Giuliani Pulled No Punches on the Radio

GIULIANI PULLED NO PUNCHES ON THE RADIO
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Michael Powell]
A look at “Live From City Hall ... With Rudy Giuliani”, a radio program on WABC that ran during the mayor's eight-year term. It starred Mayor Giuliani, of course, but also Joe from Manhattan and Sal from Brooklyn. Giuliani the Presidential Candidate is a pasteurized fellow who favors smiles and reasoned talk and self-deprecating humor. But to listen to a Giuliani sampler — 55 taped hours of his old radio program, which ran from 1994 to 2001 — is to hear the uncensored and unbowed Mr. Giuliani, an irascible figure familiar to millions of New Yorkers. He grooved on his unfiltered roar. “I didn't have to be a slave to press coverage,” he wrote of his radio program in his book “Leadership.” “I was deliberately going beyond the newspapers, communicating directly to the people.” The radio tapes offer a rough chart of Mr. Giuliani’s journey from iconoclastic Republicanism in 1994 to something closer to Ronald Reagan-quoting orthodoxy by 2001.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/us/politics/05radio.html?hp
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