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Watergate series takes new perspective on scandal
The hill ^ | 04/19/2022 | HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

Posted on 04/19/2022 4:56:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Fifty years after Watergate, a new limited series is revisiting the scandal that birthed “a lot of this widespread conspiracy theorist sentiment in the country,” its showrunner said in a panel discussion Tuesday. 

Based on the first season of Slate’s “Slow Burn” podcast, “Gaslit” centers the perspective of Martha Mitchell (Julia Roberts), the wife of former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn) who leaked the details of her husband’s dealings with former President Nixon.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: perspective; scandal; series; watergate
Sean Penn is playing John Mitchell? How fitting
1 posted on 04/19/2022 4:56:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Watergate now looks quaint in the era of Russiagate and Laptopgate.

Liberals love to get all nostalgic about it, but I imagine anyone born after 1973 will find it dull.


2 posted on 04/19/2022 5:02:12 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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I was alive and conscious during “Watergate.” I always believed it was a commie sh*t show about like the Clintoon Russia sh*t show we had recently against President Trump. It’s only a coincidence thatnHILLARY CLINTOON was involved in both of them. (Sarc/off) The Hollowoodies need to make a movie about Bigfoot Clintoon’s Political Biatch Games.


3 posted on 04/19/2022 5:14:03 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: DarrellZero
Watergate does not bother me

Does your conscience bother you?

We're a long, long ways past Watergate... And liberals don't have a conscience.

4 posted on 04/19/2022 5:17:30 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just ask Fanny whatsherface. Why trouble Martha Mitchell?


5 posted on 04/19/2022 5:18:21 PM PDT by sauropod (o may we start? It's timel to start. High time to start.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Poor Martha was an alcoholic and a pill popper, with some serious mental issues, those will not be covered in movie will be my guess. She was from my home town and i was at her funeral.


6 posted on 04/19/2022 5:20:12 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You want the best book written on Watergate read , Silent Coup: The Removal of a President.


7 posted on 04/19/2022 5:23:22 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

John Dean guilty


8 posted on 04/19/2022 5:37:02 PM PDT by databoss
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Water gate was the birth of the modern day media....the rosetta stone...it showed what kind of power they have, they actually took out a popular, sitting President. The whole story was insider washington garbage that didn’t effect a single Americans life...yet it showed what they could do. Ever since, its their dream to pick and choose who they go after. They went full bore after Trump and he beat em back and still won. They still cant get over that he beat Clinton...


9 posted on 04/19/2022 5:44:02 PM PDT by basalt
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To: databoss

In more ways than one


10 posted on 04/19/2022 5:46:03 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: ChicagoConservative27

50 years later and they are still jonesing about how the Rats and Media got rid of a Republican President. They have been trying this playbook ever since.


11 posted on 04/19/2022 5:50:47 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I can never remember: is it Slate or Salon that is published ou of a mental hospital?


12 posted on 04/19/2022 5:58:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Captain Peter Blood

A great read. Gave me many answers


13 posted on 04/19/2022 6:02:39 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It bears mention that it was Republicans who drove Nixon from office, just like it was Republicans who put the kaibosh on Tailgunner Joe McCarthy.

When was the last time the demoncrats took out any of their trash?


14 posted on 04/19/2022 6:57:08 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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It was John Dean’s operation to get the Democrats’ “little black book” of available women, because his wife was in it.

The night they were caught, they were removing het bug.


15 posted on 04/19/2022 10:57:30 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://www.ebay.com/itm/403234827710?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-213727-13078-0&mkcid=2&itemid=403234827710&targetid=4580496732614415&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=418233788&mkgroupid=1230353745471221&rlsatarget=pla-4580496732614415&abcId=9300542&merchantid=51291


16 posted on 04/19/2022 10:58:10 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: colorado tanker

Which is why every new ‘scandal’ that pops up has the suffix “gate”.


17 posted on 04/20/2022 3:44:37 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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