14-06-2012, 11:40 PM
And now Lamar "Elliot Ness" Waldron throws a bucket of mud into Watergate: The Hidden History.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liz-smith/...96246.html
Waldron writes to columnist Liz Smith: "Sunday is the 40th anniversary of the Watergate arrests...I have tried to emphasize Watergate without getting into the JFK assassination, to keep the story focused, help differentiate it from my early books. ... anyone who reads Watergate: The Hidden History will know exactly who killed JFK. (The Mafia's Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, Johnny Rosselli--with the help of future Watergate burglar Bernard Barker.)"
Insert "LBJ" into the parentheses and you've got Phillip Nelson's "Mastermind" disinformation.
The same slouching beast.
Ms. Smith's breathless adulation of Waldron nowhere is tempered by the fact that, as she writes, "I confess I didn't really 'read' Lamar's book. I went through its nearly 800 pages one by one, however, and underlined in red."
No reading. Just "going through" and "underlining."
But if even this process is just too much effort for your probing intellect, Ms.Smith has a solution: "If you don't think you can stand to pore through such a big book, you could simply go to page 408 and look at Lamar's section of photos. Under each one he underlines a point being made in the book. It is the most imaginative and informative use of 'captions' on photographs in history."
I'm all but convinced.
Her final, fallback suggestion? Just read her Huffington Post column and get on with your illuminated life?
Not really. Ms. Smith is confident that, "Even if you just read my underlined parts, you would get an amazing picture and be stunned at how misled we have all been - by, for instance, the Warren Commission, Bobby Kennedy's reluctance to make matters worse by confronting the truth, the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald had been hired by the CIA, and that most of the gangsters who sealed JFK's fate died themselves in violent ways. All this may well be revealed in the Boston Globe this very weekend."
I had no idea. Lamar Waldron, Liz Smith, and the Boston Globe. Who am I to question?
Then Ms. Smith cuts to the chase: "I asked Lamar for the crux of this amazing book? He Says simply: 'What were the Watergate burglars after? Why was Richard Nixon willing to risk his presidency to get it?'"
Now why didn't I think to pose those questions?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liz-smith/...96246.html
Waldron writes to columnist Liz Smith: "Sunday is the 40th anniversary of the Watergate arrests...I have tried to emphasize Watergate without getting into the JFK assassination, to keep the story focused, help differentiate it from my early books. ... anyone who reads Watergate: The Hidden History will know exactly who killed JFK. (The Mafia's Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, Johnny Rosselli--with the help of future Watergate burglar Bernard Barker.)"
Insert "LBJ" into the parentheses and you've got Phillip Nelson's "Mastermind" disinformation.
The same slouching beast.
Ms. Smith's breathless adulation of Waldron nowhere is tempered by the fact that, as she writes, "I confess I didn't really 'read' Lamar's book. I went through its nearly 800 pages one by one, however, and underlined in red."
No reading. Just "going through" and "underlining."
But if even this process is just too much effort for your probing intellect, Ms.Smith has a solution: "If you don't think you can stand to pore through such a big book, you could simply go to page 408 and look at Lamar's section of photos. Under each one he underlines a point being made in the book. It is the most imaginative and informative use of 'captions' on photographs in history."
I'm all but convinced.
Her final, fallback suggestion? Just read her Huffington Post column and get on with your illuminated life?
Not really. Ms. Smith is confident that, "Even if you just read my underlined parts, you would get an amazing picture and be stunned at how misled we have all been - by, for instance, the Warren Commission, Bobby Kennedy's reluctance to make matters worse by confronting the truth, the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald had been hired by the CIA, and that most of the gangsters who sealed JFK's fate died themselves in violent ways. All this may well be revealed in the Boston Globe this very weekend."
I had no idea. Lamar Waldron, Liz Smith, and the Boston Globe. Who am I to question?
Then Ms. Smith cuts to the chase: "I asked Lamar for the crux of this amazing book? He Says simply: 'What were the Watergate burglars after? Why was Richard Nixon willing to risk his presidency to get it?'"
Now why didn't I think to pose those questions?
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene