And yet, the MSM and all the other lib flacks make sure to slap the "gate" suffix on anything they can when it involves a republican.
“”Watergate was a huge nothing burger.”
And yet, the MSM and all the other lib flacks make sure to slap the “gate” suffix on anything they can when it involves a republican.”
Right.
I do not understand why so many people, even here on FR, defend the official oft repeated “historical” account of Watergate as if it is settled science and there is no room for debate.
At the time, the case against Nixon was hotly contested and politically polarized and there was NOT a single consensus version of the story.
Although the term had not been coined yet, Watergate was a textbook case of what we now call “fake news”; the entire media was aligned against Nixon, the Republican. They were determined to turn the public, who had just reelected Nixon with the greatest landslide in history, against him - and they succeeded.
All the elements of what we now call fake news were there: Nixon’s supposed demeanor, sinister psychological profiles by expert behavioralists who were able to make their diagnosis by watching him on the TV, endless speculation regarding imputed motives, chronologies that implied ad hoc cause and effect relationships without evidence, dramatic statements regarding constitutional crises and loss of the public trust. Wild hyperbole declaring horrific acts as unprecedented in human history.
A time traveler witnessing the constant chorus of Nixon’s detractors and the breathless reporting of them, would find the unfolding Watergate scandal all too familiar. It’s exactly the same crap they are trying to pull right now. Exactly.
Yet, as quick as people are to dub the current smears as fake news (which they are), most seem perfectly willing to accept the version of the history of Nixon and Watergate as told from the leftist point of view - as the true history - the only version - the objective truth - the settled science of what happened.
How did Watergate morph from being fake news (a politically motivated smear campaign wherein a mountain was made out of a mole hill) - like the RussiaGate so-called scandal of today - into being not-fake history? How did the fakeness of Watergate get forgotten?
If we can recognize fake news when we see it, why can we not recognize “fake history” when we see it?
OK, Nixon resigned in humiliation, the leftists prevailed, and the fake news of the Watergate scandal was successfully foisted on the American public. I get that - they won - we lost.
But is there some code of honor that says we, as the losers, must graciously concede to the Left their version of history for all time, even though it was fake?
I say the hell with that.