Giuliani: I Didn't Forget 9/11, I Was Using ‘Abbreviated Language’
Source: TPM
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that he was using abbreviated language when he claimed that the U.S. had seen no terror attacks carried out by Islamic extremists before President Barack Obama came into office.
"You speak in somewhat abbreviated language," he told the New York Daily News by way of explaining his Monday introduction for Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio. "All human beings speak in abbreviated language at times."
Given Giulianis frequent invocations in public appearances of his experience as mayor during 9/11, reporters immediately noticed when he said that the threat from terrorist groups started when Obama took office in 2009.
Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States, he told the crowd in Ohio.
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Come on people, he was just being sarcastic
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)abbreviated language? Does that mean you only consider what you want to consider when talking regardless of the facts?
whistler162
(11,155 posts)URA1D10T
MADem
(135,425 posts)In other words, he was caught with bullshit coming outta his mouth, and he's trying to play the "Look over there" game.
Maine-i-acs
(1,501 posts)Siwsan
(26,333 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)yesphan
(1,589 posts)abbreviated language ? Talking out of your ass ? Lying through your teeth ?
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)Bush wasn't inaugurated until 9/12/2001, the day after Barack Obama and Saddam Hussein flew planes into the WTC while Clinton was reading My Pet Goat to a first grade class and simultaneously having his dick sucked by Monica. Bush later on destroyed nukes and other WMDs in the Iraq War that ended within weeks after the Iraq invasion. Thanks to Bush, bin Laden was captured and killed in 2002 in Afghanistan....not nearly a decade later in Pakistan. There is so much Dem propaganda out there that voters are drowning in it. Best just to tune in to Fox News to keep you indoctrinated in the TRUTH.
JenniferJuniper
(4,516 posts)wcmagumba
(2,893 posts)does that even mean? Forgot to mention the biggest terror attack in US history, while he was mayor, because he used "abbreviated" langage...Here's some abbreviated language for you Rudy, FU. I just hope he has his Ovaltine decoder ring next time....
Botany
(70,657 posts)It means language that has been abbreviated.
abbreviated
[uh-bree-vee-ey-tid]
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shortened; made briefer:
The rain led to an abbreviated picnic.
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(of clothing) scanty; barely covering the body:
an abbreviated bathing suit.
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constituting a shorter or smaller version of:
The large car was an abbreviated limousine.
language
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a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition:
the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
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communication by voice in the distinctively human manner, using arbitrary sounds in conventional ways with conventional meanings; speech.
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the system of linguistic signs or symbols considered in the abstract (opposed to speech ).
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any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people, who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another.
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any system of formalized symbols, signs, sounds, gestures, or the like used or conceived as a means of communicating thought, emotion, etc.:
the language of mathematics; sign language.
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the means of communication used by animals:
the language of birds.
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communication of meaning in any way; medium that is expressive, significant, etc.:
the language of flowers; the language of art.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,180 posts)His statement was abbreviated. He just ran out of time to make a complete one... He's a busy man.
He obviously meant to complete it with..."EXCEPT for that one time" Come on people work with him here.
Iggo
(47,597 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)So now we have to figure out:
Are these buffoons making a death threat or a joke?
Are these morons being sarcastic or do they really mean the stupid things they say?
Now we have to figure out whether they're using abbreviated speech. Is this like pig Latin?
If they would just preface each sentence accordingly, this would be so much easier.
Now I am making a funny.
Now I'm being ironic
And now I'm being sarcastic.
The next sentence is abbreviated speech.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)because they know the attention span of 50% of America is that of a gnat
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)I have never seen anything like it. The right, especially Trump's minions, are just randomly saying shit. Making stuff up, bloviating, pounding lecterns, spewing random thoughts. The sheep in the crowd and who watch Fox Snooze eat it up no matter what. Hey if they get caught, like the former dickhead Mayor of NYC, they backtrack with something else stupid and random.
I really think their collective cheese has slid off the salt cracker.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)and their brains have literally deteriorated.
rivegauche
(601 posts)I'm a New Yorker and I remember what a disgusting garbage mayor he was. Total fascist, a liar, a misogynist and a racist. FUCK HIM.
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)That's like saying "I'm a virgin, except for that one weekend-long orgy in college"
underpants
(183,043 posts)Trump salute
Warpy
(111,466 posts)and the whole country saw and heard you do it.
It's time to retire. Now piss off.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)...as usual.
Javaman
(62,540 posts)mdbl
(4,976 posts)timlot
(456 posts)"Short Circuited it". Politicians should just stop using adjectives to describe their misstatements.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)9/11 was within the 8 years before Obama.
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)Or as Trump supporters spell it, "time masheen"
yurbud
(39,405 posts)bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)Apparently Abbreviated Language is the new lying.
Poll - how many Trump surrogates will use the phrase "abreviated language" in an interview this week?
George II
(67,782 posts)SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)For their government's role in the attacks.
George II
(67,782 posts)...away with it."
George II
(67,782 posts)yellowcanine
(35,705 posts)Particularly when you are trying to score political points.
yellowcanine
(35,705 posts)So - he was at ground zero when the planes hit? Otherwise he is an effing liar.
yellowcanine
(35,705 posts)0rganism
(23,994 posts)or was insufficiently islamic?
or insufficiently radical?
fascinating. this abbreviation thing is more complicated than i thought.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Response to Rocknrule (Original post)
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LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Abbreviating language is done in such a way as to maintain accuracy of statement, yet truncates the sentiment. His did neither.
Hence, I'm forced to conclude his is either a lie or this career politician is simply an incompetent speaker.
Weight of evidence suggest he is not in fact, an incompetent speaker; which leaves me with... he simply lied.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)"abbreviated language" - "lying"
jmondine
(1,649 posts)blm
(113,136 posts)a liar by Republicans, every RW media outlet, and most of the corpmedia that furthered the RW narrative.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)In fact, in NY, we use abbreviated language often. Like this: Jeetyet? Nawdjou? Lesqweet.
(It translates to: Did you eat yet? No, did you? Let's go eat.)
I'm pretty sure Rudy wasn't doing that.
sheshe2
(84,070 posts)Oral Shorthand?
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)"Terrorism...yada yada yada....Obama's responsible!"
Wibly
(613 posts)Lying with the intent to smear.
Then covering up the fact you're senile by coming up with new political terminology like: "abbreviated language".
MurrayDelph
(5,305 posts)Here's abbreviated language:
Go F urself, U F-ing POS!
Solly Mack
(90,802 posts)Snort.
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)Go
Yourself
sarge43
(28,946 posts)Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
ancianita
(36,238 posts)Blue Owl
(50,588 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Is that abbreviated enough for your sorry ass?
Thrill
(19,178 posts)ailsagirl
(22,909 posts)Along with "extreme vetting?"
I can hardly keep up!!
geardaddy
(24,933 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)How did he almost die in 9/11?
sofa king
(10,857 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)SheriffBob
(552 posts)Drunking sot.
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)His 21 word version:
My 21 word version:
Under those eight years before Obama, fewer than 4000 Americans died after a radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Clearly, he was drunk.
JenniferJuniper
(4,516 posts)[link:|
LeftishBrit
(41,219 posts)wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)He's full of shit.
Skittles
(153,310 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,169 posts)Trump must sneeze a lot.