Rudy's Mobbed-Up Crony Cries The Blues

Austin Fenner:

Disgraced ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik can't stop crying over his fizzled friendship with former BFF Rudy Giuliani.

"I accept the distance created by Giuliani. I understand it, but inside, it's killing me," Kerik said.

"It's like dying a slow death, watching him have to answer for my mistakes," the former top cop said of the ex-New York mayor-turned-presidential-candidate.

Oh, please. "Watching him answer for my mistakes?" What a crock. Rudy Giuliani was his enabler AND his beneficiary. After all, it was Kerik who got the richly deserved nickname of "Caligula's Horse,"

[named for the animal that] was attended to by eighteen servants, was fed oats mixed with gold flake and had a stable of marble, with an ivory manger, purple blankets and a collar of precious stones. Caligula planned to make the horse, named Incitatus, a Consul...It has also been said Caligula claimed his horse to be a 'combination of all the gods' and to be worshipped as such.

Bernie Kerik's corruption (and Giuliani's) was so monumental it stood out even in New York City.

When it was time to name the first head of the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. 9/11 lobbied hard for his former driver, bodyguard, and toady police chief to get the job. In hindsight, the situation was so ripe with rotteness that its surprising that anyone took the nomination seriously.

And, of course, now that Kerik is disgraced, Rudy can't run away fast enough; but apparently he left one last order for his pet crony: that Kerik should absolve Rudy of all the insanity and corruption that was the hallmark of his adminstration.