What's the MSM's Watergate Take-Away? Bush Is Bad, Mmmmkay?
The MSM is incapable of learning anything from their continuing credibility collapse:
I've always loved how some of the same media clowns who thought the Democrat HQ break-in was the crime of the century were completely asleep at the wheel when FDR and Truman turned a blind eye to Communist traitors within their inner circle, when JFK was cozying up to the Mafia or stealing the 1960 election with help from corrupt machine politicians in Chicago, when LBJ gadded about blackmailing political enemies when he wasn't bedding mistresses, when Clinton put a "for sale" sign on the Lincoln Bedroom and pardoned every crony and thug who kept his or her trap shut on his way out the door. No, to the Anthony Lewises of the world, these were men of integrity.
Meanwhile, George W. Bush liberates 30 million people from the harshest tyrannies on the face of the Earth, but he is the anti-Christ.
How selective does outrage get for these hacks?
For former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, the answer is simple. Speaking at a symposium at UT to celebrate the opening of the Watergate Archive, Lewis blamed the press for failing to bring down a president who in Lewis's opinion is so corrupt he makes Richard Nixon "look like an amateur when it comes to arrogating government power." Lewis ranted about the many supposed crimes of the Bush administration for about five minutes, concluding that the press had failed to hold Bush accountable for all these crimes. Sadly, he got the loudest applause of any single panelist, including Woodward and Bernstein, but later — through divine intervention — his microphone malfunctioned and cut off another laundry list of grievances.
For Lewis it's simple: Today's reporters are not bringing down this president, the one Lewis finds so detestable. Today's reporters do not agree with Lewis that "something is wrong." But listening to the comments of Woodward and Bernstein this week, and reflecting on the nature of their investigation into Watergate, might lead one to a different diagnosis of the problem.
I've always loved how some of the same media clowns who thought the Democrat HQ break-in was the crime of the century were completely asleep at the wheel when FDR and Truman turned a blind eye to Communist traitors within their inner circle, when JFK was cozying up to the Mafia or stealing the 1960 election with help from corrupt machine politicians in Chicago, when LBJ gadded about blackmailing political enemies when he wasn't bedding mistresses, when Clinton put a "for sale" sign on the Lincoln Bedroom and pardoned every crony and thug who kept his or her trap shut on his way out the door. No, to the Anthony Lewises of the world, these were men of integrity.
Meanwhile, George W. Bush liberates 30 million people from the harshest tyrannies on the face of the Earth, but he is the anti-Christ.
How selective does outrage get for these hacks?
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