Ellen Wulfhorst pens this latest "news" piece from Reuters:

Republican Rudy Giuliani vows to be tough on terror, chooses advisers who want to bomb Iran and doesn't think pretending to drown prisoners is torture.

Add to those views a reputation for being combative, and Giuliani often evokes the word "scary" from opponents who find the tough-guy image that served him so well after the September 11 attacks now a cause for concern as he seeks the U.S. presidency.

Type the word "scary" and names of Republican candidates for president into a leading database of articles. The name of the former New York mayor will get the most hits.

"He is a scary guy," said Jerome Hauer, who ran the city's Office of Emergency Management for Giuliani. "He was probably one of the more divisive mayors the city has ever seen.

"People in this country should be very frightened of Rudy because he is not going to bring the country together," Hauer added. "Who knows who he'd pick wars with?"

In addition to not identifying which "leading database of articles" she conducted her search in, Reuter's Ms. Wolfhurst must have forgotten to let her readers know that Jerome Hauer has contributed over $9,000 to Democratic candidates since 2000.

See a record of Hauer's political contributions here and here.

But why get into the details when it might spoil a good story?

Reporter Wolfhurst also quotes Michael Tomasky, the editor of the Guardian Online, and a 'progressive' blogger whom she uses as an example of the view of Giuliani from the "online community," as illustrations of people who find Giuliani 'scary.'

No political motivation in this story here ... move along, nothing to see -- except for the 'scary' guy.