{"id":1805,"date":"2007-11-22T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/nyc-fire-chief-giuliani-not-a-hero-he-ran-that-day\/1805\/"},"modified":"2007-11-22T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T16:23:40","slug":"nyc-fire-chief-giuliani-not-a-hero-he-ran-that-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/nyc-fire-chief-giuliani-not-a-hero-he-ran-that-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Fire Chief: Giuliani &#8216;Not a Hero&#8217; &#8216;He Ran That Day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy is now &#8220;trumpeting his leadership in the wake of 9\/11 in campaign mailings to voters in Iowa and New Hampshire&#8221; despite claiming all along that he wasn&#8217;t running on his 9\/11 record. Dan Abrams has on FDNY Deputy Fire Chief Jim Riches, whose group, 9\/11 Firefighters and Families, vows to not let Giuliani get away with it.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h7r0R00c1bQ&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h7r0R00c1bQ&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Riches: &#8220;We are going to follow him around and tell the true story of what happened on 9\/11.&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;and get the message out to all of America and every state to let them know that Rudy Giuliani is not Mr 9\/11. He&#8217;s not a hero. He ran that day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What the Giuliani campaign is now outwardly touting as his strength could very well become his achilles heel. This is not the first NYC firefighter group to take on Rudy ( <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/therealrudy.org\/radios\" title=\"http:\/\/therealrudy.org\/radios\"><font color=\"#0033cc\">http:\/\/therealrudy.org\/radios<\/font><\/a> ). Under pressure from these groups, NYC has just launched an investigation into &#8220;how the FDNY ended up using faulty equipment during the terrorist attacks and why Giuliani gave a no-bid contract to Motorola for that equipment.&#8221; ( <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/11\/01\/nyc-to-investigate-giuliani-faulty-911-radios\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/11\/01\/nyc-to-investigate-giuliani-faulty-911-radios\/\"><font color=\"#0033cc\">http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/11&#8230;<\/font><\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not like the Kerik indictment doesn&#8217;t strike right at the heart of his 9\/11 hero claims too.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/horsesmouth\/2007\/11\/cnns_jack_caffe_1.php\" title=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/horsesmouth\/2007\/11\/cnns_jack_caffe_1.php\"><font color=\"#0033cc\">http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/hors&#8230;<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy is now &#8220;trumpeting his leadership in the wake of 9\/11 in campaign mailings to voters in Iowa and New Hampshire&#8221; despite claiming all along that he wasn&#8217;t running on his 9\/11 record. Dan Abrams has on FDNY Deputy Fire Chief Jim Riches, whose group, 9\/11 Firefighters and Families, vows to not let Giuliani get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-911-truth","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}