Mort Sahl -- The Noncomeding Comedian
- Fred Litwin
- 4 minutes ago
- 2 min read
Hat Tip: Bill Roe.
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Mr. Sahl isn't the last guy who will shore up a sagging career on Mr. Kennedy's bones. Messrs. Lane and Garrison are not the last who will try to make big men out of small men through the same squalid device. Sad.
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There are other press people Sahl takes exception to. "The ones in the press who ridicule the conspiracy theory, the columnists who call Garrison or myself insane -- I think some of them are in the pay of the CIA. I know that sounds paranoid, but I want you to chew on that for a while."
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Sahl talked on the FBI and CIA, pointing out that Garrison was being closely watched, that he, Sahl, had been tailed, and that both their phones were bugged. (Garrison and Sahl are in fairly close communication, and it was Sahl who convinced Hugh Hefner to undertake and publish the recent Playboy interview with Garrison.) Does Sahl fear for his safety in this cloak and dagger atmosphere?
"No. They have other ways of killing you."
Who are "they?"
"Whoever made the original phone call from Washington to Hollywood telling people not to hire me. This way I'm paralyzed. It's more effective than murder. But I've refused to die."
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But if the Garrison thing doesn't come off, we're all going to lose in this sense -- we won't be living in the same country we were born in. If the neo-Nazis here find they've gotten away with the assassination, and that the government will ratify and countersign the lie, and will go along for reasons of their own, and everybody will compromise, and no one will speak up, what will that leave us?"
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