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'Much Bigger than Watergate': Right on Cue, CNN Nudges John Dean on GA Indictments
Newsbusters ^ | August 16, 2023 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/16/2023 4:45:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

It's all too predictable. A scandal or merely an apparent scandal involving Republicans happens and one of the Watergate people, usually John Dean or Carl Bernstein, is brought aboard by the media to perform their "Worse than Watergate!" or "Bigger than Watergate!" shtick.

There's nothing at all unusual about Dean invoking Watergate for the umpteenth time as part of his media circus act. Why bring on this 84-year-old pundit, if that's not the point? Dean wrote a book in 2006 that mild-mannered George W. Bush was Worse Than Watergate. Last summer, Dean was the star of a four-part CNN special titled Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal.

In the case of the indictment of Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia (after it was prematurely announced before the grand jury even finished deliberating) CNN's Kaitlan Collins inducted John Dean to perform his "Bigger than Watergate!" act.

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KEYWORDS: clickbait; clickkaren; faniwillis; georgia; indictment; jacksmith; johndean; kaitlancollins
John Dean ONCE AGAIN performed his tired "Bigger than Watergate" shtick but he inadvertently performed a public service by wandering into something that can cause big trouble down the road with not only the Fulton County kangaroos cases but also all the other cases against President Trump. Namely the cooperation (collusion) between Jack Smith and Fani Willis (which probably also extends to Alvin Bragg).

Dean tried to write it off as a practical matter so they don't step over each other but is a big no-no. Oh, and Willis can't now claim she did the communications with Team Smith to keep from "stepping on each other's toes" because she has already flatly DENIED being in contact with Smith.

1 posted on 08/16/2023 4:45:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

I stubbed my toe yesterday. It was worse than the Holocaust.


2 posted on 08/16/2023 4:46:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I gotta wonder about Kaitlain Collins. Must’ve been some pretty powerful Kool-Aid she drank.


3 posted on 08/16/2023 4:47:32 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Bob Woodward should sue for infringement or demand royalties from all these TV hacks using his patented ‘worse than watergate’ hyperbole.


4 posted on 08/16/2023 4:50:01 AM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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To: PJ-Comix

Dean is correct.
This is bigger than Watergate. Watergate was a setup to takeout a sitting president and it worked. The second time Washington took out a sitting president.
What they are doing now is taking out not only their leading ‘election’ opponent, but also the main opposition party and an entire class of voters.


5 posted on 08/16/2023 4:52:30 AM PDT by Tupelo (ex uno multis)
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Meanwhile, back at the White House, the biggest crook and crime syndicate is selling this country down the Potomac.


6 posted on 08/16/2023 4:55:24 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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"CNN drew an average prime time audience of 122,000 viewers in the key demo...."

The media think themselves more important than they are. CNN especially.

By comparison -- "Rogan's podcast boasts a viewership of an estimated 11 million people per episode."

11 million for a podcast. CNN weighs in as a pipsqueak, squeaking as loud as it can.

7 posted on 08/16/2023 5:15:01 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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LOL! So CNN has only about 1% of the audience that Joe Rogan has.


8 posted on 08/16/2023 5:25:40 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Yes, I am the Toxic Troll Terminator)
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To: PJ-Comix

So, much bigger than nothing.


9 posted on 08/16/2023 5:29:45 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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--- "So CNN has only about 1% of the audience that Joe Rogan has."

CNN just doesn't want us to compare and contrast. Were I in the advertising business, such as this would be a sharp quill in a quiver to pry lose ad revenues to other venues.

10 posted on 08/16/2023 5:29:45 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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a lot of things are bigger than watergate... like the cabal that orchestrated it all.

we will see monday if trump makes it through the weekend.


11 posted on 08/16/2023 5:55:39 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: PJ-Comix

I guess watergate was fake also?


12 posted on 08/16/2023 6:00:53 AM PDT by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

CNN not only had Dean, also aboard was Sununu, the New England kleptocrat.


13 posted on 08/16/2023 6:05:13 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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Dean is a one trick pony whose one trick is “this Republican scandal is Worse than Watergate.” But hey, I guess a guy has to make a living somehow.


14 posted on 08/16/2023 6:09:28 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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cut the cable tv

force them to offer a la carte

that would be fatal for cnn

half of their revenue is cable subscriber fees

if you have cable tv

you are funding cnn

whether you watch them or not


15 posted on 08/16/2023 6:10:55 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Dean is not only a liar and a criminal, but he is the mastermind behind the water gate apartments break-in and cover up.


16 posted on 08/16/2023 6:55:27 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Indictments have many iffy issues they are counting their bananas before the trial.


17 posted on 08/16/2023 7:05:21 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Bookshelf

So the strutting peacock displayed itself with two whole feathers.....


18 posted on 08/16/2023 8:51:51 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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