"Head shots, head shots."

[liberalhistorian]

48. If I remember correctly,

I think Liddy was actually brought in by Jeb Magruder, who was only a few shades less of batshit nuts than Liddy. I read Liddy's autobiography about twenty years ago (it was fascinating in a rubbernecking car accident kinda way) and was amazed at how open he was with his batshittery. Not just open, but proud, loud and would do it all again with no question. He actually talked about plans he and Magruder had for killing the columnist Jack Anderson after Anderson wrote anti-Nixon columns; he didn't think there was anything wrong with that because it was "for the good of the country as a whole" and "Anderson was an unpatriotic danger", yaddayaddayadda. The funny thing was that Liddy himself was an ex-FBI agent and there was a time when HE could have been the one staring down the gun barrel of an angry anti-government freakball being incited and whipped into a frenzy.

Apparently everyone except Magruder saw Liddy's batshittery, but ultimately had no problem with it because it enabled them to carry out their dirty work (which he happily did with no questions and, as he makes clear in his autobiography, he never had any remorse, never saw anything wrong with what he did and would do it again, again "for the good of the country", and his nutball wife and children feel the same way) without getting their own hands dirty. He was willing to do what they wanted done but didn't have the guts to actually do themselves.

And George Gordon Battle Liddy is still as fucking fruity as they come. How dare the RW get their knickers in a knot with this false "outrage" when their incitement and rhetoric has been responsible for a lot of blood on their hands, including of law enforcement (Waco, Oklahoma City, most recently the shooting of the Nevada policemen, etc.).