[Paladin2]

Nixon had no reason to announce that he had a plan that he couldn’t share.

Big political mistake.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Nixon had no reason to announce that he had a plan that he couldn’t share.

Big political mistake.

I blush to think how naive I was back before the Carter Administration. I had to subscribe to Reed Irvine’s Accuracy In Media (AIM) report for a year to really know that journalism was systematically tendentious.

My daughter was stunned when she learned that I used to listen to “News Radio,” since all her sentient life she has known me for someone who treats “the news” as an advertisement for something I wouldn’t buy on a bet. But before I paid attention to the AIM Report, I did just that.

Understand (if you are younger than I) that in the post-WWII era people actually did assume that journalism was objective. Hard to believe, there are still people who think that. Their name is Legion, actually . . .

Why do you think that Democrats get elected so often???

Nixon made some political mistakes, all right. One of them was not running more aggressively in what was then the Solid (Democrat) South in 1960.

And another was thinking he might get a fair shake from the press. He shoulda known better; actually, all his political experience ran to the contrary.