Bush's Monica Problem (another media's load of crap)

Newsweak ^ | 5/29/2007 | Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas

[tobyhill]

June 4, 2007 issue - The United States Department of Justice has not always been above politics. John F. Kennedy, after all, appointed his brother and consigliere Robert to be attorney general. But the Justice Department is supposed to stand for the rule of law—to be the enforcer of the laws of the United States, not the place presidents go to get around the law. Independence is an important tradition in the columned limestone building on Constitution Avenue. It is worth remembering that before Richard Nixon could find someone at the Justice Department willing to fire the Watergate special prosecutor in 1973, he had to accept the resignations of the attorney general, Elliot Richardson, and the deputy attorney general, William Ruckelshaus. (Solicitor General Robert Bork finally did the deed.)

[kjo]

The truth about Watergate/Nixon is that it was a Democrat-Media engineered coup. Nixon thought the same rules would apply to him as they did to LBJ, Kennedy, Ike, and FDR: the media would back off national security stories.

Read Conrad Black’s biography of FDR. Roosevelt used the FBI again and again for blackbag jobs on his political opponents; the IRS to investigate the finances of his enemies. Ike was clean. JFK was up to his eyeballs in mafia contacts. LBJ was a huge crook. Bobby Baker and Jack Valenti were his bagmen.

Nixon thought all that kind of stuff would be kept out of the press by claiming national security as the others did.

It did not work for him. The Washington Post was determined to get him and the liberals pimps and shills in the networks finished him off.

[neverhillorat]

This article proves once and for all that the media is fair. Fairly rotten

[marsh_of_mists]

The truth about Watergate/Nixon is that it was a Democrat-Media engineered coup. Nixon thought the same rules would apply to him as they did to LBJ, Kennedy, Ike, and FDR....Roosevelt used the FBI again and again for blackbag jobs on his political opponent....JFK was up to his eyeballs in mafia contacts. LBJ was a huge crook....Nixon thought all that kind of stuff would be kept out of the press by claiming national security as the others did....The Washington Post was determined to get him and the liberals pimps and shills in the networks finished him off.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Throw them all out then, including the media.

[an amused spectator]

The only Monica that Spikey's Democrat handlers would ever let him report on.

I'm sure Evan Thomas volunteered for this hitpiece, though...

[jammer]

My sentiments exactly.