Posted on 01/23/2010 10:10:50 AM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD
For the better part of six decades, Paul Harvey spun tales on the radio in his staccato baritone, entertaining up to 24 million listeners a day with folksy vignettes ending in unexpected twists.
And now, the rest of the story.
Previously confidential files show that Harvey, who died last February at 90, enjoyed a 20-year friendship with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, often submitting advance copies of his radio script for comment and approval. Harvey wrote Hoover and his deputies regularly. Hoover, in turn, helped Harvey with research, suggested changes in scripts and showered the broadcaster with effusive praise.
But the real twist, suitable for one of Harvey's signature "Rest of the Story" vignettes, is how they met -- on opposite sides of an espionage investigation.
The news is contained in nearly 1,400 pages of FBI files, released to The Washington Post in response to a one-year-old Freedom of Information Act request. The trove supplies new details about how America's No. 1 broadcaster came to befriend America's No. 1 G-man.
The records underscore that the men shared deeply conservative convictions and a hatred of communism. And Harvey's vast audience was of intense interest to the image-obsessed Hoover.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What's next, Washington Post? Are you going to "report" that Hoover and Harvey dressed up im women's lingerie and shared wine & strawberries dipped in whipped cream too?
Pathetic.
The typical “postie” these days wouldn’t imagine dressing in lingerie was unusual for a grown man.
I thought documents were overrated in the new age of transparency.
Isn’t it pretty much standard to submit a story to the agency you are writing about to see if they have any comments, and to change it if they have useful ones that are factual?
That’s a far cry from printing talking points faxed from the White House Basement without changing a word, as virtually all of the leftist media have done since clinton perfected the practice.
And I suppose they didn’t snuggle up to FDR, JFK, or LBJ before that?
I don’t really see the “barf alert” on this one. That Hoover had a friend? I’m not feeling at all nauseous. That his friend was a somewhat popular news announcer, the contents of my stomach are still safe.
Having read Ann Coulter’s books Treason and her re-presenting us a vision of Joe McCarthy, I am wondering if perhaps an accurate biography of J. Edgar Hoover might reveal someone different than bullying, tyrant we have been taught he was. I don’t know but I have decided that we need to rethink much of what are commonly held beliefs.
Meanwhile, the media sees no problem at all with daily conference calls with Rahm Emanuel so they can all get their DNC talking points and catchphrases down correctly.
“Barf Alert” in the sense that the Washington Post waited almost a year to get all FOIA files on Harvey after his death (in Feb. 2009) and has been ‘investigating’ everything having to do with Harvey and his life for the better part of a few months now.
In the meantime, who’s calling for a FOIA for an investigation of the Hawaii Birth certificate “Long Form” — and a few dozens other things that need to be looked into??
Hoover was greatly feared by politicians because of his files on them. This fear kept them on the straight and narrow. The leftist media being in love with leftist politicians smeared Hoover after his death, and of course, give the politicians a pass on their foul vices.
In his book, ‘Blacklisted by History’ M. Stanton Evans has done the first truly magisterial work on the commie left’s endless, invidious assault on Joe McCarthy. As the book shows in devastating detail, McCarthy’s main error was that he held himself to due process evidentiary standards while under concerted attack by legions of squalid, lying quislings. Not one innocent person was ever named a communist or fellow traveler by McCarthy. Sad to say, the gutless RINOs of the day mostly sat on their hands. The book also teaches that the heavy left cancer was well established within the Dhimmicrat party elites no later than the mid 30s, and perhaps before.
This is a common tactic in journalism, pretending that something that was planned "just happened." Remember the retired couple who "just happened to be monitoring cell phone traffic with a recording device and "SHAZAM!!!!!" Who'da thunk it? They accidentally ended up listening to one of Newt Gingrich's cell phone conversations.
Exactly. J. Edgar Hoover, like Joe McCarthy, was demonized by the Communists and fellow travelers who infested the media and the intellectual community.
I’m not saying Hoover was perfect. No one is. But he was a great patriot, who was stalwart in defending our country against Communist infiltration that was, regretably, aided and assisted by FDR, HST, and many in congress and Hollywood.
Mark Felt, who was Deep Throat, was the deputy director of the FBI, and wanted to be made director upon Hoover's death. Nixon instead appointed L. Patrick Gray, specifically because he did not want a continuation of the Hoover style of agency management. Felt was a big admirer of Hoover, and resented the change.
Felt spoon fed the information to Woodward and Bernstein, although when they wrote their books, they made it sound like the stories were a result of their brilliant investigative reporting skills. Felt violated quite a few laws about leaking of information, and also by not turning his information over to Justice or other organizations that would have had enforcement authority.
In the end, though, the Post ended up glorifying a guy who wanted to continue the Hoover style of FBI management in order to take down a guy, Nixon, who was trying to end it. Considering the hatred with which the left, including the Post, views Hoover, this is the ultimate irony.
Very, very interesting. Thank you, Richard...
From the article:
The news is contained in nearly 1,400 pages of FBI files, released to The Washington Post in response to a one-year-old Freedom of Information Act request.It would appear that the FBI took almost a year to respond the WP's request. Not surprising, as there was a whole lot that had to be dug up on Paul Harvey, and the FBI had more important things to do with a new occupant of the White House and a wholesale changeover in cabinet and sub-cabinet posts. From what I've heard, many FOIA requests take even longer.
It's perhaps all they could find that fits their political agenda, which despite what many think is not "liberal" but "conservative" in the sense the WP's editors and owners favor continuation of the status quo, i.e. a powerful federal government.
That's something Paul Harvey also favored if you recall his radio programs over the years. OK, he was a backslider on Viet-Nam, I'll concede that, but in most other ways he defended the feds. Whether it was wiretaps, snooping on civilians or the WOD, Paul Harvey was a cheerleader.
Remember his solution for Waco? Build a fence around Mt. Carmel and call it a federal prison.
You may not be aware of Paul Harvey's role in the Randy Weaver case. Google "Randy Weaver" FBI and "Paul Harvey" for the rest of the story (a story that is unlikely to be published in the thoroughly establishment Washington Post, BTW) and you'll be surprised.
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