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George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1929) was the chief operative for President Richard Nixon's White House Plumbers unit that broke into the Watergate complex in 1972 and led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy later became an American radio talk show host, actor, and political strategist. Liddy's radio talk show is syndicated in 160 markets and he is perhaps the second-best known conservative talk show host, behind
Rush Limbaugh.
He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and educated at Fordham University.Liddy graduated in 1952 and joined the US Army, serving for two years as an artillery officer during the Korean War. He returned home in 1954 to study law at Fordham. Graduating in 1957, he went to work for the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. That same year he married Frances Ann Purcell.
He left the FBI in 1962 and worked as a lawyer in New York City and Dutchess County, New York. In 1966 he organized the arrest and unsuccessful trial of Timothy Leary. He ran unsuccessfully for the post of District Attorney and then for the House of Representatives in 1968, but used his political profile to run the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon in the 28th district of New York.
In 1971, after serving unsuccessfully in several positions in the Nixon administration, Liddy was moved to Nixon's 1972 campaign, the Committee to Re-elect the President, also known as CREEP, in order to extend the scope and reach of the White House Plumbers unit. At CREEP, Liddy concocted several far-fetched plots intended to embarrass the Democratic opposition. Most were rejected, but one caught the eye of Nixon operatives in the White House, and Liddy organized the ill-conceived break-in of the Democratic National Campaign headquarters in the Watergate complex. Liddy and E. Howard Hunt also broke into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Ellsberg had leaked the Pentagon Papers and the Plumbers were hoping to find information they could use to discredit him.
For his roles in the Watergate scandal, which he coordinated with Hunt, Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping and served four and a half years in prison before having his 20 year sentence commuted by President
Jimmy Carter.
In 1982, Liddy published an autobiography, titled
Will, which sold more than a million copies and was made into a television movie.He joined the talk circuit, eventually landing a syndicated radio program that espouses extremely conservative views and is characterized by Liddy's provocative style.
He first appeared as an actor on a made-for-TV movie called
The Highwayman. He also appeared on the TV series Miami Vice
and in the movies When Nature Calls (1985), Super Force (1990), Street Asylum (1990) and Adventures in Spying (1992).
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IssuesPolitico : Anti-Obama book to be released by conservative press that published Swift Boat smear book
Reporting on the forthcoming book The Case Against Barack Obama (Regnery, 2008), authored by former Human Events writer and National Review
Online staff reporter David Freddoso, a June 23 Politico article stated that Marjory Ross, the
president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, "likens the goal of
Freddoso's book to that of 'Unfit for Command' "
(Regnery, August 2004), which was co-authored by Swift Vets and POWs for Truth
co-founder John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi. Unfit for Command: Swift
Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry -- which Regnery touts as among its best-selling
publications -- contains false and baseless attacks on Kerry's
military service, as documented by Media
Matters for America, and in numerous media reports. Media Matters also extensively documented numerous
falsehoods put forth elsewhere by O'Neill and other members of Swift Vets and POWs for
Truth (previously
known as Swift Boat
Veterans for Truth).
Regnery, which describes itself as "the nation's
leading conservative publisher" and "central to the conservative
movement today," has also published books by Dinesh D'Souza, David
Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, G. Gordon Liddy, Michelle Malkin, Oliver
North, and Newt Gingrich.
From the June 23 Politico article:
The
same publisher that distributed the 2004 best-seller that took aim at John
Kerry's Vietnam
service is planning a summer release of what's scheduled to be the first
critical book on Barack Obama.
Conservative
journalist David Freddoso's "The Case Against Barack Obama"
will offer "a comprehensive, factual look at Obama," according to
Regnery Publishing president and publisher Marjory Ross.
But the
book's subtitle makes clear its perspective: "The Unlikely Rise and
Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate."
Ross
contends that the mainstream media has offered insufficient scrutiny of Obama
and likens the goal of Freddoso's book to that of "Unfit for
Command," the scathing assessment of Kerry's war record that
rocketed to No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list.
Published: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:22:29 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the articleIssuesG. Gordon Liddy smeared undocumented Mexican immigrants, claiming they "want to reconquer America, they say"
During the June 5 broadcast
of his nationally syndicated radio
show, G. Gordon Liddy
claimed that undocumented immigrants from Mexico come to the United States and
"want to fly the Mexican flag"
and "want to speak Spanish" instead of
learning English. Liddy then stated:
"They want to
reconquer America,
they say."
Discussing immigration with a caller, Liddy asserted: "[T]he problem that I
have is with people who come over here and instead of wanting to become
Americans, you know, fly the American flag, learn English, and so forth, they want to fly the
Mexican flag, they want to speak Spanish, you know, and other varieties of
illegal alien. And that's -- that is what
distinguishes these people from the previous immigrants." He continued:
"Previous immigrants said, 'Man, we can't wait to get
out of' -- you
know, whatever the country was they came from. 'We can't wait to
get to the United States.
We want to be Americans, we want to learn English, and, we want, you know, the
best for our children,'
and what have you. And they proudly displayed the American flag." Liddy added: "Not so,
especially these illegal aliens up from Mexico and what have you. They want
to reconquer America,
they say. They have this outfit called the Reconconquista [sic]
or something of that sort, whatever it is in illegal alien."
Media Matters for America has
repeatedly documented instances of conservative commentators, including columnist Michelle Malkin and MSNBC political analyst
Pat Buchanan, claiming that
immigrants subscribe to a "reconquista" philosophy aimed at
recapturing the Southwestern United States for Mexico. "Reconquista" is a term associated with El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, a
document drafted in the early formation of the Movimiento
Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán
(Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán,
or MEChA), a group with affiliates at numerous college campuses and several
high schools that
"promotes higher education, cultura, and historia."
In a July 15, 2006, article,
Los Angeles Times reporter David
Kelly wrote of El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán:
MEChA leaders say it is a historical
document from a more radical time distorted by critics who focus on a few lines
while missing the broader picture.
"When did we say we wanted a
separate nation? We never did," said Graciela Larios, who recently retired
as head of the UC Riverside MEChA club. "We know about the spiritual plan
for Aztlan. It reflects the time it was written in. We are not ashamed of it.
We stand by it."
From the June 5 broadcast of Radio America's The G.
Gordon Liddy Show:
CALLER: I thought at one time that
for immigrants, we --
they were required to have a sponsor,
and --
LIDDY: Yes, they -- a sponsor. What
that meant was, someone
who would be responsible for a place for them to stay, you know, housing, and a
job. So that the whole idea was that they
would not become a -- what
was called a "public
charge" -- you know,
would be on welfare or anything like
that. They would come here, they would have somebody who would sponsor them,
they'd have a job, and they'd have a
place to stay.
CALLER: Well, I believe that could be enlarged upon and -- so that we wouldn't
be put upon by these people that come here and want to raise heck about America.
I'm a proud American,
and I believe that those of us that are citizens have a right to complain about
things that we find grievous, but if you're a newbie coming to America,
you need to want to be America -- an American and love America,
not come over here and raise dickens and be protesting and all that business. Because you don't have the right to do
that. It may say so, but if it does,
that needs to be
changed, because
that's just not right.
LIDDY: Well, now, America's a free country. And
everyone who is here legally has the protections of the Constitution, and one of them is the
right to gather together peacefully to petition government, you know, with
respect to any grievance that you might have. Now, I don't have any
problem with that. What I have -- the
problem --
[crosstalk]
LIDDY: Now, wait a
minute. Now, the problem that I have
is with people who come over here and instead of wanting to become Americans,
you know, fly the American flag, learn English, and so forth, they want to fly the Mexican flag, they want
to speak Spanish, you know, and other varieties of illegal alien. And that's -- that is what distinguishes these people
from the previous immigrants. Previous immigrants said, "Man, we can't wait to get out of" -- you know, whatever
the country was they came from. "We can't wait to get to the United States.
We want to be Americans, we want to learn English, and, we want, you know, the
best for our children,"
and what have you. And they proudly displayed the American flag. Not so,
especially these illegal aliens up from Mexico and what have you. They want
to reconquer America,
they say. They have this outfit called the Reconconquista [sic]
or something of that sort, whatever it is in illegal alien.
CALLER: La Raza.
LIDDY: Yeah, well, La Raza,
that's another outfit.
That's called
"the race," that's what that means.
CALLER: You made my point very well, probably much better
than I could. But that is exactly what I'm talking about. If you want to
come here and love America
like we do, that's all great. If you don't, stay home.
LIDDY: Well,
yes. And we're talking about legal immigration. We're not talking about
the illegals, either.
Published: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:37:16 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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