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Speaking with talk radio host John Gambling of AM 970 The Answer on Thursday, the former New York City mayor charged that Obama was ignoring “enormous amount of crime” committed by black Americans, citing a recent highly-publicized scuffle at Brooklyn McDonald’s and the shooting of two Ferguson, Missouri police officers early Thursday.
Referring to Cosby’s history of scolding remarks inveighing against black culture, Giuliani said, “I hate to mention it because of what happened afterwards, but [he should be saying] the kinds of stuff Bill Cosby used to say.”
Get it? Obama is a famous black man, Cosby is a famous black man, and famous black men should be more alike. Don't you just hate when black people can't be all alike? Particularly when they can't all be alike in criticizing black culture. Because Giuliani just couldn't make his
false point without invoking the name of Cosby. As a role model, in this case.
As for "what happened afterward," um—that women went public with their claims that Cosby was committing serial sexual assault? Which he is alleged to have been committing serially back when he was getting attention for criticizing black culture? Is it that Giuliani thinks those allegations trivial, or is it that he wants people subliminally to equate Obama with them? As in all black men are scary, but at least Cosby talked right?
Giuliani’s opening qualification — he really hates to say what he’s about to say, but here goes anyway — is eerily similar to the one he uttered before asserting last month that Obama doesn’t love America.
In other words, Giuliani keeps hating not being able to stop himself from expressing in public what Giuliani in private really thinks. I hate to say it because the man is a public figure and former elected politician and it would be nice if public figures and elected officials didn't, but Rudy Giuliani has a
persistent problem with race.