Okay so apparently this Ayers shit is going to continue until election day. It’s ridiculous but that’s where the media and electorate are at this point. But if we’re going to have to listen to this I think we should take a good look at the people that John McCain “associates” with.
John McCain was on the David Letterman show on Thursday and the quote most people have watched is where McCain says “I screwed up”. His body language is that of Oops! But further on into the show McCain then said this. “I’m not in any way embarassed to know Gordon Liddy.”
Boy I would be. If you’re like me and not old enough to have experienced Liddy’s Watergate history firsthand here’s a synopsis;
G. Gordon Liddy was born in 1930 in NJ, joined the Army but did not serve in Korea because he had an injury. He attended Fordham law and worked as a lawyer. He held a variety of positions in the Nixon administration before he was moved in 1971 to the Committee to Reelect the President (CRP or CREEP depending on who you ask). CRP was formed because of “leaks” to the press, thus Liddy and others being called “Plumbers”.
The “Plumbers” were given a budget of a quarter of a million dollars from the Nixon campaign to develop “dirty tricks”. Liddy orchestrated things like spreading sex and drug gossip about George McGovern, doctoring political writings about the Democratic Presidential candidates of 1972, making it appear that each of them accused the other of fathering illegitimate children or being homosexuals. One of his documents accused Vice-President Hubert Humphrey of being caught drunk in a car with a prostitute in 1967.
Others included plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a “gangland figure” to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap “leftist guerillas” at the 1972 Republican National Convention, kidnapping anti-war activists and transporting them to Mexico and arranging call girls to catch Democrats in compromising situations.
Liddy is most famous for the break in at the Watergate Hotel. Basically, the “plumbers” were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters housed at the Watergate hotel. Their intention was to bug the phones and put in a “room monitoring device”.
Liddy was sentenced to over 21 years in prison. He served four and a half years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping. Liddy’s sentence was commuted by President Carter.
In November of last year, McCain appeared on Liddy’s radio program. Liddy referred to McCain as “an old friend.” Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns including $1,000 in February 2008. McCain appeared on Liddy’s radio show during the presidential campaign. During one segment, McCain praised Liddy’s “adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great,” said he was “proud” of Liddy, and said that “it’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program.”
Then there are the just plain sick things Liddy has said. Here are a couple.
This gave Liddy hope “for the first time in my life” that he too could overcome weakness. When he listened to Hitler on the radio, it “made me feel a strength inside I had never known before,” he explains. “Hitler’s sheer animal confidence and power of will [entranced me]. He sent an electric current through my body.” He describes seeing the Nazis’ doomed technological marvel the Hindenberg flying over New Jersey as an almost religious experience. “ Ecstatic, I drank in its colossal power and felt myself grow. Fear evaporated and in its place came a sense of personal might and power.”The Independent - Interview with Johann Hari 11/23/04
“Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests.”
–G. Gordon Liddy, radio show, 8/26/94
Personally I think this whole argument is reprehensible, but, if the nominee for the office of Vice President of the United States is going to spend her time in a smear campaign the people of the United States are entitled to perspective. Ayers and Liddy’s were active at about the same time. I’m in favor of using one to cancel the other out and get back to the issues? What do you think?
Okay so apparently this Ayers shit is going to continue until election day. It’s ridiculous but that’s where the media and electorate are at this point. But if we’re going to have to listen to this I think we should take a good look at the people that John McCain “associates” with.
John McCain was on the David Letterman show on Thursday and the quote most people have watched is where McCain says “I screwed up”. His body language is that of Oops! But further on into the show McCain then said this. “I’m not in any way embarassed to know Gordon Liddy.”
Boy I would be. If you’re like me and not old enough to have experienced Liddy’s Watergate history firsthand here’s a synopsis;
G. Gordon Liddy was born in 1930 in NJ, joined the Army but did not serve in Korea because he had an injury. He attended Fordham law and worked as a lawyer. He held a variety of positions in the Nixon administration before he was moved in 1971 to the Committee to Reelect the President (CRP or CREEP depending on who you ask). CRP was formed because of “leaks” to the press, thus Liddy and others being called “Plumbers”.
The “Plumbers” were given a budget of a quarter of a million dollars from the Nixon campaign to develop “dirty tricks”. Liddy orchestrated things like spreading sex and drug gossip about George McGovern, doctoring political writings about the Democratic Presidential candidates of 1972, making it appear that each of them accused the other of fathering illegitimate children or being homosexuals. One of his documents accused Vice-President Hubert Humphrey of being caught drunk in a car with a prostitute in 1967.
Others included plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a “gangland figure” to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap “leftist guerillas” at the 1972 Republican National Convention, kidnapping anti-war activists and transporting them to Mexico and arranging call girls to catch Democrats in compromising situations.
Liddy is most famous for the break in at the Watergate Hotel. Basically, the “plumbers” were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters housed at the Watergate hotel. Their intention was to bug the phones and put in a “room monitoring device”.
Liddy was sentenced to over 21 years in prison. He served four and a half years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping. Liddy’s sentence was commuted by President Carter.
In November of last year, McCain appeared on Liddy’s radio program. Liddy referred to McCain as “an old friend.” Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns including $1,000 in February 2008. McCain appeared on Liddy’s radio show during the presidential campaign. During one segment, McCain praised Liddy’s “adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great,” said he was “proud” of Liddy, and said that “it’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program.”
Then there are the just plain sick things Liddy has said. Here are a couple.
This gave Liddy hope “for the first time in my life” that he too could overcome weakness. When he listened to Hitler on the radio, it “made me feel a strength inside I had never known before,” he explains. “Hitler’s sheer animal confidence and power of will [entranced me]. He sent an electric current through my body.” He describes seeing the Nazis’ doomed technological marvel the Hindenberg flying over New Jersey as an almost religious experience. “ Ecstatic, I drank in its colossal power and felt myself grow. Fear evaporated and in its place came a sense of personal might and power.”The Independent - Interview with Johann Hari 11/23/04
“Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests.”
–G. Gordon Liddy, radio show, 8/26/94
Personally I think this whole argument is reprehensible, but, if the nominee for the office of Vice President of the United States is going to spend her time in a smear campaign the people of the United States are entitled to perspective. Ayers and Liddy’s were active at about the same time. I’m in favor of using one to cancel the other out and get back to the issues? What do you think?