And it’s only March! 
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I had a near miss encounter with him in the early nineties. Phone bank volunteering during a pledge drive for a Maryland public TV station. (Showing Victory At Sea that night) During a break, one of the other volunteers said that they had taken a donation for Gordon Liddy. If it had been my phone, I would have clarified with the caller “G Gordon Liddy? G Gordon killed-and-ate-a-rat Liddy?” (As described in his autobiography Will)
Hey, at least he supported public broadcasting. He left some room for being worse.
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another member of the ratfucker’s tontine down.
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I will remember him best for his appearance in the 1985 Troma Films comedy When Nature Calls (No not the Jim Carrey movie).
When Nature Calls (1985) - IMDb …
in the early 80s he delivered a speech as part of my university’s speaker series. one person asked him about holding his hand over a candle. liddy told him to come to the stage and showed the guy his hand. the guy admitted there was a scar on the hand after he looked.
Many in the GOP (now GQP) saw and crammed themselves into that small space.
Adios Nazi ahole, and don’t let the door hit ya in the ass.
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I remember reading about this in his book Will and thinking ‘he’s so full of shit - this has to be an exaggeration’ - since the entire book was nothing but page after page of self aggrandizement and inflated bravado.
I was at a party once, and, uh, Liddy put his hand over a candle, and he kept it there. He kept it right in the flame until his flesh was burned. Somebody said, “What’s the trick?” And Liddy said, “The trick is not minding.”
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This is the American right-wing in a nutshell.
The Trumper guy I casually know has made comments and given long-winded examples of how he is a solid Catholic, some kind of archetype of Catholicism, but then he will also call the pope a communist with obvious disdain. Can’t have it both ways, kiddo.
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i wasn’t the guy that went up and looked but he lived down the hall from me in the dorm. he later told me there was an area of scar tissue there on his hand which was well-healed but had clearly been the result of multiple traumas 
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Stolen almost word for word from Lawrence of Arabia.
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Honestly, when I heard the news this morning, I thought, “He was still alive?”
Seems like the cussedest people live the longest.
He had a chance to co-star with Eddie Murphy, but turned down the role when he read the script.
(Crude Spoiler Alert: His character (Beeks) would have been on the receiving end of some gorilla love. Thus that didn’t sit well with him, and he declined the role.)
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I saw that tour with him and Leary when it came to my campus in the mid-to- late 80’s (somewhere between 86 and 88, I think). It was both fascinating and sad. Liddy definitely came off MUCH better than Leary. By that point, Leary was clearly not aging well. No doubt his drug use had some impact there. He was rambling and found it hard to stick to a single thought in a single sentence. He was also OBSESSED with this new-fangled ‘internet’ (pre WWW) and utterly convinced we would all be wearing VR-style headgear with a constant flow of rapid information that would “change language and human thought”.
He was right, but not the way he thought.
Liddy, on the other hand, came over as smart and organized and at the very least, could make a coherent point. Often, it was a horrible point, like “Socialists deserve to die.” or something similar, but at least you could tell he had a stance. Leary was a half step away from asking him to sit and watch the TV and someone would get him some pudding. Wouldn’t that be nice, grampa?
The only thing about Liddy was ‘nice’ was that he seemed to have a soft spot for animal rights and animal welfare. He was vehemently against animal use for cosmetic testing, factory farming, etc. I don’t THINK he was a full on vegetarian, but I remember that was one point where he and Leary seemed to agree…
Mostly, I came away thinking Leary was a bit sad, and Liddy was charming and dangerous.
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Safe saying he won’t burgle his way into Heaven.
I’ll probably mangle this but…
I’ve never wished death upon anyone, but I have read some obituaries with great relish.
And lots of mayo for this one. Fascism seems like it runs real strong in certain circles of 'Murikah!
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I think “charming and dangerous” is a good way to put it. On long car trips back when all I had in the car was a broken cassette player and a radio I would sometimes listen to his show, and he could be oddly compelling. I remember him going on a long rant about Watergate and it was fascinating. Fascinating but frightening.
This is in contrast to Rush Limbaugh, who I could never listen to for more than a few minutes without rolling my eyes. Rush was clearly a blowhard from the beginning.
On my next car we sprung for a 6-CD changer and a few years after that you could listen to mp3s in the car. I’m not sure when Liddy went off the air.
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Having it both ways seems to be a key element of the nut-wing philosophy. Most powerful people in the world but being destroyed by starving immigrants. Do away with Government but don’t touch my Medicare. Etc. ad infinitum.
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The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
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