Matt Davies for November 10, 2019

“The bigiy-est.”

And we were the better for its lack.

FOX News: pouring poison in America’s eyes and ears since 1996.

This does give me a (very) little sense that something good could happen before the election.

“Who is the press going to kick around after I’m gone.” Tricky D.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. Without rigorous ethical and competency requirements (just age and citizenship), you invite the power-hungry to participate and they have no qualms about lying cheat and stealing. You get the government you deserve, it seems.

when the president does it, that means it’s not illegal

no, not the current resident of the white house – nixon in a 1977 interview with david frost…

Remember that Nixon’s first Vice President, Spiro Agnew (Spiro Who??) shook up national news organizations quite a bit: “instant” analysis” … “nattering nabobs of negativism,” etc. Maybe some of criticisms were needed, but it was disheartening to see how quickly the big networks hopped to comply in the face of subtle threats.

Nixon also had, he claimed, the Nation’s “Silent Majority” on his side. How convenient that they were silent and could not be actually counted. I always thought the silent majority were — the dead.

Look, there are always news companies that consider the president of one or the other party as holy and pure. The major networks were at one time run by people trained in real journalism, who bowed to the icons of Morrow and Cronkite. If there was (metaphorically) a pot hole filled with muck, they didn’t wring their hands and whimper — they spit in the muck and investigated as to whom was responsible.

Not so much newspapers, as witness the staunchly Republican “Chicago Tribune” (that, however, was one of the first to publish transcripts Nixon’s White House tapes). So readers of regional news could get different viewpoints.

Nixon would have loved FOX News. He would have loved the Internet with its many possibilities for “truly fake” news. How different the country would be now if he had use of those outlets to defend himself and smear his opponents. It might be even worse than now.

Honestly, I didn’t hate Nixon — I thought he was warped by ambition, and at the end acted delusionally, but had a core of decency. Skip to the present, and we have someone in power consumed by ambition and rotten to the core, spreading the rot via a national news network.

If Fox was around back then, Nixon wouldn’t have left office.

The Republican Party is hellbent on exonerating Nixon, and trump is obsessed with exonerating Putin. Interesting heroes they worship.

Imagine the PURE BULL$#!T Lumpy Hannity would have been spewing then… just like he’s doing now!

Chairman and CEO of Fox Entertainment — from which he resigned in disgrace — Roger Ailes was the media-man for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Donald Trump, and for Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign.

Ailes invented the “Orchestra Pit Theory” about political coverage in the news media:

If you have two guys on a stage and one guy says, “I have a solution to the Middle East problem,” and the other guy falls in the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news?

Say it loud, say it proud. Hire dozens of ‘hot’ blondes and angry white men to serve as relentless living partisan campaign commercials. Focus on fear. Keep it simple:

they are bad, We are good.

We are protecting America, and they are destroying America.

Stay tuned for the SHOCKING details of how bad they are, and who you must vote for.

Are you not entertained?

There wasn’t a Fox News on 1973. That didn’t start until the Aussie Criminal came here.

Because there was not Fox ‘news’, people weren’t as gullible then.

Fox news watchers are like fish waiting for a hook.

Roger Ailes claimed in a law suit that Fox was not required to bother with objective truth because it never had claimed to be a news station. Instead he classified it as entertainment. https://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=27363

Nixon talked about wanting Americans to know that their president wasn’t a crook but it turned out he was. Trump is a con man, liar, unethical and an extortionist is proud to put it on display everyday. Most people already knew what Trump was but the Republicons and the MAGA’s don’t care. They just bow down before him. Regressive politics or a sad commentary on what were becoming as a country?

A man’s a man; and all that . . .

“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“I’ll get right on that.”-Roger Ailes

…where have you gone, richard milhous – a nation turns its lonely eyes to you…

I absolutely believe that Nixon would be better than der Fooey.

The dirt you CLAIM you dug up on your opponent

Back when shame meant something.

Just remember. In the realm of Impeachment, a High Crime or Misdemeanor is whatever a majority of the House decides.

Criminal and civil code have absolutely nothing to do with it. Which is why this circus is taking place. How did Comey put it? “No rational prosecutor….”

At this point, with what we have seen leaked and released, no crime has been committed.

“At this point, with what we have seen leaked and released, no crime has been committed.”

“We” in this case seems to refer to a group of primates with their eyes and ears tightly covered. Alas, the one with its mouth shut is nowhere to be found.