li Jimmy wrote:

JamesR. (See profile | I'm a fan of JamesR.)
The real vast wasteland happens to reside between your ears VogontheStupid. You're pre- lamenting your own future and demise. Poetic justice in a way.

Reply | Parent | Favorite| Flag as abusive | posted 05:23 pm on 11/14/2007
VogonsCryptolect (See profile | I'm a fan of VogonsCryptolect)
Yes I certainly am "pre-lamenting..." lil Jimmy.
Every sane introspective human being is when they mature.
Without banal pacification and idle forms of uninspired entertainment people of brains and character actually realize their own mortality and begin to make rational choices about how to live and DO.
I personally do not think most people are sane in this way because mostly they seek to avoid this existential fact through various life destroying means.

Many though still choose to face the challenge of a limited existence with Camus's Sisyphean defiance and accomplish new things throughout their lives until their wasted and well used bodies give out on them and their still fevered ambitions.

How sad for those who are unaware or too fearful to face the fact of death and dissolution without the hope of some sky fairy afterlife in the Elysian Fields.
how sad that you don't seem to get it...
Gotta run, dinner res in 30.

[VOTER]

05:47 PM on 11/14/2007

The last group asking for Rudy's help were the NYC

Firemen.

Rudy promised them working communications.

The taxpayers paid for it.

AND RUDY FAILED THEM ALL!

[longislandlol]

05:45 PM on 11/14/2007

Like Sofia Petrillo used to start off with on "Golden Girls": Picture this- a new SNL skit featuring characters playing the role of Judith R., Rudy, his very own Judy, and ex-friend, Bernie. They somehow meet on a street of writers picketing- Rudy and Judy spot Judith- Rudy replies to Judith; E tu Judith? the way Caesar once replied, "E tu Brutus"? Then, he meets up with Bernie who who asks them all out for coffee to listen to the tapes. It's an SNL fantasia this week; between Spitzer taking away his bright idea to license all illegals-- between Hillary being defended more and more by her man--between George and Diane arm-in-arm surveying the California disasters-- they can write their hearts out on this stuff...

[LaFeminazi]

05:28 PM on 11/14/2007

My question to Giuliani.

Stop with the scary shit already.

How can a nation that will have spent $10 trillion dollars on its defense be in the least bit unsafe?

Unless of course that money was just wasted.

[BWonka]

05:24 PM on 11/14/2007

After Rudy stated a litany of reasons why politicians should not be involved in strike negotions, he then offered to mediate the strike.

"I don't know the issue," Mr. Giuliani replied..."

Then STFU. Perhaps you'd do better to check into your 'friends' like Bernie than get involved in something you know nothing about.

Rudina is beginning to sound like reesie and fir-axisofevil. They, too, are always commenting on things they know nothing about... or believe are "non issues".

[LaFeminazi]

05:12 PM on 11/14/2007

I have invented

The Giuliani Campaign phone.

A 9-11 botton that changes colour with your mood.

It glows blood red when your wife rings and green when your dress is ready at the dry cleaners.

[repubesnivel]

05:07 PM on 11/14/2007

Do any of the current crop of less than the dust trolls know the actual cost of the war? I bring this up, because they can't seem to stay on topic so I figured I'd help 'em out.

That's me, always willing to help a troll out...

the door.

[repubesnivel]

04:56 PM on 11/14/2007

Yesterday the firsap inundated Huffpo with C&P about pedos, now the candy ass is pissing and moaning about illegal aliens in CA.

If you would bother to parse the top of the thread, greece, you'd notice the topis is Jules and his grand performance as a lackwit.

If this was a thread about illegals, you would be C&P'ing about infernal combustion.

[lastdays]

04:50 PM on 11/14/2007

Any union that lets Rudy mediate may as well disband and throw themselves on the mercy of management. Now that's the Republican way.