A decade after Sept. 11, Bill Moyers says Rudy Giuliani exploited the attacks to get rich
Rudy Giuliani. Azi Paybarah, via flickr
12:30 pm Dec. 19, 20112
Speaking in Manhattan late last month, veteran PBS journalist and TV host Bill Moyers accused former mayor Rudy Giuliani of "exploiting" the attacks on September 11, 2001 and making "a private fortune" from it once he left office.
"President Bush had already asked us to prove our patriotism by going shopping," said Moyers, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson, at the University Club in Midtown. "Mayor Giuliani went on television to say 'let's step up to the plate and show the strength of the American economy.' Not the strength of the American spirit, not the strength of the American resolve, not the spirit of the American soul, but the spirt of the American economy. He would himself soon be heading toward a private fortune exploiting his newfound celebrity advising corporations on how to protect against terrorism. And in Washington, the marionettes of the military-industrial complex salivated at the prospect of windfall profits rising from the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. Grief would prove no match for greed."
Moyers' nearly 17-minute speech was delivered during a Nov. 29 awards banquet hosted by the good-government group Common Cause. Honorees that night included Leo Hindery Jr., who invests in media companies and is a major Democratic fund-raiser, Bill Samuels, a Democratic donor and activist, and Adelaine Gomer, who heads an environmental organization. Common Cause cited them as "leaders in the fight for accountability."
After leaving City Hall, Giuliani became a highly paid motivational speaker, wrote a best-selling book called Leadership, and opened a consulting company with a number of former aides called Giuliani Partners.
If anyone is shocked by this you have had your head up your as* for 10 years. He didnt do anything on 9/11. I didn't see him on the pile with me, nor did I see him at the hospital while my friends went through their chemo treatments. What a money hungry power grabbing son of a b*tch. He will be judge later by someone
I didnt see him at triage, I didnt see him at WTC Health Monitoring Clinic ever nor did his cronies ever need to go there because he walked them to the front of the Workers Comp line. Those of us sick and dying have suffered at the hands of those who denied us after working to save lives. Those cronies of his, cashed large checks from every possible fund with letters his office and GHOUliani himself provided. HOWEVER, we could not use any uniformed person to substantiate we were there. He would not allow any of the responders to vouch for another who came from home. His child molester former priest on his staff reaping earning$$$$ from 9/11 is another disgrace. May they both stand in judgement some day.
Ever wonder why no one has ever heard of anyone from his TWIN TOWERS FUND charity getting money?
Thats because his no one ever did.......INVESTIGATE THAT!