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[sundubuman]

Deep Throat and Genocide
By Ben Stein
Published 6/1/2005 12:22:42 AM

Re: The "news" that former FBI agent Mark Felt broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's articles that helped depose Richard Nixon, a few thoughts.

Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW's, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?

Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded.

That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's kharma.

When his enemies brought him down, and they had been laying for him since he proved that Alger Hiss was a traitor, since Alger Hiss was their fair-haired boy, this is what they bought for themselves in the Kharma Supermarket that is life:

1.) The defeat of the South Vietnamese government with decades of death and hardship for the people of Vietnam.

2.) The assumption of power in Cambodia by the bloodiest government of all time, the Khmer Rouge, who killed a third of their own people, often by making children beat their own parents to death. No one doubts RN would never have let this happen.

So, this is the great boast of the enemies of Richard Nixon, including Mark Felt: they made the conditions necessary for the Cambodian genocide. If there is such a thing as kharma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life of the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide. I hope they are happy now -- because their future looks pretty bleak to me.

[guangho]

Historical revisionism aside, Nixon was the devil incarnate.

[sundubuman]

umm....whatever.

You prove my general take on the left/right divide...

The left thinks the right is evil

The right thinks the left is stupid.

What do you think is more likely??? a group of people being EVIL (devil incarnate) or a group of people being stupid.

My bet is on the latter.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[guangho]

[Cthulhu]

Stein began his career as a lawyer and speechwriter for Nixon. While I generally like the guy he's a little too close to the source material to be anything but highly biased here. Stein can say what he wants about Felt; damning Bob Woodward for breaking the news that Nixon was involved in a coverup is moronic. And that's not even including Nixon tampering with the subsequent investigation.

The fact that Nixon was on his way to being impeached by the Judiciary Committee, the House of Reps and probably the Senate as well should be more than enough to counter Stein's revisionisism. Ford's speedy pardon saved Nixon's ass.

Since you brought up the article Sundubman, what's your view of Nixon and his actions?

[Bulsajo]

Damn, I thought Ben Stein was pretty smart, but...

[bucheon bum]

The only ones whining about Deep Throat are those who were in the Nixon administration or connected to it in some way.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[bucheon bum]

Jon stewart poked fun at Liddy's appearance on some news channel the other day. Yeah, Liddy isn't biased or anything.

[turtlepi1]

Sorry haven't really been following the story so much. Other than the "big" revelation.

I was just wondering if anyone else has confirmed he was in fact deep throat? He has always been the logical choice, though there were many others through the years that were suspected as well.

He is one of the least embarrassing choices for deep throat for the current administration and DC crowd.

But of course that is just the conspiracy theory.

[On the other hand]

[dulouz]

The Watergate burglers should have stolen a black n' white TV. That would have been OK.

[Ya-ta Boy]

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