Case of the Monday's

On Sunday the ever eager Drudge Report reported on a Youtube.com video that showed Big Rudy Guiliani avidly attesting to pro-abortion funding in the late 80s. The clip, dug up by a gopher looking for some good dirt then aired on all major stations the following day. This sort of bad publicity is exactly what is going to kill decent candidates this election. Rudy's people's inability to find this video and control his press(releasing it on his own terms with good spin or burning the damn thing) may be the start of a trend of bad pub. Rudy has Republicans questioning his policies on specific issues like gays, abortion, and guns. However, his fundraising (numbers to be released at the end of the first quarter,March 31) may show to be enough to brush off these kidney shots from the spirits of bad press, and even dodge many other knockout blows. But hats off the guy(gal) that found the video............good digging for dirt.

In other news, a Swiss man accused of insulting the nation's monarchy by spray-painting over several portraits of the revered Thai king pleaded guilty today and faces a maximum 75-year prison sentence. The vandalism coincided with Bhumibol's (The Thai King) 79th birthday, which was celebrated across Thailand with fireworks and prayers on their own version of our "President's Day." The king is the world's longest serving monarch. On a side note, the plaintiff did say he was pretty drunk and regrets doing it......Man .......to bad that doesn't actually work !!
It makes me think about how they treat the leaders of their country over in Thailand. They are giving a guy some serious time in prison for bad mouthing their leader. On the other hand, the reporter who found the Rudy speech in which he was tarnishing his current campaign for Presidency and didn't even know it, will likely be praised and continue to do what he does for a living........gossip.

Rudy has problems ahead of him not limiting to bad press; he also has been married a few times. He also cleaned up our Nation's largest city, NYC, amidst the nastiest odds against him, the ugliest press against him, and a radical fundamentalist group(Osama) against his city. He took a shattered and star-struck band of un-united urbanites and transformed them both, the city and its people, into a respectable model of urban success.