Jon Stewart Asks Giuliani, "You Know You're Not The Mayor Of 9/11, Right?"

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Published Feb 24, 2015

Modified Feb 24, 2015

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Last night, patriotic 9/11 Town Mayor Rudy Giuliani finally got the Daily Show segment we all knew was coming after he launched his HateClick 2015 Tour last week by declaring, "I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country." Into this patriotic pissing contest Jon Stewart fearlessly strode:

Anyone who still has some Giuliani bile stuck in their esophagus should watch this Daily Show segment, which we won't spoil it for you, except for one line that pretty much sums this whole nonsense up. After airing a clip of Giuliani telling Sean Hannity that "President Obama didn't live through 9/11, I did," Stewart asked, "You know you're not the mayor of 9/11, right? You don't own 9/11. You don't own anything but the unique willingness to crassly exploit it."

Or, as Obama's former top advisor David Axelrod put it, "This was more about Rudy Giuliani, a fading politician, kind of lighting himself on fire and trying to get some attention..." So maybe that's the GOP strategy for 2016: Human sacrifice.