Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Dick Cavett Breaks Down Why Trump Got Away With His Crimes When Nixon Couldn’t
thedailybeast ^ | 02/10/2020 | Matt Wilstein

Posted on 02/11/2020 10:33:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Oh my God, I’ve made a bad impression already,” Dick Cavett says apologetically after I ever-so-gently correct his pronunciation of my name. When I suggest that I should be the one worried about interviewing one of the all-time great interviewers, he’s quick to put me at ease.

“You’d better put that aside and out of your mind,” he tells me. “I can’t detect any faults in you so far.

I’ve reached the 83-year-old talk show legend by phone at his home in Connecticut just a few days before the new documentary, Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes, is set to air on HBO. Muhammad Ali made a total of 14 appearances on The Dick Cavett Show between 1968 and 1975, and over that time the the two men developed what Cavett describes as a “bro romance.”

The film, which first premiered at the SXSW film festival nearly two years ago, uses footage of those appearances to tell the story of Ali’s career, with Cavett’s knack for compelling storytelling present throughout. He still gets emotional when recalling the time the boxing icon came on his show after a rare loss and called the host his “main man.”

Over the course of our conversation, Cavett opens up about his relationship with Ali, compares Richard Nixon’s resignation over Watergate to Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal, and weighs in on the late-night TV landscape more than 50 years after his show debuted.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: cavett; chatforum; crimes; nixon; notnews; oldhippies; tds; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last
To: TakebackGOP

I swear, I honestly thought that too. Every once in a while some old geezer who was prominent a gazillion years ago comes out of the woodwork and I think that, gee, if you’d asked me yesterday if that guy was still alive, I say that I didn’t thinks so. This is one of those times.


21 posted on 02/11/2020 10:39:07 AM PST by irishjuggler
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

I watch his re runs at night. Not anymore!


22 posted on 02/11/2020 10:39:07 AM PST by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

What Crimes?? Name one.


23 posted on 02/11/2020 10:39:34 AM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s amazing that they love Watergate so much, they’ll even resort to conjuring one out of thin air when the mood strikes them.


24 posted on 02/11/2020 10:39:51 AM PST by StoneRainbow68
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

There were no crimes, you ignorant Dick.
I though you were dead. Are you back to vote democrat?


25 posted on 02/11/2020 10:40:01 AM PST by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LeonardFMason

Gonna be 52 in May.

Besides the name and I kinda knew he had a talk show, I’ve NEVER seen him or one of his shows.

That purple dinosaur from some years back would have a bigger influence on my vote.


26 posted on 02/11/2020 10:40:21 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: goldstategop

He has suffered from mental illness for many decades. I wouldn’t take his advice.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-04-29-1992120219-story.html


27 posted on 02/11/2020 10:40:24 AM PST by buffyt (~ It is not a CHOICE, it is a CHILD! ~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Shame. He was so good co-hosting with Howard Cosell at the Battle of the PBS Stars.


28 posted on 02/11/2020 10:40:39 AM PST by Rastus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27
83 year old TV talker from the 60s, hasn't been out of his depends for 10 years, is as coherent as biden, and no one under 50 knows who this guy is, or cares.

I know who he is, but I don't care what he thinks or says about anything, even his bromance with Cassius Clay.

29 posted on 02/11/2020 10:41:36 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

So I dove-in and broke the FR cardinal rule about actually reading the article.

It’s a lengthy interview with Cavett in which Trump is barely mentioned in passing. And he does not really trash Trump. Just kind of sidesteps a question coming from the interviewer.

Headline is a deceptive tease intended to draw Lefty Trump Deranged Clickbait.


30 posted on 02/11/2020 10:41:57 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

I am still angry about what they did TO Nixon. I am thankful that Trump stood up to the deep state and is still our president. They wanted Nixon out because the deep state made MONEY on VN war, and Nixon promised to get US out of it. That is why he was run out of town on a rail. JFK did things deep state didn’t like and you know what happened to him.


31 posted on 02/11/2020 10:42:08 AM PST by buffyt (~ It is not a CHOICE, it is a CHILD! ~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Meanwhile Comeystain concluded Hitlery Rotten Clinton didn’t Mean To break all of those laws and destroy so many documents.


32 posted on 02/11/2020 10:42:33 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

He did. The Daily Beast puke just doesn’t know it yet.


33 posted on 02/11/2020 10:42:40 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Kickass Conservative

Exactly. Everyone accepts this as fact, but so few actually elaborate on specifics.


34 posted on 02/11/2020 10:43:26 AM PST by Huskrrrr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

Me too. This Canadian faggot was always a raving Lefty.


35 posted on 02/11/2020 10:44:26 AM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Haven’t these idiots learned by now that we don’t care what celebrities think?

They are all compromised liars who work for the globalists.


36 posted on 02/11/2020 10:44:54 AM PST by bkopto
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

He didn’t die 20 years ago?
Whatever.


37 posted on 02/11/2020 10:45:53 AM PST by TheConservativeParty (MAGA KAG)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

If his name were Alvin he could be ac or dc.


38 posted on 02/11/2020 10:46:53 AM PST by JusPasenThru (KAG 2020.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

So much for presumptions of innocence with liberals

Liberals are the one cops shooting black people


39 posted on 02/11/2020 10:47:16 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Dick Cavett could put an active volcano to sleep.


40 posted on 02/11/2020 10:47:26 AM PST by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson