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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

TIL Bill Cosby, Gene Hackman, Eartha Kitt, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, and Barbra Streisand were some of the names on Nixon's "Enemies List"

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TIL Bill Cosby, Gene Hackman, Eartha Kitt, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, and Barbra Streisand were some of the names on Nixon's "Enemies List"

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Master list of Nixon's political opponents - Wikipedia
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  • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Hey… This is Moe Szyslak’s enemies list! They just deleted his name and put Nixon’s!

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      And they took Barney’s name off!

      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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        That’s it, Nixon’s going on the list!

    • roofuskit@lemmy.world
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      Possibly the origin of that joke.

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    Eartha Kitt was on his list?! WTF did she do? I skimmed through her Wikipedia page, and the only thing I could see was that she was an activist in helping underprivileged inner city kids, and she called out politicians for not doing more to help them as part of that work.

    Was Fred Rogers also on Nixon’s list?

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      Eartha once called out Lady Bird Johnson and nearly lost her career.

      https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/16/eartha-kitt-and-lady-bird-johnson-vietnam/321602002/

      • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world
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        Fantastic share and a very interesting read. Lady Bird feels like the 60s version of Nancy Reagan. I need to read more about it. Thanks!

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          I don’t know the specifics of why Nixon thought Eartha Kitt was an 'enemy.

          Nixon got his start as a Congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee. He was doing the same thing as McCarthy was doing in the Senate, and as a California boy he was tuned into Hollywood.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      https://youtu.be/SS02GeKuWQ4

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    Nixon was a paranoid weirdo.

    • NaoPb@eviltoast.org
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      Definitely.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    Barbra Streisand is on my enemy list too.

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      But not Cosby?

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        Both Bill and Bing, actually.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          Ah yes, Bing Cosby. The search engine that rapes you.

          • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world
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            Now that is one hell of a product tagline

            • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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              My favorite is

              Eat Wendys and poop like a regular man.

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            As a person with very niche interests I have to say that I’d be okay with that.

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    Bill Cosby should be on everyone’s enemy list

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      Not back then though.

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        Not back then when he was raping people but it was a secret?

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          Well yeah, kinda. Unless you think Nixon knew about that.

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          Yes, it was a secret. He was considered America’s Dad back then. Everyone thought he was wholesome, and funny, and the best kind of dude. That’s why the revelation was so shocking.

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        Yes back then everyone SHOULD have had Bill Cosby on their enemy list! Yes his reputation was better but he still was a rapists back then.

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          Nobody knew that though. He was considered America’s Dad, and the revelation of his raping was very shocking.

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    It’s probably because of that one time Nixon had Cosby over for a sleepover.

    We’ll… it wasn’t planned as a sleepover…

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    I once had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom. What? It came up organically.

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    Tony Randall, who played the prissy Felix Ungar on TV’s ‘The Odd Couple’ also made the list,

    He said it was his proudest achievement

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    Well, he wasn’t all wrong.

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      Yeah but even a blind squirrel finds a nut

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        1 for 6

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    HACK MAN!

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