Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Bill Murray's Realization About Bob Woodward and Richard Nixon (Joe Rogan Podcast)" video.

  1. I have a lot of problems with Dick Nixon, but the press absolutely went out of their way to get the guy. Then they gave themselves a major pat on the back and portrayed their role in the whole affair in exaggerated terms. It was a watershed moment because after that suck fest All The Presidents Men came out with Redford and Hoffman reporters started to make a concerted effort to insert themselves into the story instead of simply reporting facts. That movie was to journalism what the Godfather was to the mob. They tried to kick around future republican presidents like Reagan and Bush but they couldn't get them to jump into the tabloid septic tank with them, not the way Nixon did. Nixon liked jousting with them and just like he said in 62 after he lost the race for governor of California: "As I leave you now, just think how much you're going to be missing, you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." Like Gollum in his woe is me recollection: "And we wept precious, oh how we wept." They needed a villain. In comes Trump. Almost like he was sent over straight from central casting. They had their boogey man back, someone who was more than willing to jump into the mosh pit with em. Hell, most days he jumped in first and said: "Come on in boys, the water is just fine." And like Nixon warned em in 62, Gollum's lamentation fell on em hard in 2020, when Trump was replaced by a feeble old man who shook hands with people only he could see and his stoner VP who couldn't string three words together in a coherent fashion. It was a target rich environment but they were off-limits so the arrows had to be put back in the quiver. Ratings for networks, especially CNN, tanked when the Orange Man was gone. In their coal black hearts they wanted Trump to return. Or as Colonel Jessup put it it: "Deep down in places you don't talk about at party's, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall." The question now is, who will replace Trump as the target after 2028? Musk? Vance if he's elected? Maybe, but those guys won't be half the villain Trump is. There won't be a suitable replacement for the show. So grab the popcorn and enjoy it while you can gang, because the celebrity's who pass for journalists these days are a lazy no-talent bunch and if they don't have anyone to aim their vitriol at they have nothing. Reality TV as politics. In the meantime there is a debt bomb just waiting to explode and plunge us into a national tailspin so wild we'll long for the good old days of masks and six-foot separation rules. But hey, where's the fun in reporting on that. Sleep well kiddos.
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