Not surprisingly, Rudy Giuliani doesn’t much care for a new Vanity Fair story that paints an unflattering picture of his wife, Judith, as a pampered "princess bride."
In fact, he disliked it so much that he slipped out of his recent kinder-and-gentler Rudy campaign mode into his old fighting form from City Hall, criticizing a reporter Tuesday for even asking about it.
To be sure, the story is very rough stuff, a scathing retelling of every not-nice thing ever written about Judith Giuliani, including that she insists on a having a separate airline seat for "Baby Louis," her Louis Vuitton handbag, and employs a full-time hair-stylist.
The campaign says that stuff’s just not true. Giuliani himself told reporters that he found "enormous numbers of inaccuracies" when he scanned the article and defended his wife as the person who "got me through September 11."
"One of the terrible prices that unfortunately families pay in a situation like this is they get castigated and attacked," he said, according to the Associated Press. "And, usually, most reporters don’t even ask about it. They actually have more dignity than to even ask about it."
Craig Gordon