The Real Rudy Giuliani

Filmmaker and political activist Robert Greenwald exposes the real Rudy Giuliani in a series of short documentaries posted on the Internet.

Bill Boyarsky writing at TruthDig.com has this to say:

Greenwald had read about Giuliani’s New York reign.  His friend, music business executive Danny Goldberg, told Greenwald that it was important to explain how bad it was.  So, Greenwald proceeded in a manner designed for the Internet with short documentaries on the theme of “The Real Rudy.”

His Giuliani is not the reasonable candidate from the television interviews.  Instead, Greenwald shows a headstrong boss who played favorites, punished dissenters and made decisions damaging to the city.

One of these short documentaries tells the story of how Giuliani put the command post in the World Trade Center complex before Sept. 11, even though the area had been attacked in 1993.  It was wiped out on the fatal day.

I found another documentary, “The REAL Rudy: Radios,” especially moving.  Firefighters and their spouses who lost family members in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 told how the police and fire departments could not communicate with each other because the Giuliani administration had given them radios operating on different frequencies.  As a result, many firefighters did not receive the order to evacuate.  I have seen stories about this, but nothing I’ve read has the impact of the simple words of a mourning father, mother or sister seated in a kitchen or front room.