Can't Rudy learn to turn his cell phone off?

There is something really peculiar about Giuliani going to give an important speech to the NRA to try to heal the breach between him and those who are concerned about gun rights and not turning off his phone. He got a call from his wife and answered it in the middle of his speech.

Rudy Giuliani was giving what could be one of the most important speeches of his presidential candidacy this afternoon -- speaking to a skeptical NRA audience -- when his cell phone rang.

"Let's see now, this is my wife calling, I think," Giuliani said as he fished for his cell phone in his jacket pocket.

And answered it.

"Hello dear," he said, apparently talking to his wife, Judith Giuliani. "I'm talking to the members of the NRA right now. Would you like to say hello?"

While the audience waited -- and waited -- patiently, Giuliani continued to talk to his wife.

"I love you," he said, smiling as he listened to the answer. "I'll call you as soon as I'm finished. Have a safe trip. Talk to you later. I love you."

As he put the phone away, he turned to the audience and added: "It's better that way," apparently a reference to the alternative -- letting his wife's call go to voicemail.

And then, as if nothing had happened, he launched back into his speech, earning tepid applause

I think he has enough trouble winning over the NRA after having called them extremists and for signing on to a lawsuit against gun manufacturers to make them pay for victims of gun crimes without demonstrating that they rank below a phone call from his wife. And can't the campaign get his wife a copy of his schedule so she can stop calling him when he is on stage? Here is another time when that happened.

Write your own SNL skit imagining a President Giuliani getting inopportune phone calls from his wife.