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Depends on the definition
of final solution
OK, someone explain this to me. I'm listening to the NBC Nightly News with Brian "Not Tom Brokaw" Williams, and they play a scratchy, barely audible 33 year old recording of Richard Nixon and Bob Haldeman talking in the Oval Office. Haldeman just told his boss that W. Mark Felt, the number two man at the FBI, was leaking damaging information about the Watergate break in to the press. Let's go to the tape:
Nixon: Is he Catholic?
Haldeman: (unintelligible) Jewish.
President Nixon: Christ, put a Jew in there?
Haldeman: Well, that could explain it too.
Now cut to Williams: "Voices from another era, in the Oval Office, discussing the Watergate break-in."
Yeah, real ancient history there, Brian. What does that mean, "from another era"? Do paleontologists speculate about how Richard Nixon might have looked? Or are we talking about a time before Hitler set Europe to fire and turned Jews into cordwood?
Of is Williams excusing Nixon, and his Republican spawn, as in "The times made them do it. Everybody else was dissing Jews. How was Nixon to know that anti-Semitism was so uncool?"
Those were the days
Why are the major daily newspapers all but ignoring real news (Downing Street memo, Bolton intelligence report, etc.)? John Soto has an answer: I guess they ... had to make room for all those nostalgic "Deep Throat" pieces as a testament to a time when we really had an investigative media that paid more attention to important contemporary stories than they did to ones from 8 years ago about sex in the White House.
Let the major media cover the identity of Deep Throat, but skip the gauzy nostalgia and give us context. But the media won't go there. Deep Throat in context is as much about legacy media then, and the corporate shills that pass as news departments now. And one thing big news is really bad at is self examination.
1.6.05 00:09