[marktwain]

nixon was a victim of his own hubris and the media left.

I suspect that the destruction of McCarthy was where the OldDominantLiberalMedia learned just how powerful it was, and how free from restraint it might be.

It appears to me, more and more, that Watergate was essentially a "Media Coup".

[liberalnot]

yeah, i agree. this area needs more investigation.

there was a brit who used to do editorials for the orange county register when it was still libertarian.

he said that he had worked on the east coast as a journalist when younger, and gave time magazine as an example, and was told over and over: use "tricky dick" as often as possible to describe nixon.

many american institutions were infiltrated: the public school system, the universities--which instituted tenure to protect the political freedom of faculty, i.e., commies, the u.s. state department, the united nations,...

nixon had lots of problems, as have all republican presidents with the state department. nixon tried to shut them out. too bad dick was a megamaniac.

the united nations did us in during the korean war. they passed on american military planning to the chicoms. and they did the same in vietnam.

notice how well this last war went--without the united nations!

[Paul Ross]