Today: Couric Proclaims Mark Felt "Did the Right Thing;" Buchanan Reveals He'd Leaked Before

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[Sal]

My guess is that the money angle for the avaricious family of Felt is the driving engine for this old news revelation, but there is an interesting and timely little coincidence.

There are two current semi-announcees in the '06 senate race against Her Heinous, a woman with Ferraro type husband problems and the son-in-law of Richard Nixon.

Being one of the "heroes" of Watergate, Her Heinous "saved" us from the original Nixon...

[late bloomer]

Final approach..

You nailed that approach 29er!
I was formulating a response about Linda Tripp, poor gal.
Good citizen who thought she was doing the right thing and had the guts to go public.. I think Liddy's got the right slant on this..
anyway you did it for me, thanks

[LongsforReagan]

Katie= "Little Susie Shallow Throat".

Courtesy of DAC.

[shhrubbery!]

saw G. Gordon Liddy on the Matthews show last night, and he stated that Nixon didn't order the Watergate operation, that it was John Dean who did so, and that Nixon went down defending something he was not responsible for

IIRC Liddy subscribes to the theory that Dean ordered the Watergate burglary NOT to gather info on the DNC, but to find documents related to an alleged call-girl ring being operated out of the DNC's office in the Watergate.

Dean's new little wifey, Maureen (whose chic appearance was featured adoringly by the MSM at the time), was allegedly either an operator of the call-girl ring, or one of the call girls.

I think the theory is that Dean was trying to seize the evidence in order to protect her from being exposed. Or something like that.

Also IIRC, Liddy was sued for libel by John and Maureen Dean for espousing this theory. Liddy won.

link to photo of John and Maureen Dean at their wedding --note wedding guest on the right, the notorious playboy Barry Goldwater Jr.

[ken5050]

Ping me when Katie deep throats on camera in order to boost the ratings..

[iconoclast]

Yes, and the FNF idiots stepped all over everything that Liddy was trying to say.

I can't believe FNF hasn't been replaced by an adult show before now.

[iconoclast]

Just catching the Today show opening here in Chicago...Katy opens saying that she's so excited to find out about Deep Throat, we've all been wondering for so many years...

I think one of my old fart buddies nailed it over a couple a beers last night.

No one under 50 gives a sh!t about any of this.

[iconoclast]

Ping me when Katie deep throats on camera in order to boost the ratings..

Is she till gettin residuals for the deep colon show?

[AFPhys]

Someone ought to clue the Old Mediots in about the results of the overblown Watergate affair:

-A presidency was brought down by indirect effects simply because the president was perhaps overly loyal to his people.
-The United States was weakened.
-The worst and weakest president of the 20th century was installed - emboldening our enemies.
-The Shah of Iran was overthrown instead of the US being able to bolster up a voice of moderation and modernity in the MidEast - and much of the world's terrorism was strengthened as a result
- and OPEC stretched its muscles - and the US was not strong enough to effectively respond (I categorically don't mean militarity).
-Reagan was the inevitable reaction to the worst president, but by that time irreversible damage had been done.
-The Old Media FRAUDcasters have since been trying to bring down presidents, and even found themselves forced, finally, into joining the New Media to some extent against Bill Clinton.
-Journalism's "highest calling" has become trying to bring shame on politicians - with the gold prizes for R-politicians - instead of reporting news that really affects the country and the world.

(Others have made these comments far more effectively than my poor attempt here, and I would appreciate a ping to better enumerations.) We're still in the process of attempting to recover from Watergate.

Couric's cute comment "wasn't watergate bad" burns me and anybody who cares about this country.

[Maria S]

"Why would the WP confirm the "source" having committed to secrecy until the geezer croaks? The WP could have denied comment and make the family prove their case but they didn't."


Why would a LIBERAL, Nixon-hating newspaper deny comment and make the family "prove" their case...but they didn't? Well, DUH...I couldn't guess! Meanwhile, I heard on talk radio this morning that the "story" could prove to be a best-seller (worth well over a million) for the family.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

The family did look like they had just won the lottery, didn't they.

Michael Frazier

[duckbutt]

And you know why the media tries to do that to "R" presidents? Not ideology - - but lots and lots of potential money and fame! Look at Woodward and Bernstein.

Every hack reporter wants some of what they got....getting the story right "be damned"......

[iconoclast]

Nixon's mistake was that in trying to protect his friends he obstructed justice.

Nixon was a perfect example of the Peter Principle.

He'd have never found himself in the Whitehouse had he not been Ike's Veep.

He was an accident of history, much like the Bush dynasty.

[AFPhys]

Nixon's major crime was loyalty to his friends.

As a result, he helped to cover up an investigation into wrongdoing.

He was threatened with impeachment by the large-majority Democrats after much hounding by the Old Media. Representatives of his party, Republicans, took a walk from the Capitol to the WH to ask in a private conversation that he resign. Nixon further showed his loyalty to his friends and his country by doing resigning, instead of forcing the party and country to split in a trial over this, though he never believed his actions were wrong. In fact he believed that the state of war gave the executive branch the right to do what his subordinates did, though he never specifically authorized their ill-fated actions, and cited WW2 precedents.


An unbiased history of Watergate would include what I wrote above. Your dad is right (as usual... I suspect)

[AFPhys]

Don't get too comfortable about your "glad he did"... when you get more into this story, and realize all the damage that was done to the country due to the trivial incident known as Watergate, you may find yourself wishing you hadn't been so duped by the Old Media FRAUDcasters.

[iconoclast]

Do you recall in which tabloid the photo appeared?

I saw it at the market.

I think it was National Enquirer.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks - I'll see if I can find it online.

[AFPhys]

While you're at it, you probably note that a greater percentage of R's voted for the Civil Right's agenda and the rest of LBJ's Great Society than did D's.

Goldwater was a voice crying in the wilderness for conservatism. Watergate killed that wing of the R's - and opened up the opportunity for the present (more) Conservative movement.

We did pay a very high price, though, for it greatly weakened the US.

[AFPhys]

If Watergate is the standard for crimes, and Colson went to jail (1-3yrs) for revealing ONE FBI file, MF should have been put away for life. The crimes MF committed, and was pardoned by Reagan for, were easily more numerous and far reaching than anything Nixon did, or Colson, or Liddy.

The only person who may have been remotely as culpable is Dean - who skated.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

" We'd still be in Vietnam ( a democrat war if ever there was one, as Sen. Dole rightly commented ) if not for Richard Nixon."

I disagree. I believe that Nixon would have not allowed the final offensive to succeed, probably by using massive air power to inflict massive casualties. Three failed communist offensives would have given South Vietnam time to grow sharp enough teeth to defend itself.

For years I have blamed Trickey Dick for getting himself pushed out of office which gave the DemocRATS the ability to betray South Vietnam.

This thread has made me reconsider where to lay the blame. Clearly a coup took place.

Michael Frazier