He did dirty tricks including this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone As a student at Washington and Lee University in 1972, he invited Jeb Magruder to speak at a Young Republicans Club, then hit up Magruder for a job, which was successful. Stone's career as a dirty trickster began with activities such as contributing money to a possible rival of Nixon in the name of the Young Socialists Alliance — then slipping the receipt to the Manchester Union-Leader. He also got a spy hired by the Hubert Humphrey campaign who became Humphrey's driver. By day, Stone was officially a scheduler in the Nixon campaign. "By night, I'm trafficking in the black arts. Nixon's people were obsessed with intelligence."<2>
After Nixon won the 1972 presidential election, Stone worked for the administration in the Office of Economic Opportunity. After Nixon resigned, Stone went to work for Bob Dole, then was fired after columnist Jack Anderson publicly identified Stone as a Nixon dirty trickster. In 1976 he worked in Ronald Reagan's campaign for president, and in 1977 became national chairman of the Young Republicans.<2>
I included him in my recent journal about "The Right Wing Media v. Obama" because the MSM has been quoting Roger Stone without mentioning that he is an ex-CREEPster.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14678.html But why, then, quote Roger Stone?
Josh Marshall notes:
The AP’s Nedra Pickler asks disgraced Republican dirty-trickster Roger Stone for his opinion. Stone you’ll remember is the guy who got caught making threatening phone calls to New York Gov. Spitzer’s (D-NY) elderly father and last month set up an anti-Hillary group with the acronym C-U-N-T.
Surprisingly enough, Stone thinks the answer is yes.
Of course he does. You may not know Roger Stone, but I’m sure you know his work. He is a right-wing hatchet-man extraordinaire, brazenly cynical, and free of any sense of decency or honor in a political career that began as Nixon’s “youngest Watergate dirty trickster.” Various reporters have referred to him as “a state of the art sleaze-ball,” “an extreme rightwing sleazeball,” and the “boastful black prince of Republican sleaze.” (You might notice the common thread among the decriptions.)
Stone has, to one extent or another, dabbled in at least eight presidential campaigns, including Reagan’s, Bush’s, Dole’s, and Bush’s, including helping lead street protests in Florida against a recount in 2000.
As for his new endeavor — “Citizens United Not Timid” — Stone has conceded that he picked the name only after failing to “come up with words for B.I.T.C.H.”
Why would the AP consider him a qualified, legitimate voice on assessing Obama’s patriotism?
So, he set up Spizter did he? Sounds like he needs his own thread.
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