His name is bland, so you might not recognize it. That is why I am writing this. I want to imprint it on your consciousness and your subconscious. Who is Roger Stone? The youngest member of CREEP. a dirty trickster who worked for Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972 and who has been doing dirty tricks for the Republicans ever since. And people in the MSM are using him as a "reliable source" this election, if you can believe that, so beware!
Here are some of his dirty deeds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone (1972) As a student at Washington and Lee University in 1972, he invited Jeb Magruder to speak at a Young Republicans Club, then hit up Magruder for a job, which was successful. Stone's career as a dirty trickster began with activities such as contributing money to a possible rival of Nixon in the name of the Young Socialists Alliance — then slipping the receipt to the Manchester Union-Leader. He also got a spy hired by the Hubert Humphrey campaign who became Humphrey's driver. By day, Stone was officially a scheduler in the Nixon campaign. "By night, I'm trafficking in the black arts. Nixon's people were obsessed with intelligence."<2>
After Nixon won the 1972 presidential election, Stone worked for the administration in the Office of Economic Opportunity. After Nixon resigned, Stone went to work for Bob Dole, then was fired after columnist Jack Anderson publicly identified Stone as a Nixon dirty trickster. In 1976 he worked in Ronald Reagan's campaign for president, and in 1977 became national chairman of the Young Republicans.<2>
(1980 ) Stone served as Eastern Regional Political Director of Ronald Reagan's Presidential Campaign in 1980 and 1984. Stone was recruited to work for Reagan by John P. Sears. Stone said that Roy Cohn helped Stone arrange for John B. Anderson to get the nomination of the Liberal Party of New York, a move that would help split the opposition to Reagan in the state. Stone said Cohn gave him a suitcase that Stone avoided opening and, as instructed by Cohn, dropped it off at the office of a lawyer influential in Liberal Party circles. Reagan carried the state with 46 percent of the vote. Speaking after the statute of limitations for bribery had expired, Stone later said, "I paid his law firm. Legal fees. I don't know what he did for the money, but whatever it was, the Liberal party reached its right conclusion out of a matter of principle."<2>
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,89450,00.html 2000 Even a biased towards Bush
Time magazine account can not help but suggest that what Roger Stone lead on the Dade County recount was a Brownshirt like mob. Others have claimed that the group violated laws about crossing state lines to engage in racketeering and voting rights violations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/nyregion/23stone.html?ref=nyregionhttp://whereiscassandra.blogspot.com/2007/08/lighter-side-roger-stone-and-pigeon.html2007 Left threatening phone calls on the phone of father of Eliot Spitzer
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14678.html Feb. 2008 Nedra Pickler of AP chastised for using Roger Stone as a source for anti-Obama quote.
But why, then, quote Roger Stone?
Josh Marshall notes:
The AP’s Nedra Pickler asks disgraced Republican dirty-trickster Roger Stone for his opinion. Stone you’ll remember is the guy who got caught making threatening phone calls to New York Gov. Spitzer’s (D-NY) elderly father and last month set up an anti-Hillary group with the acronym C-U-N-T.
Surprisingly enough, Stone thinks the answer is yes.
Of course he does. You may not know Roger Stone, but I’m sure you know his work. He is a right-wing hatchet-man extraordinaire, brazenly cynical, and free of any sense of decency or honor in a political career that began as Nixon’s “youngest Watergate dirty trickster.” Various reporters have referred to him as “a state of the art sleaze-ball,” “an extreme rightwing sleazeball,” and the “boastful black prince of Republican sleaze.” (You might notice the common thread among the decriptions.)
Stone has, to one extent or another, dabbled in at least eight presidential campaigns, including Reagan’s, Bush’s, Dole’s, and Bush’s, including helping lead street protests in Florida against a recount in 2000.
As for his new endeavor — “Citizens United Not Timid” — Stone has conceded that he picked the name only after failing to “come up with words for B.I.T.C.H.”
Why would the AP consider him a qualified, legitimate voice on assessing Obama’s patriotism?
Claiming credit for outing Spitzer to the FBI
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyhen125610573mar12,0,2250157.column March 2008 Stone makes threats aimed at more Dems. Patterson? Others?
"My work isn't done there," he said.
"Just watch."
Is he just playing mind games? Is history about to go haywire again?
I'll just say this much, knowing Roger Stone.
Watch your back, David Paterson. Watch your back.
So anyway, Roger Stone is trouble. Big Trouble. And for some reason, his handlers have decided to send him public. Maybe to quell rumors that the FBI used AT&T domestic spying info to get Spitzer. But didn't they already say that his bank turned him in? So what are we to make of Stone's claims that he turned him in? Is this to get the bank off the hook?
Is he trying to scare politicians into giving telecoms immunity, threatening that he will use AT&T derived blackmail on them?That last is my best guess about why the RNC would suddenly splash a "stealth" operative all across the front page like this. His story about the call girl with loose lips does not wash. If he was even involved in the DOJ persecution of Spizter (which he probably wasn't) he got his information the old fashioned Nixon way, from wiretaps and illegal spying and monitoring bank transactions and all the other invasions of privacy that the Bush administration relies upon to have its way.
And Stone wants other Democratic politicians to be very, very afraid.
That makes him a big rat fink CREEPy RNC trickster who should have gone to jail decades ago.
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