Somebody Pinch Me

I'm sorry, am I actually watching G. Gordon Liddy on television commenting on the Rove/Libby leak? Imagine me scrubbing out my eyes a la a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Liddy just tried to sell the idea that the break-in he orchestrated was REALLY an effort to investigate a call girl ring used by some members of the DNC. What a creep.

I don't know the name of the host on this show, but as Liddy moved on to presumably lie about something else, she came back to say that Carl Bernstein wanted to respond to Liddy's call girl comment. Bernstein's segment had just ended, and he was already off air. Liddy then claimed that he wanted to preemptively respond to Bernstein's response, and Ms. Host went to commercial in efforts to have everyone miced and ready to let their freak flags fly.

We're back, and Ms. Host is giving both parties 30 seconds.

Bernstein: It's utter nonsense. Watergate was about political espionage and sabotage, including the burglaries that Mr. Liddy committed. It was an unprecented campaign of obstruction of justice that exlploded way beyond just a break-in. There is nothing like it in our history and hopefully no men like Mr. Liddy will ever work for another president again.

Sounds fair. Bernstein smiling at start, not smiling at the end.

Liddy: The espionage call girl ring case is documented in a District of MD court in a trial which I won.

Hunh? That's his whole statement. He does not elaborate. Who's got access to Lexis-Nexis?

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UPDATE: I'll tell you who's got access to Lexis-Nexis: Lance McCord does! Read his explanation of the Liddy claim here. Now it all makes sense. Well, insofar as G. Gordon Liddy can make sense.

Comments

[Lance McCord]

I have access to Lexis, but I used something else for this assignment. I started to provide some information here, but my comment was getting long and HTML-y, so I moved it here: http://lancemccord.com/archives/g_gordon_liddy_and_tha_prostitutes.php.

[ae]

Thanks, Lance!