Days of Jackals

C&L has a post and comment titled Scarborough: Phone records and Nixon.. "Scarborough reveals the obvious"..., I guess the obvious would be no Watergate and Nixon resignation? The country is better off for forcing Nixon out of office? Woodward and Bernstein would not have had careers? No script for Hollywood? No Role for Redford? What?

Scarborough Country is hosted by Joe Scarborough, former Florida republican pol in the House of Representatives (1995-2001). He resigned from the house in 2001 to "spend more time with his family." If only all the republicans resigned from D.C. to spend time with their families ... Coincidentally, that same year one of Joe's aides died after fainting and hitting her head on her desk (rumors of his involvement went nowhere). A multi-faceted man Joe also plays and composes songs for his band, Regular Joe, which once performed at the BushCo RNC.

It's an uninteresting clip of Scarborough with the usual media mix of Hollywood with news, or is that news with a Hollywood theme? The intent is to entertain and concomintantly instill fear of being spied on, as many talking heads and pundits are doing of late. Joe begins elaborating on the "stunning twist" of the government spying on reporters. You know, spying on those guys from the same newspapers who promoted stories of WMD, mushroom clouds, 9/11 official story, fair elections, etc. Those same liars who a short while back convinced readers that ragheads in bomb belts were just around the corner, planning another ground zero more horrible with germs and/or suitcase nukes. The same boneheads who defended and explained duct tape, plastic, and the color codes for us. Gave readers the toppling statue, Bush flightsuit, Mission Accomplished, purple fingers, Americans hanging from a bridge, etc.

At one point in Scarborough's lifetime he felt NSA wiretapping was a "nitpicking issue."

As background music, and for the younger aging lefists, Scarborough chose might-be-a-pedophile Bahraini Michael Jackson's 1980s hit Somebody's Watching Me. Forceful Joe tells the government if they want our records - "get a damn search warrant." Bush haters goose-pimpled and cheered around the world. Score 1 for the "left." (I bet you my next invoice amount the government can get that "damn search warrant.")

Scarborough continues with the comparison of today's government with Nixon's, with clips of heartthrob Robert Redford (looking nothing like Woodward or Bernstein) in All the President's Men. Yea Hollywood.

Do ya really think Nixon didn't spy by phone records, use the same tactics?

Transcript of a Nixon tape:

"Haldeman: [reading] [“My strong recommendation would be to retire Hoover now] in all the glory and esteem he has merited and deserved; and not letting him—for his own sake and ours—wind up his career a dead lion being chewed over by the jackals of the Left.”
President Nixon: Absolutely right, Bob, absolutely right. Well, let’s put that to [Attorney General John] Mitchell. That it’s not from me, but from Buchanan. Let’s play this game [unclear]: From one of our—from a very surprising source on the far—on the right.
Haldeman: On the right.
President Nixon: On the far right, and I . . . one of our . . . why not, say, put one of our . . . put one of our favorite columnists on the far right. He will never write it. He will be confused about it."

When I see columnists, warmongers, conservatives, "former" neocon supporters, this new class of public punditocracy who have "awakened" and made the issue of the decade "spying" (the least of BushCo's crimes against humanity) I have to wonder who is behind it, who put them on it. Is this the ruling elite's Republican version of wag the jackal in a blue dress leaking under the desk?