Pinocchio Can't Compete With Giuliani's Nose

I hate to bring a Disney character into this mess, but its the best comparison for Rudy Giuliani and the lies he tells on the campaign trail. If only Rudy's schnazz would grow with the amount of distortions, falsehoods and outright lies he could pole vault himself right into the East River from City Hall.

From The Daily News:

It is Rudy Giuliani's favorite boast on the presidential campaign trail: "I cut taxes 23 times" as mayor of New York, he says, a claim inevitably met by applause.

The impressive-sounding stat stars in radio ads this week in New Hampshire and Iowa, where the voiceover asserts that Giuliani "cut or eliminated 23 taxes."

Trouble is, it's not really true, say tax-cutting allies of the former mayor, as well as experts at the Citizens Budget Commission and elsewhere.

A close examination of the tax-slashing claims from a list provided by his campaign show that in at least four cases, the former mayor is seizing credit for cuts initiated by others and, in one case, for a tax reduction he fought.

You know Rudy, eventually people are going to call you on your bullshit. The Republican prospect for 08' did cut taxes in the city, but the ones he claims to have done are just a bit of a stretch. Now the people that actually did propose and pass certain tax cuts are calling him on his campaign slogan.

Why anyone would want to trust this man on anything is beyond me.