'That's Really Jerky': Giuliani to CNN Crowley's Claim Biz Experience Isn't Presidential Qualification
As NewsBusters has been reporting for weeks, much of the Obama-loving media have been shamelessly carrying water for the White House's claim that Mitt Romney's vast business experience is not a qualification for president.
When Candy Crowley tried this on CNN's State of the Union Sunday, her guest Rudy Giuliani replied, "That's really jerky" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
RUDY GIULIANI: I mean, the simple fact is that Mitt Romney has been far more successful in the things that he's done than Barack Obama. I mean, going way back, this is a man who ran a significant business, made it into a tremendous success which used to be -- used to count for a lot in America. He created dozens of businesses. I work with him when he took the Olympics out of chaos. Remember, we had to do the Olympics in Utah just a few months after September 11th. They were going to cancel the Olympics.
CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: Right.
GIULIANI: And Mitt Romney pulled it off and it was a great success. This is a man, unlike President Obama, who had virtually no success before, just community organizer, state senate, never really had a payroll to meet or any responsibilities.
CROWLEY: Well, I'm not sure people would say that wasn't success, but he certainly was a community organizer, but now he's had four years of experience as president which isn't nothing at this point and one of their arguments is that that business experience that you're talking about that Mitt Romney is talking about doesn't really qualify him -- it's not a qualification to be president because it's a wholly different point of view. And here's something...
GIULIANI: But Candy...
CROWLEY: Let me just -- hang on, I'm going to give you a chance to talk. I want to play something Joe Biden said.
GIULIANI: That's really jerky.
It is really jerky. If experience running a decent sized corporation isn't qualification to be president, what is?
But I'm getting ahead of myself and Giuliani:
CROWLEY: Let me play something Joe Biden said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Your job as president is to promote the common good. That doesn't mean the private equity guys are bad guys, they're not. But that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CROWLEY: It's your turn.
GIULIANI: Well, I mean, the reality is that President Obama can talk about his record as president if he wants to look at something where he theoretically thinks he succeed, but he doesn't talk about his record as president. You know and I know that his campaign is running away from his record as president and basically they want to attack Romney.
When Ronald Reagan was running for re-election in '84, they spent a little time criticizing Mondale, but most of it was Morning in America, how he had turned around the country, the great successes he had because he had a record to run on. President Obama is running against -- and we have found what a president who has no experience is going to give us.
He's going to give us tremendous failure, the largest debt we've ever had, the highest levels of sustained long-term unemployment since the depression. I mean, our economy is a disaster under Obama. He vaguely knows what he's doing with regard to our economy.
CROWLEY: But the question here really is about Mitt Romney's credentials and he's put Bain as one of them out there. And this is an outfit that made great money, was very successful, but its business wasn't creating jobs, as you know. Its business was creating wealth for people which is a great thing in America, it's what we do, but their argument is that doesn't qualify you to be president.
Well then what does qualify one to be president? Giuliani had the answer:
GIULIANI: Well, what does qualify you to be president? Does being a community activist for a Saul Alinsky group, and then a member of a state legislature for a few years and kind arriving in the senate and running for president on day one, does that qualify you to be president?
Or does somebody who has run the Olympics, governor -- let me finish, run the Olympics, governor of one of our largest states, and run one of our most successful businesses in the country. Does that qualify you to be president of the United States?
I mean, I don't think you can argue -- qualifications get decided by the voters. I would take Romney's background for an America that has to turn around its economy way over Obama's background which has basically been a theoretical kind of background. Never had any kind of responsibilities. Never ran a military unit.
CROWLEY: Mr. Mayor...
GIULIANI: Never ran a business.
When you think about it, this whole discussion the media are currently having about Romney's qualifications for president is hysterical.
Throughout American history, being governor was considered the ideal stepping stone to the White House. Most of our nation's presidents were governors first.
Wouldn't a vast amount of business experience on top of running Massachusetts be ample qualifications for the job, especially as the man currently in the White House had no gubernatorial or business credits on his resume?
Apparently not if you're a Republican.
Which raises the question: Are there any qualifications the media will accept for president if the candidate has an R next to his or her name?
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Go Rudy
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 7:42pm.
Every one thinks Rudy's qualifiers came on 911, but pre Rudy in NYC you were looking over your shoulder every five seconds thanks to Dinkins. Rudy and Bratton cleaned up that town and kudos to them for that. As for Candy Cowley as a water carrier of the buffalo type she fits the bill. After all a community organizer my God it's almost like nuclear science!
"Don't let the bastards grind you down'
Butt....butt.....butt......
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 7:57pm.
Butt he ran his campaign, Mr. Giuliani; he ran his campaign!!
And he knew every job and was capable of doing every job better than those he hired to to do it!!
Crowley drank the Kool Aid again
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 11:00am.
The Obama Campaign wants to convince people that Romney is a vulture capitalist whose money-making experience is incompatible with running the Federal government.
Of course, they are dilberately avoiding GOVERNOR Romney's experience as chief executive officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which was far more executive experience than Obama ever had prior to being sworn in as President.
This election is Romney's to lose. Obama can't spin his record into success, and things are not likely to get significantly better by November. But Romney could easily be repeat of Dole '96.
To avoid a Dole redux, the GOP and its Super PAC allies have to bombard the media this summer with attacks on Obama's record from every direction.
No republican can be qualified to be president
Submitted by ohio granny on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 7:54pm.
Don't you know that the only qualification to be president is being a democrat. No other experience is needed.
A republican can be a successful governor of a large state for 25 years and still not be as qualified as Obama was the day he decided to run for the presidency. This according to the gospel of the MSM.
Obama's qualifications as President - have they improved?
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 8:02pm.
Of course, the question to Crowley is, 'what were Obama's qualifications to be President 4 years ago, when the media jumped on his bandwagon?'
And then naturally as a follow up, 'with Clinton and Zuckerman calling him a rank amateur and an incompetent president and Chris Matthes saying that he doesn't even have a notion of what being President is all about, what in the world, Candy, makes him more qualified than Humpty Dumpty?'
(;~> gary
PS - Romney also has experience as a Governor, Candy; and, having had to work with Democrats for 4 years -
Hmm,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 8:12pm.
Working with dimwits is not a qualification, it's a weakness.
Come on,
Submitted by olddog3006 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 8:13pm.
Although there's no evidence I know of that Obama was a drug dealer in high school, anyone who's ever been involved in that "scene" knows that most always did a little dealing on the side. That's how you get to smoke a lot of weed in high school & sometimes a little blow!
Lot's of wheeling & dealing when you're in that lifestyle, so to say Omama has no business experience just shows how un cool some people are!
But being a Kenyan Muslim commie fraud of a pot head and former
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 8:19pm.
...commoonity pisser-offer makes a perfect POTUS candidate?
Crowley must be dipping in president Toker's stash, too.
Why not, as it appears most of the members of the MSM are as well?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
The background of each
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:46pm.
The background of each candidate mean more in the primaries than in the general election, since the candidates of the former are of like-minded views - the more experience and expertise you have may distinguish significantly one from the other. In the latter, however, it means much, much less because the views of each candidate are so much more divergent. IOW, if Obama had 30 years of political experience and 10-15 years as a successful businessman, I still would vote for Mitt even if Romney had Barack's real-life credentials.
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
Thanks to Obama's economic
Submitted by ant on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:55pm.
Thanks to Obama's economic genius, now a whole lot of people are lacking in 'business experience'.
SAY AGAIN, CANDY?
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 10:11pm.
LOOK, ROMNEY WAS A GOVERNOR FOR 4 YEARS...REAL DECISION MAKER AS, CANDY, STATES ONLY HAVE ONE GOVERNOR. HIS OBAMA-NESS WAS A STATE SENATOR FOR WHAT 2? 3? YEARS...ONE OF MANY AND THEN, BASED ON ZILCH**, WAS ELECTED A US SENATOR, 1 OF 100,WHERE HE SPENT HIS ENTIRE TERM CAMPAIGNING FOR DEM PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION...LED SENATE IN ABSENT FROM VOTING RECORD.
**LET ME AMEND THAT...HE WAS/IS A SKILLED RHETORICIAN AND SOPHIST...BOTH OF WHICH, IN THEIR ORIGINAL MEANING WOULD BE CLOSEST TO TODAY'S SPINMEISTER...
Dr. Ron
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 10:17pm.
Would you mind releasing the caps lock key? That way you don't appear to be yelling at us. Thanks.
caps lock
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 10:21am.
My bad!! I was yelling at Candy..who cannot/will not listen. Again, my bad...sorry and take care
In The Leftist's Universe
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:10pm.
Intentions are more important than experience and results.
Obama means well, Romney does not.
Time to run the picture of the toddler touching Obama's head and pretend it isn't old news again. How about his glistening pecs as he roams the wild surf. Or dancing with Ellen whatshername. Or singing some Al Green... totally unrehearsed and spontaneous. Or another brave beer summit.
Anything but this imposter's record as President, let alone his the records of his life before becoming President.
It isn't nothing at this point
Submitted by KC Mulville on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:30pm.
"but now he's had four years of experience as president which isn't nothing at this point ... "
Yeah. It's evidence for why we don't want him any more.
LOL KC!
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:46pm.
Especially in this instance, Obama's faux intentions are more important than his results to date when trying to grift America to vote him back into office.
Darn glad to see you KC. Hope you and the family are well this Memorial weekend.
Governor's first
Submitted by weffie on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 12:40am.
I don't believe most presidents have been governors first.It's close, but one apparenlty accurate count puts it at max. 21, just short of the majority.
MSM Ignorance
Submitted by insatty on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 12:54am.
Crowley epitomizes the ignorance of our media elite. These blowhards think they're so damned smart. But when it comes to basic economics, they have no clue. Crowley parrots the MSM-DNC talking point that private-equity firms create no jobs, but are ignorant of economic reality that capital precedes jobs. Where there is no capital, there is no job. The entire gangs at MSNBC and CNN need basic ecomomic understanding to compliment their Marxist leanings.
They should undergo shock treatment
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 1:59am.
I recommend those idiots undergo 6 straight months of the same shock treatment that Malcolm MacDowell had in the movie "A Clockwork Orange". Instead of using clips of violence, they show non-stop speeches of Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Margaret Thatcher and Brian Mulrooney. You could also pepper in some clips of Charlton Heston and Rush Limbaugh.
But then again, one could only dream. SIGH.
Crowley deserves to be fired, if she can't defend our Great One
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 1:25am.
any better than that. I suggest CNN send Crowley to an Obama reeducation camp, until she can show CNN and the Obama team she can defend Obama suitably. The Great Leader Obama deserves better than Crowley's bumbling handling of Rudy Giuliani.
In all Fairness Rudy, let me handle this idiot "Candy" Crowley
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 1:39am.
What she said wasn't jerky, Rudy. IT WAS STUPID. You need to let these idiots know EXACTLY what the public thinks EVERY SINGLE CHANCE you get and If I were you, I wouldn't squander a good opportunity to "Sock it to them".
But he (B.O) only needs...
Submitted by Clinkin on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:08am.
...four more years to turn it around. /s
If Not, Then What?
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:12am.
Obama claims he is not a Socialist. But if he is running against capitalism, then what else could he be?
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
In the can!
Submitted by LaVallette on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 3:12am.
These media shills for Mr. Zero do not even realise how stupid they present themselves to the generl population such a line of biased interviews and so obviously in the can for the Obummer.? They insist that a community organizer with only theoretical ideas and with no governement executive experience trumps someone with vast business, Olympic Games Organizing and substantial gubernatorial experience when vying for the Presidency of the USA.
Interesting how the Obummers theoretical vision, promises and "mandates" came crashing down once he hit the wall of the "realpolitk". No idea what to do!!!!!!
Rudy just doesn't get it...
Submitted by Jimi Streets on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 3:37am.
...that Obama is qualified because he lives. He truly believes that he was "sent to save America" and the whole Liberal Universe have become "believers" and therefore HIS qualifications are beyond question and his actions above reproach.
The new book, "The Amateur", which I've read about half, is extraordinary in what it reveals about Obama. It's a must read!
Former colleagues, which are named, from Harvard mention that during his time at the Harvard Law Review he was basically AWOL most of the time, didn't write a single article, and had become a source of frustration among his colleagues because he played no real role there.
The common theme throughout Obama's life is one of shirking duties without any negative consequences to his ambitious goals.
Now if that doesn't qualify him then nobody is qualified!
thank you for jogging my memory
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 10:38am.
Surely there must be a rich conservative ( the reverse Larry Flynt) out there who could offer enough money that we could see Obama's Occidental, Columbia, Harvard transcripts; how he got into Columbia...who paid for Columbia and Harvard...dare I say this: was affirmative action involved?
I remember the knee-jerk media touting the intelligence of, first Gore, then Kerry. as opposed to Bush. When mirabile dictu, their records were outed, seems as if they were, as was Bush, a Gentleman's C as GPA and Gore never even had a declared major. Then, there was Gore twice starting grad school at Vanderbilt and twice being "allowed" to withdraw. While poor dumb Bush only went on to Harvard and an MBA (he was not a legacy there) then a jet fighter pilot in USAFR...take it from one who knows, there were/are no dummies in the cockpit; if they got there, they either had an accident/died or were removed, shall we say.
Maybe we can start a web-site for contribution for any who give out this (verified) Obama info?...a couple of mil should do it . I am at the ready with my checkbook....sign me one of the 99%.
Give her credit
Submitted by Okieflyover on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 9:58am.
For getting all of the talking points in there. They are wrong but they are the talking points.
Sorry, I just can't help myself......
Submitted by richard on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 10:13am.
.... from smearing Cowndy Crowley. Everytime I see this oinker I think, "Does this sow ever think about going on a diet?" Her reporting seems to grow (more leftist) everyday, along with her dress size. I try to keep to the subject at hand when I blog, but as previously confessed, I can't help myself from shuddering at the site of this hippo like creature.
So, there it is, no comment on the subject matter, the rest of you fine folks took care of that. I just gave relief to my inner angst over the distaste of the looks of this poster child for the tv program, "The Biggest Loser."
Crowley is runner-up
Submitted by OhioHistorian on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:12pm.
President 0 is "The BIGGEST Loser"
Thomas Alva Edison
The answer to the question is
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 10:29am.
"NO."
So Obama has had four years experience as president. Ok, If he were working for me, after ONE year and he was doing no better than he is now, I'd fire his dumb butt.
I hope to exercise that privilege in November.
There's a reason people no
Submitted by cristo on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:40pm.
There's a reason people no longer watch CNN and it's because of stupid comments like those made by Obama sycophant Candy Crowley. They think we are all 6th graders and treat us as such. Over at The Prison Channel, the Saturday morning idiot, Chris Hayes, isn't comfortable calling those who have fallen in combat "Heroes." I guess his heroes are Barack Obama, Sal Alinsky, Frances Fox Piven, Jeremiah Wright and Alfred Sharpton - all people who believe America is an evil entity that has brought nothing but misery to the world.. There is a reason people no longer watch this crap. They've had it up to their eyeballs and they just turn it off.
It's easy
Submitted by goon on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 3:48pm.
Obama has done a good job running the country into the ground. Romney has run business successfully.
Jeebus
Submitted by donabernathy on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 5:02pm.
ya couldn't get a sane individual to trade ya 3 chickens and a goat for Barry......
The Kid that cuts my grass is more qualified than Barry......
Sure hope I haven'r insulted any 16 year old, earning money this summer cutting grass.
roflmao
Jeebus
Submitted by donabernathy on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 5:02pm.
ya couldn't get a sane individual to trade ya 3 chickens and a goat for Barry......
The Kid that cuts my grass is more qualified than Barry......
Sure hope I haven'r insulted any 16 year old, earning money this summer cutting grass.
roflmao
There is no defending Romney
Submitted by MeanJeep on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:01pm.
There is no defending Romney on many other issues.
Pragmatically, success is not measured by how much money he made, but by what survives past his tenure with Bain. Bain is a private business with limited resources which cannot take on too big to fail risks. The fact of the matter is he pulled the plug on obvious failures to save the ones that were viable. He left Bain and many other businesses in good shape to carry on. Had they not intervened, it would have been a 100% loss in jobs. To his credit, he does not brag about what jobs he saved or created. It was never his job to subsidize losers that had no chance to prosper.
Take that in contrast to this administrations foray into venture capitalist with public funds - no limits to failure nor responsibility with someone else’s money. Between the debt clock and foreign borrowing; the political class has a practice for leaving office with their fiscal houses in bankruptcy the public is put on the hook for. The cure is always worse than the disease. Everything is an illusion from the recovery to façade of public image media lapdogs like Candy are paid to push.
It’s laughable watching them justify stupidity and spin it trying to get their brand of logic to excuse the resulting chaos while knocking down the integrity of the opposition.
But you just don't understand!!
Submitted by OhioHistorian on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:08pm.
It is COMPASSION! We CANNOT have any business, person, or whatever fail. We live in the Lake Wobegon of the future, where all the children have grown up to be "above average" adults.
We all KNOW that Romney is actually the nasty guy that lights his cigars with $100 bills and loves to watch starving children eat gruel.
NOW do you understand why President 0 has to win? He is just SO MUCH MORE HUMAN than Romney. He CARES! \sarc
Thomas Alva Edison
Here's a thought
Submitted by donabernathy on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 5:06pm.
Why do the news Whores continue to pay rent. I'm sure Barry will give'em a whole wing at 1600 Pennsylvania.
roflmao