Posted on 04/10/2012 5:12:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
I see: so while Nixon is fighting a full-up war 10,000 miles away, an all-consuming Cold War at its height and simultaneously dealing with a very large and pervasive campaign by the Left's home support of the enemy camouflaged as a "peace" movement with full support of the media - he's "paranoid" ?
I'd say he had his hands full with actual enemies, not invented ones.
Second, don't you think the press treated Republicans differently even before Watergate? However, never before did they succeed in bringing down a president.
The success with Nixon, left the press hungry for a repeat performance(which naturally means a Republican-Nixon was a Republican after all).
Do you really think the press has improved since Watergate? “gotcha” is the name of the game more than ever since Watergate. All those wannabe Woodwards and Bersteins.LOL I never said that they would go after Democrats.
Second, don't you think the press treated Republicans differently even before Watergate? However, never before did they succeed in bringing down a president.
The success with Nixon, left the press hungry for a repeat performance(which naturally means a Republican-Nixon was a Republican after all).
Do you really think the press has improved since Watergate? “gotcha” is the name of the game more than ever since Watergate. All those wannabe Woodwards and Bersteins.LOL I never said that they would go after Democrats.
Mark Felt was a snake. He used the Post to destroy his rivals and advance his ambitions, and the Post didn’t care what his motives were because Felt was assisting them in destroying their old enemy.”
I was going to write something like this, but Pat said it perfectly and truthfully.
Not at all, but I also thing they have become MUCH more partisan. I remember the press actually going after Johnson, and they even gave the idiot peanut farmer some well deserved grief.
But since they went all in with clintoon, they have been ABSOLUTELY one sided. And I don't see even the slightest indication that they will change anytime soon. Even with the popularity of Fox news, the lamestream media is COMPLETELY in the tank for democraps, no matter what they do. And they are out to get every conservative - no matter what they do!
His paranoia was that he had that election so in the bag there was no good reason for the shenanigans to go on that resulted in his pending impeachment.
He beat McGovern like a rented mule.
These will thrust themselves into your Government and be your rulers. -And these too will be mistaken in the expected happiness of their situation: For their vanquished competitors of the same spirit, and from the same motives will perpetually be endeavouring to distress their administration, thwart their measures, and render them odious to the people. Benjamen Franklin June 2nd 1787
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Sounds exactly like most of CongressCritters and the Obama Administration to me, and I do find them to be pretty odious.
Conspiracy?
Obozo serves the father-of-lies.
Mark Felt - a sociopathic snake... at best.
Just the point I was making. Wategate was a pivot point of sorts, and increased the practice of gotcha journalism getting worse and worse, and more and more partisan.
I have come to believe the press has rarely been “doing it’s job”. Historically, the press pushed the opinions and aims of it’s owners/controllers/editors, which were in some cases one and the same person. We long for the truth, but perhaps we are looking to the wrong people and in the wrong place. Not to say I know where to look, but I sure know where not to look...like the New York Times, CBSNBCABCCNN for instance.
Leaking details of an ongoing investigation was as least as bad as Nixon’s role in the Watergate coverup. The fact that Woodward and Bernstein either failed to recognize this, or did recognize it, but exploited it for their own ambition speaks volumes about their integrity,
W. Mark Felt, Deep Throat
Watergate and Deep Throat - Shattering the Myths If in a hurry; start at bottom and read up. . . Phil Brennan Monday, June 6, 2005 link
Jack Anderson had a spy in a closet listening in on the payoffs Dean made to the Cubans (a separate but related case).
Strange sidelight ~ I was sitting there at the nearby dining area in a Drug Fair on Pennsylvania Avenue eating a breaded pork tenderloin sandwich. I usually read a newspaper while eating, and that day there was an article on John Dean and some of his shenanigans. I immediately recognized him from his picture in the paper as this guy I kept running into recently at my apartment building in Arlington ~ where they housed the Cuban Defendants.
Ever since whenever I eat a breaded pork tenderloin sandwich I see John Dean flash before my eyes.
Sad but true, but I got even. An old highschool buddy of mine was Dean's roommate in prison.
According to my sources at the time - a senior FBI officer on the morning after the discovery of the second break in - it was an FBI op coordinated by John Dean. Nixon didn't know anything about it.
Could be that everything to date has been just laying out the plot and introducing the characters.
My guess is we haven't met the "Woodward and Bernstein" characters yet or that plot twist hasn't been revealed.
Quite a page turner so far! Just thinking about it keeps me up late, unable to sleep.
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