CNN Gives Rudy Giuliani a Free Pass.

So, Sunday night I watched the two-hour documentary on Rudy Giuliani and before I get into the production itself, let me say that of the 120 minutes that this show ran, more than 65 minutes were advertisements, which is disgusting to the extreme.

Anyway, I happen to be an old Giuliani hater from before he was Mayor, because I was working for a Wall Street firm when Rudy was going after guys like Milken and Boesky for insider trading and other scams. Which was okay with me, but Rudy also investigated guys I knew in brokerage who hadn’t done anything bad at all, and in some cases lost their livelihoods and their trading careers after they were indicted even though the indictments were thrown out.

I also was disgusted at how Rudy played the race card when he ran for Mayor against David Dinkins in 1993 and charged Dinkins with being ‘soft’ on crime. Then and now ‘soft on crime’ are code words which mean one thing, and if you don’t know what I’m referring to, it’s because you don’t live in a big city with a large minority (read: Black) population in the days before crime declined by more than half for reasons that we still don’t know.

Rudy, of course, had his big moment the day the twin towers fell down. And the CNN documentary basically shows how his image has taken a nosedive over the past two decades, in particular by his seemingly…