Talk:Edwin Meese

message: I'm concerned about the Alterman citations.  I can't find the quote about DOJ corruption, attributed to Weld, anywhere.  Slate Magazine (http://slate.msn.com/id/1827/), no one's idea of a conservative pub, claims that weld's resignation was entirely unconnected to Meese's ethical problems, and accuses him of grandstanding for allowing that impression to persist.  Anyone else able to track anything down to confirm or rebut Alterman's specific allegations?
Innocent76 09:38, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alterman citations 

message: It is high-handed, obnoxious, and utterly inconsistent with Wiki principles to just delete my minor additions about taking men's magazines off the shelves during the Meese Commission hysteria, within a few hours of posting and without even expressing concern.  I am supposed to "edit boldly" and this is what you are directed to do instead of erasing people's text that you'd rather not see:   Mare Nostrum
Meese is now an adjunct fellow  at the Discovery Institute which I think should be included in the article but I'm not sure where.  Certainly not under the Heritage Foundation category.  Should that category be renamed to something like "Fellowships" where any/all of his fellowships could be documented? Mr Christopher 19:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions deleted 

message: Just read on a blog (DailyKos, if it matters) that Meese is now a member of the Iraq Study Group (the group of old political hands who are trying to find a politically acceptable exit strategy for Iraq). Worthy of a mention here? If anyone has more exact information and from a more neutral source, maybe they could update the record? Rousse 09:17, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iraq Study Group? 

message: *On Platypus Comix, there is a comic strip drawn by Ed Meese named "Bears in Love". Can we get that on the article? WizardDuck 03:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bears in Love

message: I've now twice reverted an edit on the Meese commission saying it was criticised "due to their viewing of over 2000 hard core pornographic films". Please don't restore this assertion.
The Meese commission was criticized for its unscientific conclusions and its forgone pro-censorship bias, not because they watched 2000 porno films. The article for Attorney General's Commission on Pornography and my own recollection confirm this. If someone wants to say otherwise, please provide really credible citations. / edgarde 04:59, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meese Commission criticism 

message: This sentence: "One of Meese's innovations was to seek the cooperation of drug-producing companies in seizing the assets of drug traffickers," makes no sense.  Why would Meese need the cooperation of drug-producing companies to seize drug trafficker's assets?  They aren't related.  Sure, seizing trafficker's property was an innovation, but I don't think drug producer cooperation had anything to do with it.  So how did this innovation really come about?  Rklawton (talk) 02:57, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it makes no sense.Rlbarton (talk) 13:51, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I checked the edit history, and the section hasn't been changed since first added.  I've ordered the book, so I'll be able to clarify the statement in a few weeks.  Rklawton (talk) 14:12, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Drug producing companies

message: I've removed a section focusing on Cornerstone investment fund that was recently added to the article, as it seems to be an obvious WP:BLP issue. The section focused on presenting a criticism of Cornerstone, was not supported by the source used and the source does not mention Meese at all. I work for The Heritage Foundation so I would usually make an edit request here, but this edit seems to be a non-controversial edit allowed under the COI guidelines. Thanks, Kalkaska sand (talk) 15:04, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLP issue 

message: For the Federalist Society, the person mentioned first (for starting the organization) is Ed Meese. It should be added here.  FYI, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 02:45, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Federalist Society 

message: The first governor to turn to Meese for advice on riot control was Democrat Edmund (Pat) Brown, who first telephoned Meese seeking advice on how to best handle the situation. "I told him," Meese said, "that the people in that building should be arrested and taken out of there. I told him that if they were allowed to stay, there would be another mob scene, even bigger, the next day."
What is this nonsense? Pat Brown was defeated for re-election by Ronald Reagan in 1966, 2 1/2 years before these events. Why would Brown have anything to do with them? And why would Brown consult Ed Meese on anything? Rontrigger (talk) 07:03, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berkeley riots 

message: Much of this article could have been written by Meese himself. e.g., "Despite his later well-known fondness for Reagan, Meese was initially reluctant to accept the appointment because he thought of himself as non-partisan." -- since when does Wikipedia mind-read? There is never any basis for assertions about peoples' mental states ... aside from the patent absurdity of this particular assertion. And how about what Meese is up to lately? e.g., http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/us/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html -- 70.109.46.5 (talk) 14:37, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not NPOV ... lacking other viewpoints 

message: The late Christopher Hitchens was on CNN's Crossfire with Meesehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f1jslQfHPI.
The clip includes Hitchen's calling Meese a "Liar, a Cheat, and a Thief." The clip fades out with Hitchen's repeating "psychopathic liar" while Meese sputters back red faced.
It seemed to be about the Iran–Contra affair but would be curious to know in detail what it was about and whether Hitchens was correct. Meese was deeply involved with Reagan, so would be nice if his Wikipedia page included any info with details on any involvement with the Iran-Contra affair and supporting Contra terrorists, the October Surprise, McCarthyism, the HUD grant-rigging scandal, supporting apartheidhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_Acthttp://www.salon.com/2011/02/05/ronald_reagan_apartheid_south_africa/, smuggling crack cocaine, the Office of Public Diplomacy, mental health policieshttp://www.povertyinsights.org/2013/10/14/did-reagans-crazy-mental-health-policies-cause-todays-homelessness/, etc. Joel.sbateman (talk) 00:54, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Psychopathic liar" 

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