Please Don't Ever Forget Bernie Kerik

I have never met Bernie Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner and Rudy Giuliani crony and business partner, but he is my Facebook friend. He friended me.

This might be because, indicted on a variety of tax abuse and public corruption charges, he's looking for good press. He was sent to prison yesterday for leaking sealed documents to the Washington Times. Or perhaps he friended me because I have written none-too-flatteringly about Judith Regan, with whom he had trysts in a city-owned apartment and with whom he had a terrible falling out. Or because I have written trenchantly, I hope, about his former patron, and, perhaps, the future governor of New York, Giuliani. Or because I am from Paterson, NJ, where Bernie began his police career, and where everybody, my mother tells me, knew Bernie was up to no good.

Or because he has a Facebook addiction. Or because he actually needs a friend.

He has really been abandoned. Not only by Judith Regan and Rudy Giuliani but by the media. Once linked like a dead weight to the further political ambitions of Giuliani, he's been decoupled by the media, in an act of boredom or memory loss or strenuous PR activities on the part of the former mayor. (The Times identifies Kerik as Presidents Bush's choice for homeland security chief, when, in fact, he was foisted on the Bush White House by Giuliani.)

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If Giuliani were elected, this man might not only be free, but might also be working in the White House. This man is guilty of public corruption charges for his actions while New York City police commissioner and business partner of Guiliani.

Yay GOP - you guys sure know how to take the moral low ground.