Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on Face the Nation today to talk about the Republican presidential race and something about the Super Bowl. Giuliani didn’t endorse any particular candidate in the race, and while he admitted he personally admires all of the candidates in the field (though I’m guessing that doesn’t include Ron Paul), he’s concerned with how much they have been attacking each other during this primary season.

Radio host and author Bill Bennett paid a visit to MSNBC’s Morning Joe, where talk to turned to the challenges that arise when trying to raise young kids, particularly little boys, as well as the state of men on television these days.

NY Times columnist Paul Krugman observed 9/11 this weekend with a provocative blog post entitled “Years of Shame.” In it he calls out “Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror,” of that day and suggests that the memory of 9/11 has been primarily used as a “wedge issue” for political gain. Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly hosted a heated debate on this column between former Bush administration official Brad Blakeman and Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin.

With the ten-year anniversary of the attack on 9/11 less than two weeks away, many in the media are looking back at those tragic events with renewed context and perspective. Last night, Lawrence O’Donnell joined the chorus of his fellow opiniotainers, though with a remarkably different take. In his “Re-write” segment, the MSNBC host took an incredibly harsh look at the myth of 9/11 sacred cow, Rudy Giuliani, and deduced that some incompetent decisions made by then New York Mayor actually “cost lives.”

The results of a new CNN/ORC poll show Texas Governor Rick Perry leading in the GOP field, having earned a prospective nomination from 27 percent of likely Republican voters. Mitt Romney followed in a not so close second with 14 percent of votes, and Sarah Palin, who has still yet to throw in her hat, takes third with 10 percent of votes. Michele Bachmann and Rudy Giuliani round out the top five with 9 percent a piece. A Gallup Poll last week similarly had Perry leading in the GOP field, although it did not have him leading against President Obama.

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani paid a visit to Fox News’ Sean Hannity to discuss several important items — like the President’s handling of the debt crisis and whether he has his eye on the 2012 election. Hannity kicked off the segment by noting that, although Giuliani has yet to make any formal announcement about whether or not he’ll run, he did pay a visit to New Hampshire. Giulani said he received a “lot of advice” while in that state.

The comparisons between the Watergate scandal and the current fracas threatening to engulf Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation may as of yet be premature, but one thing does tie them together: the dizzying number of people that may be involved. While most of the coverage has hovered over the British wing of the operation, Lawrence O’Donnell took a peek tonight at the American potentially involved, and suggested the secrets of Murdoch’s American operation may lie with one dubious source: corrupt former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik.

During a heated debate over supposed “scare tactics” over the debt ceiling standoff Wednesday, The Five‘s Eric Bolling got an attack of Giuliamnesia™, telling Fox colleague Bob Beckel that he didn’t remember any terrorist attacks on American soil between 2000 and 2008. Like the former Mayor of America, Bolling is forgetting, not only 9/11, but several other Bush-era domestic attacks like “shoe bomber” Richard Reid, the DC Sniper attacks, and the anthrax killings.

During the time when his marriage was on the outs, then-mayor Rudy Giuliani relied on the generosity of one Howard Koeppel, a car salesman who, along with his boyfriend Mark Hsiao, allowed the politician to stay at their midtown home for six months. At the time, Koeppel asked Giuliani whether he would officiate a future wedding between him and his partner should same-sex marriage even become legal in New York state. And, now that it has, one would assume that Giuliani would make good on the promise he made to his friend. And, yet. Here we are, putting together this post.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich seems to be of the opinion if his campaign is going down, he wants to go down in a big spectacular way. With staff members fleeing, a potentially over-active wife, multiple accounts at the jewelry store Tiffany’s and some past unfavorable words about Republican Congressman Paul Ryan‘s attempt to reform Medicare, a new book now reveals that Gingrich also has some critical thoughts on Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani wasn’t really on anyone’s mind as a potential 2012 candidate since his disastrous Florida-only campaign in 2008. But ever since a CNN poll showed him performing remarkably well among independents, the whispers that Giuliani may be contemplating throwing his hat in the ring have gotten all the louder. Adding fuel to the embers, Giuliani told a crowd at an ALS benefit he was planning on visiting New Hampshire, but not for campaigning for anything.

Sarah Palin‘s “One Nation” bus tour has many speculating that she is ready to launch a presidential bid, but she has yet to convince everyone. On Fox News today, Wall Street Journal writer John Fund told anchor Gregg Jarrett that he sees her even less likely to run than Rudy Giuliani and Michele Bachmann, though at least more viable than Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Well here’s an interesting little shakeup. Although the battle for the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee remains pretttyyy much wide open, a new poll from CNN shows none other than former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani as the front runner among Conservatives, including right-leaning Independent voters. Which is curious given Giuliani has yet to make any sort of official bid.

Republican Congressman Peter King appeared on Fox & Friends and very heavily talked up the prospect that former presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was going to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination. The fact that Rudy would run again often seemed like a far-fetched rumor, but with the Republicans apparently eager for someone to add excitement to their primary contest, this could explain why King says “as of this moment [Rudy's] very much inclined to run.

Watch out, Herman Cain! The first 2012 Republican presidential debate concluded all of 48 hours ago and already the political world is seeing possible aftereffects– namely, that the field appears so barren even the longest of 2008 long shots are considering jumping into the fray. The latest whispers surround former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who noted in Washington, D.C. last night he “could probably be talked into” another run.

In a marked departure from all of the wild celebrating and political bickering that followed the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama’s visit to New York today was a somber and reverent affair. He went to both a fire station and police station with Rudy Giuliani, New York’s mayor at the time of 9/11, and visited Ground Zero with Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo of New Jersey and New York respectively, New York’s current Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. While there, the President laid a wreath where the Towers fell and held a moment of silence.

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuiliani expressed admiration for the decision President Obama made to stage the risky ground operation that ultimately led to the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. “Tremendous political risk for the president,” Giuiliani, noting “there’s no possible way to know when you decide to do it, that it’s going to come out right…anything can go wrong in the operation, and then you look like a totally ineffective president. Takes a lot of courage to make a decision like that. I admire him.”

With one prominent exception, the usual anti-Obama suspects embraced the news of the military’s success at killing Osama Bin Laden yesterday, and Sean Hannity was no different. Opening his program with former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani tonight, he gave the President “lots of credit” for being “gutsy” and even went as far as to call it “the opposite of what candidate Obama said he would do,” which must be a high compliment.

On Sunday morning’s The Chris Matthews Show, Donald Trump‘s potential presidential candidacy may have entered a new phase, as host Chris Matthews dug up some Clinton-era clips of Trump, including SNLer Darryl Hammond‘s dead-on impression, and a disturbing skit that featured The Donald “motorboating” a tarted-up Rudy Giuliani. While Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell had to [...]

Opposition to President Obama’s Libya policy is starting to look more and more like a blindfolded firing squad that just fell off a merry-go-round, as liberal firebreather Michael Moore has joined a disparate gaggle of Obama critics that also includes Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Dennis Kucinich, and Sen. Dick Lugar. Moore, in a series of tweets more scattershot than a meth addict with a sawed-off Mossberg, hit Obama with everything, including several varieties of kitchen sink.

In a non-campaign stop for the 2012 presidential race, former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-9/11) lashed out at President Obama for “dithering” (or engineering a UN-led no-fly zone over Libya, instead of overcommitting the US military to another Middle East quagmire. Tomato, tomahto.), and mocked the President’s manner of speech with a stuttering impression.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani found some time away from mulling over whether he’ll run again in 2012 to officiate the wedding between WPIX anchor Jodi Applegate and Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay this weekend at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Rudy Giuliani has already announced that he’s “considering” a run for president in 2012, but, as he tells Piers Morgan in Monday’s episode of Piers Morgan Tonight, he’ll be much more likely to run if Sarah Palin decides to as well.

Is Rudy Giuliani running in 2012? Looks like it. Appearing on CNBC’s Kudlow Report, the former New York City mayor and 2008 presidential candidate confirmed he’s definitely thinking about getting into the race.

“America’s Mayor” was asked by host Larry Kudlow about rumors he’s planning a second bid for the GOP nomination:

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on Face the Nation and suggested that in Sarah Palin‘s video on the Arizona shooting “she used a wrong word in responding to it, but I can see why she would feel very upset.” Rudy understood why Palin would be “shaken” by the accusations of some to link her to the murders, but implied that some term other than “blood libel” should have been used to express her feelings.