Rudy Giuliani got some nice humanizing coverage from his claimed receipt of a cellphone call from Judi during his NRA speech yesterday, but the moment also prompted some skepticism because it happened before, with very similar staging.
Here's an addendum: A few months ago, for another story, we watched on CD a speech Rudy gave to a health group called the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City last year, before he was running. During the speech, a cellphone apparently went off in the audience (although you couldn't actually hear it) and Rudy stopped his speech.
He feigned annoyance for a second, then launched into what seemed to be a well-rehearsed anecdote about what he described as one of his favorite movie scenes ever. It was the moment in Dr. Strangelove where the George C. Scott character (Gen. Buck Turgidson!) is recommending a massive nuclear strike to the president, but gets interrupted by a call from his wife/girlfriend and has to say, 'I love you, Poopsie" or some such before she'll let him return to his nuclear fantasies.
Rudy told it well, and it got a big laugh. Isn't it funny how now one of his favorite movie scenes, which he used as a light anecdote in speeches in the past, is being replicated in real life by his wife? Twice?
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Re;Student tasered&restrained at Kerry talk,If it had been a Guliani talk,every headline would have read"GULIANIS STORM TROOPERS SLENCE STUDENT"Kerry,of course gets a pass.