Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
So you don't know he published his book in 1996 about the War on Drugs, 2 years after the interview.
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So you don't know he published his book in 1996 about the War on Drugs, 2 years after the interview.
The author did NOT include that juicy quote in his 1996 book because it is fake, and Elrchmann was still alive. It magically appeared in April 2016 when it looked like Donald Trump was going to defeat the repub estab in the primaries.
You're literally the first human being to challenge the authenticity of the quote, dumbass. EVERYONE, including living members of Nixon's administration, do not doubt its authenticity.
Interviews are hearsay. Literally. You're digging yourself into a hole.
So you don't know he published his book in 1996 about the War on Drugs, 2 years after the interview.
His book has nothing to do with the interview for Harper's that he did two years prior.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
It was not an interview FOR Harper. And it was not 2 years prior to the Harper publication.
Just stop lying.The fake quote does not appear in his 1996 book about the War on Drugs. It magically appeared in April 2016.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
OMG, yes it was.
The interview was in 1994. A book was published two years later, in 1996. All of this is made clear in the link you're too afraid to click.
An unsubstantiated, unverified interview is hearsay.
So all interviews are hearsay now? Just know you're shooting your own arguments in the foot by staking this position.
You're just too afraid to come to terms with the fact that every instinct you have and every judgment you make are flawed and ignorant.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
So now the book is suddenly important to you.
What happened to your bullshit about the Harper's article?
The fake quote did NOT appear in his 1996 book. It magically appeared in Harpers 20 years after the book.
Don't doubt me.
This is your weakest attempt at gaslighting yet.
You screeched about the book, then mixed up the dates on when the interview happened (1994) with when a book was published (1996).
You made that fuckup. You brought the book up, but in your sloppy, rushed attempt to do so neglected to mention that book was published two years after the interview happened.
You got mixed up, which is easy to understand because you're desperate and flailing here. You staked out a position that didn't align the facts and now you're scrambling to try and diminish your rhetorical goof. You do that a lot on JPP. It's kinda your thing.
Wait - you mean the interview you said never happened, but now are saying it did? That interview, you mean?
So? I never said it did. What I said was that your racist guy said the shit he said in a 1994 interview.
You brought up the book and tried to conflate the book (from 1996) with the interview (from 1994).
You did that because you don't want to admit your entire argument is a load of horseshit, and you know it.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Nope, I did not mix up anything.
Apparently, you finally realized that the Harper's article was not published until April 2016, ... like I told you 10 times already.
You still have NOT proved your lie that the fake quote appeared in Baum's 1996 book.
OK, but the interview happened in 1994, so what is your point?
You still have NOT proved your lie that the fake quote appeared in Baum's 1996 book.
I never said it did. Go back and look at the thread, idiot.
So your entire argument hinges on the fact that this:
At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
I must have looked shocked. Ehrlichman just shrugged. Then he looked at his watch, handed me a signed copy of his steamy spy novel, The Company, and led me to the door.
Never happened because it didn't appear in the book from 1996? I bet a lot of the interviews done for the book didn't end up in the book either.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Prove the fake quote appeared in Baum's 1996 book, while Erlichmann was still alive, like you claimed.
I never said it appeared in the book, did I?? Never. Not once. Go back and check the thread.
And BTW - I'm sure not every single word from every single interview made it into the book.
Whether or not it was in the book in 1996 changes nothing about the validity of the quote, which you're the only one here denying.
Also, the book was about drug prohibition, not Nixon's 1968 campaign.
And Erlichmann died in 1999, so why wait 17 years to fabricate a quote? Makes no sense.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
The fake quote magically appeared 22 years after the interview during the 16 primaries.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
It was not an interview FOR Harper. And it was not 2 years prior to the Harper publication.