Rudy Giuliani's son, Andrew, told ABC that he has 'problems' with his father. Andrew stressed he still loves his father and said "we are both working on our relationship.Young Giuliani's comments are a reminder of the extremely messy and public fracas that accompanied Giuliani's divorce from his second wife, the lovely Donna Hanover. According to The Daily News "New Yorkers grew used to" their mayor's sewer of a personal life. But then New Yorkers get used to a lot of things that would revolt the rest of the country. Believe me. I lived there five years.
Maybe Gothamites can hold their noses, but Rudy's reputation may not play so well in places like Terre Haute, St. Paul, or Cheyenne, or just about anywhere in the bible belt. In those places, it may not be a sign of your machismo when you publicly have a sexual relationship with another woman while your wife and children sit home at Gracie Mansion.
Hey Republicans: enjoy your front runner!
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Whoa, is this a flame? I can stomach your crass use of ellipsis in the quote you cite to demean America’s Mayor but to suggest that NYawkers are somehow grotesquely, even perversely, adaptable to all kinds of moral and material vulgarity shows ignorance. You say that you lived here for “five years”: When was that exactly? It sounds as if you fled the city during the democratic machine’s death rattle here after it had administered to generations its mindless policies of liberal excess. Perhaps you prefer the suburban numbness of the west to NY’s energy but don’t confuse its vapid sprawl for a cultural standard.
ReplyDeleteYeah, we hold our noses for world class museums, cultural & architectural diversity, a jazz scene, theater, a vibrant night & street life, cabaret, the musical, the Met, food, magnificent restaurants, yea, coffee shops that would represent fine dining in all the towns and cities you cite – your “rest of the country”, the public library & its main branch, bread, the Chrysler bldg, Greenwich Village, Central Park, Park Avenue, Broadway - the district and thoroughfare, the Yankees, the harbor, seasons, Metro North, the railroad, the 20 minute commute, the Times “late edition”, the Atlantic ocean -- for starters.
You're right. . .I should have been more specific. I think I mostly meant New Yorkers have to get used to each other. . .
ReplyDeleteThere is very little risk of westerners getting used to one another secluded, as they are, in their single family cars and houses.
ReplyDeleteYou know, your litany of lovely things about New York City is wonderful, and I experienced them all. It's a wonderful town, but it's not the only town.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even get into the bad stuff! The smell of garbage slowly simmering along Chrystie Street; or the fact that several gallons of urine per capita (and that's over 21 million gallons if you suck as much at math as you do at charm) are deposited on streets, subways, hallways, and other public spaces. And I still love the place!
As for Hizzoner, Rudy Giuliani, believe me, he is not "America's Mayor." He has about 1/1000th the charm and elan of say, Fiorello La Guradia. . .or even Ed Koch or Abe Beame!
Yeah, and he's a pro abortionist too which makes me sick. I never like him that much and I agree New york is a sewer.
ReplyDeleteWhew, all this dissing on my home town.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's all a matter of taste but I'll take NYC's gritty, in-your-face but honest attitude over Seattle's passive-aggressive, false politeness any day.
And in that spirit, both Rudy and anti-abortionist joe can both go to hell.
And on the urine thing, yes NYC has a problem and if we had all of Seattle's rain it wouldn't be one - but I wouldn't trade weather with Seattle.