This New York Times piece by Michael Powell on Mayor Giuliani‘s radio show is worth your time. It’s a study in contrast between Giuliani’s mayoral personality and the more laid-back presidential candidate. And yet, reading the piece, and listening to the audio links, one cannot help feeling wistful for the old Giuliani. He was pretty entertaining. For example, here he is on Hillary Rodham Clinton running for a U.S. Senate seat in New York:
On people annoyed with his support for the Yankees:
And of course, ferrets:
What a lot of people – they tend to be liberals – have never understood is that there’s a large number of people who actually like Giuliani’s combativeness, sarcasm, and rejection of pretty much every politically correct attitude in the book. Now, there’s also a large number of people who can’t stand those aspects of hizzoner’s personality. As Andrew Ferguson wrote earlier this year, we’re about to find out how many people there are in each camp.
