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BKITU		2012-09-05 02:11:08 PM

And J. Edgar Hoover's favorite stool pusher was Clyde Tolson.

Lionel Mandrake		2012-09-05 02:20:29 PM

BKITU: And J. Edgar Hoover's favorite stool pusher was Clyde Tolson.

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HEY-OOOO!!

Krymson Tyde		2012-09-05 04:41:44 PM

Has got chunks of guys like you in his stool.

strapp3r		2012-09-05 04:46:26 PM

Krymson Tyde: [4.bp.blogspot.com image 268x200]
Has got chunks of guys like you in his stool.

good lord, i miss Phil Hartman!

/do NOT miss RR

BMulligan		2012-09-05 04:52:18 PM

FTFA: The newly released files flesh out what Reagan only hinted at. They show that he began to report secretly to the F.B.I. about people whom he suspected of Communist activity, some on the scantiest of evidence. And they reveal that during his tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild in the '40s and '50s, F.B.I. agents had access to guild records on dozens of actors. As one F.B.I. official wrote in a memo, Reagan "in every instance has been cooperative."

Snitches get dementia.

imontheinternet		2012-09-05 04:53:20 PM

Knows a squealer when he sees one.

Citrate1007		2012-09-05 04:54:18 PM

Both corporations and the government want us to be passively controlled. Why would the ruling class encourage otherwise?

WTF Indeed		2012-09-05 04:55:19 PM

Ronald Reagan was a coward who snitched on his friend's Constitutional rights, and sold weapons to Iranian terrorists. History will show that Reagan is nothing more than a sad, pathetic man who sold his soul for a shot the Presidency.

BMulligan		2012-09-05 04:57:30 PM

WTF Indeed: Ronald Reagan was a coward who snitched on his friend's Constitutional rights, and sold weapons to Iranian terrorists. History will show that Reagan is nothing more than a sad, pathetic man who sold his soul for a shot the Presidency.

Citation needed regarding the alleged previous existence of a soul.

Lionel Mandrake		2012-09-05 04:57:59 PM

crab66		2012-09-05 04:58:38 PM

When Reagan needed government help, he was happy to take it

So he was just like every other conservative.

andersoncouncil42		2012-09-05 05:06:38 PM

He was a mediocre actor, and horrible president. He committed treason to boot. Now, even in his early days, a total asshat snitch that would do anything to gain power.

whidbey		2012-09-05 05:06:52 PM

Does anyone have an idea of what a gen-u-ine J. Edgar Hoover autograph would fetch?

I have 4 of them: two letters and two signed books.

limeyfellow		2012-09-05 05:08:12 PM

We've known about this for decades. It was part of the Red Scare. Reagan was the one who wrongfully turned in John Garfield who was so pressured he ended up committing suicide amongst many others.

Of course those were the good old days when everyone was a traitor and needed to be rooted out and destroyed.

Leader O'Cola		2012-09-05 05:09:15 PM

Submittard must have grown up in a lead-painted room the size of Versailles

moops		2012-09-05 05:11:37 PM

Wow, Reagan produced a very dysfunctional family. Apparently he saw himself as so impotent to reaching out to them, he chose to have the FBI spy on his kids.

Kibbler		2012-09-05 05:20:10 PM

Tonight, in a blockbuster one-man performance, Ronald Reagan is J. Edgar Hoover.

(In drag.)

r1chard3		2012-09-05 05:20:42 PM

biatch, you had ONE job!!!!

Slaves2Darkness		2012-09-05 05:23:01 PM

Meh, he is like every other farking Republitard I've ever met. Against BIG GOVERNMENT, except that shiat that helps them, and SOCIALISM, but don't you dare cut programs that give them other peoples money.

nopokerface		2012-09-05 05:28:20 PM

Oh no, he used his contacts when he thought his daughter might be in danger. The monster.

whidbey		2012-09-05 05:29:42 PM

nopokerface: Oh no, he used his contacts when he thought his daughter might be in danger. The monster.

Apologize for sh*theads much?

nopokerface		2012-09-05 05:33:30 PM

whidbey: nopokerface: Oh no, he used his contacts when he thought his daughter might be in danger. The monster.

Apologize for sh*theads much?

I know it causes you physical pain that Reagan is regarded so highly, but it just makes you look childish to talk all this nonsense about him. The guy that wrote this hatchet piece has a clear agenda, and still fails to make him look bad. He thought the people around him were subversives (maybe they even were) and he did what he thought was right. I can live with that.

Mikey1969		2012-09-05 05:34:48 PM

WTF Indeed: Ronald Reagan was a coward who snitched on his friend's Constitutional rights...

And to this day, this is what bothers me about McCarthy, the HUAC, and all of that "Communism" bullshiat. This country s based on freedom, and if you think that being a Commie is the way to celebrate that, it is your right. I might not agree with it, but I would never support you being dragged in front of a Senate hearing, imprisoned, arrested, or blackballed for it.

Maybe I just 'heart' America more than Reagan? I obviously paid more attention in 6th grade Social Studies, that's for sure.

I wish I could use the FBI as my own personal PI service. Then again, we've discovered that Joe Arpaio is officially on the books as "for sale". I wonder what his rates are?

whidbey		2012-09-05 05:36:07 PM

nopokerface: I know it causes you physical pain that Reagan is regarded so highly

Outside of diehards, he isn't.

Most people are developing an understanding of what a total shiathead he was. He wasn't even leading this country in his second term, either. Is that what you're defending?

The guy that wrote this hatchet piece has a clear agenda, and still fails to make him look bad.

No fact would change you Reagan apologists' mindset. It's actually more productive to just condemn without the use of arguments, since facts mean nothing to you.

ST REAGAN! NOW WITH ALZHEIMER'S.

Dahnkster		2012-09-05 05:36:20 PM

I once had a stool.

whidbey		2012-09-05 05:39:10 PM

Dahnkster: I once had a stool.

But I sat on it one time and made a big mess....

Boudica's War Tampon		2012-09-05 05:39:12 PM

Hoover was in bed with the Mafia which he claimed didn't exist. Nice.

The same Mafia that killed JFK.

Mugato		2012-09-05 05:39:37 PM

Reagan was everything that the current republican party claims to hate, and yet they deify him.

He pretty much invented deficit spending. He "palled around" with terrorists. He took a much more reasoned approach to taxation, despite coming up with the "trickle down" theory that modern Republicans have perverted. He signed a bill that granted amnesty to immigrants. He expanded the federal government by 300k employees. And he expanded Medicade.

Reagan is more of a commie socialist secret muslim lesbian than Obama and yet the modern Republican party worships him as a god. Farking Republican cognitive dissonance at its most blatant. Do as we say, not what we project onto others.

TV's Vinnie		2012-09-05 05:47:38 PM

"That January, the F.B.I. was closing in on Joseph Bonanno, known as Joe Bananas, the head of one of New York City's five Mafia families, who owned a house in Arizona.

F.B.I. agents in Phoenix made an unexpected discovery: According to records, "the son of Ronald Reagan was associating with the son of Joe Bonnano [sic]." That is, Michael Reagan, the adopted son of Reagan and Ms. Wyman, was consorting with Bonanno's son, Joseph Jr. The teenagers had bonded over their shared love of fast cars and acting tough. "

Lionel Mandrake		2012-09-05 05:51:07 PM

nopokerface: Oh no, he used his contacts when he thought his ~~daughter~~ image might be in danger. The monster.

nopokerface		2012-09-05 05:56:47 PM

Lionel Mandrake: nopokerface: Oh no, he used his contacts when he thought his daughter image might be in danger. The monster.

I missed that. Even the author said that it was Wyman who was most concerned, and wanted background on man.

quatchi		2012-09-05 05:57:49 PM

"the son of Ronald Reagan was associating with the son of Joe Bonnano [sic]." That is, Michael Reagan, the adopted son of Reagan and Ms. Wyman, was consorting with Bonanno's son, Joseph Jr. The teenagers had bonded over their shared love of fast cars and acting tough.

Ha! Totally called it as being Mikey in an earlier thread on this topic.

Yeah. Reagan was an asshole who's been canonized by the right.

Get over it. I did.

edmo		2012-09-05 06:11:57 PM

Who dares besmirch the mythology of St Reagan?

Lionel Mandrake		2012-09-05 06:19:58 PM

nopokerface: Lionel Mandrake: nopokerface: Oh no, he used his contacts when he thought his daughter image might be in danger. The monster.

I missed that. Even the author said that it was Wyman who was most concerned, and wanted background on man.

Jeez...the douchebag couldn't even do his own dirty work

Boudica's War Tampon		2012-09-05 06:22:07 PM

TV's Vinnie: [i.ytimg.com image 480x360]
"That January, the F.B.I. was closing in on Joseph Bonanno, known as Joe Bananas, the head of one of New York City's five Mafia families, who owned a house in Arizona.

F.B.I. agents in Phoenix made an unexpected discovery: According to records, "the son of Ronald Reagan was associating with the son of Joe Bonnano [sic]." That is, Michael Reagan, the adopted son of Reagan and Ms. Wyman, was consorting with Bonanno's son, Joseph Jr. The teenagers had bonded over their shared love of fast cars and acting tough. "

That's okay. Jerry Colangelo has lunch with Joe Bonanno Jr at Mancuso's on 32nd St and Camelback all the time. Joey's gotta be gold.

Boudica's War Tampon		2012-09-05 06:46:50 PM

er, make that Tomaso's at 32nd street and Camelback...sorry.

dofus		2012-09-05 06:49:21 PM

Subby said Ronald Reagan's stool pigeon was J. Edgar Hoover. I thought it was the other way round. Who'd a thunk.

/No, I didn't read the article or all the replies

Cataholic		2012-09-05 07:40:44 PM

nopokerface: Oh no, he used his contacts when he thought his daughter might be in danger. The monster.

Yeah..I can only imagine the smile on this smug hack's face when his editors greenlit this article. He spent thousands of dollars, wasted hours of court time, and the only dirt he could come up with was that they called the FBI once (as a favor) to check on their daughter. "Ha!..see he needed government help and took it!" I can only imagine the uproar if they found out he ever mailed a letter or drove on a public highway.

missiv		2012-09-05 08:23:58 PM

Ronald Reagan on the cover of The Complete Dick Tracey.

lysdexic		2012-09-05 08:42:58 PM

Something something if you've done nothing wrong why hide...

RY28		2012-09-05 09:35:01 PM

Too bad he couldn't run for a third term . He would have won again .

CigaretteSmokingMan		2012-09-06 12:50:11 AM

teto85		2012-09-06 12:55:39 AM

BKITU: And J. Edgar Hoover's favorite stool pusher was Clyde Tolson.

I thought Clyde was a fudge-packer.

kg2095		2012-09-06 02:29:12 AM

strapp3r: Krymson Tyde: [4.bp.blogspot.com image 268x200]
Has got chunks of guys like you in his stool.

good lord, i miss Phil Hartman!

/do NOT miss RR

Ronald Reagan was a prince compared to Hoover.

J. Edgar Hoover was one of the nastiest men of the 20th century. Reagan wasn't so much nasty as a prisoner of his ideology - in other words dumb.

quatchi		2012-09-06 05:25:35 AM

Cataholic: nopokerface: Oh no, he used his contacts when he thought his daughter might be in danger. The monster.

Yeah..I can only imagine the smile on this smug hack's face when his editors greenlit this article. He spent thousands of dollars, wasted hours of court time, and the only dirt he could come up with was that they called the FBI once (as a favor) to check on their daughter. "Ha!..see he needed government help and took it!" I can only imagine the uproar if they found out he ever mailed a letter or drove on a public highway.

Well that and the fact that Reagan was a rat fink stool pigeon for the FBI during the worst of the Red Scare pogroms.

Plus the whole helping him get elected thing.

Look there's only really two types of people left in America those who know Reagan was a bad POTUS and those who believe the propaganda.

This article won't change the opinions of the former one iota and will not be acknowledged by the latter a fact for which your posts are proof.

Rocket To Russia		2012-09-06 07:10:04 AM

nopokerface: Oh no, he used his contacts when he thought his daughter might be in danger. The monster.

Instead of like, oh I don't know, talking to her, call in the FBI. Republican parenting!