Fox correspondent concludes that Bush is not a war criminal . Insane and diabolical? Yes. A war crimial? No. If only the media wasn't so evil, he wouldn't finish his term in disgrace.

james rosen is a zionist hack.

-and nothing more.

God that was a terribly written article.

In fact, the wiretap installed on the telephone of O'Brien's secretary, Fay Abel, never worked

Well then, I guess that's OK. If only the Fourth Estate had such a stout pillar of integrity like FOX News back then we might not have had to stop conscripting our young and sending them into Asian meat grinders.

farking perverts.

No he wasn't a crook, HE WAS THE CROOK .

how could they say he was nto a crook, it came out in the last of Nixon's papers that he PLANNED the break in!

Are you farking kidding me?

Nixon agreed that his administration should tell the CIA and FBI directors to cease the investigation into Watergate. It's on the tapes. It was the smoking gun.

Was Albert Hall some innocent, misunderstood civil servant who happened to lease without bidding the Teapot Dome fields to Sinclair and Doheny?

Did the Whiskey Ring just happen to mix up the paperwork, and didn't distribute and launder tax money?

What the fark?

There's no reason for FOX News to have to say this because Nixon himself already said it.

SherKhan: In fact, the wiretap installed on the telephone of O'Brien's secretary, Fay Abel, never worked

Well then, I guess that's OK. If only the Fourth Estate had such a stout pillar of integrity like FOX News back then we might not have had to stop conscripting our young and sending them into Asian meat grinders.

farking perverts.

Didn't the New York Post used to be respectable, before Murdoch bought it? Hamilton is spinning in his grave so fast, we could turn him 90 degrees and use him to drill for oil.

If he hadn't cheated on his income taxes, no one would have given a crap.

growinthings
how could they say he was nto a crook

What I don't get is why the Post's headline says that, but the article says this on page three, after admitting that he had targeted DNC officials with audio bugs:

Rather, the tapes unmasked Nixon as an aging and confused politician, a hapless obstructer of justice invariably lost amid the welter of Watergate detail, uncertain who knew what and when, what each player had told the grand jury, whose testimony was direct, whose hearsay. (emphasis mine)

Their headline is completely divorced from the reality of their own article's content.

Doesn't G. Gordon Libby have a show on Fox News Radio? He was convicted in the Watergate scandal. By definition, isn't he a crook?

mrexcess: Their headline is completely divorced from the reality of their own article's content.

I'm not even going to RTFA, and I could have told you that.

Shvetz: Doesn't G. Gordon Libby have a show on Fox News Radio? He was convicted in the Watergate scandal. By definition, isn't he a crook?

So does Oliver North. FOX's daytime programming might as well be called the "Let's sell shiat to terrorists and fark up South America" power hour.

Admittedly, I couldn't finish that article since it was so full of fail halfway through the 1st page. However, the "not a crook" argument appears to be based on the notion that Nixon didn't do anything to enrich himself. Thus while he may have been an unabasheed liar who misused his office to illegally spy on citizens and engage in certain other illegal deeds, he technically isn't a "crook" by definition.

However, I guesss the author of the article wants us to ignore the actual Articles of Impeachment which outline the fact he was a "Crook" by any definition. He illegally converted campaign and government funds for his own use and cheated on his taxes.

Article IV

In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the Untied States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, did receive emoluments from the United States in excess of the compensation provided by law pursuant to Article II, Section I, Clause 7 of the Constitution, and did willfully attempt to evade the payment of a portion of Federal income taxes due and owing by him for the years 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972, in that:

(1) He, during the period for which he has been elected President, unlawfully received compensation in the form of government expenditures at and on his privately-owned properties located in or near San Clemente, California, and Key Biscayne, Florida.

(2) He knowingly and fraudulently failed to report certain income and claimed deductions in the year 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972 on his Federal income tax returns which were not authorized by law, including deductions for a gift of papers to the United States valued at approximately $576,000.

In all of this Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

If the President does it then it isn't a crime.
If News Corp reports it then it isn't spin.
It's just that simple.

Spiro nattering nabob of negativism was the crook.

Why do we always get NYPost links? They're never as funny as the Onion.

Nixon is way too liberal for Fox News and modern day Republicans.

WorldCitizen: Nixon is way too liberal for Fox News and modern day Republicans.

This.

Nixon created the EPA and OSHA. If Bush did something as socialistic and liberal as that Fox "News" and Rush would be calling for his resignation.

Marcus Aurelius: If he hadn't cheated on his income taxes, no one would have given a crap.

Like Capone?

If you have been following the money as long as I have, you would know Bush is dirtier than Capone.
He's had more innocents killed ruthlessly to forward his profits.
He's done his books better.
But accounting is not a game of cat and mouse and eventually he will be seen for who he is.
Believe otherwise, and you are blind.
/don't feel bad, there are a million blind people out there pulling levers for their choice of head crook.

Thats an 827: Spiro nattering nabob of negativism was the crook.

At least he had the smarts to resign when he was caught taking bribes across the table.

Ha. I was glued to the Watergate hearings daily. What great television THAT was. Of course, Fox would ignore it if it was happening now.

Dicky was evil, but he didn't get the US and Aussies involved in Vietnam ... he just perpetuated it. Best slogan circa 1968? "Euthenasia? Youth In Asia". Or maybe "Would you buy as used war from this man?"

Lemme guess... Was it this Fox News Correspondent Patriot?

WTF? No pics allowed?
Did Kazuya offend the mods or something?

/Or is it just me?

Nixon was a great president. If I had lived in that time period, I would have supported him till the end. I just don't get how American people got mad at Nixon. All what he was trying to do was his job. Nixon gave us a future glipse of what the presidency should be like. The President should have the final word on any word and that president is to run as a profitable corporation instead of a government corporation for the people. What America doesn't know today is that they are out of touch with Washington and they should instead act like Washington. If people did that, it would be a much peaceful, equal world.

Jesus Christ. Republicans just can let it be. It's been 40 years and they're still crying in their beer over it.

The fundamental strength AND weakness of the Republican party is their faithful allegiance to it.

The problem is, when one of them screws up, rather than cutting their losses, they support them 100% in spite of the evidence to the contrary. Even if what the person did goes against everything they believe in.

It's people like this in both parties who are ruining this country.

Funk Brothers: Nixon was a great president. If I had lived in that time period, I would have supported him till the end. I just don't get how American people got mad at Nixon. All what he was trying to do was his job. Nixon gave us a future glipse of what the presidency should be like. The President should have the final word on any word and that president is to run as a profitable corporation instead of a government corporation for the people. What America doesn't know today is that they are out of touch with Washington and they should instead act like Washington. If people did that, it would be a much peaceful, equal world.

They have a word for that: Monarch

Bf+: /Or is it just me?

Just you.

Funk Brothers: Nixon was a great president.

Bwaaaahahahahahhaahahahahahhahahahahaahahahahahaha!

EbolaNYC

Everyone knows that the people are the greatest threat to Democracy and not the government itself. George Bush should warn the people about this in his farewell speech. I would have been happy to for Nixon to defy impeachment of the Senate and continue the day to day tasks of the presidency.

The Love Of Richard Nixon (new window)

Funk Brothers: Nixon was a great president. If I had lived in that time period, I would have supported him till the end. I just don't get how American people got mad at Nixon. All what he was trying to do was his job. Nixon gave us a future glipse of what the presidency should be like. The President should have the final word on any word and that president is to run as a profitable corporation instead of a government corporation for the people. What America doesn't know today is that they are out of touch with Washington and they should instead act like Washington. If people did that, it would be a much peaceful, equal world.

That was sweet, but you forgot to sign off, "Lazlo Toth, out!"

If they assert this enough in other various ways being newspaper magazine and tv, the desired effect being converting those on the fence of the idea, or at least those unwilling to even read into the topic as to inform themselves, will accept it. Luckily they have mouthpieces like Fox and Clear Channel that act on this.

I think we have learned well enough by the current administration that there will always be those willing to defend an idea no matter how unfounded, as long as the message is repeated enough and clearly we have seen that there are channels willing to be the messenger.

LOLrs

ucfknights: Fox correspondent concludes that Bush is not a war criminal . Insane and diabolical? Yes. A war crimial? No. If only the media wasn't so evil, he wouldn't finish his term in disgrace.

Except that Bush is not a war criminal and you need to be insane to believe he is.

I have a number of conservative friends who feel Nixon was railroaded when his habitual lawbreaking was exposed. They also feel that Clinton got off easy on his extramarital affair. You do the math.

what a crock.

Don't they take pride in the oft-repeated idea that if Fox News existed back then, Watergate never would've brought down Nixon? Fark them.

I hadn't realized that the proposition that Nixon was crook was still an open question.

RagingLeonard: WorldCitizen: Nixon is way too liberal for Fox News and modern day Republicans.

This.

Nixon created the EPA and OSHA. If Bush did something as socialistic and liberal as that Fox "News" and Rush would be calling for his resignation.

You mean like the new Medicare Prescription drug benefits?

Which cost the taxpayers more than EPA and OSHA combined?

Let's see what the late Hunter S. Thompson thought about Nixon...
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Burn98: RagingLeonard: WorldCitizen: Nixon is way too liberal for Fox News and modern day Republicans.

This.

Nixon created the EPA and OSHA. If Bush did something as socialistic and liberal as that Fox "News" and Rush would be calling for his resignation.

You mean like the new Medicare Prescription drug benefits?

Which cost the taxpayers more than EPA and OSHA combined?

No, this is perfectly acceptable because the real purpose of the Medicare prescription plan is to enrich corporations, according to a plan which they helped to devise and push through Congress. That's corporatism, not socialism, I think.

Burn98: RagingLeonard: WorldCitizen: Nixon is way too liberal for Fox News and modern day Republicans.

This.

Nixon created the EPA and OSHA. If Bush did something as socialistic and liberal as that Fox "News" and Rush would be calling for his resignation.

You mean like the new Medicare Prescription drug benefits?

Which cost the taxpayers more than EPA and OSHA combined?

I lol'd

Seriously, the whole revisionism over Vietnam, Ronald Reagan, and now this? Read the transcripts of the Nixon tapes, especially where he and his cabinet discuss kidnapping the children of the Democrat senators and congressmen to get their laws passed. The guy was a sociopath. He was also a hypocrite who on the one hand continued an unpopular "war against communism" and with the other opened up China to the US without conditions. The FBI guy Deep Throat was a real patriot for exposing Nixons crimes, not a traitor as Fox news reported when he came out in 2005.

randomjsa Except that Bush is not a war criminal and you need to be insane to believe he is.

Yes, except for the parts about waging an unprovoked war of aggression, and directing torture that in multiple cases directly resulted in death, and a couple other minor things. Other than that, no war crimes at all.

That horse is not only dead, but all the dogs fed on the dogfood it was made into are dead, too.

Then: "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
Now: "When a Republican does it, that means that it is not illegal."

I think the bigger question is, Why is a Fox correspondent coming to the defense of a liberal tree-hugger like Nixon? Or do conservatives these days simply think that Republicans have always believed the crazy shiat that they do today?

Northern: Seriously, the whole revisionism over Vietnam, Ronald Reagan, and now this?

Isn't it bizarre? I am starting understand why old people are grumpy. It's from walking around muttering "Thats NOT how it happened damn it!!!!"

oldebayer: That horse is not only dead, but all the dogs fed on the dogfood it was made into are dead, too.

Along with the next 3 generations of their puppies.

The bolder the lie, the more unlikely people are to call it out.