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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26

163 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 30, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 160 pages OCR'd
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._/- eee 1 ae de go back and forth and all of a sudden - Brillo; get some Brillo. Yea, clean your teeth and wipe your asa. You wanna get laid, use Brillo, Brillo, Brillo, the best thing ever invented was Brillo. And then you go back to liberals and conservatives. Right? At the end’ of the hour, nobody switched, right? Do you think people changed their position about the war in Vietnam, liberal or conservative? Baloney. But sure as hell, they bought the Brillo. And so you like watch it, the Brillo thing. “Let's forget about that liberal-conservative rap and all that rational. Start with a capital letter M with a period. Prepare it, rehearse it, read it, study it. Let's just watch how they did that Brillo ad. How did they do it? Hippie. What the hell's a hippie. All these people couin' down; sociologists, psychologists, newsmen, in search of the hippie. We were on the David Susskind Show, see, and he brought up the word hippie. We took out this duck and there was a placard around its neck, said hippie. We threw him in the air. There's a hippie, Dave. Talk to him. Quack quack quack quack quack. Susskind get very mad, see, cause he's very verbal, you know, rational guy. Said, you blew it, the duck's off. The duck is off. We're off. Goodbye. So we take the mikes off. He says, oh no. We'll leave the duck in. You know, but that was tape. Never trust a liberal, especially when he's on tape. See. So we watched that show, no duck. No duck. The duck is killed by the liberal Susskind. And we're watchin', all the references to duck anipped out. fF call him up the next day. Hey Dave, he says, yea, I go quack quack quack quack quack. They don't wanna deal with that stuff. You know hippie, that's an interesting word, we said. No, us never call ourselves hippie. Whose a hippie? They invented it. Gh, that's clever. Why don't we do somethin’? Why don't we change) that bh to a y. Join the y. Bring your sneakers. Yippie. Yea, that's good man. That's got alot of class. Yea. Yippie. Well, we need something for the straights. OK, Youth International Party; that sounds really, oh, that's big. That's really heavy. What's a Yippie? f don't know; he's goin! to Chicago. That's good enought They make it up. They make it up. Media made the whole thing up. I got arrested by the cops; they started beltin’ me; I said what are you hittin' me for? Why don’t you get Walter Cronkite? And they did. And then they were beltin' all these reporters. It was out of sight. They belted Hugh Heffner. They belted Hugh Heffner in the back. Wow. They said, ob, pr ree cote rr ar ea PO ESTs ponte ert
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