Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "Watergate | 5 Minute Video" video.

@jeffg7478 Nixon was a crook and a leftist. This video is a disaster, sorry. I expect much better from Prager U.
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@Robert Horton This is the worst Prager U video I have ever seen. Nixon was a leftist and a crook. Don't believe this nonsense.
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This is the first time I have ever downvoted a Prager U video. As a conservative and a history teacher, I'm embarassed that they produced this nonsense. Nixon was a criminal and a lout. "He was the most dishonest individual I ever met in my life", wrote the man known as "Mr. Conservative", Senator Barry Goldwater. Nixon was forced out after lying to everyone about Watergate, then erasing incriminating tapes to cover it up. Before that, Nixon had been involved in numerous other scandals, thus earning the name "Tricky Dick". Neither was Nixon a conservative president. He implemeneted wage- and price- controls, which led to high inflation and high unemployment, and turned a surplus into a deficit. He started the EPA, signed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act, all of which have been abused by the federal government. He gave in to the anti-war protesters, leading to a shameful US withdrawal - and perceived loss - in Vietnam. He sold out Taiwan in order to make nice to China. He made arms agreements with the Soviet Union which we kept and they broke, and even tried to confer MFN status on the USSR. In short, Nixon was a criminal and a leftist, and not someone we have any business supporting. I like Hugh Hewitt, and I like Prager U, but this is nuts.
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@jeffg7478 He was an anti-commie, but so were Truman and Humphrey, and a lot of leftists in the old days. The Soviets had nukes trained on all our big cities back then. Outside of that, though, Nixon as president was a man of the left.
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@loganbradford2343 Thank you for the link. They didn't quite go out and declare Lee a hero; they were putting his life in context, in contrast with the rioters who were tearing down his statues as a protest of slavery or something, which doesn't quite compute. But I would agree that the video to which you linked does not represent Prager's best work. That said, they have many (hundreds? more?) of videos, and most are very, very good.
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@ysc Nixon was a terrible president, sorry. He was the furthest thing from a conservative. And, unlike the claims of this video, he was a total crook.
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@ysc * Many bad economic policies * Ineffective foreign policy Equals good president?? How so??
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@DJDDDog321 No, it's stupid propaganda, not conservative propaganda. Nixon was not a conservative president.
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@thedemonhater7748 Calm down, really. Nixon implemented wage- and price- controls, which led to unemployment, high inflation, and food shortages. He supported the ERA, which thankfully never became law. He also supported OSHA and the Clean Air Act, and started the EPA, all of which has led to federal government overreach. He signed an arms agreement with the USSR which we kept and they violated. And he bungled the war in Vietnam, giving in to the anti-American protesters, which led to the deaths of millions of innocents in SouthEast Asia. Some conservative.
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@loganbradford2343 Prager U is usually very good, but they're not perfect. Certainly far more reliable than, say, the New York Times or CNN.
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@loganbradford2343 I did not see the video you are referencing. As a US History teacher, I will tell you that Lee fought for the US, as nearly every Confederate Officer had, in the years prior to the Civil war. And Lee was not fighting for slavery; he was fighting on behalf of Virginia. Does that make him an American hero? Lord no, no one who fought for the CSA is an American hero, obviously. And yet, for whatever reason, folks like Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee were widely respected throughout the country in the post-war years. I imagine that the grace of folks like Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant had a lot to do with that.
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@thedemonhater7748 That's not correct. They called him one of a number of "great historical figures", which doesn't mean great person. And they listed some negatives along with the positives. I have a problem with their video, but let's be accurate here.
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@SlimThrull Prager U is terrific, not perfect, but who is? This video is a miss, it happens. They are still more reliable than the NYT, WP, CNN, CBS, ABC & NBC.
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@SlimThrull 1. Prager is far closer to the truth than the NYT, WP, CNN, CBS, NBC or ABC ever are. Who reported 24 dead people, arson everywhere, cops routinely attacked, regular looting, $2b worth of damage, and autonomous zones as "mostly peaceful protests"? Who regularly promulgates the lie that the US is "systemically racist" against minorities? Who falsely claims that police disproportionately shoot and kill minorites, when the reverse is true, and by a large margin? Who spent years insisting that Trump was a Russian agent? Who covered up the Hunter Biden story? Who makes believe that the worst terrorists in the world, backed by Iran, are the good guys, while Israel is to blame? The MSM has no conscience, and no credibility. And by the way, I have a paid online subscription to the NYT and the WP. Just saying. 2. Prager's legal argument is that a platform such as YT is fundamentally different than is a publisher, and that by censoring one side they are violating the law. Prager makes no claim that they have a right to have their material posted by a private publisher, but that things are different with an allegedly neutral platform. I am not a lawyer, but I have my doubts about Prager's claims. I tend to assume the libertarian view on that issue, but again, I am no law expert. But are you really claiming that Prager's filing of a lawsuit puts them on a plane with the militant, extremist leftists who run the mainstream media? Get serious. Prager videos hew far closer to the facts than today's mainstream media does, and it is not terribly close either.
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@CatholicTraditional He was a very unprincipled man. Early in his political career he was a conservative, but he was certainly not one as president, although he had moments, such as his support of Israel in 1973.
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