Rudy "15%" Giuliani, addressing supporters during his in-fucking-terminable, Fred-Thompson-esque concession speech just now:

"In an era of personal attacks, negative ads, and cynical spin, we ran a campaign that was uplifting."

Are you having a laugh? Is he having a laugh?

Sunday Talk Show Roundup!

Face the Nation

Rudy "I Just Look Terrifying All the Time, Now" Giuliani condescendingly explained how he will raise revenues by... wait for it... cutting corporate and capital gains taxes. (Clearly an econ major.)

Hillary Clinton spun the South Carolina beatdown into, "[Obama] and I have now each won one primary and one caucus." Obama's wins: IA caucus (+9 points; +1 delegate), SC primary (+28 points; +13 delegates); Clinton's wins: NV caucus (+6 points; -1 delegates), NH primary (+2 points; +0 delegates). Yeah, that's about even. (She also mentioned her win in Michigan, which was funny.)

Meet the Press

Crazy John McCain went Cheney-mode:

Governor Romney obviously said there had to be, "timetables," although they had to be secret because we weren't going to tell the enemy when we were leaving. I mean, that's--that's just a fact. And if we'd have done that, as the Democrats and some Republicans wanted to do, we would've lost that surge and al-Qaeda would be celebrating a victory over the United States of America.

Meanwhile, in sophomoric news, Russert asked about the fact that McCain "seems to embrace [Joe Lieberman] on the campaign trail," and McCain responded, "Well, I embrace him anywhere and at any time."

This Week

Stephanopoulos mentioned Dick Harpootlian by name about four minutes into the show, presumably just to make Dave Barry happy.

Giuliani hit This Week yesterday in an impressive show of "look at me, I'm nonchalant"-itude, but reading between the lines, the campaign's in full-on tailspin. For example, they appear to have fired all of their professional makeup artists, and replaced them with the guy who runs the face painting booth at the Dade County Fair:


They also chose to perch the candidate in front of a crowd of slack-jawed, dull-eyed supporters (many of whom were all-too-obviously being reminded every four or five seconds that they're supposed to smile broadly), a strategy that wavered between "distracting" and "embarrassing" (mostly embarrassing).

Official Purple State prediction: fourth place in Florida, campaign officially dissolved by Feb. 1.

Giuliani is delightfully insane.



(Thanks to Atrios.)

TPMtv on the megalomania that is Rudy Giuliani.

Atrios: "If Rudy is elected president we can rename apple pie as '9/11 pie' and apple pie a la mode as '9/11 pie with a side of Iraqi freedom.'"

This guy is really quite funny.

I tend to be pretty skeptical of the the whole "cost of a gallon of milk" question (mostly because, despite the fact that I buy milk at least once a week, I couldn't answer the question myself), so I've been glad to see that a lot of the response to Giuliani's recent bungling has been along those same lines. The best response I've seen, though, is definitely this one, in which Michael Tomasky suggests replacing the fairly arbitrary "price of milk" with a list of ten numbers that really would demonstrate political in-touchitude.