This, folks, is not a joke. It's not sarcasm. This is real. The New York Post is .reporting that would-be First Lady Judith Giuliani worked for a firm that killed puppies in order to demostrate and sell surgigal equiipment.
Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors, The Post has learned.
"It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program," Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral said about the demonstrations of medical staplers on dogs conducted by U.S. Surgical Corp. employees during Giuliani's tenure there in the late 1970s.
Feral said U.S. Surgical's demonstrations on hundreds of dogs each year through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were done to boost sales, not for medical re search or testing.
The dogs were "either put to death following the sales demonstrations because they can't re cover from them, or they die during them," Feral said.
And yes, she was in the room with them.
In Sunday's Post, Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign spokesman, Michael McKeon, said of Judi Giuliani's work with U.S. Surgical, "She was in the operating room hundreds of times, using her nursing skills and training doctors in the stapling technique."
Asked yesterday about the procedure being performed on dogs, McKeon said, "I've never heard any of this before."
Then McKeon said he would have to ask Judi.
Finally, he said only that Judi had not been involved in procuring dogs for sales demonstrations - but did not comment on whether she participated in demonstrations involving dogs.
Before you say that what the candidate's spouse did does not matter, I would like to stop you right now and remind you how, for decades, Republicans would bring out their spouses and talk about how wonderful they were compared to Democrats'. Even in 2004, they did everything they could to demonize Teresa Heinz-Kerry and, before her, Hillary Clinton. I would finally argue that, if Rudy feels comfortable going to bed every night with a dog killer (whom he wants to attend Cabinet meetings), then I don't feel very comfortable that he has much of a conscience to begin with.