Timewaster's Guide Archive

I've never thought of Newsweek as a particularly revealing or objective outlet. But it seems to me they're playing more to what the people already feel more than putting out a political idea.

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But to Bob and Carl and Ben and Sally, Felt is a "hero," a real Medal of Freedom man. And to them, perhaps, he is. For in the 1970s, a hero was any turncoat who would sink teeth into a president who was ending with honor a war into which the Liberal Establishment had plunged this country, and then cut and run when the body bags started coming home and their Ivy League kids started calling them names.

From the time Nixon nailed Golden Boy Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy and ran over all the liberal icons from Helen Gahagan Douglas to Adlai Stevenson, Nixon was the great hate object of the Left, second only to Tailgunner Joe.

In 1960, they thought they buried him in Cook County, when the graveyard wards came in for JFK. They thought they had the casket sealed when he held that "last press conference" after his defeat for governor of California.

But after 1964, Nixon led his party back to victory after victory, culminating in the 49-state landslide of 1972 over the antiwar movement propagandized by the Post. By 1973, all U.S. troops were home, the POWs were headed for Clark Field, every provincial capital was in Saigon's hands and Richard Nixon was at 69 percent. And the Establishment was beside itself with hatred.[/size]

69 percent favorably ratings!  And there seems to be more than a little substance to Buchanan's claim that Nixon was a leader of a populist resurgence against the institutions and policies of the moneyed Progressive elite.

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And so they resolved to finish him. And by his failure to act decisively and ruthlessly to clean his campaign and White House of loyalists who had blundered and, yes, committed crimes, he became ensnared in a cover-up that would destroy his presidency. He gave them a sword, and they ran it right through him. And when he went down, Southeast Asia and everything 58,000 Americans had bled and died for went down with him.

And that is upon the conscience of us all.

The abandonment and fall of Saigon two years later was a direct consequence of Nixon's forced resignation.  Such a victory for the enemies of the USA would have been inconceivable if Nixon were in office in 1975.  No Boat  People, no Gulags, no Cambodian Genocide.  Perhaps that's why Amnesty International and such much of the Progressive/Left feel compelled obsessively to smear the American Military and a later successful Republican war President with false charges of "Gulag" "100,000 dead" in the Iraqi liberation and (what is it now?) 250,000 civilian dead in Falluja?  (if we are to believe some leftist numbers)

Here below, I think Buchanan makes two very important points:

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When you look back at it, what was Watergate all about? A black bag job at Larry O'Brien's place like the ones "hero" Felt used to run for Hoover. Liddy and Hunt on an escapade to get Daniel Ellsberg's file from his shrink, which probably would have been too heavy to carry anyway. And, oh yes, 200 pizzas  Segretti sent with those 30 African ambassadors in native costume to Ed Muskie's D.C. fund-raiser.

Not one miscreancy committed by Nixon's men did not have its antecedent in the White Houses of JFK or LBJ. But they got away with it, including the distribution to the press of dirt on Dr. King, picked up by secret FBI photo and wiretap. What Segretti dirty trick remotely approaches that one, which the liberal press covered up?

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7653

Liddy elsewhere makes another point:

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LIDDY: Well, it's true. I was serving time for my role in the break-in, but the irony is that The Post, which should know by this time what Watergate was all about, still has not published and told the American people what it was all about. And all the facts are in the files of the United States district court in Baltimore, Maryland. This was an operation that was spying on a call-girl ring.

WALLACE: You know, I don't want to go too far down this line. You've in fact...

LIDDY: I know you don't want to.

WALLACE: Well, because you've been sued by a...

LIDDY: And I have won.

WALLACE: Well, you didn't win. It was...

LIDDY: Yes, I did win.

(CROSSTALK)

WALLACE: In any case, you know, it's sort of inside baseball, and we're never going to know...

LIDDY: No, no, no, no. Oh, we are going to know. No.

We do know. It's just that we refuse -- "we" being the, you know, mainstream media -- we refuse to tell the American people.

What is Liddy talking about?  Larry O'Brien was Chairman of the DNC, Howard Dean's job today.  The target of the break-in was the desk of Larry O'Brien's secretary.  In that desk was maintained records of a prostitution ring, run for the DNC for the benefit (and later blackmail) of visiting big money Democratic Party campaign donors.  John Dean's girl friend and (soon thereafter) wife was implicated in that ring as a call girl.

Narnia is NOT Middle Earth, after all.