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"There are a lot of people in this country - editors, congressmen and lawyers among others - who like themselves a lot better today for the way they reacted when the Watergate octopus got hold of them.There are also a lot of people who got dragged down forever by it - which is probably just as well for the rest of us, because many of them were exposed as either dangerous bunglers, ruthless swine or both..."
Fear and Loathing In Washington: The Boys in the Bag.
Rolling Stone #164, July 4, 1974.
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First, from the inner sanctum of the intellectual, hard-headed heart of the Murdoch family's media empire:
Second, from American conservatism's longtime media apologist-in-chief:
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Subheader?...My favourite line from the bungled, but most certainly not dangerous 'Where The Buffalo Roam' wherein Thompson says it to the Wenner stand-in, played by Bruno Kirby, after yet another prank by the former that freaks out the latter.
Why no link to the Thompson piece still wholly owned by Jann Wenner?...Well, it turns out the king of the ten percenters has decided to put most of HST's stuff behind a paywall...Personally, I was more than happy to use that as an excuse to rifle through my dog-eared copy of 'The Great Shark Hunt' (with the Bank of America ATM slip book mark, circa 1994), to find the above quote.
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Recently read Rachel Maddow’s “Bag Man”, which details the exploits of Spiro Agnew. I knew he was one shady character but had no idea how bad or how dangerous he really was. Watergate actually saved him from a hell of a lot longer jail term than he would otherwise have received because Elliot Richardson knew Nixon was going down and was willing to recommend a quick (albeit light) deal to get Agnew out of the successor’s chair before that happened. Agnew was still accepting envelopes full of cash bribes even after taking office as VP for instance, and to Richardson it was unthinkable he be allowed to become President.
Agnew certainly was a dangerous, bungling, ruthless swine. And as Maddow extensively illustrates in her book, the rhetoric, style, and tactics he used bear an uncanny resemblance to those of one Donald J. Trump. They will be on full display tonight, and a huge portion of the populace of the United States of America will be enraptured.
Hey Mr. K....My latest..Since i'm not on blog roll anymore
https://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2022/11/reading-room-20when-rupert-murdoch.html
Cheers
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Re: the good Mr. Agnew's 'deal' with Mr. Richardson (who worked for Mr. Nixon before and Mr. Ford after the fact)...You have to wonder if the latter was concerned that a Spiro that was still VP after the Tricky D's resignation not have done the pardoning.
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Agree RossK, no doubt Ford was considered more stable (and malleable) than Agnew, but I’d guess those considerations were probably more on the mind of Mr. Haig than Richardson.
Very good point re: Alexander the not so Great.
Truth be told, I'd never thought of the parallels of the 'There was no quid pro!' claims made in the wake of both the Watergate and Tailgate scandals.
Imagine that!
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