Gordon Liddy Receives Both Award, Protest

G. Gordon Liddy received his free speech award from fellow talk hosts in a ceremony marked by protest over the decision.

“Shame, shame,” yelled Gloria Allred, a board member of the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts, as Liddy approached the podium Saturday night.

Liddy, a 64-year-old former Watergate burglar now heard on 262 stations nationwide, told the group “you have shown great courage to expose yourself to the kind of criticism you have received to give me this award.”

Liddy has been critical of the 1993 federal raid on the cult compound in Waco, Texas, and once counseled listeners to use “head shots” if agents invaded their homes because “they’ve got a vest underneath.”