Second is that Giuliani himself. He's one of those rare politicians where you -- when you say "Rudy," you know who he is. You don't even have to use his last name. And he's got a story that doesn't have sentences and doesn't have paragraphs, or even pages.
Rudy doesn't use sound bites. He's the only politician in America that speaks in entire thoughts. And if you look at the transcript of what he says, it's not beautiful. But if you listen to it, he moves people.
And I've got to tell you, it's not just 9-11 that has an impact. It's what happened in Times Square; what happened in 42nd Street -- the idea that you've got the "Taxi Driver," the movie with Robert De Niro --
CARLSON: Yeah.
LUNTZ: People still have that visual of New York in mind, and when they see the way it looks like today, they're blown away.
CARLSON: The New York where you could smoke in bars and they still had big taxis?
LUNTZ: Again, we know where you stand on Rudy Giuliani.
CARLSON: I'm just kidding. Frank Luntz, thank you very much.
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