Seen as a model for the Murdock-owned Wall Street Journal.
Giuliani's mayoral record is complicated
By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press WriterSun Jul 22, 1:57 AM ETRudy Giuliani boasts that he reined in crime, welfare and taxes in a city once considered ungovernable. Those claims are intrinsic to the former New York mayor's pitch to Republican voters that he has the combination of competence and toughness they want in a president. Whether his record supports those claims, however, is a matter upon which admirers and critics differ markedly.
The reason they differ is, his critics build their opinions on events while his supporters build their opinions on rhetoric and fear.
Again, The August 2007 issue of Harpers. None of it is online...I don't care. Buy it. Hit the library. But read it.
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The reason they differ is, his critics build their opinions on events while his supporters build their opinions on rhetoric and fear.
The only phrases I would add is "wishful thinking" and "ignoring history."