Liddy Roars Into Sturgis, S.D. Biker Fest

AP | 8/03/03

[kattracks]

STURGIS, S.D., Aug 03, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Convicted Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy has set up shop here for the town's annual motorcycle rally.

Liddy, 72, rode his 2003 Harley-Davidson 1,846 miles from the Washington, D.C., area to Sturgis, arriving Thursday night. He planned to take part in book and calendar signings, a motorcycle ride from Mount Rushmore to the Buffalo Chip Campground and will broadcast his daily radio show.

In nearby town of Deadwood, the mayor has decided to designate Monday as G. Gordon Liddy Day in the gambling town.

On Thursday, Gov. Mike Rounds will proclaim August 7 as "G. Gordon Liddy Day" in South Dakota.

Liddy served four years and four months in prison for his role in the 1972 break-in at Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate.

Jeff Jones, president of G. Gordon Liddy Network Productions, joined Liddy, a group of friends, business associates, a film crew and some calendar models for the ride.

"He rode it all the way," Jones said of Liddy. "I can't believe how well he did. He's in the best shape of his life."

By The Associated Press

[kattracks]

Gee, I'm sure the next article written about clinton will begin with, "The impeached, disbarred ex president", NOT.

[PokeyJoe]

yeah, nice observation - and the NOT part is particularly accurate.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ping the Hooligans

[snopercod]

OMG! I thought this was about Liddy Dole.

I had visions of Liddy in a tank top with tattooed arms, and Bob on back with a pony tail, tossing free samples of Viagra.

Heart, be still...

[Larry Lucido]

I hope I'm in half as good a shape at age 72.

[The Great RJ]

I don't think Clintoon would get a good reception in Sturgis or anywhere else out here in SD. Besides nude beaches and the Playboy mansion are more his style.

[swheats]

Convicted Watergate figure

Every where you turn these days there's a reference to watergate. The dems are desperately seeking an issue that'll stick.

[Vinnie]

LOL>> There goes a mouthful of rose wine all over my flat screen monitor..

[TopDog2]

He rode his Harley. That's more than you can say about most of the HD riders there. ;-)

[JoeSixPack1]

"He rode it all the way," Jones said of Liddy. "I can't believe how well he did. He's in the best shape of his life."

Gordon is a fighter, but I'll bet dollars to donuts it wasn't a Sportster he was riding! His butt would have fell off somewhere around Ohio! And the Buffalo Chip Campground is well known for it's late night - um, err,,, Fun! Yeah, fun! That's it!

<|:-)~~

[Ghengis]

He used to comment on his show about his HD Fatboy. But I haven't been able to hear G. Gordon for a couple of years. He may be riding a new model these days.

[BraveMan]

[CDHart]

We used to get his show here (rural area) but he got replaced with Neal Boortz. Anyway, he advertised some human growth hormone that he said kept him healthy, etc. Of course, he also exercised, had a rigid diet, and the usual. So who knows if it's the HGH or the diet and exercise?

Carolyn

[DPB101]

Every where you turn these days there's a reference to watergate. The dems are desperately seeking an issue that'll stick

Pathetic, isn't it? The median age in America is 35. That means well over half the population has no memory of Watergate.

[JoeSixPack1]

Here we go again,,, That pic shows a cross over exhaust so I would say that's a new Heritage, w/silver & black 100th anniv paint, hard to tell. But Fatboy exhaust has duals on the right side only and the taillight is a tombstone which is stock with the Heritage.

I'm get dizzy trying to figure all this out with these non-biker knowin' photographers!! It's discrimination I tell ya!!! How's a freak like me supposed to figure this stuff out????

<|:-)~~
hehehheee
Ride safe all!

[A Navy Vet]

Looks like a Heritage to me. BTW, you can bet Liddy isn't staying at Buffalo Chip.

[BraveMan]

You aced it. Here's a better view.

100th Anniversary Harley Davidson Heritage Springer

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Jean Kerry had a photo op last week, where he appeared from around a corner, on his motorcycle. It was such a staged event-he probably was helped onto the bike and given enough of a push to make it to the photographers. A poufy haired, anti military Frenchman is still a poufy haired, anti military Frenchman,regardless of the vehicle he rode in on.

[JoeSixPack1]

10 dash 4 on the Heritage, be nice to know if it's a springer or not. And The Buff chip might suit Liddy just fine, ya know - work hard, play hard, stay hard.

<|:-)~~

[JoeSixPack1]

COOL!!!!!!!

[uglybiker]

I had visions of Liddy in a tank top with tattooed arms...

As long as nobody holds up a sign saying: "SHOW YOUR T*TS".

[BraveMan]

you can bet Liddy isn't staying at Buffalo Chip.

LOL! BZZZT! Ohh, sorry. Thanks for playing . . . ;-)
From his website . . .

Sunday-August 3rd

· GGL Freedom Ride from Mt. Rushmore to the Buffalo Chip meet at Crazy Horse Memorial at 1pm

· Late Afternoon Calendar signing at Buffalo Chip with festivities

[deport]

[swheats]

"Pathetic, isn't it?"

Sure is. The only thing we need to know now is that Hillary was the driving force behind Watergate. Surprise! she's still going.

[JoeSixPack1]

http://sturgisrally.net/cam1.htm
http://sturgisrally.net/cam2.htm
http://sturgisrally.net/cam3.htm

Links are pretty much overloading their servers right now.

[wardaddy]

and good genes....I think both his folks lived long. His mom died recently in her mid 90s.

[Rushmore Rocks]

The G-Man is staying at the Hampton Inn in Deadwood and broadcasting his radio program in Belle Fourche. (north of Sturgis) The Hills are alive with the roar of Harleys. I love it!!! BTW, we have a tremendous crowd here already and the Rally doesn't start 'till Monday.

[BraveMan]

My bad. I mistook "staying" for "showing" . . .

I imagine he can afford better accomodations than those found in Buffalo Chip         :0)

[The Electrician]

And, no doubt the AP always prefaces their articles about Nelson Mandela with "convicted murder Nelson Mandela"...

[vaudine]

LOL!

I like it! Could do a lot for the Republican Party.

vaudine

[Ghengis]

Here we go again,,, That pic shows a cross over exhaust so I would say that's a new Heritage, w/silver & black 100th anniv paint, hard to tell. But Fatboy exhaust has duals on the right side only and the taillight is a tombstone which is stock with the Heritage.

The pic didn't show up when I posted earlier. I think you're right. Its a Heritage.

[martin_fierro]

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[PGalt]

LOL!

[Hank Rearden]

I hope I'm in half as good a shape at age 72.

Hah! Back when I was 72, I cudda kicked Liddy's ass. Ya betcha. Maybe even still.

[TheCookMan]

I was on a road trip recently through South Dakota. I'm not an expert on their politics, but it seems strange how Tom Dashle came from a state where billboard signs say, "Help control the animal population. WEAR FUR!"

[DPB101]

Watergate trivia: Hillary Clinton interned for Communist Party lawyer Robert Treuhalf. One of Treuhaft's best friends in the Communist Party was Al Bernstein, the father of Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. As you mention, Hillary worked on the Watergate impeachment committee.

[swheats]

The more I read about Watergate causes me to think that it was Hillary's strategizing for Gore in Election 2000. Her "MO", change the rules to win.

More Trivia
Zeifman quoted his own 1974 diary, which reports that just four days after Nixon resigned "John Labovitz came to my office and apologized for having participated to some extent to conceal from me the work that was being done. Some months ago, he and Hillary lied intentionally to me and told me there were no drafts of proposed rules of procedure for the [Nixon] impeachment inquiry."

The New York Daily News noticed this earthquake confession, and sought Zeifman's elaboration on the historic subterfuge perpetrated by our current first lady. The Daily News reported:

If the United States was going to topple its own president, rules were important, Zeifman told us Friday. "Suppose we were going to have the World Series next week and suddenly one of the team managers says, 'We want to change the rules to two strikes and you're out.'"

That's basically what [Hillary] Clinton and Labovitz did, Zeifman claims. In other words, they drew up new impeachment protocols to replace those in existence since Jefferson's day -- and then denied it. Congress -- and the country -- would have been completely polarized if it had seemed Nixon was being railroaded out of office with new rules, Zeifman said. (New York Daily News – Feb.12, 1996)

Nixon was likely guilty of the Watergate cover-up. But Ruth's memo to Jaworski shows there really wasn’t any "smoking gun" evidence of it.

And that's likely why Hillary Diane Rodham, who regarded Nixon as "evil," according to Clinton biographer David Maraniss, had to discard impeachment rules in place for two centuries in order to nail her quarry.

Let's hope this group in our Congress know the rules.

[bootless]

:-_) Every years I'm in SD around the Rally time, I see them fly in from all over the US to Rapid City Airport, meet up with their moving vans, unload the Hogs, spiff 'em up a little, and ride the 6 (?) miles into Sturgis, complete with temporary tattoos. OTOH, the first year I saw that, I also saw several very real bikers from CA stop for breakfast in Winnemucca, NV, fixing to ride all the way in.

This year, in Spearfish, the Super 8's parking lot turned into a detail shop for the bikes just taken out of the moving vans... :-) They sure did shine, though!

This year, Jethro Tull will be performing at Sturgis on Monday night - I just saw him last night (saturday) - it was a tremendous show. Wish I could go back up there for Round 2!

[DPB101]

Both of them had to have been recruited while at Yale. My guess is it was the Czech StB and not the KGB which did it.

[pt17]

Liddy, 72, rode his 2003 Harley-Davidson 1,846 miles from the Washington, D.C., area to Sturgis

Oh hell, 1800 miles is just a walk in the park. Now there was, I believe, that 80 plus year old lady from Alaska who used to ride down to somewhere around Tenn and back some years ago. Compared to her, Liddy's a girly-man.

[JoeSixPack1]

Klunk!!


oops, I mean- BUMP!

[TopDog2]

I'll make it to Sturgis one day...and I'll ride all the way. What's the point if you don't? I don't get it.

[archy]

Liddy, 72, rode his 2003 Harley-Davidson 1,846 miles from the Washington, D.C., area to Sturgis, arriving Thursday night.

72? He'd fit right in with the Boozefighters. They're originally a California bunch, with several chapters still there, and they're the ones who started it all back in Hollister in 1947. And some of them are STILL at it, as was founder Wino Willie, right up until he passed away back in '97.

and others, like Willie, are takin' it easier now. Maybe.

Boozefighters up!

[archy]

I'll make it to Sturgis one day...and I'll ride all the way. What's the point if you don't? I don't get it.

I've got campground land near there, my granddad's old Homestead Act grant he settled after returning from WWI. Sturgis camping there is usually reserved for my fellow 59ers, Boozefighters and a few pals. But if you'd care to hang with us next year, consider yerself invited.

Same offer's extended to other Freeper Hooligans and riding pals. Yes, there's camper/trailer parking room available, though no hookups.

-archy-/-

[Cuttnhorse]

What? No pictures of Marlin Brando??

[archy]

Liddy, 72, rode his 2003 Harley-Davidson 1,846 miles from the Washington, D.C., area to Sturgis

Oh hell, 1800 miles is just a walk in the park. Now there was, I believe, that 80 plus year old lady from Alaska who used to ride down to somewhere around Tenn and back some years ago. Compared to her, Liddy's a girly-man.

She made the Shiloh anniversary run and at least one recent *little Sturgis* fest in Mississippi, I believe, and was last observed down for the Veteran's Day bash north of Columbus, Mississippi.

*L'il Sturgis*, aka *Sturgis South* is coming up shortly, 22-24 August, so maybe she'll show up again. If so, I'll try for pictures.

-archy-/-

[TopDog2]

That would be awesome! I should be recovered from my deer/bike "encounter" by then and I'll be ready for a semi-long trip.

[biblewonk]

Sturges ping. Who is Liddy, the name rings a bell.

[archy]

What? No pictures of Marlin Brando??

I don't believe he rides anymore. But there was another feller in that movie he was in who did, right up until his last days.

[archy]

Gee, I'm sure the next article written about clinton will begin with, "The impeached, disbarred ex president", NOT.

Mine will. Though I believe I'll reverse the order from the way you have them, as the disbarment was more recent.

-archy-/-