Posted on 12/23/2008 12:45:13 PM PST by donna
The man who gave us Bill Ayers, terrorist, communist, traitor, as a free man and educator.
That’s a rotten legacy for a hypocrite.
The evil that men do lives after them.
The good is oft interred with their bones.
W Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Act III, Scene 2
Felt was slime. He tried to cash in on Woodward’s work later in life and deservedly failed.
This pretty cut Warren off at the legs. It was obvious that it wasn't because his reporters were excellent at crafting their trade; rather, it was obvious the Post wouldn't have gotten anywhere without the assistance of a top guy at the FBI.
It's been pretty much downhill financially ever since for the Post, and it wins fewer awards than ever now that the MSM "peer group" knows (or thinks it knows) that the Posties were phonies.
Alternatively we can believe that Felt lied about his role ~ and that would be that he lied to the grave that he was even significant in it.
My money's on Felt throwing himself on his sword on behalf of his old friends and supervisors J. Edgar Hoover and Richard M. Nixon!
Kind of a last horselaugh at a building full of perverts, dopers and wastrals ~ owned by a bloated plutocrat.
“Deep throat”, got Nixon impeached and Ford took over. All this paved the way for jimmy carter.
Nixon was a superstar compared to this bastard Carter.
I encourage everyone to read Silent Coup. I think you’ll see that the accepted storyline of Watergate is pretty far from the truth, and that Woodward’s previous participation in the Admiral Moorer scandal seems like an odd coincidence.
I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal, you!
I have never understood the media and far left’s absolute hatred of Nixon. I simply can’t explain it.
I was a conservative and didn’t care for Nixon because he was fairly liberal in most ways.
About the only things which make sense are he was indeed anti-communist and was effective against them in his early days. Maybe it was just their chance to get even. Also it could have just been that he was a Republican and someone they could take their vengeance on.
still can’t completely comprehend that pure hatred.
I can't figure out how that would be useful.
Nixon got more liberal stuff done, LOL.
Felt willingly committed multiple felonies while a sworn Officer of the United States. What a $hitbird. The perfect Dem hero.
Nixon was a Quaker - that may have done it, LOL.
Nixon was a real setback for Communism - it’s taken all these years to get Obama elected...
Ooopps... I misunderstood the title ;-)
Mark Felt was a self-ingratiating jerk who only sought to take down the Richard Nixon because he was passed over for promotion at the FBI. He didn’t do what he did to “save the republic.” Nor did Woodward and Bernstein do what they did to “save the republic.” It was all about getting Richard Nixon and nothing more. Republic be damned.
*ping*
I agree. Considering the terrible legislation he signed (EPA,OSHA, and paving the way for federal affirmative action programs,etc.) he should be a hero of modern liberalism. But it was indeed his early anti-Communist work (specifically nailing Alger Hiss, still the icon of American Communists) that forever made Nixon a must-destroy liberal target.
And the most amazing thing is, Bob Woodward got a deathbed interview with him. Look for it in the Post after New Year’s.
:-D )))
Vengence need not be utilitarian in nature. Obvious Felt didn’t get paid off.
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