The Left devouring itself

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Published on June 3, 2005 By Dr Guy In Politics

I found the following to be very educational as I did not know Felt's political persuasion until now:

Felt himself turns out to have been both a hero of an earlier war on terrorism and a victim of the criminalization of policy differences. During the Carter administration, as O'Connor notes, Felt, who by then had left the FBI, "was indicted on charges of having authorized illegal F.B.I. break-ins earlier in the decade, in which agents without warrants entered the residences of associates and family members of suspected bombers believed to be involved with the Weather Underground." He was convicted in 1980. "Then, in a stroke of good fortune while his case was on appeal, Ronald Reagan was elected president." On April 15, 1981, Reagan granted Felt a full pardon.

Little wonder, then, that Felt, who had been a registered Democrat, "turned Republican during the Reagan years," as O'Connor notes. In this respect he was far from alone--and by helping to force the resignation of a Republican president, he might have helped set the stage for a Republican ascendancy.

The left's greatest hero was being railroaded by them! No wonder Carter could not win an election for dog catcher!

Comments

ParaTed2k

on Jun 05, 2005

In the end Mr. Felt was neither hero with patriotic intentions, nor villain. Just a politically motivated man who found himself with sufficient ammunition to take down his political opponents. I think the ones who are taking the biggest hit in all this are Woodward and Bernstein. Apparently the shining lights of investigative journalism weren't such hot shots at investigations after all. Like average journalists they're good fortunes were based on someone with primo information calling them.

kingbee

on Jun 05, 2005

The left's greatest hero was being railroaded by them! No wonder Carter could not win an election for dog catcher!

i really can't decide whether the first statement is more hilarious on its own or in tandem with the conclusion to which it seems to have somehow flung you.

in any event, you've clearly provided an enormous dose of some deliciously happy neurotransmitter hormone to the small group of braincells who maintain my 70s memories. they're laffin so hard projecting visions of you saying those exact words in public in the 1970s. everytime they get to the part about the left's greatest hero being 2nd in command of the fbi, they go ballistic.

if i suffer a stroke in the next hour, it's your fault.

kingbee

on Jun 05, 2005

. I think the ones who are taking the biggest hit in all this are Woodward and Bernstein. Apparently the shining lights of investigative journalism weren't such hot shots at investigations after all. Like average journalists they're good fortunes were based on someone with primo information calling them

jeeez, i may never have to buy nitrous again.

i realize you have a thing about journalists, so let's see how your logic carries over to other occupations.

I think the one who is taking the biggest hit in all this is champillon. Apparently the shining light of rosetta stone translation wasn't such a hot shot at hieroglyphics after all. Like any average linguist, his good fortune was based on his predecessors de stacy and young.

Dr Guy

on Jun 06, 2005

Like average journalists they're good fortunes were based on someone with primo information calling them.

It did make them. ANd in the end, they are just average journalist that caught a lucky break. But sometimes luck is better than hard work. Just sometimes.

Dr Guy

on Jun 06, 2005

if i suffer a stroke in the next hour, it's your fault.

Well, far be it from me to cause you harm. Please take a chill pill. And the beauty of retrospect is that the whole picture is clear, and you do not have to guess at anything. I would no more have made these statements in the 70s as you would have because the end had not been played out. Now it has been.

I appreciate the fact that I can entertain you tho. At least your brain cells get some exercise on occassion.

Dr Guy

on Jun 06, 2005

I think the one who is taking the biggest hit in all this is champillon. Apparently the shining light of rosetta stone translation wasn't such a hot shot at hieroglyphics after all. Like any average linguist, his good fortune was based on his predecessors de stacy and young.

Not knowing the characters behind the Rosetta stone, I would not know. But if you can make a convincing argument for your hypothesis stated above, I urge you to go ahead and do it. Might get you a by line in a prestigious journal.

ParaTed2k

on Jun 06, 2005

I guess in lieu of reinforcing your point, you chose to use an analogy that doesn't work. The Rosetta Stone truly was a breakthrough in bridging ancient Egyptian and Modern Greek, enabling our societies to learn countless things about the ancient world. However, where your analogy fails is that the Rosetta Stone would have been just another hunk of dark granite it those who understood Greek, and held an intense interest in ancient Egypt had never seen the stone itself. Woodward & Bernstien did not discover the White House Tapes, learning of the break in at the Watergate Hotel was not the result of intense investigations. What Woodward & Bernstein did was play the amplifier to Mr. Felt's play-by-play. In the end, it wasn't their talent, education or journalistic experience that landed the story, it was Mr. Felt. Who gets the accolades for writing a book, the one whose name apprears on the byline, or the ones who penned the text? Can you say Stephanus, Fortunatus, Achaicus and Timoteus?

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