Saturday,
August 18, 2007
Rudy Still Justifies Mob Infatuation and
Imitations
The
ANNOTICO Report
Rudy
has STILL Not gotten the message, and it is difficult to get excited about a
presidential candidate who shows such poor judgment.
I
would ask Rudy, if he would make jokes about "Shylocks" on Wall
Street in front of ANY audience, let alone a Jewish audience.
If
not, then Rudy, LOSE the "mob" Impersonations and Infatuations. It's
Out of Line !!!!!!
Rudy
Rattles Some with Vito Corleone's Voice
Craig
Gordon
Newsday
April 6,
2007
"Thank youse all very much for invitin'
me here tuh-day, to this meeting of the families from
different parts'a
Then this week,
Giuliani used the reference again, invoking the mob's code of honor to
explain why reporters should lay off his wife. "I am a candidate. She's
a civilian, to use the old Mafia distinction," he said.
Other
Italian-American politicians have shunned references to organized crime,
fearful of being tarred unfairly by anti-Italian stereotyping. Not Giuliani,
who has in the past embraced such talk to remind voters he helped bust
up the
But some political
analysts are puzzled why a man seeking to become the first Italian-American
president would dabble so blithely with the darkest stereotypes of his
heritage, especially before voters really get to know him.
And a leader in
the nation's largest Italian-American organization said Thursday that Giuliani
should drop his Corleone impersonations because they
are insensitive to Italian-Americans trying to dispel
the linkages between being Italian and being in the mob.
"It's
unfortunate for him to make light of a stereotype that creates a lot of
discomfort for millions of other Italian-Americans," said Dona De Sanctis of the Order Sons of Italy in
"We don't
think it's funny," she said of such jokes. "We stopped laughing a
long time ago."
Giuliani's
campaign Thursday night issued a statement that did not address the Sons of
Italy directly. "Mayor Giuliani is proud of his Italian heritage and has a
record celebrating the country's culture and the important contributions
Italian-Americans have made to
So far,
Giuliani's heritage -- he is the grandson of Italian immigrants -- has not been
in an issue in the campaign, seemingly because so many Americans already know
him and his record in
But the Marlon
Brando impersonation has been a longtime favorite of Giuliani's, including from his days
giving paid motivational speeches. One real-estate Web site quoted him at a March
2006 convention appearance, saying in the Brando voice, "Welcome to
In the February
appearance in
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