Rudy Giuliani ‘Confirms’ 9/11 Celebrations In Unbelievable Way
We are now into week two of the media’s obsession with Donald Trump‘s claim to have seen thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, a claim that is at once patently false and worthy of endless debate. Enter former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to make the whole thing even more absurd.
This should have been an easy, one-day story, because what Trump said is fairly easy to debunk:
“I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.”
There is no ambiguity in Trump’s claim, he says he watched thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrate, which flatly did not happen. Yet when he presents, as evidence, a completely unsourced report of a handful of rooftop celebrations, one single report, the media acts like this is now a conversation. The Washington Post reporter who wrote that story has become a sympathetic figure because Trump mocked his disability (he absolutely did), but Serge Kovaleski did an absolutely terrible job on that report. He published an unattributed, explosive rumor that turned out to be false, and did not correct or retract it. Remember, his report didn’t just say there were celebrations, it said cops detained and questioned people for celebrating. That’s checkable, and it did not happen.
Even if it did, Trump’s still a liar, yet somehow, the possibility that any Muslim ever celebrated 9/11 in America has come to constitute wiggle room for Donald Trump. Enter Mark Halperin, who tweeted this odd but of nonsense Tuesday morning:
Trump camp finds support for 9/11 claim in Fred Siegel @nypost op-ed. Not proof but contemporaneous citation. pic.twitter.com/I00q79VHkx
— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) December 1, 2015
“Not proof but contemporaneous citation?” In what alternate Spock’s-got-a-beard universe does that mean anything to a journalist? All it really means is that the columnist Halperin cites, Fred Siegal, listened to the same rumors that Kovaleski apparently felt worthy of print, but unworthy of attribution. Delete your journalism account, Mark Halperin.
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
11 responses to Rudy Giuliani ‘Confirms’ 9/11 Celebrations In Unbelievable Way
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Foundryman December 1st, 2015 at 15:15
Seriously, if thousands of muslims celebrated in NJ, Giuliani would have run with that everyday for the past 14 years.
rg9rts December 1st, 2015 at 15:18
One lies the other…wasn’t he a little busy at the time??
Henri Blanche December 1st, 2015 at 15:52
Palestine. New Jersey. What’s the difference?
William December 1st, 2015 at 16:12
..and if I’m lying may God strike me from above…
http://i.giphy.com/xTk9ZMvytLICEWw9bi.gif
granpa.usthai December 1st, 2015 at 20:14
sad it doesn’t work that way, but…
it could if someone were devilish enough to ‘arrange’ the next podium platform.
Red Mann December 1st, 2015 at 21:23
Lying is a positive feature on the right, the bigger the lie, the more they believe.
Sharon Figueroa December 2nd, 2015 at 05:49
Audrey Sweat December 3rd, 2015 at 04:03
granpa.usthai December 1st, 2015 at 20:12
Trump (R) LIES
Giuliani (R) LIES
so?
Red Mann December 1st, 2015 at 21:22
_________ (R) lies.
Robert Kennedy December 3rd, 2015 at 10:54
Meanwhile, in numerous Muslim countries on 9/11 there were demonstrations supporting us. Those were widely reported and actually happened. Of course Bush squandered the good will just as he screwed up everything else he touched.