Giuliani Stops Speech For Call From Wife

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Rudy Giuliani

Former mayor Rudy Giuliani was interrupted during his speech to the NRA by a ringing cell phone – his own, reports CBS News' Ryan Corsaro and Scott Conroy.

"It's my wife," he told the audience, and answered the call. "Hello dear, I'm talking to the NRA right now. Would you like to say hello?"

Several members of the audience laughed at the exchange and applauded when Giuliani told her he loved her and promised to call back.

A spokesman for the Giuliani campaign would not say whether the call was planned or not. However, rival candidate Mitt Romney's press secretary Kevin Madden told CBS News the phone call looked "scripted."

The Romney campaign provided a YouTube link showing Giuliani doing the same thing at an event in June.

"It's my wife on the phone," Giuliani said to the crowd at a June 21 campaign stop in the heavily Cuban-American city of Hialeah, Florida. "I'll call you back," he continued. "OK, dear. I love you. Bye."

Giuliani speaks tonight at a local GOP conference in Mackinac Island, Michigan.

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by sumnerred September 24, 2007 12:26 AM EDT: Brian, good post, but remember, we want Giuliani to win, so take it easy on him. My corporate interests will fare much better under Giuliani than under a Democrat.

So please adjust your coverage accordingly.

Your boss,

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by mh4cbs1 September 22, 2007 2:41 PM EDT: Want a real headline? Blackwater Probed for Weapons Smuggling!

You can''''t make this stuff up! Is this NEOCON NIGHTMARE really happening?

Could our very own Blackwater civilian-murdering terrorists be selling our weapons to the Iraqi resistance?

Maybe they think they are helping to repel a foreign occupation of Iraq, by a nation that created a pretext of LIES to justify the Invasion and theft of the vast Iraqi Oil Reserves?

Maybe Blackwater just wanted to keep the war going? It is after all very profitable when you are making 10 times the money that the US troops are making.

Maybe they kill civilians because it is good target practice. Why not? There are no laws against it! They are not subject to US laws, Iraqi laws, or even the military code of conduct.

Maybe they want more of the $$ action, since they see all the other corporations looting the American treasury, like Cheney''''''''s Haliburton, the Carlye Group and countless other politically connected sleazy War Profiteers.

This Horrific, Needless WAR OF AGGRESSION was all based on WMD and Saddam-link LIES. Deliberate LIES from Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet and even Bush (to the extent he even knows what is really going on). And this is a WAR CRIME, for which

BUSH and CHENEY belong in JAIL!!!; Reply to this comment


by robindallas-2009 September 21, 2007 11:00 PM EDT: A fake phone call is consistent with Rudy''s dishonesty. It reminds me of the fake phone calls from the planes on 911. Stop the charade. The jig is up! 911 was an inside job and Rudy is part of the cover up.

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