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Video: Asked About 9/11, Giuliani Describes "A Place In America Called Staten Island"
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John Del Signore
Published Apr 7, 2011
Modified Apr 7, 2011
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Tell us a story about 9/11, Rudy! No, not The Pet Goat—we already know how that one ends! We want to hear our favorite fantasy story about World Trade Center Building 7, where the crazy bald King of 9/11 Town lost his emergency throne! Is it really true the King and his men destroyed the building themselves in a controlled demolition? And where did the debris go? "Oh all right," the retired 9/11 King told the students at the University of Arkansas, "Once upon a time, there was a place in America called Staten Island." Watch the video below and see Rudy Giuliani invoke this magical land after being pressed to reveal the truther about WTC Building 7:
Giuliani was responding to a question from an audience member after his 90 minute speech at the University of Arkansas Sunday night. According to a report in Ozarks Unbound, "a female stood up and immediately started shouting questions about the collapse of World Trade Center 7, asking why Giuliani refused to investigate the building collapse. After a lot of back and forth between the female and Giuliani, he called her a 'conspiracy nut' and said that she needed to see a psychiatrist."
The woman was reportedly approached by police, but that's not what we see in these two videos. The questioner, one Courtney Poe, tells us she asked:"Mr. Giuliani, as former mayor of NYC why did you oppose the independent investigation of 9/11 specifically inquiries of WTC 7?" She adds, "I also asked about the steel beams that were removed and if they were tested and where. I may be crazy, but at least I'm not a crook." Here's the first part of her video, which shows Poe's question:
This isn't the first time Giuliani told somebody to seek psychiatric help. You'll recall that Giuliani responded similarly to a ferret owner protesting the city's ban on them as pets, telling his constituent, "There is something deranged about you.… The excessive concern you have for ferrets is something you should examine with a therapist.… There is something really, really very sad about you.… This excessive concern with little weasels is a sickness." Ferret lovers, 9/11 skeptics—same thing.
(Video courtesy Tom Zhang and Luke Gramlich).
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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