Wonderful, Just Wonderful

TPM has a partial list (an exhaustive one would be far too much work) of Giuliani-albatross Bernie Kerik's various misdealings.

Which reminded me of this wonderful Wolcott contribution from a few years ago, after encountering Kerik in a talk show green room:

"Kerik exuded too much quiet authority and dramatic effect, trying a shade too hard to convey that he knew things he couldn't speak of and was working from the deep inside, privy to secrets that he carried locked inside the bank vault of his barrel chest. I could see how this tough-guy shtick--which obviously wasn't entirely shtick, but a tough streak that had been refined into an urban lawman persona--would impress fake swaggarts like, well, George Bush, who likes to play dress-up as a range hand and fighter pilot to show what a Hungry man entree he is.

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Kerik seemed to earn his reward for lending Bush a little extra 9/11 aura on the campaign trail when he was picked to succeed Tom Ridge as head of that corporate boondoggle known as Homeland Security.

Then, in one of the most heartwarming holiday tales in many a year, it all unravelled and keeps unravelling even Kerik after withdrew his name from consideration. The juicy stories keep popping out of the NY tabloids and the blogs like clowns from a clown car."

Excellent.