Of course Nixon faced a media that hated him, unlike Clinton who has almost all the media as unpaid press flacks. The Deep State wasn’t on Nixon’s side either
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) February 12, 2022
.@ThisWeekABC, @FaceTheNation & @CNNSotu all ignored the bombshell Durham report that the Clinton campaign spied on Trump while he was in the White House as President. @MZHemingway perfectly summarizes how this really IS WORSE than Watergate. pic.twitter.com/FR0BWQtkbR
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) February 13, 2022
I’d love to see Lesley Stahl respond to this latest revelation, but also, the title of this post should be Nixon in a Pantsuit.””
The following derives from experience and observation: 99% of everything the media bleats is a lie.
Recourse?
I hope Lesley doesn’t choke on her humble pie.
They are the enemedia. No one is shocked that Hildebeast thought she could get away with something like this and that she actually carried it out. She knew the depth of corruption in the deep state and the Justice Department. But, the critical piece of the puzzle for this to be successful was the enemedia being certain to never breath a word of it if it ever became public. No story here, folks. Move along!
The average journalist: Talks about the importance of “speaking truth to power.” Sees evidence that Hillary Clinton is engaged in corruption of an unprecedented nature. Decides to dox someone who posted a mean gif about Hillary on twitter. Goes to sleep believing that he’s a “rebel.”
In the lingo of the Time magazine article, isn’t this Hillary Clinton engaging in “fortifying” the election? By this measure it looks like Nixon was ahead of his time.
Rudolph-
might like this blog post, she details the same thing.
https://ornerydragon.com/2022/02/11/afflicting-the-comfortable/
What will it take to rid the nation of the evils that persists? It seems so lopsided with the MSM, Tech. Lords et al, I sometimes ponder that it might have to be a supernatural event or cataclysmic in nature for a cleanse. I’m sorry because my pessimism is getting the better of me. It’s degrading to see liars and cheats being able to continue on without being properly penalized.
I will never loose Hope.
This is our chastisement I suppose.
Grin and bare it. Dominion tabulation equipment should be banned from all precincts. Paper ballots only with proper ID. Extremely limited mail in ballots meeting all criteria without exception.
By God, if fraudulent activity is protected come November, I’m afraid
a true insurrection involving millions of people will descend upon the tyrants. I pray it doesn’t happen. I pray it doesn’t need to happen.
Divine intervention perhaps?
“Too Rigid” will be the cry of the forsaken as Jesus returns to separate the goats from the sheep.
Come Lord Jesus, come.
A lot of leftist rhetoric is just a shell game for “all I’m going to do is help my friends and destroy my enemies, but I should be considered a selfless person to do so.”
In graduate school I had to endure a student who would not shut up about “the need to help the poor and afflicted.” But of course he never did anything to actually do that, and he would go on rants on topics like “those trailer trash bums in Alabama should be exterminated, because they provide nothing to society.” For him “the poor and afflicted” meant “me and my friends at this private school” and nothing more.
Nixon shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence with H R Clinton. Nixon covered up a minor break in at Watergate. Hillary sponsored and paid for the super hacking of the Trump Campaign, Trump NYC offices / residence and President Trump’s White House.
Would have liked to see Hillary getting the Roger Stone FBI treatment at zero dark thirty with cuffs and shackles with the news media filming it. However, the Durham method is much better because he’s got the goods on the crooks and yes, traitors from the bottom to the top. Stock up on Orville Redenbacher and download the CSPAN app ’cause the hearings and trials will be the equivalent of a series.
Nixon had some unpleasant character defects and personality quirks which were inconsequential in most venues but made him unsuitable for an executive position. (Note, he had no experience as an executive prior to 1969. He’d had a staff, but never a multilevel apparat with an abiding mission that did not consist of serving him specifically). He was also in politics for the wrong reasons. To be fair, you could say that of John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, both Bushes, Bill Clinton, and perhaps Barack Obama. Of Lyndon Johnson, you might say that his right reasons were overwhelmed by his bad motives and bad character. Roosevelt’s a puzzle and Truman a mixed bit of business in this respect.
That having been said, there’s isn’t any indication that Nixon was a troublesome person in any venue outside of the President’s office.
Watergate wasn’t minor. The culture of the Nixon White House (regulated by John Ehrlichman and HR Haldeman) was such that a pair of strange and unscrupulous birds like Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt were hired by the president’s re-election committee to run an ‘intelligence operation’. We know from Liddy and John Dean (who differ on other matters) just what this entailed, summarized in Liddy’s presentation to John Mitchell, Jeb Magruder, and Dean in January 1972. It wasn’t the only sketchy thing going on around Nixon. Charles Colson’s office in 1971 had tentative plans (which never got off the drawing board) to run a burglary of the Brookings Institution piggybacking on a firebombing. (Hunt’s previous position had been a temporary stint working for Colson). Egil Krogh’s office was running a wiretapping scheme. While employed at the White House, Liddy and Hunt staged a burglary of one Dr. Lewis Fielding, a psychiatrist who had Daniel Ellsburg on his patient roll.
Nixon may have been only vaguely aware of what people two and three steps away from him in the administrative hierarchy, but he hired John Ehrlichman, HR Haldeman, and John Mitchell, who were perfectly aware.