Hey "old timers" -- anyone else feeling Watergate flashbacks?

[Atman]

I hauled out my old tv and set it to black and white, just for effect. This hearing is kickin' it old school! I hope it has the same end result, or even better! (No pardons!)

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[SharonAnn]

1. Oh yes, I'm loving it.

[madrchsod]

2. yes

i wonder how little bean and corn boy feels today?

[slackmaster]

3. No, not really

Watergate was a three ring circus. The present situation feels to me something like Gore Vidal's 1979 movie Caligula in slow motion.

[moc]

4. LOL at setting your TV to B&W.

:rofl:

[Skidmore]

5. Yeah, but missing the ever eloquent and shining beacon of truth

The Honorable Ms. Barbara Jordan.

[madokie]

6. I am loving it

I was working evening then so I was able to watch the watergate hearings. I wish I could find one of the posters where tricky dicky's face was on the bottom of the lid and his lips were the seat so as when I took a dump I was dumping in his mouth

[mondo joe]

7. I won't flash back until this pre-empts Match Game.

That's my main Watergate memory. :-)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. No. But, if a new Sam Ervin or Sam Dash appear I'll be a lot more excited.

[slackmaster]

11. Yeah, and Senator Inouye lighting paper matches with one hand

That was pretty cool. My friends and I all taught ourselves to do it.

I think he quit smoking years ago.

[liberal N proud]

9. When we get to "At noon tomorrow" from bu$h then We will have flashback

[Double T]

10. Yes, we're currently in the cover up phase...............

as long as it ends with the decider resigning in disgrace and a one way ticket to gitmo, justice will be served. Don't forget the 'rabbit ears' antenna so you have the total affect.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. I was just telling my kids that!

Now let's hope for the same result. :)

[The Stranger]

13. We have these threads every 2-3 months, but no new "Watergate" every happens.

Abu Ghraib torture photos, the 911 Commission, the Abramoff scandal, the AIPAC scandal, the Tom Delay scandal, Sibel Edmonds, the Scooter Libby conviction -- the list goes on and on, but nothing has changed.

The Neocon corporate media covers it up and sings everyone a lullaby to back to sleep.

[Atman]

14. I haven't gotten involved in those, because there's never been a smoking gun

Or a democratic congress.

BIG difference.

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[The Stranger]

25. It is the media -- the press. That is the difference.

[Sapere aude]

15. Who would be today's Senator Sam Ervin? What webs we weave when we start to deceive

[Missy Vixen]

16. That would be Rep. Waxman

He wants the truth...

Julie

[madokie]

17. Yep that would be Mr Waxman

so do we

[SusanaMontana41]

27. Waxman makes a pretty good Howard Baker, too.

n/t

[kestrel91316]

18. Not exactly. Back then, the MSM actually performed its duty to the

public, and covered the hearings gavel to gavel.

Even NPR isn't covering this. It's disgraceful. I'm listening to CSPAN and THEY aren't even playing anything intelligible. It's just hundreds of voices.

Edit - now it's an actual hearing. Guess there was a break.

[KoKo]

19. Yep....it was creepy....eom.

[trof]

20. As Yogi said "It's deja vu all over again".

[IChing]

21. I'm missing the eloquence that I saw at Watergate

Which put the historical precedence in perspective that the nation could understand and digest.

I'm afraid if we have the hearings again they will be interrupted by an Anna Nicole story
even if it is being shown on CSPAN 5.

I'm pleased what I see that some things are coming out in the news
so I haven't' given up hope.

[Raven]

22. It may be my "senior memory" but

I recall that Watergate sort of crept up on us and them went "BLAM". This stuff now has just been boiling and boiling. Of course, during Watergate I had a lot of other things to do like take care of a little guy...now, these many years later, I'm glued to the TV.

[monmouth]

23. I'm old enough to remember the summer I spent watching Kefauver (sp)??

Granted, I was young, but there were three channels in those days and we watched it. My teachers were quite impressed in the sixth grade when I explained to all what it was all about. I rode on that "A" for a long time.....lol

[Doc_Technical]

24. No it doesn't because I wasn't in the U.S.A. at the time.

I was in the Air Force stationed in Germany.

Watergate got very little mention on American

Forces Network radio or television or the "Stars and

Stripes" newspaper.

[Liberal In Texas]

26. Except, back then it was on all 3 major networks and PBS.

You couldn't go anywhere without a TV being on with the hearings being shown. People would have portable sets out on the lawn watching as they laid out, every TV in the department store displays had it on, bars, restaurants, hotel lobbies...

I turned on broadcast TV earlier today and it was business as usual.