#g. gordon liddy

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

What do you think of G. Gordon Liddy?

Not really my type, but I could smash.

[oldshowbiz]

From the Watergate to the Marriott

[claudia1829things]

Ranking of “WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS” (2023) Episodes

Below is my ranking of the episodes from “WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS”, the HBO adaptation of “Integrity”, Egil Krogh and Matthew Krogh’s 2007 book about Watergate.  Directed by David Mandel, the limited series starred Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux:

RANKING OF “WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS” (2023) EPISODES

1.  (1.03) “Don’t Drink the Whiskey at the Watergate” - Nixon Administration “plumbers” led by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy attempt to break into the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel to plant listening devices for the White House.

2.  (1.04) “The Writer’s Wife” - Reeling from the arrests at the Watergate, Hunt enlists his son Saint John's help to dispose of evidence, while Liddy warns the acting Attorney General that the burglaries can be tied back to President Nixon. Later, after returning from Paris, a livid Dorothy Hunt must take control to protect her family and the Liddys.

3.  (1.02) “Please Destroy This, Huh?” - While Hunt and Dorothy entertain Liddy and his wife Fran at their exclusive country club, their kids Lisa and Saint John paint a less-than-perfect portrait of the family.  On the outs with Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell, Hunt and Liddy get a chance to redeem themselves when a leaked memo from Dita Beard puts Mitchell and the administration in legal jeopardy.

4.  (1.05) “True Believers” - Amid rumors of the White House's involvement, Liddy shares his concerns about Hunt's stability with White House Counsel John Dean and tries to make a deal. Hunt's daughter Kevan leverages a secret notebook to convince her father to come clean in his testimony to the U.S. Senate.

5.  (1.01) “The Beverly Hills Burglary” - A year before the infamous Watergate break-in, Hunt and Liddy are tasked with investigating the Pentagon Papers leak, gathering a team of Cubans - all Bay of Pigs veterans - to infiltrate whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Meanwhile, the Hunts get to know the Liddys.

[sharkaiju]

I couldn't really get into Gaslit personally but seeing Jeb get grabbed by the guiche by Gordon Fucking Liddy has been the highlight of my night, not gonna lie

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

DUMB AND PLUMBER

Last night I finished watching the HBO limited series White House Plumbers...

...about the Watergate break-in, with Woody Harrelson as E. Howard Hunt and Justin Theroux as G. Gordon Liddy, presenting them both as buffoonish boneheads. Lena Headey is quite sexy as Hunt's ill-fated wife Dorothy, clearly much the smarter half of the marriage.

The Wife mostly lost interest in the show after the first of the five episodes, finding the tone too farcical for the subject matter. But I have a feeling that most of the absurd incidents it shows us are based on fact, or at least on stuff those assholes claimed actually happened.

It is broadly played, but I feel like the best, albeit posthumous, revenge against those traitorous twits is to depict them as stooges, self-impressed, amateurish wannabes. Playing them as steely-eyed villains is probably exactly what they'd get off on.

Anyway, it's mentioned several times in the course of the series that Hunt was a hack novelist on the side; it reminded me that I'd had one of his books on my shelf for years and had never gotten around to it. It was a 1972 hard-boiled noir/horror hybrid called The Coven...

...written under the pseudonym "David St. John" (the names of both his sons) and set in D.C. neighborhoods where I used to live and work. It's full of borderline-parody prose like this:

"From there I drove through a city well-lighted for the most part, but largely deserted, for honest people tended to stay indoors after dark in recent years. Out Rhode Island Avenue to a part of the District tourists seldom saw. Hell's Bottom it had been called in the early days. Murder Bay. Old, rundown, and shabby. Condemned windowless buildings, vandalized by gangs of homeless boys. By day a rude, brawling area where liquor stores cashed more relief checks than the few remaining banks. By night a furtive, shadowy zone whose sounds were the crash of liquor bottles, the bang of overturing trash cans, and strangled cries in dark allies. Where love and heroin were traded over barroom tables and stolen cars screamed around the nearby corner...A sprawling raucous quarter slated for demolition when the City Fathers could get around to it. A dying, decaying area where hope was as rare as a starched white shirt."

So you're saying...not a great neighborhood?

There are also loathing caricatures of hippies, Beltway insiders, political staffers, etc. And the hard-drinking lawyer hero is the perfect projection of the cynical badass that Hunt so clearly wanted to be. As an expression of the mindset out of which the abuses of that administration grew, it's a simultaneously fun and depressing read.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘White House Plumbers’ On HBO, A Comedic Take On The Bumbling Team Behind The Watergate Break-In

If you have any sense of the history of the Watergate scandal, especially the personalities of the people who actually caught breaking into the DNC offices in June, 1972, you know that there is a lot of comedy to mine there. Hell, G. Gordon Liddy alone could be the main character in a ’70s-style family sitcom. But how do you make a satire out of real people who are already self-parodies? Two…

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[alaffy]

Gaslit, ep.8 - Final Days (Spoilers)

I’m not sure why the critics liked this show so much.  I mean, the acting is great and I can see praise for that.  The story however, it’s just all over the place in my book.  I went from being interested in the show to not really caring by the end.  Actually, I want to see the documentary that Netflix is doing on Martha Mitchell.  Perhaps I’ll get the story I was looking for here.

Anyway, this last episode is about what happens at the end.  Dean finally recognizes what he did in service to the president was criminal and decides to testify.  This ends up getting him released from jail.

The G. Gordon Liddy stuff. Look, I remember Liddy from his television days and I’m not saying he wasn’t unhinged (because he was) and I never really cared for the guy.  But even I have to wonder how much liberty they took with his character.

Most of the people involved in Watergate are imprisoned and will be pardoned later.

Now, the thing about Martha is that they kind of took fudged with the timeline.  In the episode, we see her in the hospital with Cancer when Nixon resigns.  Martha’s real life was a bit more tragic.  After the events of Watergate, Martha became even more depressed and suicidal. And she wasn’t doing well financially. It was suggested, though, that her son was taking care of her during some of this period.  And then, in 1975, she was diagnosed with Cancer.  Of course, Nixon resigned in 1974.  It is true she died in 1976.

The show does the kind of “where are they now” wrap up.  It mentions how Martha’s story has largely been forgotten.  And this frustrates the hell out of me because the fact that her story was forgotten was the whole reason I wanted to see this show and yet, somehow, her story seems to be largely overlooked here as well.      

[cry-4-judas]

people who didn't grow up in a conservative/religious environment might not know that Fox News used to run a commercial where one of the guys from the Watergate scandal tried to sell you solid gold bars

[cattatoir]

Tragic to learn how many evil people in the world are full cartoon villains.

[immaculatasknight]

Think like a Nazi

[linusjf]

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[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Yosemite Sam

[thebreakfastgenie]

watching White House plumbers and just saw a MASH still and BJ's mustache is giving G. Gordon Liddy to me now lol

[annarborken]

The pre-felony gun collection of G. Gordon Liddy.