November 26, 2007 (LPAC)--In a release dated November 10, 2007, Lyndon LaRouche exposed the Presidential game being played behind the scenes: that "the build-up of former NY Mayor Giuliani as a ‘hot prospect’ ... was a crafted set-up, designed to clear the decks for the present New York Mayor [Michael Bloomberg] to emerge, as if ‘miraculously’ .... All of the relevant Republican king-makers had known fully in advance of the scandal which would bring Mafia creation Giuliani down, using the case-in-preparation against Bernard Kerik to spring the trap being set against Giuliani."

LaRouche's magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) posted to its web site on November 16, a full report on this set-up, with details on "the Giuliani Family as Mafia; his unrelieved gangster-like assault on the poor as Mayor of New York City; his corruption-ruined communications system at the World Trade Center on 9/11; the obscenity of his milking that disaster" -- all the material waiting to be "discovered" by the kingmakers.

The November 12, 2007 issue of Newsweek appeared with fawning cover story on Michael Bloomberg as the knight in shining armor who should be swept into the White House.

Two weeks later, Newsweek has dropped the second shoe: the cover story for this week's issue is "Growing Up Giuliani," trashing Rudy with much of the material published in EIR -- heavily emphasizing his Mafia family background and his violence.

Newsweek's parent company the Washington Post is virtually a house organ of the Lazard Freres private banking institution, an arrangement supervised over many years by the personal ministrations of Lazard’s chief Felix Rohatyn with Post owner Katharine Graham. On November 1, 2007, Michael Bloomberg, and Felix Rohatyn both addressed the Manhattan Institute, and Bloomberg pledged himself to the financiers' program of austerity, boasting how he as New York Mayor is continuing the tough-on-the-poor policies of his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani.