“Well, (former Washington Post managing editor) Ben Bradlee is a Kennedy-phile, a Nixon hater from way back. 
And if you believe the end justifies means, that destroying Richard Nixon and bringing him down any way you can, if that makes someone a hero, then Felt, who deceived his colleagues, who dishonored his oath, who lied his head off for 30 years, is a hero.
“But I will say this. Felt certainly deserves part of that Pulitzer Prize. It now turns out that our great investigative reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, were gofers between the FBI and The Washington Post, stenographers, at best, people who simply wrote down what Felt‘s investigators found.
“I mean, this to me is one of the — one of the startling discoveries here, was that this wasn‘t any great piece of investigative journalism. You had some guy shoveling stuff to him in a garage.”
Well, look who’s crying foul: Buchanan is shocked — shocked! — and full of recriminations about media types he claims would do anything to bring down a president. This, after what Republican right wingers, their burgeoning propaganda industry, behind-the scenes lawyers and “operatives” did to Bill and Hillary Clinton from the moment Bill Clinton started running for the Democratic nomination in 1981.
Amazing.
To make matters worse, we seem to recall the same Pat Buchanan defending Ken Starr, who spent much of Clinton’s White House tenure shaking down what Starr hoped would be witnesses; jailing one who wouldn’t say what Starr was trying to induce her to say; intimidating prospective witnesses’ families; expanding the scope of his witch hunt, then morphing it into a sex scandalfest; ultimately squandering nearly $80 million of taxpayers’ money for . . . nothing.
Disgusting.
As a political analyst for MSNBC who was a fierce Nixon loyalist and White House insider; as someone who shared Nixon’s fears about and bitter hatred for anyone who opposed the Vietnam War, branding them un-American, pro-communist subversives; should Buchanan’s views be given any credence in this matter?
No, the conflict of interest is glaringly apparent. However, the fact he’s being given air time to vent his spleen is typical of no-standards cable talk shows. Just the kind of travesty we’ve come to expect.
Unbelievable, literally.
You seem to do fine when it comes to venting the spleen.
When you talk of Ken Starr’s investigation, don’t forget Lawrence Walsh who spent on the same scale for, of course, a much more important result.
Last time I checked Ken Starr didn’t jail Susan McDougal, a judge did, and it was because she wouldn’t say anything. I guess the truth is too much to ask for.