29-07-2009, 05:26 AM
Ah, Watergate. I was 25, post-Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin, Dow Chemical protests, Chicago, etc. The Watergate thing broke just before the election, and the MSM were strangely silent and impervious. McGovern was a sitting duck, lame he even took office, and the whole thing seemed like a novel with each new page revealing new 'stuff', and the hearings were on TV for extended periods in which Americans were glued to the TV like they had been (in shorter bursts) around the assassinations and the Apollo stuff. It was training ground for them and us for later events and I have to admit that I was schnookered, probably several times, in layers, wrapped as though in one of them reverse cross-armed white canvas coats.
Today, over at the other shop across town. one fellow asked
"How do we know if they find an answer it is the true answer? How do we know it won't be a Bush41 at the gerald (he pardon'd Nixon) Ford funeral moment? ESPECIALLY what with Russ Baker's book finally bringing an angle into Watergate never before in print by a noted person"
and I answered
"'Mellinger, a one-time systems analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA)' will tell us.
Well, actually, the way things work, the news will probably come out in a different way and from a different and likely more distant source.
This is just the "set-up" for the punch line that comes later, and then more of the tweeting birds can say 'see? it was in the works and forecast back then' so it must be true.
If they can forge a letter about Nigerian uranium going to Hussein, make a high-speed bullet do sharp corners worthy of a fighter plane, make a six-shooter carve out eight holes in the woodwork in the kitchen, get four commercial aircraft to fly without inquiry or threat through the area in the US most densely populated with military air bases with combat aircraft 2-3x faster, make 100-story buildings disintegrate in free fall from a fire, and assemble highly-regarded and accredited inquiries, commissions and publications to tell us it was indeed so, then they can do anything (and probably will) so it must be true."
In time, they have gotten better, faster and more sophisticated and put the event itself on TV live so we could watch the buildings swallow whole planes like Jello eats spoons and, for the first time, we could 'participate' in the event in a way in which we could 'see for ourselves' what happened. (some had gotten media literate and knowledgeable about deep politics and black ops in the interim and some actually 'smelled' the thing coming but to no avail in real time). This time, they did a better job of anticipating the questions and inquiries and so the packaging was a little tighter, but still of cellophane.
I still don't necessarily understand Watergate, but I've learned over the years and the multiple events what kind of world we live in and, like some semi-retired fan of popular page-turners, I simply wait for the postman to bring the new sequel. Some, like the folks here and in other corners, are getting good enough to write the outline of the plot before the book is written or the event 'taped for broadcast', hopefully forcing 'the producers' to go back to the cutting room or 'rewrite' before release. :pcguru:
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It's a game, and they're winning, but we keep getting better and, given enough time, perhaps we can re-write our DNA to make future generations smarter.
Today, over at the other shop across town. one fellow asked
"How do we know if they find an answer it is the true answer? How do we know it won't be a Bush41 at the gerald (he pardon'd Nixon) Ford funeral moment? ESPECIALLY what with Russ Baker's book finally bringing an angle into Watergate never before in print by a noted person"
and I answered
"'Mellinger, a one-time systems analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA)' will tell us.
Well, actually, the way things work, the news will probably come out in a different way and from a different and likely more distant source.
This is just the "set-up" for the punch line that comes later, and then more of the tweeting birds can say 'see? it was in the works and forecast back then' so it must be true.
If they can forge a letter about Nigerian uranium going to Hussein, make a high-speed bullet do sharp corners worthy of a fighter plane, make a six-shooter carve out eight holes in the woodwork in the kitchen, get four commercial aircraft to fly without inquiry or threat through the area in the US most densely populated with military air bases with combat aircraft 2-3x faster, make 100-story buildings disintegrate in free fall from a fire, and assemble highly-regarded and accredited inquiries, commissions and publications to tell us it was indeed so, then they can do anything (and probably will) so it must be true."
In time, they have gotten better, faster and more sophisticated and put the event itself on TV live so we could watch the buildings swallow whole planes like Jello eats spoons and, for the first time, we could 'participate' in the event in a way in which we could 'see for ourselves' what happened. (some had gotten media literate and knowledgeable about deep politics and black ops in the interim and some actually 'smelled' the thing coming but to no avail in real time). This time, they did a better job of anticipating the questions and inquiries and so the packaging was a little tighter, but still of cellophane.
I still don't necessarily understand Watergate, but I've learned over the years and the multiple events what kind of world we live in and, like some semi-retired fan of popular page-turners, I simply wait for the postman to bring the new sequel. Some, like the folks here and in other corners, are getting good enough to write the outline of the plot before the book is written or the event 'taped for broadcast', hopefully forcing 'the producers' to go back to the cutting room or 'rewrite' before release. :pcguru:
It's a game, and they're winning, but we keep getting better and, given enough time, perhaps we can re-write our DNA to make future generations smarter.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"