Posted on 06/17/2002 1:04:54 PM PDT by wcdukenfield
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
Watergate isn't about abuse of political office.
It's about the left-wing media tearing down a president they didn't care for.
The media has propped-up presidencies that were far more abusive.
Lying sacks of crap - I wonder if the young people, who they are hoping to inculcate with impressions of a hopelessly corrupt GOP, are even interested in their little annual presentation?
To them, it was. First, because the subject was a Republican. But MORE important - it was THEIR scandal. If Teddy Kenedy himself were to personally finance, smuggle in, and detonate fifty thermonuclear devices over the top fifty markets in the US, Watergate would still be a bigger story to Woodward/Bernstein/Bradlee - because THEY covered it. Seldom before have two reporters and a creative editor had such self-delusions of grandeur.
Michael
Hey Harp, my opinion is, that in some ways, LBJ was worse than Clinton. He got 58,000 some Americans killed in Nam, so he could beat Goldwater. What do you think?
It's about the left-wing media tearing down a president they despised due to his (Nixon's) anti-communist position and bringing to light communist spys in the US in the 50's. Spys that were "liked" by the left media.
Thats a side story that no one is going to take serious untio the Woodward's and his ilk are gone. The press went almost overnight from supporting LBJ's failed war policies to attacking the Nixon adminstration for the war. It was really quite amazing.
In regards to this article and FDR...I remember before the Y2K "Time" magazine was to select their "Person of the Century". Now to most historians the most important person was Winston Churchill, who along with the British people basically held off totalitarianism by themselves while teetering on the brink. They literally fanned the flames of freedom long enough for the USA to get into the war and thus save the Western, modernized world., since WWII was the hinge on the change of powers this century.
But no, "Time" wanted to unaminously vote for FDR. While important, Churchill actually had more accomplishments than FDR and was the clear favorite. But not in the minds of the liberal establishment, who could never nominate a conservative over their demigod FDR. "Time" then said Churchill was not good "on women's rights", which is a farce. By the same standard, FDR's nomination should have been rejected outright for his internment of the Japanese, his rejection of the Jewish refugee ship St. Louis, and his failure to racially integrate the armed services.
In order to get out of this hypocritical embarassment, "Time" named Albert Einstein as the "Person of the Century".
There is a great book, written in 1975 by Victor Lasky, called "It didn't start with Watergate" which details all the abuses of the democratic presidents, specifically FDR, JFK and LBJ - wiretaps, blackmail, financial transactions, and much much more. Lasky makes the great points that these transgressions were aided and abetted not just by the left wing press but also by democratically controlled congress. I think this is an often overlooked point, which is the key role the CONGRESS had in bringing down Nixon and the incredible double standards all these congressional committees used in deciding who or what they would go after and who or what got a free pass. Unfreaking believable.
And just to be accurate if you want to look at perhaps the worst of FDRs abuses, it was the attempt to pack the US Supremee court (1939?) when he was repudiated and stopped by his own party.
That's all it was about. Watergate was a coverup about a search for anarchists who conspired to tear down institutions. How is that so bad compared to the "accomplishments" of FDR and JFK?
Has anyone noticed how the liberal media's salivating over the "Watergate Anniversary" like it's a National holiday.
Two. Woodward, oh ,you pious, sanctimonious, holier than thou and no doubt "crusading journalist"- you are like an old has been athelete, riding on some trophy or other. You keep polishing it up and getting invites, yeah Woodward, you are caught on a never ending rubber chicken circuit.
Finally, Rest in Peace Mr President Nixon, may the earth lie lightly on you. Wow, feels better now. A lot better, after CNN. Oh, Deep Throat? ah, well nevermind, do not want to overstay my welcome.
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