01-08-2014, 12:31 AM
From newly published Nixon tapes (Dec. 14, 1972):
NIXON: And also, never forget, the press is the enemy.
KISSINGER: On that, there's no question --
NIXON: The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on the blackboard a hundred times and never forget it.
KISSINGER: I, on the professors --
NIXON: Always --
KISSINGER: -- I need no instruction at all.
NIXON: Always --
KISSINGER: And on the press, I'm in complete agreement with you.
NIXON: It's the enemy. . . . The press is the enemy. That's all.
NIXON: And also, never forget, the press is the enemy.
KISSINGER: On that, there's no question --
NIXON: The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on the blackboard a hundred times and never forget it.
KISSINGER: I, on the professors --
NIXON: Always --
KISSINGER: -- I need no instruction at all.
NIXON: Always --
KISSINGER: And on the press, I'm in complete agreement with you.
NIXON: It's the enemy. . . . The press is the enemy. That's all.
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[url=https://www.facebook.com/joseph.mcbride1?fref=ufi]Joseph McBride I don't agree on the professors, naturally enough, but think Nixon's right about the news media being the enemy (now), though not for the reasons he thinks. It's what Jonathan Rosenbaum calls "the media-industrial complex," and the news media, by and large, are in total synch with the government and the military-industrial complex. They've mostly forgotten that their real job is, as Finley Peter Dunne put it, to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."