Posted on 05/25/2012 4:01:28 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
I sat as a kid...watching the WaterGate hearings. At the end of the whole thing...my take was that a couple of guys broke into the Democratic office there at the WaterGate building, and that was mostly it. To pre-empt TV shows in the afternoon and carry this live across the nation...was silly and ridiculous. This was all a case that should have gone to some DC local courtroom. Obviously, I must have misunderstood the whole thing.
And I’ll add this...it has amazed ever since the hearings....that you can have Senators sitting around and acting like Judge and Jury.
Behold the real Watergate legacy, lost on the Left.
Unlike Watergate, a third-rate burglary where nobody died, over 300 people were murdered by guns our own DOJ sent to Mexican killer cartels.
And the MSM (American Pravda) helps to sweep it under the rug.
I've heard there's already a book out (don't recall the title) making the case that it's because Felt thought he should have been made Director of the FBI, and thus wanted to destroy Gray out of jealousy.
“Behold the real Watergate legacy, lost on the Left.”
But that is what the Left was clamoring for. Death and destruction are always a desired result for them.
And when speaking of Vietnam, the left will always mention Nixon in the same sentence. Not Kennedy nor Johnson. And Watergate? That was kids stuff when it came to Clinton.
It's not lost on the Left. It's consistent with the teaching of one of the Left's heros: "You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs."
ping for later...
There is a line in the movie Network, where a reporter is calling into the ‘newsreader’ giving information regarding the type of plane the US had used to intercept a middle eastern plane. His response, “Wow, I can say it here and they report it there as fact”.
The media at the time was orgasmic with the fact they could blow anything up to these proportions and literally stop a US President in his tracts all the while swaying the population into regarding every Republican as a “crook”. Hell, they’re still playing that old handbook. Guess it still works. But many are on to them!
As I recall, the failed break in was an attempt to get information on Democrats. That completely pales in comparison to the Republican FBI files that mysteriously showed up on Clintons desk. The left wing media has successfully altered the publics perception on what evil has actually gone on at the highest level as pointed out by someone with the Fast and Furious cover up. Watergate was NOTHING compared to what Democrats have gotten away with.
I still wonder why its so tough to prove the Liddy/Silent Coup thesis, which has all the earmarks of truth. Liddy has been sued twice, and won both times. Colodny was forced to retract SOME things about Dean, but its unclear due to the settlement with St. Martins exactly what he couldnt prove and what he could. So as of now it strongly appears they were looking for evidence on DEANs WIFE (fiancee) in the Watergate.
I covered Nixon et al for a national magazine in ‘72-’73, in Miami, and there were dark forces (liberalism, socialism) at work, trying to pull the Republic apart. They smelled the blood in the water and circled like sharks.
The Key Biscayne compound of Bebe Rebozo was an armed camp, when Nixon was frequently there - many times secretly - and even we in the Press Pool had severely limited access. No one was trusted, even those few of us who had worked for him and Lodge back in the losing ‘59-’60 GE.
Wiretaps, tailing by SS agents, stakeouts, mail intercepts, suspicion, mistrust, outright accusations, rumors, always looking over your shoulder etc were a daily part of the job. I was very afraid for the Nation’s future.
I left the Press in early ‘74 to start another career, and followed the resignation/pardon etc on TV, still very worried about our National stability and resolve to survive.
We did, but we were changed forever.72-
That was the immediate aftermath.
The long term implications are much more lasting - every two-bit ‘reporter’ dreaming of being Woodward.
We now have the modern day journalism doctrine (’making’ news to justify the ends) and Dan Rather’s courage.
Nixon’s real crime was the creation of a slew of alphabet agencies that forty years later are being used as extra-legal shock troops to bring the economy to its knees.
I got "Silent Coup" years ago. Every once in a while, I try to read it and figure out what the story actually is; I always give up in the end. Just not enough time to plow through the whole story.
Could you possibly summarize it here?
Watergate was the left’s revenge against Nixon for his taking out Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 CA senate race along with his other anti-commie work.
I get so, so tired of hearing this bullsh!t over and over and over again. As they tell it, more specifically, Woodward, they felt such awe and solemnity blah, blah, blah at the prospect that their work might actually end up in, gasp!, the ousting of a President! Their integrity, respect for the process and the concept of true unbiased reporting, blah blah blah. I could puke!
A couple of self-serving, self-agrandizing, operatives who succeeded in making an Everest out of a turd pile.
In the grand scheme of things, the Watergate hype, is chickenfeed when compared with Clinton, and worse yet, Obama and Holder's treason. Yet, the media, as with the myth of the Kennedy Camelot, persist in idolizing something with no apparent substance because the sabotage worked.
I thought the count was over 2000?
What is amazing to me is that a 40-year-old burglary gets more MSM attention than a current mass-murder plot hatched by our own DOJ.
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