Why won he pummel James Dobson the way he smacked around ferret owners?
Joan Walsh Oct. 05, 2007 | I loved this story today: Rudy Giuliani, radio host. The New York Times looked at the glory years, when the mayor had his own weekly radio show on WABC-AM, from 1994 to 2001. Mostly the Giuliani we see on the campaign trail today seems to have lost his mojo, and maybe it’s because he’s trying so hard to suppress the fully alive Rudy of old. Sure, he could be a bully and a braggart, but he also had a damn good time running Manhattan, and it showed. Michael Powell captures Rudy practicing psychology without a license many times — he enjoyed telling his critics they were crazy in a variety of colorful ways. “David, your compulsion, your excessive concern for weasels is a sign of something wrong in your personality,” the mayor told the head of Ferret Rights’ Advocacy, who opposed Giuliani’s ban on having ferrets as pets, a legendary milestone in the Giuliani years. “I am giving you the benefit of 55 years of experience — having handled insanity defenses, you ne
