RIP G. Gordon Liddy

An American icon, George Gordon Battle Liddy, AKA G. Gordon Liddy, has passed away at the tender age of 90.  He was an outspoken man's man, and never missed an opportunity to challenge authority and his arch enemy, the political left.

The oligarchy will paint him as a villain for his role in the Watergate scandal that ultimately brought down the Nixon Presidency.  He was all that of course, but he was much more as well.

I, like ten million other Americans in the mid-1990s, never missed his syndicated radio show, which was carried by some 270 stations, and I especially loved his Review and Commentary on the news portion.  His formal education allowed him to formulate observations with a decided self reliant slant to the mostly leftist sanitized reporting.  His views were always straight up, and right to the point.  No wobbly, weak kneed consensus-born commentary here.  It was all over the top testosterone fueled commentary, like when he told gun-toting radio listeners to aim for the head when encountered by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents. “Head shots, head shots,” he stressed, explaining that most agents wear bullet-resistant vests under their jackets. He said later he wasn’t encouraging people to hunt agents, but added that if an agent comes at someone with deadly force, “you should defend yourself and your rights with deadly force.”  

Further, he stuck it to the emerging force of feminazi harpies when he released his infamous "Stacked and Packed" calendar, which featured voluptuous ladies heavily armed.  The perfect man cave addition, and a fitting salute to the WWII pin up girl posters. 

The Washington Post includes this perfect description of Liddy:

With his intense stare, cannonball head, bristling mustache and machine-gun style of speaking, Mr. Liddy looked like the archetypal bad guys he later depicted in television shows including “Miami Vice.” His friend and fellow Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt described him as “a wired, wisecracking extrovert who seemed as if he might be a candidate for decaffeinated coffee.”

Hunt, by the way, is rumored to have made a startling deathbed confession that he was "one of the shooters in Dallas" but that controversy continues to this day, absent any hard evidence coming to light.

Say what you will about the Vietnam era in Washington, the Nixon administration and all that that period in our history revealed, but one thing is certain.  Love him or hate him, they don't make steely men like G. Gordon Liddy anymore.

Damn shame.