Rudy maintains that Obama’s post-Ferguson rhetoric and his close association with Al Sharpton have contributed to the widespread hatred of police
Former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on Sunday’s CBS Face the Nation where host Major Garrett interviewed him about his comments that President Obama has contributed to the poisonous atmosphere against the police. From the Face the Nation transcript:
Giuliani on Obama’s contribution to the hatred of police
GARRETT: Let's clear one thing up. You said awhile ago that President Obama contributed to a rhetorical atmosphere about hating American police. And "The Washington Post" fact-checked you on that. I cover the president every single day. I have never detected anything that comes along the line of propaganda urging the country to hate police. Do you want to recast that or take that back?
GIULIANI: Oh, not at all.
I think you missed one very important point. He has had Al Sharpton to the White House 80, 85 times. Often, when he's talking about police issues, he has Al Sharpton sitting next to him. If you would like to have poster boy for hating the police, it's Al Sharpton.
You make Al Sharpton a close adviser, you are going to turn the police in America against you. You're going to tell the police in America, we don't understand you. I saw this man help cause riots in New York. I have heard his anti-police invective firsthand. To have a man who hasn't paid $4 million in taxes, have a man who has spent his career helping to create riots, phony stories about police, to have that man sitting next to you speaks volumes.
You know, actions speak louder than words. You put Al Sharpton next to you, you just told everyone, I'm against the police.
GARRETT: But what about the president's rhetoric itself? Do you still believe the president's rhetoric, not...
GIULIANI: His rhetoric...
GARRETT: Go ahead.
GIULIANI: Well, look, who you associate with is part of your rhetoric.
If I was talking to you about ending the mafia, as I did in the 1980s, or fighting the mafia, and I had Joe Colombo sitting next to me, you would say I was a big hypocrite, wouldn't you? It wouldn't matter what my rhetoric was. Oh, I'm fighting the mafia. There's Joe Colombo.
I'm for the police and there is Al Sharpton? Every cop in America is going to say, give me a break. I get the point, Mr. President. His interference in the Gates affair, the fact that he pays great attention to these so-called racial incidents, some of which are not racial incidents, sends representatives to funerals of people who were killed in the commission of committing a crime, and I haven't heard him make very strong comments about the deaths of Ramos and Liu to that extent.
So, I think the "Washington Post" fact-checking was substantially inaccurate. And they missed the one big point, Al Sharpton.
Giuliani on Sharpton
GIULIANI: Sharpton -- when Sharpton pays the $4 million he owes the federal government, maybe he should be allowed to sit next to a mayor or a governor, or when Sharpton apologizes to police for all the times that he has maligned them, made false charges against them, helped cause the Crown Heights riot, ruin a man's career over Tawana Brawley, who happened to be in law enforcement.
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NOTE: Giuliani is spot on! But the problem is that Sharpton has reinvented himself, and with the help of the media – MSNBC has given him his own news talk show – he has conned President Obama, Mayor de Blasio and other prominent leaders into believing he’s the second coming of Christ in the civil rights movement. In fact though, Sharpton is nothing but a racial rabble rouser, or as actor James Woods has called him, a “race pimp” and “disgusting pig.”
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