Anyone here remember, or ever heard of, the Washington Star?

I hadn't, when I hit the name in All The President's Men, where they were being given "access" by the Nixon WH, publically favoured over the disgraced enemy Post after Bernstein and Woodward continued to dig into the the case ( Read more... )

There was commentary on this, but the beast locked up this morning. There will be later, but the story itself stands w/o mediation I think:

Around this time [Feb/Mar 1973], Woodward went to visit a well-placed CRP official. The man seemed disaffected, disgusted with the White House and the tactics that had been used to re-elect the President. "If ( Read more... )

I've been going back through All the President's Men and marking up passages that are important to transcribe or at least summarize, but it's a lot of them, even cut down to the bone ( Read more... )

Why do I have to keep finding these things? There's something wrong with this picture.

Okay, this isn't the post on Minitrue Ascendant or Condimelda going to put the screws to the EU or the reason why we need things like Blog Against Racism Day - or any of the other old things I keep trying to write about while new outrages keep cropping up, ( Read more... )

Lessons Not Yet Learned Since August 1972
Since his return from Miami, Bernstein had become obsessed with the $89,000 in Mexican checks that had passed through Bernard Barker's bank account. Why Mexico? According to the GAO investigator, Maurice Stans had said the money had originally come from Texas. But no one at the GAO had been able to ( Read more... )

Here's a real-life example for the books.

*Yes I know Historical Richard wasn't the villain the Tudors and their govt-sponsored/censored media made him out to be. However, Shakespeare's Richard™ is a most convenient paradigm, so that I don't have to find a RL parallel case from Ye Olde Dayes, explain the background, explain the situation, find a ( Read more... )

Other people back when this came out a couple weeks ago tackled Useful Idiot Fareed Zakaria, MSNBC pundit and his fatuously-naive bit of Exceptionalist logic, so I didn't really think I needed to bother. But given that Bob Woodward has been newly revealed as having gone Darkside (this was pretty well a foregone conclusion, given the way he has been ( Read more... )

On the national-international political level, the important things out there, as far as the Virtue Party is concerned are a) finding out which Republican senator followed his conscience and leaked the information about our Neo-Gulags to the WaPo, so that b) they can punish him ( Read more... )