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Wherever Art is, EVERYONE is laughing.
Posted by: Punkin | June 26, 2008 at 01:25 PM
Anyone who could get Hoover upset is OK in my book. That man had a whole tree up his butt. Art Buchwald was one of our nation's treasures.
Posted by: Steve Haller | June 26, 2008 at 01:27 PM
Great title, great post
Posted by: Merri Lee | June 26, 2008 at 01:30 PM
Art was right on target with his tongue-in-cheek comment about wrecking the country from the inside-out.
*wonders if the devil lets Hoover read Buchwald online*
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 26, 2008 at 01:31 PM
Weingarten's Post chat indicated that a certain individual opens a gate to the Hoover gravesite in the Navy Yard at the Congressional Cemetery and encourages his canine companion to do her business near the memorial.
R20 S117 gets a visitor on a regular basis, apparently. I suspect that Art Buchwald would approve, whether or not he was the one who started the tradition.
Posted by: Not my usual alias | June 26, 2008 at 01:33 PM
"Buchwald’s columns - including one in which he suggested Hoover didn’t exist and was a phantom named after the vacuum cleaner company - apparently rankled the FBI boss."----Classic!
Posted by: Margaritaville | June 26, 2008 at 01:34 PM
SNORK!
Posted by: Cat R | June 26, 2008 at 01:37 PM
Figures. What does some geek that invented the vacuum cleaner know about funny???
*hairflip*
Posted by: Siouxie | June 26, 2008 at 01:43 PM
Buchwald wrote a very funny Broadway play called Sheep On The Runway that sent up the U.S. government unmercifully. I'm surprised that didn't merit a few pages in J. Edgar's dossier.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 26, 2008 at 01:59 PM
I think it merited a few pages in J Edgar's bustier.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 26, 2008 at 02:10 PM
Hoover was just jealous because Buchwald looked better in a strapless evening gown.
Posted by: padraig | June 26, 2008 at 02:37 PM
Hoover was just jealous because Buchwald looked better in a strapless evening gown.
That, or because Buchwald had bigger boobs than Hoover...
Posted by: Elvis Dingeldein | June 26, 2008 at 03:44 PM
Buchwald definitely looked better in an Easter Bunny costume. JEH just scared the kids.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | June 26, 2008 at 04:01 PM
I think Art is writting another column about Hoover right now. Heck he is also probably poking a little fun a Bush as well.
Posted by: Recovering 24 Addict | June 26, 2008 at 05:06 PM
even having one G-man report on a Buchwald interview in Playboy, the columnist’s FBI file reveals.
Maybe...maybe the special agent was just trying to justify why he picked up that particular magazine.
Posted by: oneblankspace | June 26, 2008 at 06:01 PM
Speaks volumes about Hoover that he was truly the only male in America who read Playboy "Just for the articles". Then again, he couldn't exactly get the latest on dress and skirt fashions, given the lack contained therein.
Posted by: MartiniShark | June 26, 2008 at 07:30 PM