But you were my teacher!
Posted on 05/31/2005 6:11:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
"...I fail to see how what Felt disclosed was illegal..."
My take on this - Whatever Felt knew, he knew because of his position in the FBI. If there were illegal activities on the part of any Administration people, he had a responsibility to the Justice Department, not to Woodward. His taking whatever he knew to the media was a reprehensible act.
Rush shows an astounding lack of knowledge about the Watergate scandal here. Felt had been suggested for some time. Where were Rush's research staffers?
Do you really prefer having Congress tell your state legislators how to run your state. Do you live in a HOA too?
>>Rush shows an astounding lack of knowledge about the Watergate scandal here.<<
I think it shows that he had other interests in life at the time. Adnitting he wasn't totally involved is being honest, a trait I do admire.
Keep in mind this is coming from a man who doesn't adore Rush as many others do.
Now stop being a typical angry, neanderthal conservative. :) HA!
I never did like liberal deomcrats.
21 posted on 05/31/2005 6:42:46 PM PDT by Bullish
I feel the same way.
That's a tautology, you know. If he didn't know then he didn't know.
For my part, I will say that I was really impressed by his honesty in saying so. His stock just soared.
"he did have some pretty stupid ideas about domestic policy, like wage-price controls, the EPA and affirmative action. His saving grace was he was a fierce anticommunist.
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LOL
"Whatever Felt knew"....
Well, that's the key here, isn't it? He's #2 at the FBI. Maybe his boss(es) are tools of the Nixon admin...maybe not...maybe he's got some hot info in his hands.
SHRIEK!! This a no-brainer...even for an Enron accountant:
1. Feel out the bosses. (FBI)
2. Feel out the bosses' bosses. (Members of Congress/Senate...and don't think #2 at the FBI didn't have a killer Rolidex of unlisted home phone numbers from both parties)
3. Resign.
4. Have a news conference & lay out your proof or suspicions. (Now you can't be assasinated...if that is your fear...)
5. Take the heat & stand your ground.
Sound familiar?
Familiar as NOT done...like a certain disaffected Texas National Guard officer who had "hot info" about George W...so sent it to 60 Minutes via an obsessed producer & a Kinkos fax machine?
(see steps 1-5)
This BS of sneaking around feeding tips to reporters because you don't have the cojones to make the accusations yourself.....ah...must get into my pj's and matching tinfoil hat.
Mr. Felt...glad you finally were brave enough to come clean with your grandchildren.
Strictly speaking, Deep Throat wouldn't have committed any crimes, but Felt's information came, quite likely, from FBI files. That would be a no-no. At least it was before 1992.
But you were my teacher!
It's interesting that the left fixated on Nixon from Ike's second term until they finally bagged him. Meanwhile, under the radar, Bill Buckley and other pioneers started a movement in the 1950's and then the Goldwater and Reagan conservatives went to work in the 1960's and 1970's. The lefties thought they'd won the game when they beat Goldwater and ran Nixon out of office. They laughed up to the week of the election in 1980. Then they suddenly stopped laughing.
Great picture. :)
Yes, how proud his entire family must be.
Let's not forget affirmative action, too.
And 'detente,' which is, if a Rat did it, what we'd call 'appeasement.'
Nixon's the ONE :)
You fight for what is "right"!(IMHO) The complete story of "Watergate" has not been told. The Democraps were getting help from Castro and the American people needed to know. With the complete story there may not have been an impeachment.
In the public mind, Nixon was a conservative. In fact, it is difficult to reconcile that image with the man who started the E.P.A., Affirmative Action, and placed Wage/Price controls on the country. Vietnam and Anti-Communism? Well, finishing that hardly made him different from Kennedy, Johnson, and Humphrey. Everything he did--and I voted for him twice--increased the power of the state in the affairs of the people. Hardly conservative.
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