[dhs12345]

“Deja Vu all over again.”

[RoosterRedux]

This affair will make Watergate look like a traffic ticket.

[A message]

This time the media fully endorses a cover up.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

If Nixon had been a democrat, the media would have covered up Watergate for him.

[Vermont Lt]

The Plumbers got caught, so the bugging never happened.

Nixon talked about using the IRS..and that is what got him in trouble. He did not actually do it.

Obama actually eavesdropped on Trumps people.
Obama actually used the IRS to hurt his opposition.

There are some significant differences between the two.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

45 years ago, the media exposed the corruption of a President; in current times, the media is so threatened by the Commander in Chief that they have sunk to the level of concealing corruption and deceiving the American people. If it were not for the President (and conservative news outlets), Obama’s wiretapping operations would mostly likely remain as a secret.

American socialists have been determined to evade the totalitarian implications of socialism. Thus, they call socialism “liberalism.” And thus, they follow longstanding tradition of suppressing - by propagandistic abuse of the very word for it - the very concept of “society:”

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

Journalism is negative (if it bleeds, it leads) towards society, but it promotes the evil (albeit necessary) of government. Journalists consider influence over government to be its birthright, and as such journalists are naive about the possible - nay, inevitable - evil of big government. And journalists are cynical - calling negativity “objective” - toward the “blessing” of society.