ABC News is now reporting that before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan.

Giuliani allegedly expanded the budget for his security detail at the time. Politico.com reported yesterday that many of the security expenses were initially billed to obscure city agencies, effectively hiding them from oversight.

The former Mayor defended himself saying that he had nothing to do with how his security expenses were filed. He said it was up to the Police to file all the expenses and as far as he knew everything was filed correctly. His campaign has promised to launch an internal investigation.

Giuliani told ABC News today that accusations he assigned a police security detail to his mistress and helped to hide the expenses in the mammoth New York City budget were a "a pre-debate hit job."

I have no idea if any of the accusations are true, or how much impact it would have if they were. What I do know is that the media has been on a mission to link Rudy to something scandalous. The narrative that many media outfits such as the New York Times have been pushing is that Rudy is a liar, an opportunist, and a crook.

Therefore, they have been feverishly trying to find anything they can that might prove this narrative to be correct. I have always been skeptical of the liberal media, but after that disgracefully rigged debate last night compliments of CNN, I have my doubts that "objectivity" even exists anymore.

This whole Rudy story has all the hallmarks of a classic political attack, so the best thing to do is let things play out before making any judgments about Giuliani.

-Chris Jones
The Hot Joints