Here is the Woodward and Bernstein transcript with Crowley (she who threw the debate to Barry) where they both make the direct comparison of both Hillary and Barry to Nixon in response to a completely open question asking if there are current suspicious situations where public officials appear to be hiding something criminal comparison to Watergate:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/22/sotu.01.html
CROWLEY: And do you — I mean, it is a matter, first of all, sometimes of economics. We all know papers, as well as cable broadcast, everybody is working with limited budgets now and yet, you know, more and more you see all of these things. It reminds you that Watergate was such a template for a scandal, right? In the sense of now everything that somebody wants to have appear like a scandal or is a scandal “gate” comes at the end of it.
In your opinion, what is out there that’s a real “gate”? Are there other Watergates out there and we are simply missing them or do we actually know what they are and just aren’t —
BERNSTEIN: I think we ought to get back to basics. It’s interesting where this whole discussion is going. Let’s look at what this 40th anniversary edition of “All the President’s Men” is. What is this book?
It is really a kind of primer about basic reporting if you look at it after 40 years. Yes, it shows that the Nixon administration and President Nixon was a criminal president such as we’ve never had in our existence in this country. It was a criminal presidency from his first days in office until the end. And it’s the same time you see an institution of the press, not through a lot of hocus-pocus, not through spending a fortune, incidentally, through very basic — we were very low paid at the time.
And what did we do? We went out and knocked on a bunch of doors at night of people who worked for are President Nixon and his re- election committee. And voila, what happened? Well, people wanted to tell the truth as they saw it and we sat there and listened. It is kind of basic. And I think if you look at the way resources are distributed around this town particularly now, journalistic resources, I’m not so sure the problem is institutional lack of financial support. I’m not sure what all of these thousands of reporters — I don’t want to sound like an old guy complaining here — which, maybe I am — I’m not sure what they’re doing.
So much is going into commentary. What are the institutions that have a fortune that could finance more reporting than we’ve ever seen in the history of the business? The three television networks. They require that their news divisions make money like they’re entertainment divisions. They could finance 400 reporters each of those networks.
WOODWARD: And to answer your question about what’s out there, I mean take Benghazi, a highly politicized issue. And I’ve looked at all those e-mails that were released. It takes a day to make sense of them. And if you dig into it, there are unanswered questions. And Hillary Clinton was out saying, oh, you know, I’m not going to deal with this, this is politics, and so forth, and she’s modified her position saying, there are things we don’t know. There are unanswered questions.
And Carl’s exactly right, you put 10 people on that and you say, go to work. You don’t have to give me the answers tomorrow or the next day, but take your time. The same on the IRS scandal. That is a real issue. Some people should move to Cincinnati and get hotel rooms and say, we’re going to talk to everyone who worked in that division of the IRS.
BERNSTEIN: Also, as happened in Watergate, let some Democrats get up and say, we want a real bipartisan investigation of what happened in Cincinnati, in the IRS. Get it out in the hands of the Republican grandstanders who are trying to make political points instead of conduct a serious investigation, and put together and start to get some facts as happened in Watergate.
BERNSTEIN: Also, as happened in Watergate, let some Democrats get up and say, we want a real bipartisan investigation of what happened in Cincinnati, in the IRS.
WOW! These two - Woodward and Bernstein - are speaking of a time when journalism was a honorable - trusted... didn't pay much but adherents were respected. Nice to hear 'old school' ...
Today's so-called 'journalists' are fashionistas... All attitude and energy - no substance. A mile wide - an inch deep... the modern New York Times... or NBC...