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To: toaster

What a surprise. For what it's worth, I was extremely dubious of the whole Watergate business at the time it happened. I have never believed that there was any such person as Deep Throat. I couldn't help noticing that the method used by the MSM was simply to print huge, screaming, full-page headlines every day, repeating the same thing, and never really explaining what the hell Watergate was, or why Nixon was guilty of it.

Sure, he tried to cover up his recordings. But they didn't show much of anything either, other than that he used four-letter words in private conversations. Republicans tried to expose Democrat dirty tricks and got caught. Big deal. Nixon thought about misappropriating one FBI file but decided not to. Big deal. Hillary stole more than 900, and walked out the door with them in her computers.

When I was in school, one of my teachers taught me how to analyze ads and news articles for bias and suspicious manipulation of language, and I've been in the habit of doing it ever since. Unfortunately, not many people in those days suspected the news media would be so corrupt. Now it's beginning to get a little exposure to the light of day.


6 posted on 11/29/2005 9:47:07 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
...Unfortunately, not many people in those days suspected the news media would be so corrupt.

Ain't it the truth... I bet the teacher was pretty much a square-shooter when it came to politics too. What I saw of the Rather/Mapes/Kerry Campaign collusion beats Watergate by double-digits.

7 posted on 11/29/2005 10:37:18 AM PST by johnny7 (“You have a corpse in a car, minus a head, in the garage. Take me to it.”)
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