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Woodward and Bernstein share first Washington Post byline in 36 years
Yahoo! News ^ | June 10, 2012 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 06/10/2012 6:31:12 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, arguably the two most famous newspaper reporters in American history, did something on Sunday they haven't done in 36 years: They shared a byline in the Washington Post.

Woodward and Bernstein, who are on a mini-publicity tour surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-ins, published a joint opinion essay for the Post's Outlook section about what they've learned since first reporting on the scandal: President Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign in the wake of Watergate, was "far worse than we thought."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: bernstein; dnctalkingpoints; gaypridemonth; loversspat; nixon; pravdamedia; woodward
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To: Jedidah
If the Obama administration were doing the same things Nixon did (and they probably are, or worse), FReepers would be demanding their hides.

He is and you are comparing an actual current president running for reelection to one back in history.

Forty years of pretending that Watergate is breaking news and that Nixon is the most evil president in American history and using it to run cover for Carter, Clinton, and Obama, is enough.

41 posted on 06/10/2012 8:27:34 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: Baynative

You are free to your opinion. But Felt’s lawyer confirmed it and so did Woodward and Bernstein.


42 posted on 06/10/2012 8:35:18 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: FortWorthPatriot; All
distract..
more distractions..
and still more distractions..

43 posted on 06/10/2012 8:37:51 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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To: ansel12

Silly.

It’s history, and you’d do well to learn from it. Our society is woefully ignorant of it, and I’m not just talking about Watergate.

Sadly, history tends to repeat itself. We don’t absorb its lessons. As wise Solomon said, “What has been will be again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

Looking at the malfeasance in today’s White House, seems remembering Watergate is entirely appropriate.


44 posted on 06/10/2012 8:45:41 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: FortWorthPatriot
So is this some kind of cover for the recent revelations that Ben Bradlee having doubts about the methods used by Woodward & Bernstein?

Something about getting info from a Grand Jury member when that is plainly illegal?

45 posted on 06/10/2012 9:09:26 PM PDT by what's up
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To: FortWorthPatriot

As God is my witness, I thought Carl Bernstein was dead!


46 posted on 06/10/2012 9:10:22 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jedidah

Silly.

I lived through the history, I don’t want to see it treated as breaking news and America’s only Presidential scandal during every election cycle of my life.

You really shouldn’t depend on the Washington Post for your “history”.


47 posted on 06/10/2012 9:13:12 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12

Nobody is treating the Post article as “breaking news” except perhaps the FReeper who posted it. Did you go to the link and read the full article? It’s just a retrospective with material added from declassified Oval Office transcripts.

I lived through Watergate, too. An oldster now, I watched it unfold for two years as a young adult — naive, patriotic, and fascinated by politics. Shameful days then, like shameful things happening now.

It’s not good to forget, and it’s not good when we look only at our lifetimes for knowledge. There are lessons to be learned from the empires and failures of the past, both centuries ago and just 40 years ago.

Hoping for another purge this year.


48 posted on 06/10/2012 9:33:06 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Jedidah

Who can forget, we are drenched in the story over and over and over.

If you have a bad memory then keep reading the breaking news stories and “retrospectives”, I have been sick of it for decades.

Once in the long distant past it was news but now it is just another constant news loop of the left used mostly during election years.

It is what they use to smear republicans and to keep from having to report on democrat administrations and the Reagan years and bringing down the soviet Union and so on.


49 posted on 06/10/2012 9:47:50 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: FortWorthPatriot

If they really wanted to do some JOURNALISM they would rank the corruption in JFK’s, LBJ’s, Nixon’s, Clinton’s, and Obama’s administrations before they even bothered bringing Reagan and Bush/Bush into the discussion.


50 posted on 06/10/2012 9:49:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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To: ansel12

I feel that way every time a scandal has “-gate” attached to the name.


51 posted on 06/10/2012 9:50:14 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Good to see that these two could set their differences aside this Gay Pride holiday season.


52 posted on 06/10/2012 9:58:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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To: aposiopetic

Nixon wasn’t the only one to have made recordings. KENNEDY installed the system (and he taped MLK’s phone calls).

LBJ had tapes that documented corruption within his reign (he permitted a bank merger in Texas in exchange for a signed letter from the Houston Chronicle that they would not print stories in opposition to his policies).

Those tapes were not released for DECADES after the Nixon tapes. Some of the Kennedy tapes are still suppressed if I recall (or “are unplayable now”).


53 posted on 06/10/2012 10:02:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego; Revolting cat!
The presstitutes ignored the 40th anniversary of the Pentagon bombing by Bill Ayers and his Communist terrorist pals in the Weather Underground on May 19.

Selective revisionist history. Courtesy of the commie sympathizers in the Pravda Media.

Commies suck. So do prissy journalists who believe they are still relevant.

54 posted on 06/10/2012 10:06:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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To: Vigilanteman

The man they claimed was Deep Throat is the same bureaucrat who blew the legal case against Bill Ayers’ Pentagon bombing prosecution.

Screw them all. History needs to know he was a turd.


55 posted on 06/10/2012 10:09:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Alternate title: “Woodward and Bernstein: The Search For More Money.”


56 posted on 06/10/2012 10:26:10 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Excellent point. Those things tend to happen when you are more concerned about climbing the government ladder than accomplishing day-to-day results.

But you insult turds!

57 posted on 06/11/2012 10:57:09 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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