Toot toot, rudy, goodbye

I won't bother with a long farewell to America's mayor, as he wasn't a factor in the presidential race for some time, if at all.

But his rapid descent from front-runner status shows just how out of touch the American media is. Simply the fact that this New York guy had a few good moments during 9/11 didn't make him the mayor of Boise or Dubuque, no matter what the media based in New York and Washington, D.C. said.

And while I've never been a big fan of conspiracy theories about a left-wing media -- I've never gotten even a single check from George Soros, damnit -- it's pretty clear the media leaders have not a clue about the GOP or the religious right.

Sure, the Moral Majority crowd will look the other way at slavery for global business, Abramoff-style corruption or the simple government ineptitude exemplified by Katrina.

But they impeached Bill Clinton for getting a bj, and they'd love to campaign against his wife this fall because he got said bj.

Giuliani is a twice-divorced guy who once left his wife in the mayor's mansion so he could bunk with two gay friends and openly date his mistress. That might make him a good side character on "Will & Grace," but he was not going to be the right wing's standard bearer.

That the media could not recognize this says less about Giuliani's campaign than it does America's out-of-touch media.