REMINDER: There's a MOLE working in the White House - Media SLEEPS

[jackstraw45]

that committed TREASON by exposing a CIA officer as payback. This is someone in the BUSH WHITE HOUSE.

Valerie Plame>Niger>Scooter>Cheney>Haliburton>Iran

This is WATERGATE all over again and we have NO Burnstein and Woodward is a RNC stooge.

Simply put, The Washington Post wouldn't have printed those Watergate stories today and Nixon would have served his full second term.

[ladjf]

1. Excellent reminder of just how far we've retrogressed.

[aquart]

3. It's not an accident.

They took note of what brought them down: media, judges, Congress.

Then they made damn sure it will never happen again.

[AuntPatsy]

6. Interesting analysis, I never quite heard it put in those words..

it makes so much sense, why isn't this part of someone's slogans when protesting?

[Catfight]

8. So true, but they forgot one damn thing...the INTERNET! n/t

[jackstraw45]

9. The story would NEVER have gotten this far without the internet

If it everntually brings down this criminal administration, you'll see the GOP crack down on the internet first chance they get.

PS: Hi Agent Mike! (They're working on it)

[Catfight]

11. I so agree, if Bush gets four more, we can say goodbye to everything

free and true.

[laylah]

21. Salutations Agent

Mike...why do you hate America so much that you would be part of her downfall? Just asking :evilgrin:

Jenn

edited to make "her" gender specific :silly:

[ladjf]

10. The Internet can and probably will be controlled.

[cheezus]

12. well, they're doing such a good job with spam, kiddie pron, piracy

of course they'll be able to control the whole internet!

[jackstraw45]

13. Why would they care about that?

They'll control what they WANT to control....

When has the GOP EVER cared about what REALLY matters?

If they can manipulate the internet to gain more power, they will.

Simple as that.

[cheezus]

14. my point was that they CAN'T

the internet is too decentralized and too high tech for them to take control of. My point about the spam and piracy was just to show how even large monied interests a pretty much helpless against the open nature of the net.

[jackstraw45]

15. You're right that they can't totally control the internet...

but they can play dirty tricks with it to RUIN the free political exchanges that have been created.

Just wait and see.

What spam did to email they'll do to us here somehow. Just wait and see.

[cheezus]

16. web forums like this may disappear

the technology will shift a bit, that's all. The subversive technologies are already out there, and work pretty well (freenet and public key crypto are good examples). People will start to use them when the need is there (kinda like how nobody wanted to use gnutella until napster was shut down).

[colonel odis]

22. i totally agree

n/t

[aquart]

19. Foresight is not a strength with them.

Note how Bush has been busy not making Daddy's mistakes. Completely oblivious to new mistakes...or the fact that the political climate has changed. They can only cope with the past (as they mistakenly believe it to be). They persistently misread the future.

[jackstraw45]

4. It's what happens when you have a media HALF controlled by GOP and...

HALF just plain LAZY.

[asjr]

2. Unfortunately you are correct. When was the last time we heard a peep

about the "Plame affair?" This WH must have bought or blackmailed every media outlet in the country. Watergate was mild compared to what is going on now. Back then the Repubs had some honor--not so now.

[cthrumatrix]

5. nope the repugs are protecting the puppet..... its a media/repug cover

[denverbill]

7. The Nixon thing was SO different.

Nixon was heading towards a tough reelection bid. Nixon was being hurt politically by Daniel Ellsberg because Ellsberg was publishing secret documents about the war that basically showed Pentagon analysis determined Vietnam to be unwinnable. Since Nixon couldn't refute the documents, he had to try to discredit the source, so his operatives decided to get some goods on Ellsberg by stealing his psychiatric records from his psychiatrists office.

In Bush's case, we have a President heading towards a tough reelection bid. He started a war using trumped up intelligence, and when Joseph Wilson started to expose some of his lies, Bush's operatives were forced to discredit him by outing his wife as a CIA operative.

See how different they are?

[Xenus Sister]

17. What happened to Woodward, anyway?

I'm so out of the loop that I hadn't even realized he gulped the Kool-Aid.

When and why did that happen?

And where is Bernstein?

Someone ought to show those guys a really good movie called "All The President's Men."

[jackstraw45]

18. They've gotten old and rich and famous....

They're about as "hungry" for a story as Dim-Son is for telling the truth.

Unfortunately, the torch HASN'T been passed to a new generation of journalists. They're all too busy trying to get in bed, I mean, embedded with the administration.

[Supersedeas]

20. Today's Journalist protect leaker, thereby abetting a criminal act

A Rovian twist on Watergate might go this way:

Deep Throat would have been thrown in Levinsworth an enemy combatant and the Watergate five would be given protected witness status and promotes to some desk job in Ashcroft's Justice Dept., while the Washington Post claims that telling what they know about the story would be a breach of confidentiality.

The Journalist Confidentiality claim is another indication that today's media is an extention/agent in a client relationship with the Administration's PR department.