White House Plumbers Is a Hilarious Take on the Watergate Break-In posted on Jul 14 2023 17:47:21 UTC via jacobin.com
White House Plumbers Is a Hilarious Take on the Watergate Break-In posted on Jul 14 2023 17:47:21 UTC via jacobin.com I’m thrilled to report how much I liked the premiere episode of the new five-part HBO miniseries White House Plumbers. It’s a raucously funny satirical comedy about the way right-wing loons E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux) failed upward through the early 1970s to their ultimate peak of insane incompetence, bungling the Watergate break-in in their idiotic attempts to preserve Richard Nixon’s presidency. Episode One covers Hunt’s destroyed CIA career after his disastrous leadership in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, which he blames on “that pussy JFK.” He’s soon given another chance when he’s teamed with ex-FBI nutter Liddy to find a way to take down Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers leaker. They’re given this assignment by Egil ”Bud” Krogh (Richard Sommer), a special advisor to Nixon whose 2007 book, Integrity: Good People, Bad Ch