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"Smoke 'em out" - Obama bringing hate groups out of their holes

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by spinning27, Jun 22, 2008.

  1. ScribePharisee

    ScribePharisee New Member

    Have you ever been to the South?

    This WAS MISSISSIPPI in that day.
     
  2. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    I guess Hogan's Heroes was an accurate depiction of POW camps.

    One of the biggest jokes in Mississippi Burning is the swanlike protection offered by Hoover's FBI.
     
  3. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    The fact that Hoover held his job for as long as he did is one of the great shames of 20th century America.
     
  4. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    His scumbaggery doesn't get discussed nearly enough.

    I started a Hoover screenplay a few years ago and stopped because he was just a fucknut who isn't worth it.
     
  5. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    A life so pathetic, on so many levels, few would believe it, today.

    Plenty of raw material there, though.
     
  6. Dickens Cider

    Dickens Cider New Member

    Tell Ben Bradlee, "Fuck you."
     
  7. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    To which Ben Bradlee would say, "No thanks, sweetie."
     
  8. Dickens Cider

    Dickens Cider New Member

    I was quoting All The President's Men. Bradlee blamed himself for Hoover getting a for-life term.
     
  9. ScribePharisee

    ScribePharisee New Member

    I have/had family in Mississippi. I still have vivid memories of those attitudes during summer trips as late as the 70s. And they are, by the way, a state that refuses to eliminate the rebel flag from their state flag. Guess that's a show of tolerance, no?
     
  10. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    Facilitating that was akin to letting a political bully get away with it.
     
  11. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Ben --

    Check this out sometime.

    http://american_almanac.tripod.com/hoover.htm
     
  12. ScribePharisee

    ScribePharisee New Member

    James Dobson and those hatemongering evangelicals are taking aim at Obama. Poor guy. Obama needs to not engage in a debate on scripture. He's as out of that one as he'd be playing golf with Tiger.
     
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