'Twas a famous media victory

TownHall.com ^ | 6/17/02 | Pat Buchanan

[WillaJohns]

This couldn't have been said better.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Got a link here you might find interesting:

Witness Bob Weiner Calls Watergate - Whitewater Parallel By Larry King 'Perversion of History'

He is upset with Larry King doing a Moral Equivalence between the two events!

[Reagan Man]

Pat Buchanan does a nice job of laying out a concise and true history of Richard Nixon. The man had many accomplishments during his thirty year political career, but even Pat knows, you can't deceive the American like Nixon did and get away with it. Even Nixon said, he had let down the American people.

>>>Like FDR, JFK and LBJ, he [Nixon] crossed the line.

I was part of that 25% that supported Nixon until the bitter end. I'm not sorry for it, but it definitely wasn't one the better times in American history.

[Vidalia]

Frank Church was an idiot.

[ladyinred]

At the time of the Watergate hearings, I was a democrat. While watching the hearings on television I was impressed with the fact that the republicans were taking this seriously.
Go forward to the Clinton impeachment hearings. Democrats not only defended the criminal, they demonized anyone who dared to try to speak the truth, and then had a big party rally after he was impeached!
Who has character? The Republicans and Nixon who had the decency to resign and not stay in our faces for the rest of his life bragging about being impeached! (I know he wasn't impeached, but you get the idea.)
I am afraid we will never be free from the most destructive duo ever to disgrace the Oval office, Bill and Hillary, and their little gore too.

[Nick Danger]

and their little gore too.

Heh heh. Good one.

[Paleo Conservative]

Based on this editorial I don't think that Pat Buchanan could be "Deep Throat"

[daler]

"The man had many accomplishments during his thirty year political career, but even Pat knows, you can't deceive the American like Nixon did and get away with it."

Um, when you get a chance, please check your most recent history text under "Clinton, William Jefferson."

Now, what was that you were saying?

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[Thebaddog]

I'm fascintated by the students naming Buchanan as the possible source, but there were six other people on the list and Gergen is one of them. Gergen could easily be the throat and the panel was duped into a misdirection play by their perfeser. The group is really a bunch of twenty year olds and their pefeser is an old hand who has to be the hidden hand for this one.

[MadelineZapeezda]

An eloquent defense of Nixon by Pat. This man has class.

[Reagan Man]

This is an article about Richard Nixon and not Bill Clinton!

For one thing, Nixon had the media against him, Clinton didn't. While there are some similarities between the two men, there are many more differences. Nixon did eventually also admitto his mistakes, but it came too late and well after the fact.

Now, exactly what was that you were saying?

[daler]

Well, to put it in exact terms, you CAN deceive the American people, repeatedly and overtly, and get away with it (with flying colors), as demonstrated by one William Jefferson Clinton.

I didn't think the point needed to be clarified.

[Reagan Man]

Just a little rhetorical sarcasm. =^)

[ex-snook]

Just name any anti-communist from that era and you will name someone who was demonized by the left-wing, liberal, fellow travellers in Government, media and Hollywood. Today it is the ancestors of this commie wing (today called neo-cons) who carry on the tradition of their own agenda.

McCarthy was vilified for his quest. His mistake was he UNDERESTIMATED the number of communists secreted away. We are still paying the price of Roosevelt making the world safe for Communism.

The lesson today is, question whatever the media pundits support. Prepare to be shafted again.

[William Tell]

Maybe I read too quickly, but I didn't see any mention of the "enemies list". Also, Watergate unravelled in part because the money laundering being done to make millions of dollars available to Nixon and the Republicans at the time, was ineffective. A check by one donor revealed that the source of the cash for the Watergate burglars came from donations to Nixon's campaign. There has never been a full accounting of all the money which was available for dirty tricks, bribery, and surreptitious criminal activity.

Like another, more recent, occupant of the White House, Nixon yearned for power and always knew that the money would follow. Mitchell's wife, who seemed to be having a hard time backing her husband, died in a plane accident. Probably a center fuel-tank exploded.

[SpringheelJack]

And that, children, is the story of Watergate you will not hear. I know, because I was there.

This last paragraph gave me a smile. In light of the recent intense speculation that Buchanan was Deep Throat, those last two sentences are delightfully coy, and probably intended to stoke the fires a little. Was he Deep Throat? I don't know, but he ain't denying it.

[gitmogrunt]

Who said Pat's not a Conservative?