Democrats Slander Anybody For Their Benefit

[PoliticalChic]

July 18 1896
1896 — James Foulis wins the U.S. Men's Open golf championship at Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, N.Y. 1927 — Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics doubles off the glove of Harry Heilmann for his 4,000th hit.4 hours ago
This Date in Sports, July 18: Ty Cobb records his 4000th hit.
https://www.times-news.com › sports › this-date-in-sports-
https://www.times-news.com/sports/this-date-in-sports-july-18-ty-cobb-records-his-4-000th-hit/article_e9c067f4-1669-5a1c-8318-fcd9af34aa72.html#:~:text=1896 — James Foulis wins the,for his 4,000th hit.
https://www.times-news.com/sports/this-date-in-sports-july-18-ty-cobb-records-his-4-000th-hit/article_e9c067f4-1669-5a1c-8318-fcd9af34aa72.html#:~:text=1896 — James Foulis wins the,for his 4,000th hit.




But.....because of how dire the Democrats need the black vote, they authored the myth that Ty Cobb was a racist.

"Cobb's racism was inexcusable, even for his time. "

Really?

Now, that particular slander that seems to appeal to Liberal sensibilities.....

What about race? It is “common knowledge” that Cobb was “an avowed racist”—but when and where did he make such a vow and where is it recorded? A 1984 biography of Cobb, written by a [Ohio University history] college professor named Charles Alexander, is typical. It describes three people who fought with Cobb—a night watchman, a bellhop, and a butcher—as being black.

Such evidence was enough for documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose made-for-PBS series Baseball described Cobb as an embarrassment to the game because ofhis racism and cast Cobb as the anti-Jackie Robinson.

But Burns, like so many others, was letting himself be misled by the oft-repeated myth.




[Better get your apology ready......]

Looking into census reports, birth certificates, and contemporary newspaper accounts, I found that all three of the black fighters cited by Charles Alexander were in fact white. "

[But..but.....Ohio College History Professor Charles Alexander, claimed they were black??? The same professor who wrote a book on the KKK...from a Liberal college....hmmm.]


When I asked Alexander about this, he simply replied, “I went with the best information I had at the time.”
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong


But what about Cobb’s 19th-century Southern roots? How could someone born in Georgia in 1886notbe a racist? What I found—and again, not because I am the Babe Ruth of researchers, but because I actually did some research—is that Ty Cobb was descended from a long line of abolitionists. His great-grandfather was a minister who preached against slavery and was run out of town for it. His grandfather refused to fight in the Confederate army because of the slavery issue. And his father was an educator and state senator who spoke up for his black constituents and is known to have once broken up a lynch mob.

Cobb himself was never asked about segregation until 1952, when the Texas League was integrating, andSporting Newsasked him what he thought. “The Negro should be accepted wholeheartedly, and not grudgingly,” he said. “The Negro has the right to play professional baseball and whose [sic] to say he has not?”

By that time he had attended many Negro league games, sometimes throwing out the first ball and often sitting in the dugout with the players. He is quoted as saying that Willie Mays was the only modern-day player he’d pay to see and that Roy Campanella was the ballplayer that reminded him most of himself." Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong


Wow!




Ty Cobb.....the only man slandered more than Trump.
https://www.times-news.com/sports/this-date-in-sports-july-18-ty-cobb-records-his-4-000th-hit/article_e9c067f4-1669-5a1c-8318-fcd9af34aa72.html#:~:text=1896 — James Foulis wins the,for his 4,000th hit.

 

[johngaltshrugged]

I gotta admit I always heard what a racist Cobb was & it never occurred to me that they might be lying about it.

Of course, now I know that much of what they taught us growing up was utter nonsense & they will absolutely lie about anything if it furthers an agenda.

IDK why they would want to slander him but it seems they did

 

[PoliticalChic]

I gotta admit I always heard what a racist Cobb was & it never occurred to me that they might be lying about it.

Of course, now I know that much of what they taught us growing up was utter nonsense & they will absolutely lie about anything if it furthers an agenda.

IDK why they would want to slander him but it seems they did

The Left/Democrats have informational dominance....and they lie about everything.


Here's another to research....J Edgar Hoover was gay and caught wearing a dress.


Not true and never happened.

Did J. Edgar Hoover Really Wear Dresses?​

By Ronald Kessler​

Mr. Kessler is the author of a new book on the FBI, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, available from Amazon.com.

In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, claimed that Hoover did not pursue organized crime because the Mafia had blackmail material on him. In support of that, Summers quoted Susan L. Rosenstiel, a former wife of Lewis S. Rosenstiel, chairman of Schenley Industries Inc., as saying that in 1958, she was at a party at the Plaza Hotel where Hoover engaged in cross-dressing in front of her then-husband and Roy Cohn, former counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy.

"He [Hoover] was wearing a fluffy black dress, very fluffy, with flounces and lace stockings and high heels, and a black curly wig," Summers quoted Susan as saying. "He had makeup on and false eyelashes."[1]

Susan claimed Cohn introduced Hoover to her as "Mary." Hoover allegedly responded, "Good evening." She said she saw Hoover go into a bedroom and take off his skirt. There, "young blond boys" worked on him in bed. Later, as Hoover and Cohn watched, Lewis Rosenstiel had sex with the young boys.

A year later, Susan claimed, she again saw Hoover at the Plaza. This time, the director was wearing a red dress. Around his neck was a black feather boa. He was holding a Bible, and he asked one of the blond boys to read a passage as another boy played with him.

It was episodes such as these, Summers declared, that the Mafia held over Hoover's head. "Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover's sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay," the jacket of the book says. "Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold on America."

Rosenstiel, a former bootlegger during Prohibition, was well-acquainted with Mafia figures such as Frank Costello, originally Francesco Castiglia. He was also friends with Hoover, having endowed the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation in 1965 with $1 million. But Susan was Summers's primary source for the cross-dressing story, and she was not exactly a credible witness. In fact, she served time at Riker's Island for perjuring herself in a 1971 case.

Convinced that Hoover had somehow stacked the cards against her during the divorce proceedings, Susan had long tried to interest anyone who would listen that Hoover was a cross-dresser. Susan had taken her allegations to Robert M. Morgenthau, the U.S. Attorney in New York, who himself had no use for Hoover.

"She used to call me after 5:30 p.m. when my secretary had left, so I wound up having to listen to her," Morgenthau said. He said he found her claims baseless. But Morgenthau shared her allegations with William Hundley, who had a Justice Department attorney look into them.[2]

"Susie Rosenstiel had a total ax to grind," Hundley said. "Somebody who worked for me talked to her. It was made up out of whole cloth. She hated Hoover for some alleged wrong he had done. Plus the story was beyond belief. I told Summers this. Then he goes ahead and uses it."[3]

Now seventy-seven and living in a single room in a Manhattan hotel where rooms rent for $98.85 a night, Rosenstiel said Summers paid her for the interviews she gave him, and she wanted to be paid for an interview for this book. Like most journalists and news organizations, I believe paying for information calls into question its credibility. When I told Rosenstiel this and suggested she could generate publicity for herself by telling the truth and admitting she made up the cross-dressing story, she said, "It did happen."[4]

Summers said that after Rosenstiel told her the cross-dressing story, she told him that she intended to give the story to another journalist. Summers said he paid her a fee to hold the story until his book came out. The producer of a documentary made for Frontline and the BBC also paid Rosenstiel for her appearance with Summers, he said.

In an Esquire piece, Peter Maas, a world class journalist who died in 2001, pointed out that Summers's rendition of events has a fatal flaw: After the alleged incident at the Plaza, Hoover assigned agents to investigate Lansky, who supposedly had the goods on him. When the Miami Field Office complained that the investigation of Lansky was not producing enough information to justify the manpower, Hoover wrote back, "Lansky has been designated for 'crash' investigation. The importance of this case cannot be overemphasized . . . The bureau expects this investigation to be vigorous and detailed."

Still presumably cowering because Lansky had incriminating photos of him, Hoover followed up with an order to install bugs in Lansky's apartment. Having been ordered by Robert Kennedy to attack the Mafia as the FBI had attacked Communism, Hoover wrote in the January 1962 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, "The battle is joined. We have taken up the gauntlet flung down by organized crime. Let us unite in a devastating assault to annihilate this mortal enemy." Yet even before Kennedy took over, Hoover, stung by the disclosure of the 1957 Appalachin meeting, had been pursuing the mob aggressively. Doesn't that torpedo Summers= theory? No, Summers told me, by that time it didn't matter to Hoover. But, of course, if there were such photos, they would have been just as embarrassing in the 1950s and 1960s as in earlier years. Summers pointed out that he wrote a lengthy rebuttal to Esquire, and he called the Maas article "inaccurate and abhorrent."

Despite the clear implication in the book that her story was true and the declaration on the book's jacket that the Mafia knew that Hoover was a "closet homosexual and transvestite" and held that over his head, Summers told me that he merely reported what Rosenstiel said, along with what others claimed. He said he holds "no firm view one way or the other" as to whether she told the truth.[5]

While there was always speculation about Hoover and Tolson, there were never any rumors about Hoover cross-dressing. Oliver "Buck" Revell, a former associate director of the FBI, noted that if the Mafia had had anything on Hoover, it would have been picked up in wiretaps mounted against organized crime after Appalachin. There was never a hint of such a claim, Revell said.

Hoover was more familiar to Americans than most presidents. The director of the FBI simply could not have engaged in such activity at the Plaza, with a number of witnesses present, without having it leak out. The cross-dressing allegations were as credible as McCarthy's claim that there were 205 known Communists in the State Department, yet the press widely circulated the claim without further investigation. That Hoover was a cross-dresser is now largely presumed to be fact even by sophisticated people.

(Click here to see a cartoon by Pat Oliphant depicting Hoover in a dress.)

---

​

1. Summers, Anthony, Official and Confidential, page 254. [back]
2. Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 27, 1993, page A14. [back]
3. Hundley, William G., July 24, 2001, Robert Morgenthau, January 2, 2002. [back]
4. Rosenstiel, Susan, December 23, 2001. [back]
5. Summers, Anthony, December 24, 2001 and January 2, 2002 and email of January 4, 2002. [back]

Did J. Edgar Hoover Really Wear Dresses? | History News Network

 

[Calypso Jones]

Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong

Ty Cobb was one of the greatest baseball players of all time and king of the so-called Deadball Era. But for all that, most Americans think of him first as an awful person.

imprimis.hillsdale.edu

The lies put out by the same people that want to convince us that celebrating Bastille day is good and July 4th is bad.

I wish all the happenings of bastille day against the people guarding the bastille to be visited upon the left who are using the same tactics as the instigators and the mob who were manipulated and emboldened to attack.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong

Ty Cobb was one of the greatest baseball players of all time and king of the so-called Deadball Era. But for all that, most Americans think of him first as an awful person.

imprimis.hillsdale.edu

The lies put out by the same people that want to convince us that celebrating Bastille day is good and July 4th is bad.

I wish all the happenings of bastille day against the people guarding the bastille to be visited upon the left who are using the same tactics as the instigators and the mob who were manipulated and emboldened to attack.

Excellent.


As soon as I get time, I'm gonna post a thread about the French Revolution, and how it led to the the Bolsheviks, Nazis, Maoists and Democrats.

 

[Rye Catcher]

July 18 1896
1896 — James Foulis wins the U.S. Men's Open golf championship at Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, N.Y. 1927 — Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics doubles off the glove of Harry Heilmann for his 4,000th hit.4 hours ago
This Date in Sports, July 18: Ty Cobb records his 4000th hit.
https://www.times-news.com › sports › this-date-in-sports-
https://www.times-news.com/sports/this-date-in-sports-july-18-ty-cobb-records-his-4-000th-hit/article_e9c067f4-1669-5a1c-8318-fcd9af34aa72.html#:~:text=1896 — James Foulis wins the,for his 4,000th hit.
https://www.times-news.com/sports/this-date-in-sports-july-18-ty-cobb-records-his-4-000th-hit/article_e9c067f4-1669-5a1c-8318-fcd9af34aa72.html#:~:text=1896 — James Foulis wins the,for his 4,000th hit.




But.....because of how dire the Democrats need the black vote, they authored the myth that Ty Cobb was a racist.

"Cobb's racism was inexcusable, even for his time. "

Really?

Now, that particular slander that seems to appeal to Liberal sensibilities.....

What about race? It is “common knowledge” that Cobb was “an avowed racist”—but when and where did he make such a vow and where is it recorded? A 1984 biography of Cobb, written by a [Ohio University history] college professor named Charles Alexander, is typical. It describes three people who fought with Cobb—a night watchman, a bellhop, and a butcher—as being black.

Such evidence was enough for documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose made-for-PBS series Baseball described Cobb as an embarrassment to the game because ofhis racism and cast Cobb as the anti-Jackie Robinson.

But Burns, like so many others, was letting himself be misled by the oft-repeated myth.




[Better get your apology ready......]

Looking into census reports, birth certificates, and contemporary newspaper accounts, I found that all three of the black fighters cited by Charles Alexander were in fact white. "

[But..but.....Ohio College History Professor Charles Alexander, claimed they were black??? The same professor who wrote a book on the KKK...from a Liberal college....hmmm.]


When I asked Alexander about this, he simply replied, “I went with the best information I had at the time.”
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong


But what about Cobb’s 19th-century Southern roots? How could someone born in Georgia in 1886notbe a racist? What I found—and again, not because I am the Babe Ruth of researchers, but because I actually did some research—is that Ty Cobb was descended from a long line of abolitionists. His great-grandfather was a minister who preached against slavery and was run out of town for it. His grandfather refused to fight in the Confederate army because of the slavery issue. And his father was an educator and state senator who spoke up for his black constituents and is known to have once broken up a lynch mob.

Cobb himself was never asked about segregation until 1952, when the Texas League was integrating, andSporting Newsasked him what he thought. “The Negro should be accepted wholeheartedly, and not grudgingly,” he said. “The Negro has the right to play professional baseball and whose [sic] to say he has not?”

By that time he had attended many Negro league games, sometimes throwing out the first ball and often sitting in the dugout with the players. He is quoted as saying that Willie Mays was the only modern-day player he’d pay to see and that Roy Campanella was the ballplayer that reminded him most of himself." Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong


Wow!




Ty Cobb.....the only man slandered more than Trump.
https://www.times-news.com/sports/this-date-in-sports-july-18-ty-cobb-records-his-4-000th-hit/article_e9c067f4-1669-5a1c-8318-fcd9af34aa72.html#:~:text=1896 — James Foulis wins the,for his 4,000th hit.

OP: "Democrats Slander Anybody For Their Benefit"

Response to OP: You've proved to be the biggest hypocrite ever.

 

[PoliticalChic]

OP: "Democrats Slander Anybody For Their Benefit"

Response to OP: You've proved to be the biggest hypocrite ever.

See what I mean?


This sort can never back up what they claim......

Democrats lie about everything.




Who'd you vote for????

 

[Rye Catcher]

See what I mean?


This sort can never back up what they claim......

Democrats lie about everything.




Who'd you vote for????

Statement: "Democrats lie about everything."

Response: Do you really believe this foolish comment? It seems you've been brainwashed for some reason, maybe you dated a liberal who deserted you (of course that's probably what happens to someone like you - icky).

 

[TNHarley]

OP: "Democrats Slander Anybody For Their Benefit"

Response to OP: You've proved to be the biggest hypocrite ever.

IDIOT-GRAM: lacks substance, not thoughtful or thought provoking.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

July 18 1896
1896 — James Foulis wins the U.S. Men's Open golf championship at Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, N.Y. 1927 — Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics doubles off the glove of Harry Heilmann for his 4,000th hit.4 hours ago
This Date in Sports, July 18: Ty Cobb records his 4000th hit.
https://www.times-news.com › sports › this-date-in-sports-
https://www.times-news.com/sports/this-date-in-sports-july-18-ty-cobb-records-his-4-000th-hit/article_e9c067f4-1669-5a1c-8318-fcd9af34aa72.html#:~:text=1896 — James Foulis wins the,for his 4,000th hit.
https://www.times-news.com/sports/this-date-in-sports-july-18-ty-cobb-records-his-4-000th-hit/article_e9c067f4-1669-5a1c-8318-fcd9af34aa72.html#:~:text=1896 — James Foulis wins the,for his 4,000th hit.




But.....because of how dire the Democrats need the black vote, they authored the myth that Ty Cobb was a racist.

"Cobb's racism was inexcusable, even for his time. "

Really?

Now, that particular slander that seems to appeal to Liberal sensibilities.....

What about race? It is “common knowledge” that Cobb was “an avowed racist”—but when and where did he make such a vow and where is it recorded? A 1984 biography of Cobb, written by a [Ohio University history] college professor named Charles Alexander, is typical. It describes three people who fought with Cobb—a night watchman, a bellhop, and a butcher—as being black.

Such evidence was enough for documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose made-for-PBS series Baseball described Cobb as an embarrassment to the game because ofhis racism and cast Cobb as the anti-Jackie Robinson.

But Burns, like so many others, was letting himself be misled by the oft-repeated myth.




[Better get your apology ready......]

Looking into census reports, birth certificates, and contemporary newspaper accounts, I found that all three of the black fighters cited by Charles Alexander were in fact white. "

[But..but.....Ohio College History Professor Charles Alexander, claimed they were black??? The same professor who wrote a book on the KKK...from a Liberal college....hmmm.]


When I asked Alexander about this, he simply replied, “I went with the best information I had at the time.”
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong


But what about Cobb’s 19th-century Southern roots? How could someone born in Georgia in 1886notbe a racist? What I found—and again, not because I am the Babe Ruth of researchers, but because I actually did some research—is that Ty Cobb was descended from a long line of abolitionists. His great-grandfather was a minister who preached against slavery and was run out of town for it. His grandfather refused to fight in the Confederate army because of the slavery issue. And his father was an educator and state senator who spoke up for his black constituents and is known to have once broken up a lynch mob.

Cobb himself was never asked about segregation until 1952, when the Texas League was integrating, andSporting Newsasked him what he thought. “The Negro should be accepted wholeheartedly, and not grudgingly,” he said. “The Negro has the right to play professional baseball and whose [sic] to say he has not?”

By that time he had attended many Negro league games, sometimes throwing out the first ball and often sitting in the dugout with the players. He is quoted as saying that Willie Mays was the only modern-day player he’d pay to see and that Roy Campanella was the ballplayer that reminded him most of himself." Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong


Wow!




Ty Cobb.....the only man slandered more than Trump.
https://www.times-news.com/sports/this-date-in-sports-july-18-ty-cobb-records-his-4-000th-hit/article_e9c067f4-1669-5a1c-8318-fcd9af34aa72.html#:~:text=1896 — James Foulis wins the,for his 4,000th hit.

FDR, Woodrow Wilson and LBJ were the biggest racists

 

[CrusaderFrank]

OP: "Democrats Slander Anybody For Their Benefit"

Response to OP: You've proved to be the biggest hypocrite ever.

Fly away

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Left/Democrats have informational dominance....and they lie about everything.


Here's another to research....J Edgar Hoover was gay and caught wearing a dress.


Not true and never happened.

Did J. Edgar Hoover Really Wear Dresses?​

By Ronald Kessler​

Mr. Kessler is the author of a new book on the FBI, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, available from Amazon.com.

In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, claimed that Hoover did not pursue organized crime because the Mafia had blackmail material on him. In support of that, Summers quoted Susan L. Rosenstiel, a former wife of Lewis S. Rosenstiel, chairman of Schenley Industries Inc., as saying that in 1958, she was at a party at the Plaza Hotel where Hoover engaged in cross-dressing in front of her then-husband and Roy Cohn, former counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy.

"He [Hoover] was wearing a fluffy black dress, very fluffy, with flounces and lace stockings and high heels, and a black curly wig," Summers quoted Susan as saying. "He had makeup on and false eyelashes."[1]

Susan claimed Cohn introduced Hoover to her as "Mary." Hoover allegedly responded, "Good evening." She said she saw Hoover go into a bedroom and take off his skirt. There, "young blond boys" worked on him in bed. Later, as Hoover and Cohn watched, Lewis Rosenstiel had sex with the young boys.

A year later, Susan claimed, she again saw Hoover at the Plaza. This time, the director was wearing a red dress. Around his neck was a black feather boa. He was holding a Bible, and he asked one of the blond boys to read a passage as another boy played with him.

It was episodes such as these, Summers declared, that the Mafia held over Hoover's head. "Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover's sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay," the jacket of the book says. "Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold on America."

Rosenstiel, a former bootlegger during Prohibition, was well-acquainted with Mafia figures such as Frank Costello, originally Francesco Castiglia. He was also friends with Hoover, having endowed the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation in 1965 with $1 million. But Susan was Summers's primary source for the cross-dressing story, and she was not exactly a credible witness. In fact, she served time at Riker's Island for perjuring herself in a 1971 case.

Convinced that Hoover had somehow stacked the cards against her during the divorce proceedings, Susan had long tried to interest anyone who would listen that Hoover was a cross-dresser. Susan had taken her allegations to Robert M. Morgenthau, the U.S. Attorney in New York, who himself had no use for Hoover.

"She used to call me after 5:30 p.m. when my secretary had left, so I wound up having to listen to her," Morgenthau said. He said he found her claims baseless. But Morgenthau shared her allegations with William Hundley, who had a Justice Department attorney look into them.[2]

"Susie Rosenstiel had a total ax to grind," Hundley said. "Somebody who worked for me talked to her. It was made up out of whole cloth. She hated Hoover for some alleged wrong he had done. Plus the story was beyond belief. I told Summers this. Then he goes ahead and uses it."[3]

Now seventy-seven and living in a single room in a Manhattan hotel where rooms rent for $98.85 a night, Rosenstiel said Summers paid her for the interviews she gave him, and she wanted to be paid for an interview for this book. Like most journalists and news organizations, I believe paying for information calls into question its credibility. When I told Rosenstiel this and suggested she could generate publicity for herself by telling the truth and admitting she made up the cross-dressing story, she said, "It did happen."[4]

Summers said that after Rosenstiel told her the cross-dressing story, she told him that she intended to give the story to another journalist. Summers said he paid her a fee to hold the story until his book came out. The producer of a documentary made for Frontline and the BBC also paid Rosenstiel for her appearance with Summers, he said.

In an Esquire piece, Peter Maas, a world class journalist who died in 2001, pointed out that Summers's rendition of events has a fatal flaw: After the alleged incident at the Plaza, Hoover assigned agents to investigate Lansky, who supposedly had the goods on him. When the Miami Field Office complained that the investigation of Lansky was not producing enough information to justify the manpower, Hoover wrote back, "Lansky has been designated for 'crash' investigation. The importance of this case cannot be overemphasized . . . The bureau expects this investigation to be vigorous and detailed."

Still presumably cowering because Lansky had incriminating photos of him, Hoover followed up with an order to install bugs in Lansky's apartment. Having been ordered by Robert Kennedy to attack the Mafia as the FBI had attacked Communism, Hoover wrote in the January 1962 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, "The battle is joined. We have taken up the gauntlet flung down by organized crime. Let us unite in a devastating assault to annihilate this mortal enemy." Yet even before Kennedy took over, Hoover, stung by the disclosure of the 1957 Appalachin meeting, had been pursuing the mob aggressively. Doesn't that torpedo Summers= theory? No, Summers told me, by that time it didn't matter to Hoover. But, of course, if there were such photos, they would have been just as embarrassing in the 1950s and 1960s as in earlier years. Summers pointed out that he wrote a lengthy rebuttal to Esquire, and he called the Maas article "inaccurate and abhorrent."

Despite the clear implication in the book that her story was true and the declaration on the book's jacket that the Mafia knew that Hoover was a "closet homosexual and transvestite" and held that over his head, Summers told me that he merely reported what Rosenstiel said, along with what others claimed. He said he holds "no firm view one way or the other" as to whether she told the truth.[5]

While there was always speculation about Hoover and Tolson, there were never any rumors about Hoover cross-dressing. Oliver "Buck" Revell, a former associate director of the FBI, noted that if the Mafia had had anything on Hoover, it would have been picked up in wiretaps mounted against organized crime after Appalachin. There was never a hint of such a claim, Revell said.

Hoover was more familiar to Americans than most presidents. The director of the FBI simply could not have engaged in such activity at the Plaza, with a number of witnesses present, without having it leak out. The cross-dressing allegations were as credible as McCarthy's claim that there were 205 known Communists in the State Department, yet the press widely circulated the claim without further investigation. That Hoover was a cross-dresser is now largely presumed to be fact even by sophisticated people.

(Click here to see a cartoon by Pat Oliphant depicting Hoover in a dress.)

​

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​

1. Summers, Anthony, Official and Confidential, page 254. [back]
2. Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 27, 1993, page A14. [back]
3. Hundley, William G., July 24, 2001, Robert Morgenthau, January 2, 2002. [back]
4. Rosenstiel, Susan, December 23, 2001. [back]
5. Summers, Anthony, December 24, 2001 and January 2, 2002 and email of January 4, 2002. [back]

Did J. Edgar Hoover Really Wear Dresses? | History News Network

Yet Progressive Icon FDR would not shake hands with Jesses Owens, because he was black

 

[PoliticalChic]

Statement: "Democrats lie about everything."

Response: Do you really believe this foolish comment? It seems you've been brainwashed for some reason, maybe you dated a liberal who deserted you (of course that's probably what happens to someone like you - icky).

Let's use you to prove Democrats mlie about everything.



Did you claim I am a "hypocrite"?????


The, when challenged, you simply waddled away.


That's because Democrats lie about everything.






Did you vote for this liar???
1. Obama told illegal aliens to go and vote, saying "When you vote, you're a citizen yourself."



2. After promising that Iran would never get nuclear weapons, Obama guaranteed them nukes.

October 7 2008, in the second presidential debate: "We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. It would be a game-changer in the region. Not only would it threaten Israel, our strongest ally in the region and one of our strongest allies in the world, but it would also create a possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. And so it's unacceptable. And I will do everything that's required to prevent it. And we will never take military options off the table"







The first is an attack on America, the second, on all of Western Civilization.

 

[PoliticalChic]

FDR, Woodrow Wilson and LBJ were the biggest racists

Really tough to find the "biggest" in the party of bullwhips and lynchings.

 

[Calypso Jones]

As soon as I get time, I'm gonna post a thread about the French Revolution, and how it led to the the Bolsheviks, Nazis, Maoists and Democrats.

Great. Looking forward to it. I have a few things to say about it myself comparing its promoters tactics to democrat tactics today.

 

[Yarddog]

Statement: "Democrats lie about everything."

Response: Do you really believe this foolish comment? It seems you've been brainwashed for some reason, maybe you dated a liberal who deserted you (of course that's probably what happens to someone like you - icky).

I think you may have a valid point there. Lets edit the comment to "Democrats lie about Almost Everything"

it's what happens when the ends always justifies the means

 

[Calypso Jones]

what is/are the thing(s) not lied about?