And what happened next was very interesting…

January 9th, 2008. Never forget:

Republican Rudy Giuliani’s speech on taxes got sidetracked Wednesday after a bomb threat forced organizers to move to another location.

The former New York mayor planned to address a town hall meeting with 200 Harris Corp., employees and Giuliani supporters. The event was scuttled when six of the company’s buildings were evacuated. Instead, Giuliani began his speech an hour later in a nearby airport hanger, where campaign workers handed out water to supporters waiting in the sun as bomb sniffing dogs checked reporters’ equipment and airport security workers screened attendees.

Some 50 supporters heard the speech and there was no time for questions.

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Despite the turn of events Wednesday, Giuliani said the tax speech was a success.

“We got a lot of attention for it. We showed that we can go with the punches,” he said afterward, noting that at least one national television network covered it live. “Maybe if there wasn’t the threat, we wouldn’t have gotten the live coverage.”

Hmmmm, maybe they wouldn’t have. (Kevin rubs chin.)

How convenient to have this happen to the “war on terror” candidate after he bombed (excuse the pun) in the New Hampshire primaries and is dropping like a rock in the Florida polls.

MORE: This local news report from Florida is pretty funny. Check out the video (IE works better than Firefox). Here’s an excerpt of the transcript:

And what happened next was very interesting and we have video tape of that as well. Instead, very interestingly enough, the mood changed. We got law enforcement officers galore. We got bomb-sniffing dogs. We had the media going through security checks, which is highly unusual at this stage of the game.

Welcome to Rudy Giuliani’s America.