Fox News took the opportunity during on-going coverage of the most recent terror attacks in the UK to stroke Giuliani's controlled-candidate campaign for the presidency. Not only did reporter Carl Cameron give "coverage" of Giuliani's platform-- "Clinton, Obama & Edwards will all raise taxes...Giuliani, of course, says he will not." Cavuto butts into the standard "fair and balanced"candidate advocacy to stroke Giuliani's 9/11 image. Cavuto asks, in light of the flaming Jeep attack and other failed car assaults, if viewers/voters are reminded of the visage of Mayor Giuliani-- because he is "Mr. 9/11."

To rephrase the question: Do sporadic terror events remind people of Mr. 9/11 (and does that make them want to vote for him)? Carlson makes several points in an answer that is even more telling and substantial: -- Giuliani "surely plays to that actively" and even "seeks ways to bring up 9/11." -- Carlson then underscores a lynch pin of the 9/11 attack as a problem-reaction-solution model set out in the Hegellian dialect: "It's an unfortunate reality-- politically-- that tragedy around the world is precisely the of security opportunity for Rudy Giuliani to talk about his candidacy." Carlson repeats his assessment that Giuliani is milking the "unfortunate" symbiotic relationship between "tragic events worldwide" and the emotional-tie to "security" as an equal, opposite reaction as well as the conditioned association with Rudy "Mr. 9/11" Giuliani. "It's a political opportunity, albeit a sign that the War on Terror continues to loom, and he (Giuliani) argues, a necessity of electing someone who will be strong on security." -- Carlson then treads back on the comfortable ground of party line: "Giuliani argues Democrats are naive and want to return the War on Terror to a law enforcement exercise that they don't realize is a Global War on Terror," stating that Democrats are not "taking it seriously." -- Recent attacks around...the world play exactly into that for Mr. Giuliani. And as far as Giuliani and his aides are concerned, they can't hit it enough." So Carlson admits-- straightforwardly-- that Giuliani is using the War on Terror and 9/11 as a political tool of emotional manipulation. Not that it wasn't already obvious... Carlson