Firefighters vs. Rudy Giulani
Someone I know who left New York once told me that most New Yorkers positively hate Rudy Giuliani. Some of this might explain why.
Update:
A few quick remarks. Although the whole video is supposed to be for members of the Union, they really could have dispensed with the long, drawn-out preamble.The most devastating moment is the snippet of his appearance before the 9/11 commission. I hope someone splices the thing down to 50 seconds - defective radios, no bid contracts, couldn't hear the evacuation order, and then Rudy claiming that firefighters decided to stand their ground.
In light of that I thought the shot of Rudy running was perhaps not that necessary. It's as if they weren't sure they had enough stuff with the no-bid contracts for defective radios, the successful evacuation of NYPD people vs. the 141 firefighters who didn't hear the order, and the gold vs. firefighters' remains. I mean they really did not need the cheap shots of Rudy running.
Besides, the fact that Rudy was outside should have been emphasized more - there's only one mention of NYC emergency HQ being in the general area. The fact that Rudy was running around outside with members of the press is precisely because he had nowhere to go - since he had ordered the emergency HQ to be located in the WTC, against the advice of the NYPD and the FDNY. So they could have done a better job with that.
Rudy really, really gets on my nerves
