Rudy Rattles Some with Vito Corleone’s Voice
April 7th, 2007The guy just can’t maintain appearances properly. The mask comes down on occasion.
Via: News Day:
Rudolph Giuliani launched into a California campaign speech recently with an opening line the crowd surely didn’t expect — his husky-voiced impersonation of Don Corleone in “The Godfather.”
“Thank youse all very much for invitin’ me here tuh-day, to this meeting of the families from different parts’a California,” Giuliani said, recycling his old New York gag to laughter and scattered applause.
Then this week, Giuliani used the reference again, invoking the mob’s code of honor to explain why reporters should lay off his wife. “I am a candidate. She’s a civilian, to use the old Mafia distinction,” he said.
Other Italian-American politicians have shunned references to organized crime, fearful of being tarred unfairly by anti-Italian stereotyping. Not Giuliani, who has in the past embraced such talk to remind voters he helped bust up the New York mob as a federal prosecutor. Plus, he’s an unabashed “Godfather” fan.
But some political analysts are puzzled why a man seeking to become the first Italian-American president would dabble so blithely with the darkest stereotypes of his heritage, especially before voters really get to know him.
Hmm, I thought only WASPS were allowed to become Presidents? I mean wasn’t JFK the only Catholic ever to become a US President? And we all know what happened to him….
Actually, it’s probably pretty canny. The flyover folks already think he must be mobbed up, so if he distanced himself he *would* be drawing unnecessary attention [“what’s he got to hide?”]. Instead, he’s going for the Goodfellas/Sopranos vibe; after all, the mob is the closest thing to popular mythology today. When Cuomo got out of law school, no “white shoe” firm would touch him; today, Tony Soprano has neighbors that invite him to the county club to show off their “gritty” pal.
On Sept 11, 2001, Rudy’s command and control center in Building 7 vaporized, conveniently.
http://www.improbablecollapse.com/page2.html
My brother in law, a hard-core Catholic, told me that you cannot join the Freemasons if you are a Catholic.
To become President, you have to sell your soul for the latest pet project. Clinton was assigned the task of smooth-talking us into the WTO (World Trade Organization). Bush II was assigned the task of good-ole-boy-talking us into the WOT (War on Terror).
If you want to predict who will be the next president, just figure out what the next pet project is and track the most likely salesperson for it.