Rudy Giuliani caught the odor of Michael Moore lunacy in yesterday’s fatuous statement by John Kerry, and he’s calling Kerry out: Rudy: Kerry is Moore’s Stooge.

August 6, 2004 — WASHINGTON — Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted John Kerry yesterday as a Michael Moore lackey after the Democratic hopeful mocked President Bush’s initial reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks.

In a statement issued by the Bush campaign, Giuliani charged, “John Kerry must be frustrated in his campaign if he is armchair-quarterbacking based on cues from Michael Moore.”

Giuliani pounced after Kerry hammered Bush’s first reaction to the news of the Twin Towers attack, which came while the president was reading to schoolkids in Florida.

Kerry yesterday said that if he were president on Sept. 11, 2001, he wouldn’t have continued reading for seven minutes as Bush did after learning of the attacks — which is highlighted in Moore’s “Fahrenheit 911.”

“Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, ‘America is under attack,’ I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to … and I would have attended to it,” Kerry said.

Giuliani commented, “John Kerry is an indecisive candidate [with] an inconsistent position on the War on Terror, who voted against funding for our troops and who cannot give a clear answer on his position concerning the decision to remove Saddam Hussein.”

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