The New York Observer » Rudy Giuliani http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:00:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guiltiest Pleasures The sad passing of Evelyn Lauder this week has us wearing our pink ribbons proudly (and also buying up half of Estée Lauder’s cosmetic counter at Bloomingdale’s). The cancer survivor, advocate and entrepreneur was one hell of a lady. You’d have to be to have Estée Lauder as a mother-in-law (we imagine her as the perfume magnate version of Anna Wintour’s surrogate in The Devil Wears Prada). But even a real Mommy Dearest couldn’t hold a candle this week to Patti Labelle. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/11/guiltiest-pleasures/ Giuliani’s Right Hand Man and Dorrian’s Daughter Sell UES Digs For decades, Dorrian's has stood sentry on the Upper East Side, the quintessential prepster hangout and high schoolers' mecca. Carol Dorrian Carbonetti, daughter of the bar's proprietor Jack Dorrian, has lived not so very far away with her politico husband, Tony Carbonetti. But unlike the bar that has watched over many a debauched youth, the Carbonettis are on the move. The couple has sold their uptown digs at 52 East 72nd Street. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/10/giulianis-right-hand-man-and-dorrians-daughter-sell-ues-digs/ Colson Whitehead Unleashes Zombie Plague on Gentrification Plague Colson Whitehead’s new book, Zone One comes out tomorrow. The world has been overtaken by that cultural virus of the moment, zombies , and the zone in question is Lower Manhattan. It is the job of the protagonist to clear the area of the dead and undead, and many metaphors are obviously implicit: 9/11, the financial crisis, Occupy Wall Street.

But it turns out that Mr. Whitehead’s biggest concern appears to be gentrification, as the native New Yorker revealed in an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition today. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/10/colson-whitehead-unleashes-zombie-plague-on-gentrification-plague/ Rudy Giuliani Goes to the Mattresses… for AMC Former mayor and also-ran presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani made a name for himself as a District Attorney tough on the Mob. When it comes to fiction, however, he's apparently a fan of organized crime. Mr. Giuliani will host “Mob Week” on classic movie channel AMC. “Mob Week” will feature such classics as The Godfather Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/07/rudy-giuliani-goes-to-the-mattresses%e2%80%a6-for-amc/ Rudy Giuliani on Anthony Weiner and 2012–He’s Going to ‘Hang Out’ in New Hampshire Rudy Giuliani had claimed earlier this year that he'd be likelier to run for president in 2012 if Sarah Palin did as well. At the Prize4Life Gala last night, though, with Ms. Palin stumping around the American northeast, Mr. Giuliani sounded as though he were hedging his bets. "No--it doesn't really affect my decision," he Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/rudy-giuliani-anthony-weiner-and-2012-hes-going-hang-out-new-hampshire Obama at Ground Zero

Barack Obama laid a reef wreath at Ground Zero a moment ago. In visits to a fire house and police station, the president was accompanied by former mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Obama took a moment to chat with Mayor Bloomberg, NY Governor Cuomo and NJ Governor Christie, at Ground Zero.

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]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/obama-ground-zero Roundup: ‘No Immediate Threats’

Mayor Bloomberg, Council Speaker Quinn and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, at Ground Zero. (photo credit: azi paybarah / observer)

Burying Osama: "Obama administration officials decided to bury bin Laden at sea because they felt finding a country willing to accept his remains on short notice would prove difficult. The Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/roundup-no-immediate-threats Giuliani: Be Careful ‘Next Couple of Weeks’ "Everybody should be more alert now because in the next couple of weeks, there's going to be some real risks."

--Rudy Giuliani, speaking to reporters near Ground Zero this afternoon.

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/giuliani-be-careful-next-couple-weeks Giuliani Sees Obama’s Weakness: The Middle East

Rudy Guiliani said he's still looking at whether to run for president, but there's one thing he does know for sure.

"[Obama's] handling of the Middle East should be the best reason why he should be removed from the job. He does not know what he's doing," Giuliani said, at the 12:30 mark during Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/giuliani-sees-obamas-weakness-middle-east In Arkansas, Giuliani Talks 2012, 9/11 Former mayor Rudy Giuliani was at the University of Arkansas over the weekend and he was (inevitably) asked about his plans for 2012:

Says Hizzoner: "My concern about 2012 is -- because I'm a Republican -- to make sure that the Republican party fields a candidate that can win. And if I think that I can help by Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/arkansas-giuliani-talks-2012-911 Rudy Says Obama Made the Right Decision Wrongly on Libya [Video] Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on Fox and Friends today and took Barack Obama to task (sorta) over his Libya policy.

Asked if the President did the right thing in going in to Libya, Hizzoner responded, "In the most muddled and confused way. If you could, ultimately, make the right decision and do all the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/rudy-says-obama-made-right-decision-wrongly-libya-video Obama’s Action in Libya Raises Questions with Nadler, Weiner "I think what he did was illegal and unconstitutional."

That was Jerry Nadler, the liberal Democratic congressman, in an interview this weekend, referring to President Obama and the military intervention in Libya.

Those concerns were also raised on a conference call Saturday, where other liberals, like Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, raised constitutional questions about Mr. Obama's Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/obamas-action-libya-raises-questions-nadler-weiner Cuomo ‘Doing Everything That a Republican Governor Would be Doing’ "I don't know how Democrats feel about him but he's doing everything that a Republican governor would be doing in a similar situation."

--Rudy Giuliani, discussing Andrew Cuomo, in an interview with NBC New York.
]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/cuomo-doing-everything-republican-governor-would-be-doing Internal Memo: Rudy Giuliani I'm considering another run for president and weighing the pros and the cons. On the pro side, there's power, fame, the chance to secure my legacy in history and thus ensure that I am remembered in the national consciousness for something more than a few cameo appearances on Seinfeld, as well as the chance to Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/culture/internal-memo-rudy-giuliani Rudy on 2012: ‘I’d Try to Win’ Rudy Giuliani continued his tour of the talk show circuit yesterday with an appearance on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight. Asked about his presidential ambitions, Giuliani said he gleaned an important lesson from his disastrous 2008 campaign, and that he would do things differently in a 2012 bid.

"I'd try to win," he said.

Specifically, Giuliani said Read More

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