Posted on 07/18/2005 8:37:37 AM PDT by wildbill
The eerie parallels between the Richard Nixon and George W. Bush administrations continue. Once again the famous words of Lord Acton in 1887 come to mind: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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This is a Republican?
McCloskey ran against Nixon in 1972 as an anti-war candidate. He's also made a number of Israel-bashing comments over the years, borderline anti-Semitic. He's about as much of a Republican as Kevin Phillips.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
For the MSM: "Physician, heal thyself."
Comparing Nixon and Bush is a compliment to both men.
Wishful thinking. The MSM longs for the days when it was essentially the public's sole news source and screening and slanting news could create scandal out of thin air. Thanks to the internet, those glory days of abuse of the power of the press are over.
Watergate, Vietnam, this has been a recording.
Wishful thinking is all the Left has left these days.
Reality's a bit too painful, so escapism (temporarily) eases their condition.
I wish the Left would let Watergate die. Even Travelgate makes Watergate look like child's play in comparison.
Wishful thinking or premeditated deceit?
Nothing leaves the editors desk until is demonstrates compliance with "the template".
The MSM is the DNC. The DNC is the MSM.
The media have totally forgotten about Clinton's smear campaigns against Paula Jones ("trailer trash"), Kathleen Willey {"emotionally unstable"), Linda Tripp ("ugly"), and Kenneth Starr ("religious prude"), or of James Carville's on-air promise to break Kenneth Starr's legs.
McClosky is a RINO. Was an anti-War Congressman during the Nixon Admin.
There are a whole lot more parallels between Clinton and Nixon than Bush and Nixon.
I am beginning clearly to see why, locally, that newspaper is referred to as the "Bee-Ess"...
That loser has at least two things going against him: he's a 'Rat, and he must, by now, be in the firm grip of senility and dementia..
Don Riegle, former Michigan Senator, wrote a book about his objections to the War in the days when he was still a Republican. The book is sprinkled throughout about his alliance with Pete McClosky, who was also a GOP anti-war activist.
Riegle later defected from the GOP and became a Dem.
So it shouldn't surprise anyone that McClosky is similarly minded, despite the fact that he calls himself a "life long Republican."
Usually, when a politician says that, it's because no one would have guessed in a million years.
I didn't think McClosky was still living. I guess it was only his brain that died...
Portnoian fantasy.
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