{"id":15744,"date":"2021-03-31T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=15744"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:09:53","slug":"notorious-hellraiser-gordon-liddy-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/notorious-hellraiser-gordon-liddy-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious Hellraiser Gordon Liddy, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/G_Gordon_Liddy_in_1998.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15745\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/G_Gordon_Liddy_in_1998-636x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/G_Gordon_Liddy_in_1998-636x800.jpg 636w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/G_Gordon_Liddy_in_1998-119x150.jpg 119w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/G_Gordon_Liddy_in_1998.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a>G. Gordon Liddy<\/strong> has passed away at the age of 90.\u00a0 He achieved fame for his role in the Watergate break-in and later became one of the most informative radio hosts of the 1990s.\u00a0\u00a0 Liddy had a four hour show and he would routinely spend one hour reading articles out loud and adding his comments.\u00a0 He was a great storyteller and his sense of humor kept his listeners laughing.\u00a0\u00a0 If memory serves, he was the talk show host with the second largest audience after Rush Limbaugh.\u00a0 The Washington Post has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/gordon-liddy-dead\/2021\/03\/30\/4d50c40c-91ae-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html\"> a lively front-page stor<\/a>y today recapping Liddy&#8217;s role masterminding the Watergate break-in and some other exploits that earned him notoriety.<\/p>\n<p>Liddy did more than anyone else in the broadcast media to put my 1994 book,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lost-Rights-Destruction-American-Liberty\/dp\/0312123337\"> Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty<\/a>,<\/strong> on the radar screen. Liddy was a former FBI agent who was gung-ho on criticizing the FBI on Waco and Ruby Ridge and was an unflinching critic of what he considered federal tyranny. <em>Lost Rights<\/em> did not receive any print reviews in the top circulation papers until 8 months after its release but Liddy&#8217;s generous praise for the book helped keep it selling through multiple printings.\u00a0 I was also indebted to other radio hosts who showcased the book, including Mark Davis in Detroit, Ron Smith in Baltimore, Ray Bream in Los Angeles, Kirby Wilbur in Seattle, Pat Hennessey in Nashville.\u00a0 Liddy was on hundreds of stations and had up to 10 million listeners.<\/p>\n<p>He kindly had me on his show to hype other books and articles.\u00a0 When I was on his show to talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakedown-How-Government-Screws-You\/dp\/0140258191\"><strong>Shakedown: How the Government Screws You from A to Z<\/strong><\/a>, Gordon asked me: &#8220;How come you didn&#8217;t use the F-word in the title?&#8221;\u00a0 The last time I went to his studio in Fairfax, Va. was to hype <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Feeling-Your-Pain-Government-Clinton-Gore\/dp\/0312230826\"><strong>Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion &amp; Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (<\/strong><\/a>St. Martin&#8217;s Press, 2000).\u00a0 We had fun giving an exit thrashing to good ol&#8217; Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Liddy was an enthusiastic supporter of George W. Bush&#8217;s War on Terror, which I fiercely opposed from the start.\u00a0 So there were no more appearances on his show.\u00a0 But I greatly appreciated the chances he provided to raise ruckuses on air in the Clinton era.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. 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