FBI Grumblings Over "J. Edgar"

[William769]

Depictions of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in the film released earlier this month by director Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black are not going over well with former agents at the bureau.

The Washington Post reports that retired FBI agents en masse have taken issue with the film’s rendering of Hoover as gay and thoroughly conniving. Their ire has been aired publicly and discussed privately via a closed e-mail list called xgboys.

“I don’t know anyone who’s not extremely upset,” said Bill Branon, a former agent and chairman of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation. “It’s not only because of our admiration for him. It’s the fact it’s just not true. If it were true, it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. But don’t do that to the poor guy when he’s dead and gone.”

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/11/30/FBI_Grumblings_Over_J_Edgar/

[rfranklin]

1. Handwringing in the Gay Edgar Hoover Building...

Whatever his sexual orientation, the man was a despicable little blackmailer and bully.

[William769]

2. Yes he was & heaven only knows why he took that route in that era.

[roguevalley]

6. boo hoo. poor widdow uber manses having a sad. :)

[kenny blankenship]

3. Was Hoover gay? Only Deep Throat knew for sure

and he's subscribed now to that great email listserv in the sky.

[goddess40]

4. "when he's dead and gone"

If you did it when he was alive you can bet he would retaliate and in a pretty vicious manner.

[Froward69]

NO DOUBT!!!

J Edgar was all about punishing ANYONE who snooped into HIS business.

I am pretty sure he used Bill Of Rights toilet paper...

[progressoid]

5. "the poor guy"?

Oh, give me a fuckin break.

[uriel1972]

7. as everyone knows

when you die you become a 'saint' who never done nothing to nobody :vomit: