Posted on 06/01/2005 10:01:40 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Former Nixon aide Pat Buchanan said Wednesday that the same mainstream reporters who paint newly revealed "Deep Throat" source Mark Felt as a hero couldn't find a good word to say about Linda Tripp, whose secret tapes led to the impeachment of President Clinton.
"The only reason Mark Felt is a hero now [is because he helped] destroy was Richard Milhous Nixon," Buchanan told WABC Radio's John Gambling.
But when it came to President Clinton, he noted, reporters suddenly developed a distaste for whistleblowers. "I mean, did they make Linda Tripp a hero?" the former Nixon speechwriter asked plaintively. "At least she was public about it."
Buchanan said that when Felt leaked information about the FBI's ongoing Watergate probe to the press, he set a dangerous precedent that should concern reporter and citizen alike.
"Let's realize that the FBI has secret files from full field investigations on everybody that served in the highest offices of government," he noted. "And if they start deciding who and what investigations they're gonna leak to the Washington Post - you've got a police state."
She is more so.
"She is more so."
Got that right. Linda Tripp was vilified in the press, on t.v. talk shows and comedy programs.
Absolutely right!
Trip was heroic and paid a difficult price. Felt was exacting personal revenge and did more damage to our institutions, our culture... both in gov't and media than calculable.
But Buchanan doesn't think that Felt was a hero. He believes that Felt acted dishonorably and betrayed a confidence. And that Felt should have resigned first and then gone public. So I guess he doesn't think much of Tripp, either.
I'm really confused.
I always through that Monica was "Deep Throat".
If anyone has any doubt of the damage Felt enabled, needs to read Ben Stein's article below:
Deep Throat and Genocide
The American Spectator ^ | 6-1-05 | Ben Stein
Posted on 06/01/2005 5:55:15 AM PDT by veronica
Re: The "news" that former FBI agent Mark Felt broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's articles that helped depose Richard Nixon, a few thoughts.
Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW's, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?
Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded.
That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's kharma.
When his enemies brought him down, and they had been laying for him since he proved that Alger Hiss was a traitor, since Alger Hiss was their fair-haired boy, this is what they bought for themselves in the Kharma Supermarket that is life:
1.) The defeat of the South Vietnamese government with decades of death and hardship for the people of Vietnam.
2.) The assumption of power in Cambodia by the bloodiest government of all time, the Khmer Rouge, who killed a third of their own people, often by making children beat their own parents to death. No one doubts RN would never have let this happen.
So, this is the great boast of the enemies of Richard Nixon, including Mark Felt: they made the conditions necessary for the Cambodian genocide. If there is such a thing as kharma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life of the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide. I hope they are happy now -- because their future looks pretty bleak to me.
Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer in Beverly Hills and Malibu, and author of "Ben Stein's Diary" each month in The American Spectator.
The FBI under Lewis Freeh had no compunction about turning files over to the Clinton White House, per the request of Hildabeast. Interesting how the FBI is most accommodating when it comes to a 'Rat administration and how dangerous they are to a Republican president ... at least to Nixon.
tripp is more heroic than felt - she didnt' hide her identity, she was lower on the totem pole thus more vulnerable, and she was pushed into her actions by the clinton white house.
if the democrats had anyone with the conscience of felt, or the backbone, then clinton would have been long gone. that says more good things about republican ethics than democrat.
there is no democrat john dean. had there been, hillary would not be in the senate poised to become prez.
Post that as a thread, Grandpa Dave.
A great commentary.
p.s. Will be up on the Klamath for the month of Sept. It's time to count salmon.
Right , it was payback for exposing the Commies Scheme to take down this country....and they have moved much closer to their goal....and now have entered into an Unholy alliance with the Jihadists ...they want their help in their nihilistic goals for the world.,.
Related thread:
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Back to this mess. Nixon was offed by the mediots because he fought the communists and was defeating them.
Thank you. Exactly right, except that because of his advanced age and condition, I wouldn't want to see him arrested. But he deserves it.
Veronica posted Stein's oped as a thread. Below is the link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414334/posts
Hooray for Linda Tripp!
Hooray for Linda Tripp!
Does Felt draw a pension?
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