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To: ansel12
that is a media myth

I've seen it in more than one periodical article, and then there's the recent A-list portrayal in J. Edgar.

How explain that? A giant smear? Perpetrated and sustained over what, 50, 60 years?

Hard to believe that people could smear a top cop for 60 years and get away with it.

Even the Rosenberg liars had their corregidors and purifiers of the true record 50 years ago. They never really got away with that one -- "we're innocent, it's a frame!"

I think you have the tougher sell.

66 posted on 02/19/2012 1:51:50 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson were an item over the course of decades.

Hoover denied the existence of organized crime until the 1957 Appalachin arrest of four dozen gang leaders in upper New York State embarrassed him.

He and Clyde were perennial guests of mob-owned race tracks and resorts.

The crusading anti-communist figured prominently in the coverup behind the absurd Warren Commission.

The man viscerally despised the Kennedys, was a neighbor and friend of Johnson for years.

William Sullivan was the opposite number to James Jesus Angleton and was shot dead before he could testify before the HSCA, having had a total fall from grace with the dictatorial director.

From the "love that dare not speak its name" and the stylish matching attire of the Hoover and Tolson pair America has transitioned to the Boy King and his body person Reggie Love.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.--Jerry Seinfeld


67 posted on 02/19/2012 2:06:59 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: lentulusgracchus
How explain that? A giant smear? Perpetrated and sustained over what, 50, 60 years? Hard to believe that people could smear a top cop for 60 years and get away with it.

I don't have to sell reality, you need to figure out how to sell fantasy.

First, drop that timeline, the homo thing is new (relatively), Hoover, the FBI, the American Intelligence Community did not go through most of the 20th century fighting a non-existent acusation of homosexuality.

Here is a quick description to steer you into doing your own search. This liberal, but respected historian is harsher on Hoover than I think appropriate, but it gets you started nonetheless.

Liberal Author Crushes NPR Host's Hope to Spread Movie Myth of Gay J. Edgar Hoover

68 posted on 02/19/2012 2:16:58 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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