Posted on 09/28/2019 11:06:58 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
"Sudden Respect" is one of our Media Bias topics at NewsBusters. The notion is that a person formerly despised by the liberal media suddenly earns its respect by doing something to liberal liking.
If there is one person historically despised by liberals, and whose downfall gave birth to a new genre of attack journalism, it is Richard Nixon. Yet Sudden Respect was posthumously bestowed on Nixon today on Joy Reid's MSNBC show. Why? Because Nixon chose to walk the plank and resign before being impeached, something liberals fear President Trump will never do.
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It’s a mark of just how much liberals hate President Trump that they are now willing to make a virtual hero out of their favorite former bogeyman, Richard Nixon.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Clinton did not.
But he was never concerned with being respectable.
Heh, compared to Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota baby’s gubmit, Nixon was due sainthood.
Shove it, media. We know you.
We despise you.
We f*rt in your general direction.
He had 23 percent popularity, PT is now a 49 percent.
But then, the liberal view of Clinton’s impeachment, is that he was impeached over sex acts, and everybody lies about sex, and it didn’t matter, infidelity was between him and Hillary, Republicans were overly zealous over the tawdry sex allegations, etc.
Other factors - including no alternative media and a one-sided MSM - also helped drive a collapse in support. It's also worth noting (hat tip escspefromboston) that Deep Throat was a FBI goon too. Some deep state hack who hated the president and wanted to overturn the election results.
To be fair, Nixon did this to himself, had unforced errors, what Nixon did wasn't kosher. Neither is suborning perjury but Clinton had a robust economy (and the MSM - new media was just getting started, i.e. we may have never HAD an impeachment without Drudge).
I submit that if the economy was humming in 1973-1974 and inflation was tamed and Nixon didn't defend Israel, he *may* have squeaked by. By contrast, Trump hasn't done anything remotely close to being illegal/slimy as what Nixon did, and I don't see Trump backing down. They are also two different guys: Resignation for Nixon had nothing to do with honor; it was akin to this:
And Joy Reid didn’t resign for her anti-Homo remarks.
Articles of impeachment were introduced against five of the six Republican presidents who have served since President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Democrats have a worn playbook that they use time and again with the help of their media whores.
Nixon was, in many ways, a RINO before the acronym, but he was more honorable than the lecherous fiend, JFK:
Nixon and Kennedy knew the latter won illegally, via Mob control in Illinois. JFK took it, and Nixon chose not to contest it.
Both then and later, Nixon sacrificed himself for the sake of the nation.
Note to those on the right who are perpetually desperate to co-opt a popular, charismatic leftist as a would-be-today-conservative:
JFK created collectivist public unions illicitly via EO. That has served to entrench, enrich, and empower the unelected Deep State.
JFK allowed Gyorgy Swartz to become an American citizen. That has provided enormous protection to an evil man who has virtually toppled nations.
JFK was an extremely immoral leftist.
Yes be ause Trump is dying to have the fake “respect” of extremist libtards who publicly wish him dead.
They are soooooo obvious in their bias ... must come from the same white liberal elite man who sends out the official democrat talking points.
Ever wonder who that man is?
I’m betting on James Carville...
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