"Deep Throat" reveals himself

[Ned]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Nixon's facility with breakins and other little details long predates Dean. Go back to his campaigns against Jerry Voorhis and Helen Gehagan Douglas.

wrt the comparison of Clinton and Nixon, Clinton's obstruction/whatever was related to getting blowjobs from an intern. Nixon's was in regard to one incident that was a culmination of a pattern of government employees and contractors engaging in multiple illegal acts in furtherance of Nixon's personal political agenda.

The underlying acts are about as comparable in scale as a crackhead and John Gotti.

1) Nixon did authorize breakins related to true national security issues. Dean and Mitchell did what they did for political purposes. Just because Nixon may have used his powers as CinC to protect this country in any way he could does not necessarily translate into a willingness to use the same means for political purposes. However, his people seemed to think so, and went off on a gambit of their own. Nixon is party responsible for creating this climate that breakins were OK.

2) What Clinton did was to obstruct a lawful investigation into whether he sexually harrassed Paula Jones. What Nixon did was to attempt to obstruct (unsuccessful) an investigation into the Watergate buglary by the FBI. The two are comparable in that both are illegal and neither has any justification whatsoever.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Given that Hitchens is suffciently well known, the fact that Kissinger hasn't sued him for libel is particularly telling.

Um.. one reason being that since Kissinger is a public figure, there is slim to no chance he'd win, even if he was right? If you are a public figure, to prove a defamation case, the plaintiff (Kissinger) would have to prove that Hitchens acted with malice and prove that Hitchens' statement was false (and it ain't easy to prove that you didn't have secret talks, no matter who you are).

[Agathon]

My favorite part of the whole Deep Throat saga? Felt was convicted of authorizing illegal searches against members of the Weather Underground, but was pardoned by Reagan. Nixon was nice enough to testify on Felt's behalf at the trial...

Oh... That is priceless.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Not as priceless as you think though... according to the Nixon tapes, it seems that Nixon believed "Deep Throat" was Felt.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/02/felt.nixon/index.html

So he testified for him, even though he had strong suspicions that Felt buried him.

[Agathon]

I don't think that Nixon was worse than any other president with the possible exception of Carter. Nixon just had a natural capacity to make people hate him, and he beat his wife.

Reagan was as bad, and he survived. Johnson lied the country into a hopeless war.

[Drake Tungsten]

So he testified for him, even though he had strong suspicions that Felt buried him.

I already knew that. Makes it an even better turn of events, IMO.

Then again, I'm willing to bet Aggie and I find it humorous for very different reasons.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Agathon
I don't think that Nixon was worse than any other president with the possible exception of Carter. Nixon just had a natural capacity to make people hate him, and he beat his wife.

Reagan was as bad, and he survived. Johnson lied the country into a hopeless war.

Johnson was pyschologically abusive with his wife.

[:) Smiley]

Originally posted by Agathon
I don't think that Nixon was worse than any other president with the possible exception of Carter. Nixon just had a natural capacity to make people hate him, and he beat his wife.

Reagan was as bad, and he survived. Johnson lied the country into a hopeless war.

Whatever kind of people will get whatever kind of president.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

i love how they bring on G. Gordon Liddy, a convicted felon of the Watergate break-in, and Pat Buchanan a speech writer for Nixon, and ask them what they think about Felt.

Well geez guys, i wonder. this guy busted their asses, and then they call him a traitor

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Hueij

By the way, Angelina Jolie really is a beautiful woman.

Maybe so, but IIRC it was Linda Lovelace who played in Deep Throat?

Then ironically became an anti-porn crusader afterwards. She saw little money from the movie.

[Ned]

Interesting how Nixon testified for Felt and Reagan pardoned him. I would really like to hear from the man himself on just how much he hates Nixon and all Republicans.

[Timexwatch]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
i love how they bring on G. Gordon Liddy, a convicted felon of the Watergate break-in, and Pat Buchanan a speech writer for Nixon, and ask them what they think about Felt.

Well geez guys, i wonder. this guy busted their asses, and then they call him a traitor

Buchanan never went to jail, insofar as I know, and actually has been fairly successfull in Washington, altough he never was elected to anything.

And according to another story I heard Liddy siad that he was willing to be killed by the administration to bury the investigation with him.....so it's no surprise that he would hate Felt. Liddy was a true believer.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Furthermore, Buchanan was just a speechwriter for Nixon, IIRC, and had little to nothing to do with the Watergate.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

who cares? he felt personal loyalty towards nixon, and you cant deny that. and then you ask him about the guy who brought him down.