Thursday, November 29, 2007

Rudy and the child molester: A vaudeville show in countless acts

A while back, I gave US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney a hard time. While I still have no plans to support the guy, on the Republican side, he's starting to look like an angel compared to this idiot:

This shot is of Giuliani, in his customary pin-stripe wiseguy costume (complete with super-shiny teflon tie), seen with Alan Placa, a high school/college buddy and longtime good friend of Giuliani's. Placa, whom Giuliani employs as a consultant at Giuliani Partners, is also an accused child molester. The Suffolk County Grand Jury Report (Placa is "Priest F") can be seen here and you can scroll through more pictures of the two thugs here.

As an attorney (the media has often referred to him as a "wolf in sheep's clothing"), Placa has worked defending and covering up allegations against, you guessed it, other priests accused of the same crimes... His litigation is said to have saved the church hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, he's another good one to have on your side, Mr. G.

What happened to the days when this, not to mention all the other questionable Giuliani relationships and activities, would ruin a man's political career? It's like the old election adage that had us voting for the "lesser of two evils" has been replaced with our voting for the "lesser of two known criminals." Are we as a people so numbed by the media that we have come to simply accept that these people are a functioning part of our society, and even (yikes!) our leadership?

I guess we don't even really care about who these people are and what kind of company they keep. I mean, it's not Placa who's running for office, right? His just his good buddy and occasional boss, that's all.

Politics has become a vaudeville routine, complete with the huge hook that pulls characters off the stage for a second and so that the political cartoonists can have a go at them, but then nudges them back out at the end to take a bow in front of a very amused audience. We laugh, we pat them on the back, we forgive them of their sins and tell them: go get 'em, tiger. At the end of the day, everybody's happy. Some reporter got a breaking story, a cartoonist sold a fantastic caricature, the crooked politician in question got a slap on the wrist and then wrote a best-selling book about it, and the general population had a good laugh. Huh? Wha..?

While Romney has been flopping like a fish about where he stands on certain issues for some time now, I'm not aware of his mafia ties or questionable relationships. Not yet anyhow.

But there's still time. It's a long, crooked road to the White House.


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