All the President’s Thugs
You, of all people, threatened by a Democrat White House.
And where are your defenders? Where are the new hipster reporters of the left to defend you? Where have all the flowers gone, they used to ask.
But this is serious stuff. When the elder statesman of the industry that guards the First Amendment is threatened by the White House, it marks a dangerous turn.When other “reporters” join in, it is even more dangerous.
Perhaps this will be enough for the usual phalanx of fools at places like Mother Jones, TPM Muckraker, and The Nation to at last wonder if we’ve come full circle back to those days of righteous triumphs in August 1974. Outrage toward abuse of power was so in vogue. Where is the righteous indignation that seized a nation beginning in May 1973?
Maybe it was all a show, Bob.
Did the wave you started have more to do with the “R” after Nixon’s name than principle?
With you, I’d say it was principle. But with the rest of the liberal left, it’s starting to look like poor Dick Nixon got a raw deal compared to this mischief of rats.
Also read:
"Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? . . . He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton — a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon’s kharma."
It's so disgusting to hear media howl like children at the actions of Republican office-holders, then without a moment's hesitation, barricade the reputations of Democrats. I look at these people - FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Obama - and I see horrible individuals, both personally and politically.
After years of the pot calling the kettle black -... (show more)
"Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? . . . He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton — a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon’s kharma."
It's so disgusting to hear media howl like children at the actions of Republican office-holders, then without a moment's hesitation, barricade the reputations of Democrats. I look at these people - FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Obama - and I see horrible individuals, both personally and politically.
After years of the pot calling the kettle black - I'm happy to Woodward getting some flak for a change. Journalists are a special class of scum, so its nice to see them eat one of their own. I'd like to think it will make them see the error of their ways - but I doubt it. (show less)
However, I will continue to hope that Woodward will now put two and two together, along with that exponent, and come up with the true magnitude of the deliberately malign presence currently occupying the Oval Office and blast it all to hell.
However, I will continue to hope that Woodward will now put two and two together, along with that exponent, and come up with the true magnitude of the deliberately malign presence currently occupying the Oval Office and blast it all to hell.
It is one thing after another and nothing leads anywhere.
It is one thing after another and nothing leads anywhere.
I used to always read the paper. I used to always watch the nightly news. Now I do neither.
I used to always read the paper. I used to always watch the nightly news. Now I do neither.