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Candidate Giuliani
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Will Rudolph Giuliani be a heavyweight presidential contender in 2008? Some of his enemies evidently think so. They have already begun to raise the alarm.
One early entry is Giuliani Time, a newly released documentary film that aims to land a preemptive blow. The title gives the game away even before the start. “It’s Giuliani time” is the phrase said to have been uttered by a New York City policeman as he sodomized Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, with a broomstick in a Brooklyn precinct house in 1997. Louima later retracted that part of his story, but by resurrecting the words here, the movie signals, as a review in the New York Times put it, that its “agenda will be to associate Mr. Giuliani’s tenure with brutality, racial revanchism, and contempt for civil liberties.”
About the Author
Fred Siegel is a contributing editor of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.
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