aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, December 03, 2007

Rudy

Also from On The Media last week, a disquisition on calling Hillary Hillary:

BOB GARFIELD: This is On the Media. I’m Bob Garfield. Edwards, Obama, Hillary, Giuliani, Romney. Notice anything odd there? I referred to one - and only one - of those candidates by first name. And we’ve gotten some mail about this.

And off we go! Now this is not the first story of its kind I’ve come across. And I have to tell you I never really get it. It sounded more odd to me to hear Garfield say Giuliani rather than Rudy.

From this week’s New York Magazine, Rudy Has Seen the Enemy and He Is...Us:

America’s Mayor has just climbed onstage. Rudy Giuliani peels off his navy suit jacket and rolls up his shirtsleeves, grinning so wide that every one of his suspiciously white teeth is visible. Six years of nearly nonstop speechifying, selling either his own book or George W. Bush, have made Giuliani a masterful campaigner… They sure think so out here in the real America: The chants of “Roo-dee! Roo-dee!” are drowning out Giuliani’s final words, and women are elbowing one another in pursuit of his autograph.

While on Rudy, he was in Georgia yesterday where he was “effectively drown[ed] out” by a young crowd of Ron Paul supporters, then dissed by Johnny Isakson, “We’ve got a lot of great candidates...and I’m for the Republican candidate.”