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There are many stories that inspire and then tire us (Pale Male, we love you, but we're looking at you; the murder trial of Daniel Pelosi; Guy Velella), so it's tough to chose ones with staying power. Right now, Gothamist is loving the unfolding mysteries wrapped within riddles, hidden in enigmas in Bernard Kerik's life. It puts the pulled-from-the-bootstraps mythology of his rise next to the realities of patronage and what-Rudy-wants. Gothamist finds it amusing that departing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says another former NYC police commissioner, William Bratton, would be a good fit for the job - hey, White House, you better vet him, because apparently the Giuliani administration wouldn't have. But we get why Giuliani's advisers probably didn't tell him that Kerik had these holes in his background, Giuliani would have probably pitched a fit. The other crazy thing is that Giuliani is acting morally superior to Kerik while he basically started another affair while still married to Donna Hanover. All told, we can't get enough of it, at least until the next quarter.
The Daily News has great coverage, especially since they're crowing from breaking much of the story. The NY Times pondered about who Kerik's nanny is and here's Newsday's special section dedicated to the the Kerik mess; also check out Kerik's bio at Giuliani Partners and his love nest via Curbed.
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News flash: there was no nanny. It was merely a palatable excuse invented to cover the other, more outrageous reasons why Kerik had to withdraw. Unfortunately - at least for Kerik, Giuliani and Bush - all those reasons are now coming to light and the nanny problem seems downright innocent when compared to mob ties and other "indiscretions."
Damn, gt, you beat me to it!
I can't wait to see Kerik on the stand or in an interview grab his head, grit his teeth and exclaim in perfect William Shatner fashion: "THERE... WAS... NO... NANNY!!!! DAMN YOU RUDY!!!"
Nanny issue was siezed upon by Rove (Bush's super ego/brain) to insure mention of Clinton's nominee's nanny issues, thus inflaming the red base and spreading a little "everyone does it" film over the whole thing.
To bad it blew up in their faces.
Of course the true tin foil hat brigade could argue that this is a first in a line of "embarasments" that will pick off any of the "liberal" GOP- Ghouliani and Pataki.
People tend to forget after 9/11 how lousy Rudy was as mayor. He basically ran New York by bullying anyone who disagreed with him; I always had doubts about his integrity--he certainly was prone to giving important jobs to his cronies regardless of their qualifications.
And remember, only a real jerk with limited judgement would first announce his divorce at a news conference before talking it over with his wife.
In regards to 9/11--sometimes nasty bastards can be important leaders in a crisis. That does not make them leaders any other time.
Guiliani will end up blaming Kerik for Guiliani's own misjudgement. Not that Kerik has any better judgement.
Remember, Guiliani made a living as as prosecutor--someone who finds someone to blame (and punish). And Kerik was the boss of the punishers. Guiliani's reflex is always to find someone to blame.
Guiliani made a new low recently when he blamed the foot-soldiers in Iraq for not removing the bombs that their superior officers never told them about. Rest assurred, Guiliani will always find someone weaker in power to blame.
Let's see how long it will take before these two will start blaming each other.
With regards to both Kerik and Guiliani--it is interesting that very often the loudest moralists usually have a tremendous amount of dirty laundry to hide?
Would anyone explain why this is so?