Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Salon's Cheap Shot at Rudy [Jonah Goldberg]
Jim Geraghty mounts a vigorous defense. The only point I think he could have emphasized more is that no New Yorker — as far as I am aware — begrudged the Mayor of New York going to the World Series when the Yankees were playing. In other words, most of some 8 million (or whatever the number is these days) New Yorkers were unable to see anything wrong with Giuliani's behavior at the time (and as Jim suggests they saw it as a welcome return to normalcy for a shaken city). Only Salon's morally unclouded Hindsight-O-Vision ® could see the problem six years later as the stark moral shortcoming it was.
Update: From a reader:
Jonah—Not only did New Yorkers not object to Giuliani's attendance at the World Series, anyone who saw the excellent HBO documentary "Nine Innings to Ground Zero" would understand the importance of that Series to the people of New York. Apparently the [Salon] author somehow missed this.
08/21 10:21 AM
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