And the big knives haven't even come out yet Guiliani.

You might remember back here that I provided a sample of Lower Manahattanite's predictions on the knives that would soon be out amongst the citizens of New York City to shank once-NYC-mayor and now Republican presidential hopeful, Rudy Guiliani.

Damned if he wasn't right on the mark as the International Association of Firefighters, a week after Lower Manhattanite foretold it, produced a video which tears into Guiliani declaring him and his actions on September 11th, 2001, an urban myth.

“We have the remains of dead heroes at the garbage dump because of Giuliani and his administration and they’re still there today and they won’t remove them,” claims FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches on the DVD.

A little later Greg Sargent at TPM Cafe searched out a video of Guiliani screaming "Bullshit!" at a (ahem!) rally of off-duty New York City policemen. Guiliani had lost his bid to claim the NYC mayor's chair three years earlier to David Dinkins, New York's only black mayor. The police protest was over changes Dinkins was proposing, not the least of which was the requirement for the cops to live in the NYC boroughs. The video clip, which Sargent hoped to use to demonstrate Guiliani's reliability and temperament got a reaction from some of the elite of the right-wing dumbosphere namely, Michelle Malkin, Ann Althouse and, one who describes womens' vaginas as a mixture of bacon and playdough, Ace Of Spades.

Of course, all of them are attempting to dismiss Guiliani's moment of profanity as little more than an effective word for the occasion, (a police rally), and an attempt by TPM to hack Guiliani in an out of context video intended to shock the tender ears of "values" voters.

Except that the video is only a short sample of what was going on that day. None of Malkin, Althouse nor even Ace, live in NYC and clearly didn't take the time to dig into the reason that clip exists.

They could have asked Lower Manhattanite. If they had, they might not have written a word.

See, that clip, is a snippet of what went down at that rally that day. Rudy SCREAMED "Bullshit!" several times during his screed as a punctuation to pointed lines. I remember the news reports of that day, and they were quite reticent to show him whipping that crowd up, so they edited that portion of the rally. But...they can't edit history. And I know the history verrrrr-rrrrrry well.

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That fateful September day, between 9,000 and 10,000 cops showed up for Rudy's "pro-police" rally. To give you an idea of how many cops that was, NYPD force levels were considerably less than what they are today. Back then, the force was about 29,000 strong. Nearly a third of the force turned out that day. One out of every three cops in NY were there, just beyond the mayor's door. Screaming. Angry. And yes, a lot of 'em were drunk.

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I was told by my co-worker not to come downtown that day for good reason. There was police-perpetrated anarchy in the streets downtown...and Black folks had a lot to be afraid of in Lower Manhattan that day. I remember the news footage. Cops jumping up and down on cars in the area. Harassing citizens. Drunk and disorderly—and in no mood to be civil to Black folks.

Rudy Guiliani, you see, had, according to most news outlets that day, used a pro-police rally to incite a riot - among off-duty cops - with strong racial overtones. The off-duty policemen rushed city hall and prevented one city councilor from entering the building while addressing her in the basest possible racist language.

And the thing that fomented this whole event wants to be president of the United States. Wouldn't the world love that following the worst president in history.

You need to read the whole thing. It's remarkably delicious and, well, Lower Manhattanite's style just adds to the joy.