America Celebrates, Drinks and Goes Home

You’re Not Actually Paranoid If You Spent Your Entire Career Pissing Everyone Off And Ended Your Public Life In Disgrace After Illegally Bombing Cambodia And Covering Up The Break-in Of Your Opponent’s Campaign Headquarters, Causing Just About Everyone To Despise You For Good Reason

Nixonland
January 10, 2013

Just had to give a big fuck you shout out to our 37^th president, Richard M. Nixon who was the only American president ever to resign in disgrace (and that even includes the walking definition of disgrace, George W. Bush), after what became known as Watergate. If you don’t know about this, look it up. I’m pretty sure it was in the Washington Post. Nixon would have been one hundred years disgusting old yesterday. One of the most enduring legacies Tricky Dick left behind was the "-gate" suffix often affixed to any appallingly scandalous episode.



I had never seen or heard this quote from December 14, 1972, just a few weeks after Nixon secured the second term he would eventually relinquish to Gerald Ford, who was appointed vice-president after Nixon's second in dishonor command - Spiro Agnew - resigned due to criminal charges of which he was eventually found guilty, paving the way for Nixon's ultimate legacy of shame and paranoia: “Also, never forget: the press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Write that on the blackboard 100 times and never forget it.”



Somehow this bastion of Republican't hubris presided over the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Consumer Protection Safety Commission, Title IX, the Social Security Administration and the “Cost-of-Living Adjustment." Most of these more by accident of history than a keen sense of right-and-wrong.  Nonetheless this kind of unseemly behavior would have caused the Tea Party to run him out of town on an assault rifle in today’s political climate.

In other news of the morally and intellectually challenged, Fox News host and alleged mammal Eric Bolling is trying to sell the idea, long ago debunked by everyone else on the planet, that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks.  Rumor has it that Bolling is currently at work on a documentary outlining proof that the Sun revolves around the Earth.  Stay stupid my friend.

I. Mangrey reporting.
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