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All three networks followed up on CBS' Byron Pitts and the funding for Giuliani's police escorts. The candidate himself called the revelation that his official security expenses were reimbursed by obscure, unrelated municipal bureaucracies "a hit job." Were the details revealed in order to question Giuliani's record of fiscal rectitude? Or were they a backdoor way to remind voters that he had been cheating on his wife in the ritzy Long Island resort? Pitts' anchor Katie Couric settled for the latter: "It involves a situation that is, quite frankly you know, probably one you are not all that proud of." Giuliani picked the latter too: "This was really done to try to focus on my personal life," he told ABC's Jake Tapper. NBC's John Yang focused instead on the former, specifically Giuliani's "statistics-filled stump speech" in which he touts his record as Mayor of New York City, reducing crime, rolling back welfare. Yang previewed an analysis by The New York Times reporter Michael Cooper: "From time to time he will exaggerate. He will do a misleading number or he will get something just plain wrong." In the face of such scrutiny, Yang observed, "lately he seems to choose his words more carefully."
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