Posted on 12/30/2017 11:50:16 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
From glancing at the headlines (or even at entertainment news), you could be forgiven for thinking a full-blown Watergate is upon us.
“Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg find parallels to Nixon era,” ran a Dec. 15 headline in The Washington Post. Spielberg has said he made the movie “The Post” because the dawn of the Trump era was exactly the right time for an unabashed prequel to “All the President’s Men” that ends with the Watergate burglary. Hanks added that if President Trump invited him to screen the movie at the White House, he’d decline and be more likely to lead an anti-Trump revolution. “We have to decide when we take to the ramparts,” Hanks said, promoting his new 1971-set film about The WaPo’s and The New York Times’ decision to print classified deliberations about the Vietnam War.
Back then, “The Nixon administration tried to stop the story from being published,” Hanks said. “They took on the First Amendment by saying: ‘You can’t tell that story, and if you do, we’re going to threaten you.’ That is going on, of course, right now.”
Actually, the Nixon administration didn’t just “threaten” the media but via its Justice Department secured an injunction to forbid The Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers. This is not “going on, of course, right now.” What is going on is that, like the flabby 59-year-old who can’t stop telling you how he scored the winning touchdown in high school, liberals can’t stop reliving the Watergate era. To them, Watergate stands for the twin milestones, never approached since, of taking out a Republican president and making heroes out of liberal reporters.
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“...never did forget his role in ferreting out the Communists....”
There’s the reason everything else hangs off that!
I grant you that.
Seems Liberals—like Communists—and queers (and Muslims) are always fixated upon their “success” Watergate” was a successful deposition of a sitting President. Much like the Reprobate have turned the Stonewall Inn Riot into a form of success-by rewriting historic fact.
He scored 4 touchdowns in the championship game...four!
The Clinton and Obama administrations make Nixon’s criminal cohorts look like shoplifters in comparison. Nixon basically said... ‘Who will rid me of these nattering nabobs?’ and his minions then took it upon themselves to do so by nefarious means.
Clinton and Obama who was blackmailed by the Clinton’s directed criminal enterprises, infiltrated federal investigative agencies, directed the IRS to audit enemies, covered up Benghazi, sold access to the highest bidders and took part in so many other criminal activities they are too numerous to mention.
Clinton was impeached and bombed Iraq on the very day the house voted for his impeachment to change the subject... The most blatant and criminal use of power ever carried out by a sitting President.
The hypocrisy of liberals knows no limit. They will accept and justify all forms of criminality as long as the criminal is a Democrat.
The Clinton and Obama administrations make Nixon’s criminal cohorts look like shoplifters in comparison. Nixon basically said... ‘Who will rid me of these nattering nabobs?’ and his minions then took it upon themselves to do so by nefarious means.
Clinton and Obama who was blackmailed by the Clinton’s directed criminal enterprises, infiltrated federal investigative agencies, directed the IRS to audit enemies, covered up Benghazi, sold access to the highest bidders and took part in so many other criminal activities they are too numerous to mention.
Clinton was impeached and bombed Iraq on the very day the house voted for his impeachment to change the subject... The most blatant and criminal use of power ever carried out by a sitting President.
The hypocrisy of liberals knows no limit. They will accept and justify all forms of criminality as long as the criminal is a Democrat.
Most don’t even know what Watergate was really about.
The charge is that White House staff burgled the DNC HQ in search of key data to be used in the campaign.
Nixon bought that lie from John Dean, who really orchestrated the effort to steal data to protect his wife. Time magazine actually laid out a compelling story about how they were in the wrong part of Larry’s office, to be going after the good stuff.
Instead, they were at the secretary’s desk, where the log Dean was after would be held.
Nixon simply got caught up trying to protect his team, whom he believed were acting in his interests.
Nixon probably had it right to begin with.
When you take into account how dogged and how devious he was about things, he probably should have just let it go.
Thanks for the info....and history refresher.
That POS is so fill of himself
What a disgrace this fraud would play any American hero
Watergate is so trivial compared to today’s FBI, weaponized IRS etc.
Oh, yeah. I see a LOT of parallels with Watergate.
Remember it like it was yesterday. Bloodthirsty democrats intoning Nixon’s guilt for something, anything, and the media absolutely lapping it up. No evidence of any crime in the White House except what John Dean, a basket-case if there ever was one, pulled out from his nether regions. Cowardly republicans running scared after having let old man Johnson literally get away with murder.
Yeah, I remember it. How devastated the dems were when they found ABSOLUTELY NO evidence that Nixon had ordered the break-in. The most they could allege was the wussy charge of obstruction of justice. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. And of course, there was the Witch, cheerleading for charges when she would get a pass less than twenty years later, and for twenty more years after that for doing far worse things than were ever alleged against Nixon.
Yeah, I see the parallels. Same faces, voices, tired old arguments and corrupt institutions arguing against Trump that argued against Nixon. Same ones that defended worse behavior from Clinton(s) and Obama. If there was no Fox News, FreeRepublic, Drudge Report, Breitbart, Internet, or Twitter, this current bunch of bureaucratic bozos would have impeached Trump by now. But then, he never would have been elected in the first place if we hadn’t had all those things in place. We’d just have the current reincarnations of the smug, self-righteous, pseudo-intellectual posers like Cronkite, Rather, and their ilk. Twenty-four hours a day on each channel, eight days a week.
The democrats bring up Watergate at their peril. Newsreels of the deep state-supported hypocrisy wouldn’t look so good for them now. I didn’t have much use for Nixon’s policies, but the man got $@#*%*&, plain and simple. They’re not going to get away with it this time.
I saw an unfamiliar school yesterday and thought it was a high school until I saw the playground. Then I realized that with today’s snowflake youth, playgrounds at a high school are probably right around the corner.
You don’t have to limit that to “the three” big newspapers. What the Democrats had - and have - is The Associated Press and all its members. The AP “wire” is a continual virtual meeting of all major journalism outlets.People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. . . and the " conspiracy against the public” which Smith’s analysis predicts is in plain sight - all of major US journalism is cynical about American society. And since it is imposible to be cynical both about one thing and something else which is its opposite, andSOME 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.it follows that a journalism which is cynical about society is a journalism which is naive about government. American journalism uniformly advocates socialism because it is cynical about the alternative.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: . . . were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
American conservatism is skeptical about government and skeptical about society (else it would advocte the abolition of government).
“This may well backfire.”
I believe it will, as so very many proggie tactics have. The obvious parallels (from discovered truths) between small Watergate and huge DOJ-FBI-IRS-Democrats-Obama-Clinton will become unavoidable to all. Even Don Lemon.
“The American Left had a seething hatred for Nixon well before Watergate. It goes back to when he went after the traitor Alger Hiss.”
The American Left has collaborated with every mortal enemy this country has ever had.
Oddly enough Operation Desert Fox AKA Operation Monica scared Saddam witless. It was three days of constant cruise missiles and the Iraqis were profoundly sj
shaken.
I don't think they understand that there are a few million Lucilles being tuned up for action...
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