Posted on 06/03/2005 2:01:00 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Less than half the population even can remember it firsthand, and of those who do, I agreee most don't care. This story will have very short legs, after the obilgatory media circlejerk of self aggrandizement and celebration plays itself out.
FWIW however, I have held all along that DT was a confabulation of Bob Woodward, a pastiche of sources and guesses. This Felt's family's lawyer's deal with VF, selling out the demented old fool, now is a convenient way for Wood-stein to get the DT monkey off their back once and for all, and get on with their tawdry lives.
The MSM has been so badly discredited in the new media age, that maybe some idiots decided that for enough bucks they could resurrect a time when the MSM were self-acclaimed heros, the good guys! And this is going to backfire all over them, but they still don't understand that it's not "the good MSM days".
I've read all of them. '72 was also an election year for the Congress. Without Watergate looming, he might not have had to deal with so lopsided a Congress. He might have had the confidence and, yes, the time, to campaign for Republicans. Shirt-tails count, and Watergate--just 5 months old and in the papers nearly every day--cut them off.
Just so. Most people trusted the news media back then. As it happens, back in prep school I had an English teacher who taught the class how to read news articles with a suspicious eye, and never to take anything on trust. Plus I have never had herd instincts anyway. So I could see through the garbage at the time, but most people couldn't. The basic method was banner headline after banner headline, day after day, saying that Nixon was a crook. Not many people tried to analyze what the actual substance of "Watergate" was, because they were overwhelmed by the headlines, like a herd of stampeding animals.
Haldeman identified him in a taped conversation with Nixon, and he got his info from within the FBI. Everybody who was anybody knew who he was, but were afraid to prosecute him for national security reasons.
I don't think these things are going to remain hidden forever. Now that Felt has had a little "coming out" party, there are likely to be some other players shopping for dollars at their nearest gossip columnist.
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