It would be one thing if Annenberg was talking about his exaggerations of tax cuts or his supposed adoption boom he fostered in NYC. But as the supposed tough guy, security candidate, Giuliani needs to appear tough on crime, and these facts seem to take a bit of the starch out of his collar:

FactCheck.org: Cop-Counting Cop-Out

On his Web site, Rudy Giuliani claims that he grew New York City’s police force by 12,000 officers between his inauguration as mayor in January 1994 and mid-2000. That’s just not true. Most of the cops he’s counting – 7,100 to be exact – were already housing or transit police who were simply folded into the New York Police Department. The merger of the departments didn’t increase the number of police in the city at all. The actual increase in the size of the force was about 3,660, or about 10 percent, during the period Giuliani pinpoints. And Giuliani doesn’t mention that the cost of hiring about 3,500 of the officers was partially covered by the federal government under President Bill Clinton.

Oh! And here he’s been talking tough about “beating” Bill Clinton:

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