Categorical Aperitif

From the Blinked and Almost Missed It Department: late right-wing radio oldster Paul Harvey was great buds with J. Edgar Hoover—exchanging frequent letters with the FBI Director, taking script suggestions from him, and, um, other things:

Neither man was restrained in his praise of the other. "You were never in better form," Hoover gushed to Harvey about one of his broadcasts in May 1958, and again, in precisely the same words, in February 1959.

Harvey wrote to Hoover in January 1957, saying, "From some future pinnacle, if the Republic has survived, history will record that it was largely due to your vigilance."

In 1963, Harvey dropped by FBI headquarters for a publicity shot with Hoover. Harvey praised the director as "a champion of right-thinking people everywhere," and added that he appeared to be in excellent shape, as well.

Oh, and it turns out that Harvey wasn't above pre-fabricating a story about supposedly wandering onto a laxly secured U.S. nuclear facility. Hmm, making stuff up, mancrushing on authoritarians—he was quite the role model for the talkers of today, huh?

(h/t FAIR)

// posted by nash @ 10:21 AM