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One day in the mid-’70s on an air force base in “flattest, dullest” Norfolk, England, an African-American airmen shared some of his deep Southern blues records with a young, white English boy named Ian Penman. The meeting was more or less random, occasioned by the drift and cloistered openness of Royal Air Force family life; […]
Justin Theroux and Woody Harrelson in White House Plumbers. (HBO Max)
I’m thrilled to report how much I liked the premiere episode of the new five-part HBO miniseries White House Plumbers. It’s a raucously funny satirical comedy about the way right-wing loons E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux) failed upward through the early 1970s to their ultimate peak of insane incompetence, bungling the Watergate break-in in their idiotic attempts to preserve Richard Nixon’s presidency.
Episode One covers Hunt’s destroyed CIA career after his disastrous leadership in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, which he blames on “that pussy JFK.” He’s soon given another chance when he’s teamed with ex-FBI nutter Liddy to find a way to take down Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers leaker. They’re given this assignment by Egil ”Bud” Krogh (Richard Sommer), a special advisor to Nixon whose 2007 book, Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons From the White House, provides the material for this miniseries. Writers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck (Veep, The Larry Sanders Show) and director David Mandel (Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld) do a scalpel-sharp job of eviscerating the ideologically crazed operators behind Nixon’s most infamous “dirty tricks.”
Hunt and Liddy hatch a berserk plan to break in to the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, Dr Lewis Fielding, and get ahold of Ellsberg’s file so they can leak it and, hopefully, destroy his credibility. Their methods include casing the office while wearing garishly fake wigs, an “old CIA trick,” according to Hunt, because any eyewitnesses will only remember the wigs.
Hunt doesn’t seem to take into account that drawing attention to yourselves everywhere you go in the first place, by wearing an auburn fright wig (Hunt) and a black, shoulder-length pageboy (Liddy) as your only disguises — while taking photos of yourselves in front of the office you’re about to break into, with the name of the psychiatrist clearly visible on the sign behind you — are perhaps unnecessarily risky maneuvers. Hunt also relies on hard-partying, right-wing Cuban operatives (Tony Plana, Yul Vazquez, and Alexis Valdés), his old cronies from the Bay of Pigs days. And they’re even wackier and more reckless.
But none of them are as mad-dog as the notorious Liddy. There’s a scene that’s pure comedy gold in which Hunt and Liddy, becoming fast friends, get together for dinner with their wives. At the last minute, Hunt cautions his wife, Dorothy (Lena Headey), who’s also former CIA, that Liddy can be “kind of a lot.” But nothing prepares either of them for Liddy’s fervent Adolf Hitler fandom, shared by his wife, Fran (Judy Greer), who acknowledges that she’s something of an Aryan trophy wife. Over cocktails, Liddy plays his favorite Hitler rally record at top volume, so that the two couples are trying to have polite predinner conversation at the top of their lungs to be heard over the splenetic shouting in German.
Still from White House Plumbers. (HBO Max)
Theroux’s absurdly black-mustached Liddy is an inspiration, and Harrelson — always delightful, but getting scarily good by this point in his career — is never funnier than when he’s playing someone earnestly trying to hold it together in the face of lunacy greater than his own. In their hands, the macho rivalry between Hunt and Liddy — both of whom are convinced they’re the one really in charge — should get ever more hilarious over the course of the series.
While denying that he’s a neo-Nazi, so intense is Liddy’s admiration for Hitler he even swears in German. (“Scheisse!”) And he has plenty of opportunity to do so as the Ellsberg job gets spectacularly botched. He and Hunt are both fired by John Dean (Domhnall Gleeson). They hardly have time to look crestfallen before Dean hires them again for a much bigger job in the Nixon White House, serving as leading figures in the Committee for the Re-Election of the President — mockingly known as CREEP. It seems Nixon regards their stupendous failure as evidence of their manly, courageous super-patriotism — which is exactly what he thinks he needs if he’s going to stay on top politically. And after all, as Liddy says, “I shit red-white-and-blue.”
And that’s exactly how Hunt and Liddy fail upward — achieving prominent positions of trust, a huge operating budget, and a big office in the White House. On the sign outside their door, Hunt has “Plumbers” inscribed. Liddy, who wanted their operations to be called “Black Ops,” and even had stationery made up to reflect that clandestine-sounding title, asks what that’s supposed to mean.
“We plug leaks,” says Hunt, exuberantly proud of his own cleverness.
Even if you feel like you know a lot about Watergate, this series has a way of making it all fresh again. It opens with shadowy figures trying to break into the Democratic campaign headquarters, only the boneheads didn’t bring the right tools to pick the door lock. A superimposed message informs us that: “There were four Watergate break-in attempts. This was attempt number two.”
And so many of the details of this debacle are true and documented, we’re assured at the start, that “no names were changed to protect the innocent, because nearly everyone was found guilty.”
If the series can maintain the standard of the first episode, it might rival the Coens brothers’ fictional Burn After Reading for its riotous portrait of Washington DC dumbfuckery.
On May 7, 2023, tragedy hit the small community of Starks, Louisiana, as a 14-year-old girl was shot while playing hide-and-seek on a neighbor’s property.
According to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office, the teen was shot in the back of her head, taken to a hospital, and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The alleged shooter, 58-year-old David Doyle, was taken to the Calcasieu Correctional Center, charged with aggravated battery, four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, and illegal firearm discharge.
The incident occurred on Jimmy Doyle Road, which is home to only three families. Doyle stated that he had seen some shadows outside his home, and thus, he had gone inside to get his firearm before returning to the outside and shooting at what he assumed were people running away from his property.
Due to the state’s “stand your ground” law, David Doyle could potentially use the law to his advantage as a defense in this case. The law states that a homicide is justifiable “when committed by a person lawfully inside a dwelling, a place of business, or a motor vehicle … when the conflict began, against a person who is attempting to make an unlawful entry into the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle, or who has made an unlawful entry into the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle, and the person committing the homicide reasonably believes that the use of deadly force is necessary to prevent the entry or to compel the intruder to leave the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle.”
The case is heartbreaking for the tight-knit community, which is now torn and in shock over the incident that left a young girl injured. The future of this case is uncertain, but its profound impact on the town of Starks is now all too clear.
Aaron Hoster, an experienced conman, is facing federal charges for an audacious scheme to defraud Home Depot stores. The scheme, which began at the end of 2020 and ran for approximately 18 months, involved an unprecedented ticket-switching tactic.
Hoster would scrap the barcode from items that cost under $30 and then place it on more expensive items, such as power tools, worth up to $1,200. After transferring the barcode, Hoster would attempt to pay for the higher-valued tool using the code from the lower-priced item.
In one example, Hoster attempted to fraudulently purchase a Honda generator worth $1,299 with a price tag belonging to a generator adopter that was valued at just $37.50. It is alleged that he attempted this same tactic in a Home Depot store in Waterville, Maine, on March 13th. After store personnel noticed his suspicious behavior, Hoster fled the store, leaving the property behind.
This wouldn’t be Hoster’s first conviction of the same crime. Documents show he had already been convicted of ticket-switching in Maryland and Pennsylvania in November 2022. Federal authorities arrested him in Westminster, MD, after his initial convictions.
Now, Hoster is looking at a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted of wire fraud, and a possible fine of up to $250,000. Federal Judge Maurice J. Dumas ordered Hoster to be held without bail on Friday. It is estimated that Home Depot has lost thousands of dollars due to Hoster’s illegal activities.
Who knows how long it will last? For now, the terror group that rules the Gaza Strip says it’s staying out of the current fighting.
By Baruch Yedid, TPS
Hamas gave Palestinian Islamic Jihad a green light to fire a barrage of rockets at Israel on Wednesday.
Sources inside Gaza told the Tazpit Press Service that Hamas is so far staying out of the fighting and is not firing its own rockets at Israel.
A Palestinian source with a connection to the Gaza Coordinating Room, the local headquarters for terrorist groups to plan their strategy, told TPS it was surprising that PIJ had rockets capable of reaching Tel Aviv.
Hamas came under heavy pressure for not joining PIJ in firing rockets in August 2022. During a 55-hour period, terrorists in Gaza launched about 1,000 rockets at Israel in response to the arrest of the group’s leader in Judea and Samaria, Bassem Saadi, on August 1.
That conflict did not win Islamic Jihad broad support. Many in Gaza were angered when 120 rockets were misfired, often landing inside the Strip, and in some cases killing Palestinian civilians.
On Tuesday, Israel launched surprise air strikes on Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets, including killing three of the terror group’s senior figures. Military positions belonging to Islamic Jihad were struck, including a rocket factory and a facilitythat produced concrete components for terror tunnels, the IDF said.
The strikes on the Islamic Jihad leaders come against the backdrop of a rocket barrage fired by the terror group following the death of Khader Adnan on May 2. The imprisoned Adnan, a senior Islamic Jihad figure, died after an 86-day hunger strike. The terror group had threatened throughout Adnan’s hunger strike that it would hold Israel responsible for its member’s death.
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