Fran Lebowitz: When Giuliani was mayor an unarmed black man was killed every 5 minutes
During the panel discussion on Real Time last night, Bill Maher spoke with public intellectual Fran Lebowitz, director Rob Reiner, and Bill Nye The Science Guy about the rationale behind former New York City mayor Rudy Giulianis comments about Obama not loving America.
Lebowitz said that when Giuliani ran for mayor of New York City in 1993, his ads said vote for me and itll be 1952 again. He is just soaked in nostalgia. Thats what he meant when he said Obama doesnt love the country the way we love the county.
What does it mean, Maher asked, that Republicans want to go back to an era, the Fifties, where America was run by socialism?
You mean economic policy, Lebowitz replied. The New Deal. Thats not the part they miss. They miss you know, what is behind Giulianis comments, and were not allowed to say this, but its racism. We now live in a society where its worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
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