Posted on 06/09/2005 12:37:12 PM PDT by cainin04
I sent Ann's latest article to some friends. One of them a liberal journalist emailed me back and said that Coulter is completely wrong in her latest column.
Now, I doubt that she is. But I am not that familiar with Watergate, All the President's Men, or Mark Felt.
On the red flag in the flower pot, he says: This makes me think that she never even read the book because his apartment and it's location are described in detail. Woodward described it, pretty much just like above, and said, I don't know how he saw the flag, but the apartment was visible from (just estimating) something like four other apartment buildings and numerous rooftops. This information came out the same day the book did. Deep thinking there.
On the six people in the White House who knew about the 18 minutes removed from the tapes, he says: Where does this "six people" information come from? That would be nice to know. How the hell does she know what people who worked in the WH told Felt?
On the question about the newspapers outside his apartment, he says: You know where I first heard about this? From the mouth of Bob Woodward. They weren't just left in a stack in the lobby either, if you're really interested. In black sharpie marker on the front page the apartment number they were to be delivered to was written. You think there was just a pile of newspapers on the floor? People pay for subscriptions. If there was a pile, people's newspapers would go missing and they would be upset. That's why newspapers are DELIVERED TO THE PEOPLE WHO PAY FOR THEM. Not left in random piles. Good reporting, Ann.
On Deep Throat being a heavy drinker and smoker, he says: Yeah, misleading information to protect the most important anonymous source in history. I feel it's justified and inconsequential to 99.9999 of what happened.
Can someone please help me here?
Get a better class of friends.
Your friend is foaming at the mouth and still has a Watergate hangover. I got over mine about 10 years ago. I used to hate Nixon. After Clinton, I now realize he was a great man who was destroyed by his enemies. Clinton was not.
Never heard of any of this.
Sorry
Anne raised really good points. I do somewhat remember Watergate, and have since been suspicious of the WaPo's role in it. They had an agenda to "get Nixon" - so I would not put it past them to have done what Anne implied.
Nixon destroyed himself. He was surrounded by yes men who fed Nixon's insecurities. How else do you explain the whole Watergate mission when Nixon was so far ahead in the polls and assured of re-election?
I don't doubt that at all. I read Witness and I thought Nixon was great in the Hiss trial. And it is true that they were after him. But I hope she wasn't wrong about this stuff. And I doubt she was. I just would like to hear more about it all.
Well your friend is trying very hard to change the subject fom the slimey,vengeful, treasonous FELT.
Bears repeating: "Why waste your time. Get a better class of friends."
It is clear that Deep Throat was a composite of characters. Steven Ambrose said that the original first draft of All the President's Men exists in a vault at Simon & Schuster and this draft does not have a Deep Throat character. Deep Throat was added at the Publisher's urging.
(Please read: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418514/posts.)
I think also that when we're on the subject of what is fact and what is fiction and relative to a true scandal, let's compare Watergate and Nixon's actions during wartime, with Ted Kennedy at Chappaquidick. Every FR should read this.
http://www.ytedk.com/chappindex.htm
nick
I'm with you. I was raised by Nixon haters who have softened their opinion in recent years. Ive done plenty of reading and formed my own favorable opinion of Nixon. He may have done some wrong but compared to some of the stuff slick willie got away with he was an amateur.
If they're starting to try to rebut Coulter, instead of dismissing and vilifying her, they're starting to be afraid of her. Now that's progress.
What Nixon did was mere child's play compared to the shenanigans FDR and LBJ pulled. And the media knew every bit of it, but covered for them.
Probably the same class of jokers that turn a blind eye to the irony of Kerry's Yale grades...they just want to ignore the facts.
Can't argue with that lot...in their own minds, they're always right.
The DEFINITIVE word on Watergate, by Pat Buchanan:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7653
Yes, absolutely. Just like the press covered up Kennedy's womanizing. However, Nixon was the one that undone Nixon. Dirty tricks happen all the time in politics, but when you're up by 4 touchdowns in the fourth quarter, you don't need to run up the score further. McGovern was imploding faster than YEAAAAAHHHHH Dean.
Yeah, that is true, but it is my understanding that David Obst never knew the ID of Deep Throat. And I have read that in the beginning the book was a much different type of book, one that didn't tell Felt's story.
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