Yesterday, Nicole Belle at Crooks & Liars put up a post up about former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and his actions regarding outfitting the FDNY with proper--and functional--radios. Motorola was given a no-bid contract to provide the city with said radios--when tested in 2001 the devices didn't work, so the FDNY was once again stuck with radios that hadn't worked properly during the first attack on the Twin Towers in 1993.

There is footage of Rudy declaring how the brave firemen "stood their ground" in the towers on that otherwise fair, late summer day known as 9/11--truth be known, if their radios had been working they would have obeyed orders to evacuate. It's kind of like saying the passengers of the Titanic bravely drowned in freezing waters--had they been given life rafts, it's rather likely they would have opted for survival, capiche?

When Rudy Giuliani trumpets his actions vis a vis 9/11 he outdoes Herod dancing naked on the graves of the Muses. Or maybe I dreamed it.