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Where to start -- well, gotta be with the latest thing, the last bit from Cindy ADAMS's social note (below), to the effect that Bernie taught a LIFE CLASS while in prison and he'll be happy if his wisdom helps keep ONE dude from returning to prison. Did he give himself extra credit for auditing himself so that HE! won't be one of the returnees?!
But for youngsters, a Brief History: Bernie was Rudy GHOULIANI's police comish on THE 9-11, and shot to supposed "leadership" and Security fame in that VOID of same when pResident Shrub was lost for three days, and when Shrub-CHEENEE had to create SOMEthing to appear responsive, besides Color Codes, they needed a Security tsar, and GHOULIANI sponsored this Bernie dude, who then had to be withdrawn because he was on the road to PRISON!
Nay, but the most fruitful chapter involved one Judith REGAN, who was a protégé herself, her mentor somebody bigger than GHOULIANI, Rupert MURDOCH of NewsCorp/Faux Propaganda Network, who gave her her own publishing imprint, "REGAN Books" that was responsible for LIMBOsevic's first book and a slew of other wingnut crap. She was known for devil-wears-prada horrifics of temperament, one time challenging her staff to be creative by screaming at them, "Why do women like Bill CLINTON?! Because they WANT TO FUCK HIM, THAT'S why!" Finally, she crashed and burned around the time of a title, "If I Did It" ascribed to O.J. SIMPSON.
But while she was in full blossom with MURDOCH, she even scored a half hour interview show on Faux on Saturday nights, where she would interview other wingnuts and excoriate Dems/Libs. Scathingly. But one of her authors was this selfsame Bernie, who had (supposedly, since you never know who writes O'LOOFAH's books either) penned his biography. The hook was that this totally macho man, TOUGH, the most testosterone filled life form EVER! told in this book the SENSITIVE, heart wrenching story of having been abandoned by his disturbed mother, who puzzled the boy by not showing up to claim him at a hearing, and he found out years later she had been confined or something .
Fine. But the really "good t.v." was what, to an insightful eye like that of moi, was going on in this interview. Well, it was hard to see the screen sometimes, due to there being some kind of steam or film clouding up the camera lens. La Judy and Bernardo had an eyelock, more hers than his, that was more secure than GHOULIANI's office. As she teetered in her chair, body all taut and rigid, her eyes pierced him, wingnut heart breaking over his sad sad story. But then they shifted, inevitably, to 9-11, and she asked him, intensely, "Where were you when you first heard?!" As lawyers say, never ask a question you don't already know the answer to. So he shyly let his head duck down a bit then looked up at her with puppy dog eyes and said gruffly, toughly, but sensitively, "Stepping out of the shower. (Pause, pause.) After working out."
Whoa! the smoke alarms went off louder than the Emergency Broadcast System! Like Frida KAHLO's self-portrait with Diego RIVERA's face imprinted on her forehead, Bernie's presumably nekkid image was just PALPABLE on Judy Judy Judy's area where Frida had her unibrow.
At that time, none of us knew anything beyond the public information about these people, but I SENSED something was UP with these two. Much later, sure enough, it appears that the publisher-author relationship had another depth and plumb to it, yes, HOT WINGNUT SEX, because why should workplace sex be for Bill and not bipartisan?! But not only that, their love nest for their Hot Wingnut Sex sessions was no place other than an NYC apartment paid for by the City as a rest-up place for First Responders or clean up crews of the WTC site. That's all right, those people were probably too busy to need a rest-up apartment anyway, and no sense letting things go to waste.
Meanwhile, in all these years since 9-11, GHOULIANI has been collecting filthy lucre all over the globe, Mexico City anywhere, for giving whatever his expertise is on Security against terrorism, along the lines of how to walk down the street with dust and powder on you and then how to insert and enunciate "nine eleven" into any conceivable topic with inconceivable frequency.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/kerik_now_out_gave_tips_in_jail_uMVADOOIm6oySMsJjZKSzK
[font size=5]Kerik, now out, gave tips in jail[/font]
By CINDY ADAMS
Yesterday 9 a.m., after three years and change in jail, Bernie Kerik, NYCs former police commish, USAs former Homeland Security Chief nominee, Cumberland, Md.s now ex-inmate No. 84888-054, was driven home-sweet-home. 9:15 he phoned me from his friends car. Hed eaten nothing. Not even stopping for coffee, he told me. Im not wasting one minute. I cant wait to get back and hold my kids. ....
Not remanded to a halfway house, hell wear an ankle bracelet until his official October release time. Social occasions like dinner in Manhattan no. Kerik is confined locally to family duties. Fetch his kids at school, attend church, work-related activities. Hell check in steadily with a New Jersey penal authority who must be told what, where, when and who. ....
Slimmed down measurements required new clothes sent for his release. Size 33 jeans, undershirt, T-shirt, pullover sweater, socks, belt, shoes.
As he told me: Im already planning my next book and have been writing, longhand, daily. Some inner thoughts were occasionally sent home and retyped on the outside . . . years when I missed my daughters birthdays and our November wedding anniversary killed me. Being away from the family was like ripping my heart out of my chest.
Its strange. Ive been in gun battles, war, threatened by Cali cartel, lived through 9/11 devastation, but nothing as emotionally upsetting as living separated from them.
In prison, Ive taught a class on lifes lessons self-esteem, raising kids, skills, bullies, peer pressure, rejection, dealing with adversities. If it just helps one of these men not return to prison, Ill be happy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2013/02/01/thanks-for-visiting-cindy-adams-and-good-riddance/
[font size=5]Thanks for visiting, Cindy Adams, and good riddance[/font]
By Dan Zak, Published: February 1, 2013
The gossip columnist Cindy Adams is still alive, apparently, and still churning out arthritic prose for Page Six (also still alive!) in The New York Post. Proof:
I now know what D.C. stands for: District of Crapola, Adams writes of her visit to the capital, in Fridays column headlined
Nations crap-ital. Were talking a war zone. The approach to historic Washington, D.C., is filth. If the area were a building, it would be condemned. ....
...This is a woman who, while being interviewed by Washington Post reporter Hank Stuever 10 years ago, chewed up a gourmet dog treat and spit it out onto hotel-room china for her Yorki named Jazzy.
So what, then, to do with Cindy Adams, that dusty antique vase in the parlor of journalism? Do we invite her back and offer to show her the real Washington the eminently livable and infinitely customizable city of handsome cobblestone and fragrant greenery?
If we dont invite her back, what do we do with her? Where do we keep her?
How bout only in New York.
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BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)I need to take another shower.
malaise
(268,930 posts)Rec
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)as hawt as he did in that uniform though...Meh..
malaise
(268,930 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)inspired novel, ripped bodice and all.
malaise
(268,930 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Normally I don't like piling on, but in this case I have to make an exception:
Know your BFEE: Homeland Czar n Petro-Turd Bernie Kerik
Thank you for a great OP and thread, UTUSN! It would make a great bodice-ripper of a novel if it weren't in the Current Events section.
Probably will keep his wug shut in his new book about anything really interesting, like why did Bush know that Osama bin Laden was going to hijack planes and didn't warn the American public?
malaise
(268,930 posts)Director of Homeland Security - that would have been the metaphor for the Bush and Cheney years.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Who knows what they could get away with?
Lying America into a war for profit, for instance, just for old time's sake.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Well done!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)commencement speech at Drexel Law.
I was there because I knew some of the graduates personally, and had worked with some others. A couple sat down in front of me and my then-spouse, and gushed excitedly to all and sundry--"RUDY is going to speak!"
And I said in reply, "I'll bet you a sawbuck that he'll bring up watching bodies fall from the Towers within 10 minutes."
They looked shocked and the husband said "He's a great American!"
And I said yeah..."Bernie Kerik, his best friend, got indicted today. You think the Mayor didn't know about the shenanigans?"
Sure enough, at 9 minutes in, I won my bet. The people around us started laughing (Rudy was a VERY unpopular choice with the graduates.)
Afterwards, as Giuliani was being escorted out of the Kimmel Center, a Bleacher Creature cheer of "Ber-nie Ker-ik! Ber-nie Ker-ik." went through the crowd.....
JI7
(89,247 posts)i think it might have been around the time he was being considered to head homeland security.
but Kerik was such a fucking dumbass. you could find grade school kids who weren't as fucking stupid as him. he sounded even more stupid than Bush and Bachmann. it was like Clark was debating someone whose mind was that of a 9 year old.
but i remember watching that and just seeing what a joke the whole thing was. for such a dumbass to be considered for such a position. i wouldn't even hire him to manage something like starbucks.
FSogol
(45,476 posts)An excerpt from Washington Post's Gene Weingarten's Response to Cindy Adams' column
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-27/lifestyle/37380804_1_dirtiest-city-pee-city-and-claims