Since the story about Obama's Muslim past was in the Los Angeles Times, perhaps you should accuse them, not me, of making it up.

As for Rudy and the firemen, as noted here, other fire fighters support Giuliani:

    Officials at the Fire Department, which had former Gov. George Pataki marching behind its banner, said Giuliani, who's running for president largely on his post-9/11 performance, would have been welcome [to march with them].