Saturday, June 06, 2015
Constants and variables 29
It's damn hard to hold onto obvious truth when the zeitgeist is pushing from every conceivable angle. I noticed it just now ...
I was thinking about how NPR made its gang bones with coverage of the Watergate hearings. Before Watergate, NPR was just an assemblage of 'educational radio' stations. Until then, 'educational radio' stations served three main purposes: (1) Provided training for college broadcasting students. (2) Gave useful daily info to farmers as part of the Extension Service. (3) Carried lectures for a few popular classes, just like modern 'MOOC'.
Watergate enabled the Soviets at NPR headquarters to become Soviet Central, the gold standard for commie propaganda.
I was semi-verbally thinking "Well, the Watergate hearings were evil but not crazy. They had a consistent ideological purpose. Nowadays every politician is on the same side, but partisan idiots try to make us think they're different. Nixon was actually different. He had successfully prosecuted several Soviet agents including Alger Hiss."
NO, DAMMIT! I know better. Even in 1973 I knew better. The congressional committees that exposed Soviet agents were bipartisan, and the Kennedy gang was even more involved than Nixon. There wasn't any difference in 1948, there wasn't any difference in 1973, and there isn't any difference now.
It's not about ideology. Never was. It's just plain old gang activity. After the Kennedy gang got into power, they ran a personal vendetta against Nixon for daring to compete with them. That's all.
Labels: Constants and Variables
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