Video: Asked About 9/11, Giuliani Describes "A Place In America Called Staten Island"

Tell us a story about 9/11, Rudy! No, not The Pet Goat—we already know how that one ends! We want to hear our favorite fantasy story about World Trade Center Building 7, where the crazy bald King of 9/11 Town lost his emergency throne! Is it really true the King and his men destroyed the building themselves in a controlled demolition? And where did the debris go? "Oh all right," the retired 9/11 King told the students at the University of Arkansas, "Once upon a time, there was a place in America called Staten Island." Watch the video below and see Rudy Giuliani invoke this magical land after being pressed to reveal the truther about WTC Building 7:

Giuliani was responding to a question from an audience member after his 90 minute speech at the University of Arkansas Sunday night. According to a report in Ozarks Unbound, "a female stood up and immediately started shouting questions about the collapse of World Trade Center 7, asking why Giuliani refused to investigate the building collapse. After a lot of back and forth between the female and Giuliani, he called her a 'conspiracy nut' and said that she needed to see a psychiatrist."

The woman was reportedly approached by police, but that's not what we see in these two videos. The questioner, one Courtney Poe, tells us she asked:"Mr. Giuliani, as former mayor of NYC why did you oppose the independent investigation of 9/11 specifically inquiries of WTC 7?" She adds, "I also asked about the steel beams that were removed and if they were tested and where. I may be crazy, but at least I'm not a crook." Here's the first part of her video, which shows Poe's question:

This isn't the first time Giuliani told somebody to seek psychiatric help. You'll recall that Giuliani responded similarly to a ferret owner protesting the city's ban on them as pets, telling his constituent, "There is something deranged about you.… The excessive concern you have for ferrets is something you should examine with a therapist.… There is something really, really very sad about you.… This excessive concern with little weasels is a sickness." Ferret lovers, 9/11 skeptics—same thing.

(Video courtesy Tom Zhang and Luke Gramlich).

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By John Del Signore in News on April 7, 2011 10:46 AM

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johnscriv

Giuliani is typical of the corrupt lying criminal types that inhabit the establishment and perpetrate crimes against democracy, with support and approval from a herd of clueless clots and moral poltroons that rally round mindless appeals to nationalism and racism and fascism and terrorism to salve the pangs of guilt and conscience that accompany subliminal knowledge of the truth.

inoyourider21

It's been a long time since I agreed with Giuliani.
Dumbasses like this and the birthers should all get thrown on an island a la Survivor.

Joey__Blow

I am a Mr. Noun-verb-9/11 hater and I don't see him in a bad light in these clips.

He was a lot worse in the past ...

S.D.

It's Greta!

zombie_cakes

Reduced to insulting someone because you don't want to answer their question or agree with them. Nice one Rudy...

GalBklyn

... He has nothing legitimate or reasonable to provide as a response. that's why he resorts to being a ...[fill in the blank]

Why RG is still in the game is beyond me.

But - as long as Rudy and his Republican friends act like bullies -- the easier it will be for Dems to regroup and retake...

Guest

To the author of the post - do you believe that 7 World Trade Center was intentionally brought down?

Jonathan

Pop quiz: Why would explosives be planted, if They already blew 1 and 2? All it does is increase the risk of discovery, and They couldn't have been sure that debris would damage 7 and set it on fire, giving them an excuse. If there were documents in the building, why not use a much less conspicuous falsified fire and/or electrical failure to destroy said documents?

I'll leave aside the How and the When, for now.

Guest

She was polite, and asked her question in the same manner that anyone in a stadium-forum environment would have.

And it's not a patently unfair question to ask.

I guess I just don't get the hate.

As far as Rudy's psychiatric recommendations... why not just call her an hysterical female and demand the guards restrain her for daring to ask a question about 9/11?

I mean, if you're going to be a right wing assh*le, why not go full-assh*le?

Guest

It's probably the same to him as the birther questions are to the Obama adminstration. Asked and answered ad nauseum.

Guest

I don't know about that. I don't recall Obama ever being this rude to anyone, and this question seems arguably more reasonable.

The current explanation for WTC 7s collapse took almost 8 years for officials (FEMA and NIST) to agree on and come forward with. And it's still the first and only building of it's size and scale to collapse because of internal fires.

Whether or not you think it's the result of some sort of a conspiracy or just a very unique set of circumstances, it's an unusual, powerful dramatic event. It re-shaped our country. I can see why people are interested in knowing more.

As opposed to, say, a hawaiian birth certificate that is exactly like every other hawaiian birth cirtificate issued that year. Which... if it was some sort of vast document cleansing conspiracy... is probably the least interesting conspiracy ever described.

Jonathan

The problem with Truthers is that, like all theorists, they're not so much interested in learning the truth as validating their theory, and will willfully commit many acts of intellectual dishonesty to do it.

Guest

The actual point was that after constantly being asked the same question that's been answered over and over again, he got snippy with someone and I don't blame him.

Darth Combover is a douchenozzle for a lot of reasons, but not this.

Guest

I don't know; If you rent yourself out as a 9/11 topic speaker for years on end, you should probably expect questions about 9/11. I mean, that's pretty much been his main paying gig for the better part of a decade.

It'd be like Leonard Nimoy showing up at Dragoncon and getting upset and rude because someone asked him a question about Star Trek.