Fact checking Rudy!

The other day, I called "bullshit" on Giuliani's claims that Kerik's ends justified the means. I knew that Giuliani's assertion that crime was drastically reduced under Kerik's 18-month tenure was nonsense, but being The Vega, didn't feel like actually, ya know, doing any research to back that up.

Greg Sargent has.

Recall that the last thing Rudy wants is for his first commissioner, Bill Bratton, to get any credit for this accomplishment. And Rudy knows no one outside of New York knows the finer points of who served and when. So Rudy now blithely tells America that the crime drop was largely the work of Kerik -- leaving us, again, with what seems to be three whoppers in one sentence.