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| Mark Felt and the 'Collusion' Conspiracy |
| 2019-01-03 |
| [American Thinker] One strange element of the attempted coup against Donald Trump is that no one involved has brought up the name of W. Mark Felt. Or perhaps that’s not so strange. For the benefit of all you millennials out there, Watergate was the outcome of a burglary pulled at the D.C. hotel complex of that name targeting the Democratic National Committee offices during the 1972 presidential election campaign. The burglars were caught and swiftly traced back to rogue White House staffers. No involvement by Nixon was ever proven ‐ and was unlikely in any case ‐ but in an effort to protect his staff, a collection of sideshow habitués ranging from the simply goofy to the truly deranged, Nixon instigated a coverup. A two-year uproar ensued, which the national media, led by the Washington Post, blew up into a full-scale, national-historical constitutional crisis. As legend has it, Nixon was about to tear the Constitution into shreds when a pair of WaPo reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, rode into town on white steeds and with the help of info from a shadowy gnome known only as "Deep Throat" (after a notorious porno flick of the day), blew the conspiracy wide open and sent Nixon packing. That’s the legend, anyway, handed down for decades since, a triumph of all right-thinking folk and a high point of postwar liberalism |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Iwas too young to understand Watergate other than that President Nixon was A Bad Man Whom We Hate. Nowadays it is simpler: Orange Man Bad! |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-01-03 11:23 |
| #2 Woodward and Bernstein became gullible, easily manipulated stooges. The rest of the Washington elite come off little better, and one of the foundational myths of post-70s “left-liberalism” disappears in a puff of smoke. Some things never change. Watergate looks amateurish and on a very small scale in comparison to the vastness of what had been going on in past few administrations. The thing about Watergate was that it was brazen, criminal and immoral but small potatoes. The more I dig into the swamp the deeper and deeper it seems to be. The shutdown of the government seems to be a good thing. Maybe it should be on a permanent basis. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-01-03 10:51 |
| #1 Really good points. I was too young to understand Watergate other than that President Nixon was A Bad Man Whom We Hate. So I particularly appreciate being pointed to this kind of useful perspective. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-01-03 09:24 |