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http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/giuliani_answers_cell_phone_du.html
Giuliani answers cell phone during NRA speech
So Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was in the middle of an important speech to an audience that was a little skeptical to say the least, the National Rifle Association, many of whose members have some problems with the former New York City mayor's past support for gun control.
He had reached the part where he was talking about the importance of the Second Amendment right to bear arms, the part of his speech this particular crowd really wanted to hear him speak about. Then his cell phone rang.
"Let's see now. This is my wife calling, I think," says Giuliani reaching for the phone in his pocket. He then goes on to do something unheard of for a candidate to do while giving an important speech. He answers the phone.
"Hello dear... I'm talking to the members of the NRA right now. Would you like to say hello? (He laughs, apparently at something she says.) I love you and I'll give you a call as soon as I'm finished, OK? (She says something.) OK, have a safe trip, bye-bye. Talk to you later dear, I love you."
After concluding the call, he says to the audience: "It's a lot better that way."
Then he adds: "Well this is one of the great blessings of the modern age, being always available. Or maybe it isn't, I'm not sure."
Giuliani never fails to surprise, that's for sure. His dressing in drag comes to mind.
But if you're a presidential candidate trying to impress NRA members that you take their issues seriously, maybe you don't want to surprise the audience by taking a phone call right in the middle of your speech. It might help the audience take the speech more seriously.
At an event where previous speakers, like Sen. John McCain, were interrupted by protesters, it's odd that Giuliani would interrupt himself.
And it's even odder that he would reinforce the image many Americans still have of New Yorkers as often rude jerks, the kind who talk to loudly into their cell phones, irritating those around them. Maybe he's called Rudy for a reason.
It's such an amazing moment that at first it appeared to be some kind of pre-arranged stunt. And maybe it was. But what would the purpose be? Was the goal to make him appear like a doting husband in an attempt to soften his image with women?
If that were the case, then his comment after the phone call about it being "a lot better" for him to answer his phone ruined it because it made him seem less the attentive spouse than the husband trying to avoid a scene with his wife.
And what political wife wouldn't understand her presidential candidate husband not taking a phone call because he was in the middle of an important speech? If we accept what Giuliani said at face value, his wife Judith doesn't come off too well, does she? Then again, she didn't fare too well in this recent Vanity Fair piece either.
All in all, a very weird moment in modern American politics.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/giuliani_answers_cell_phone_du.html
Giuliani answers cell phone during NRA speech
So Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was in the middle of an important speech to an audience that was a little skeptical to say the least, the National Rifle Association, many of whose members have some problems with the former New York City mayor's past support for gun control.
He had reached the part where he was talking about the importance of the Second Amendment right to bear arms, the part of his speech this particular crowd really wanted to hear him speak about. Then his cell phone rang.
"Let's see now. This is my wife calling, I think," says Giuliani reaching for the phone in his pocket. He then goes on to do something unheard of for a candidate to do while giving an important speech. He answers the phone.
"Hello dear... I'm talking to the members of the NRA right now. Would you like to say hello? (He laughs, apparently at something she says.) I love you and I'll give you a call as soon as I'm finished, OK? (She says something.) OK, have a safe trip, bye-bye. Talk to you later dear, I love you."
After concluding the call, he says to the audience: "It's a lot better that way."
Then he adds: "Well this is one of the great blessings of the modern age, being always available. Or maybe it isn't, I'm not sure."
Giuliani never fails to surprise, that's for sure. His dressing in drag comes to mind.
But if you're a presidential candidate trying to impress NRA members that you take their issues seriously, maybe you don't want to surprise the audience by taking a phone call right in the middle of your speech. It might help the audience take the speech more seriously.
At an event where previous speakers, like Sen. John McCain, were interrupted by protesters, it's odd that Giuliani would interrupt himself.
And it's even odder that he would reinforce the image many Americans still have of New Yorkers as often rude jerks, the kind who talk to loudly into their cell phones, irritating those around them. Maybe he's called Rudy for a reason.
It's such an amazing moment that at first it appeared to be some kind of pre-arranged stunt. And maybe it was. But what would the purpose be? Was the goal to make him appear like a doting husband in an attempt to soften his image with women?
If that were the case, then his comment after the phone call about it being "a lot better" for him to answer his phone ruined it because it made him seem less the attentive spouse than the husband trying to avoid a scene with his wife.
And what political wife wouldn't understand her presidential candidate husband not taking a phone call because he was in the middle of an important speech? If we accept what Giuliani said at face value, his wife Judith doesn't come off too well, does she? Then again, she didn't fare too well in this recent Vanity Fair piece either.
All in all, a very weird moment in modern American politics.
