Flipping His Liddy (Lying FRAUD John Dean Explains Why He Didn't Read/Write Own Book)

Slate ^ | February 5, 2001 | Stephen Bates

[PJ-Comix]

Watergate burglar (turned talk show host) G. Gordon Liddy refused to testify in court or in Congress a quarter-century ago, but he was a garrulous witness in a Baltimore courtroom last week. The lawsuit grew out of the revisionist Watergate book Silent Coup: The Removal of a President (1991), by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. Silent Coup suggests that President Nixon's counsel, John Dean, ordered the burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate and that he did so in search of information about a call-girl ring run by the roommate of his girlfriend (and future wife), Maureen Biener.

[PJ-Comix]

But Dean, in an earlier Silent Coup-spawned lawsuit in the mid-1990s, tried to distance himself from his own book. His ghostwriter had invented portions of Blind Ambition "out of whole cloth," Dean testified, and he himself never had "gone through this book cover to cover." (When the galley proofs arrived, he testified, he was bedridden with a fever. His wife didn't want him to get ink on the bedclothes, so he didn't make corrections.) But Blind Ambition's ghostwriter, Taylor Branch, denies inventing any of the book's facts--and he went on to win the history Pulitzer for Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988).

Any wonder that John Dean acts like a TOTAL WEASEL when asked to explain his disavowal of his own book. John Dean, you are a FRAUD. If you are ever in South Florida trying to plug your current FRAUDULENT book blasting Bush ("Worse Than Watergate") I will bring a copy of this article with paragraph above circled and FREEP you by asking you to autograph it.

[Bogey78O]

Hannity ripped him apart today.

[PJ-Comix]

Hannity ripped him apart today.

True but I wish Hannity had read that quote by Dean saying he didn't read his own book because he didn't want to get ink on his bedclothes. No wonder Dean was weaseling around and refusing a direct answer. All you have to do is read Dean's lame excuse and you know he is a LIAR. And he is lecturing Bush on morality? Even Mo the Ho has more morality than John Dean. This jerk is in real need of a FREEPING. If he ever shows up in South Florida hawking his LYING book I will FREEP him by asking Dean to autograph a printout of his lying excuse as to why he didn't even read his own book.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Hannity ripped him apart today.

Yes he did. Even offered him a full hour of air time to respond....with a listening audience comprised of some 430 radio stations

Unfortunately...Mr Dean didn't have an hour to spare.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Dean is a fraud and should've taught Bush to not think you can trust liberals.

[NonValueAdded]

His wife didn't want him to get ink on the bedclothes, so he didn't make corrections.

Total WUSS is more like it.

[CyberCowboy777]

I personally don't really trust Liddy or Dean.

[PJ-Comix]

I personally don't really trust Liddy or Dean.

You might not like some things about the G-Man but you can definitely trust him. Liddy is honest while Dean is a LYING FRAUD. Dean must think we are idiots if he expects us to believe his lame excuse as to why he didn't even read his own book. Let's see. He has to proofread his book yet neglects to do so because he doesn't want ink soiling his jammies. PATHETIC! John Dean needs to be confronted and FREEPED all along his book hawking trail about his disavowal of his own book.

[SouthCarolinaKit]

I agree that only one has an drop of honesty in him and that's Liddy. I agree that he often comes across as a 'dirty ol' man' but I love his talking about his mother.
Is anyone dumb enough to buy Dean's book? I understand Liddy's has been a big bestseller in several editions. He's certainly a much more entertaining guy than Dirty Mo's hubby, Dean.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Well, cowboy, Mr. Liddy is a personal friend of mine and I'd trust him with my life.

[Lancey Howard]

Oh, I could trust Liddy.
I have a feeling he is a man of his word.

[cubreporter]

I don't know the man except for his radio show. But...like you, I too would trust him with my life. That's how honest and strong he comes across to me. Just something about him and how he speaks so humorous and loving of Mrs. Liddy. :) Happy Bunny Day! :)

[GeronL]

we don't get Liddy here in Dallas, as far as I know

[luv2ndamend]

Fyi,

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KTFS-AM 940 TEXARKANA 9a

KFYO-AM 790 LUBBOCK 9a www.kfyo.com

KFRO-AM 1370 LONGVIEW 9a

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KEBE-AM 1400 JACKSONVILLE 9a

KSEV-AM 700 HOUSTON/TOMBALL 9p www.ksevradio.com

KTSM-AM 690 EL PASO 1p www.ktsmradio.com

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[SauronOfMordor]

Silent Coup suggests that President Nixon's counsel, John Dean, ordered the burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate and that he did so in search of information about a call-girl ring run by the roommate of his girlfriend (and future wife), Maureen Biener.

Or perhaps liar Dean was already on the Dem payroll at the time, and arranged the Watergate breakin, and arranged for it to be discovered, in order to bring down Nixon

[jpl]

I know I probably shouldn't say this, but at times I really wish Liddy had used that pencil.

[GeronL]

YUP. Not Dallas

[eddie willers]

he did so in search of information about a call-girl ring run by the roommate of his girlfriend (and future wife), Maureen Biener.

And married her before she could be forced to testify against him?

[Bogey78O]

Just ask him if the guy who wrote it is around to sign it.

[Bogey78O]

I don't understand the reference.