If Nixon had spent some time in prison, not much time, just a few months or even just a few weeks, it would've set a great precedent going forwards. Instead, it set the worst kind of precedent in a democracy: The precedent in which a President can do and/or be involved in all series of crimes and unconstitutional acts, and get away by being pardoned by his own Vice-President. This should not be able to take place in a democracy! I think that the Constitution should be amended to annul the power of the Presidential pardon. Not in many democracies does a Head of State have the ability to pardon other citizens, as well as the ability to pardon his or her predecessor. The phrase "No one is above the law" is not true in the U.S.. This is extremely serious. Think about the vast array of crimes which citizens often become incarcerated for. A President can do all of those with impunity, with immunity. During the Nixon administration there were multiple, super illegal plans put forward. Plans such as fire-bombing a building, having a few people dressed as firemen and, in the confusion, steal documents and other objects inside said building. It came relatively close to being approved. The most famous of these plans was, of course, the Watergate break-in. One could be forgiven to think that such plots and plans happened only in Nazi Germany, in communist East-Germany, in the Soviet union itself, in Tito's Yugoslavia, in Mao's china, in the Congo, in Iran, in Russia, etc. But no, it happened right in the "beacon of democracy", in the U.S.A.. To add to that, just a decade earlier, a U.S. President had his skull blown apart in broad daylight. The brother of such President, RFK, a previous Attorney General would himself end up as a victim before his election had even taken place. Why am I writing all of this? Because history does have a tendency to repeat itself.
I recommend to those who are interested to read Watergate A new history by Garrett M. Graff. One thing you will learn is that John Dean was much more involved than he reveals in this documentary. He has been whitewashing his involvement in Watergate for years. He was part of, and a driving force in helping the illegal activities until he new was going to be charged. Then he changed his tune.
Whilst Bernstein is quite a likeable guy, Woodward's incredible smugness is so off-putting that I would almost take Nixon's side on the issue of Watergate because of it. I can see why, before they worked together in earnest, Bernstein really did not like Woodward. He thought he was an Ivy League educated, over-privileged snob and because of his smug manner, it's easy to see why Bernstein was repelled by him somewhat.
He trusted right wing Cuban extremist to carry out a simple break in , they failed .. Oswald was also on his way to meet up with a similar Cuban group , but was iterupterrd by a patrol cop .. bungling opporations , like the bay of pigs seems to be their trade mark ...😎😎
Damn, but this is seriously good stuff. And I'm not even American. For the life of me, I can't understand how Nixon won the 1972 election so astoundingly. What was he doing so right?? because the sheer abasement that is depicted in these documentaries (there's a couple of others of similar calibre) is worse than anything I ever imagined while I was growing up in the 70's, all this stuff in the background and never much paying attention to it.
Nixon was a strong President coming after LBJ, a democrat that American's were still furious with because he's the one who sent their sons and daughters to Vietnam. Nixon was well dressed, sharp, spoke extremely well and had been around a long time. Nobody knew who Nixon's opponent was, which was George McGovern and thus it was nearly impossible for an unknown like McGovern to beat a powerhouse like Nixon.
DID NIXON ORDER THE WATERGATE BREAK-IN OR JUST TRY TO HIDE ITS LINKS TO THE WHITE HOUSE?: According to convicted Watergate co-conspirator Jeb Magruder, now a retired Presbyterian minister, President Richard Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in at the office of the Democratic National Party in Washington, DC., in order to tap the telephone(s) of DNP chairman Larry O'Brien and photograph various documents. The date is Thursday, March 30, 1972. This significant admission can be found near the end of this video shortly after 1:50:00.
Magruder was known to change his stories just to remain somewhat relevant. I doubt Nixon ordered the break-in(s) a deep dive shows that Libby pressed Colson to get Halderman to ok his ridiculous plan/break-in.
Watergate was a brilliant example what can happen when religious fundamentalists (this time christians) get too much power. Main characters (Magruder, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Nixon) were all members of some crazy religious sect, and thought that secular laws do not concern them. We all know what happened.
very astute observation it was definitely a sign of the times where there were very serious "squares" fighting to stay in power/control. Colson and Liddy were probably the same as well.
Pretty good documentary although it seems to me that not enough emphasis has been put on the deep reasons for the Watergate burglary (performed by same people involved the mongoose operation in the early 60s...). Why endanger a presidency for supposed secrets in the Democrat party safe??? Think about it !! It is as though the documentary says it all except the big issue itself !
History funny Nixon brought in the tape recorder system & that Helped ending his career also hell bent angry on getting back at those so called friends who never rang to say you want come play golf ⛳ we all been thru such things in life left out but most of us grow out of it trying to be with the popular insn't all that some of us dont like attention .
I always have to puke when I see Henry Kissinger. A war criminal, subversive, opportunist. He has this diabolic skil to manipulate so many people and always with an ace in the hole on the safe side. This man is a combination of Mephisto and Machiavelli.
During war-time, some freedoms and laws can (and probably should) be temporarily suspended. The trouble was that Nixon had been at 'war' with SOMEONE for thirty years. He couldn't make the distinction between 'political opponents' and 'personal enemies'. If you listen to those involved it is significant that they call each other, even their superiors, John, Al, Roger, Alan etc (a reasonably civil first name basis) but with him it was always Nixon or 'The President'. Tells you a lot.
Nixon´s history is still being white washed-- Prescott Bush brought him into politics in the 1930s-40s; he was vice president under Eisenhauer meaning that he knew well what the cia was doing in vietnam and the people involved and was scared shitless including the shipment of American weapons to North Viet Nam from Okanawa--not needed for a Japan invasion because the atom bombs brought Japan to it´s knees. Conscious avoidance of many many facts continue to this day! By the way, Jack Rubenstein worked for him in 1947--known today as Jack Ruby.
Nixon quote to british journalist: "If the President does it, that means it is not illegal." Only right wing perverts could elect someone with those ideas. Republicans are, largely, human garbage. Obviously that has not changed. Criminals, plain, pure, and simple.
TROUBLE IS TODAY WE HAVE NO WOODWARD - BERNSTEIN. WE HAVE CRAYON SCRIBBLERS! WELCOME TO NO PRINTLESS MEDIA! QUOTE DAVID SIMON (MAYBE HE WILL DO AN HBO MINI SERIES ON THIS)
Sort of. Nixon resigned before the formal impeachment vote in the House occurred. Also, had Nixon went through the whole impeachment process, even Senators in his own party would had voted him out. Nixon would had been removed with bipartisanship. With Trump...it's completely partisan.
I come to watch this out of a sense of wanting to better understand today’s times, but to mainly reach out to those of you who are coming here out of spite towards your republican fellow Americans. Understand this. It’s not the trump voters. It’s not the republicans. It’s not the presidency. It’s not the Congress. *ITS THE MEDIA* The press is why we’re so divided, whether it’s saying people will be jailed if they don’t buy Obamacare (O’Reilly) or that Russians will hack your heating systems this winter (Maddow). *OBAMA* : Overly covered favorably by majority media, masking his misdeeds. Overly covered negatively by minority media, masking his accomplishments. Called illegitimate president by minority media. Birth certificate conspiracy. Secret Kenyan Muslim babble. Evilllllll. Minority media partisans had great ratings bashing him night after night. *TRUMP* : Overly covered negatively by majority media, masking his accomplishments. Overly covered positively by minority media, masking his misdeeds. Called illegitimate president by majority media. Russian asset traitor. Dossier conspiracy. Secret Putin puppet. Evillllll. Majority media has enjoyed stellar ratings bashing him night after night. These aren’t journalists, and they don’t give a damn how uninformed you’ll be for trusting them. They don’t care if you find out pictures of immigrant children crying behind fences for their parents are from the last administration, they want you damned mad. They need you mad. They need your engagement. Your engagement is money. Money is their livelihood, not truth. Truth isn’t sexy. They don’t care if footage of a gun show in Kentucky is used as war footage. It looks violent. It looks like a situation is out of control overseas because of Trump. They don’t care. They don’t care if you find out you’re not going to jail for not buying Obamacare or that he’s actually unquestionably American or anything. These are the people who are supposed to be unbiased. Headlines say one thing that contradicts one teeny tiny sentence at the bottom of the page. Factually misleading information is cranked out in hyper speed to piss you off. To get your attention. Your attention is money. Unbiased truth is long dead. The sooner we realize it the quicker we can save this place, if not it’s over. You will find yourself hating your own fellow citizens with such a passion that there’s no returning. We’re almost to that point. Because of the media’s own actions, half the nation has no damned idea how we got Trump. Millions think the intelligence agencies confirmed Russians hacked DNC servers to get Hillary’s emails. That’s not true at all. Comey testified no agency got to touch or examine those servers. The DNC didn’t cooperate at all. We’re on a pathway to collapse and honestly we deserve it. Nobody wants to find or accept the truth. We want convenience and confirmation. Not change or challenge. Good riddance.
Your thesis is that mainstream media has been biased positivity toward the left, while negatively biased toward the right. While exposing your own flawed bias in the process. You're over projecting blame on the media. While the media (BOTH liberal and conservative biased) no question has engaged in behavior that reinforces attitudes and behavior; it's realistically been a small piece of an overall picture. People have held overgeneralizing bias based on their political ideologies for centuries. Media influence simply reinforces what has long existed. There has always been political media used to "anger" the public to their ideology beliefs. Presidents have always been bashed in the media. I don't know how old you are, but I recommend you do a deeper dive into political ideological influence in this country dating back over a century. You talk about today, we are getting to the point hating fellow citizens with a passion. Sir, research and do some reading on what the political atmosphere was during Vietnam. Research and read political ideological hate during the Kennedy Presidency. Heck sir, when Kennedy went to Texas in 1963, Dallas was well known for it's radical conservative ideology, which had no problem turning their hate into violence against anyone on the left. Conservative media happily reinforced beliefs that already existed. Also, primary socialization. Political ideological hate towards those who hold different beliefs than their own has always been shared and discussed and conditioned in people's own homes and families. Media was never required to condition political ideological hate into people. Overly biased families did that themselves. There were families decades ago who would no longer be on speaking terms when there were differences in political ideology. The ultimate responsibility to embracing critical thinking and civil discourse stems from ourselves. You think today's media is the reason many people are angry and at times hateful with others? The media simply reinforces an anger and hate that has already been in existence among many people.
Green Cm I appreciate your respectful and in depth response. I’m 25, and my point isn’t that the country is divided more now than ever. My point wasn’t that the country has never had political divisions before. It’s a part of the duopoly with the parties. My point was, in respect to now. It is entirely on the media as to why. I’ve done research, which is what’s led me to conclude the press has completely failed. At least in the long distant past, American journalism was serious. The real deal. Did you have your hot button opinion pieces? Yes, but your television had heated debates. Discussion. Real questions. Real tough interviews. Room for people on totally opposite sides to clash and clang their ideas to the betterment of everyone. Nowadays its all dead. Opinion is key. I didn’t suggest that left leaning media has always been dominant, I’m merely speaking on recent history. That said, the sway and swing of majority/minority coverage is applicable to just about anytime in this country. Whoever is the media darling and popular candidate will get a lot of positive attention to their successes large or small with minimal scrutiny of their misdeeds and failures. That’s downright disgusting and destructive. That structure is on magnitudes higher now with technology and constant news cycles. The everyday person is too busy trying to earn a keep and feed bellies to closely watch every development. We trust the media to be our informers. JFK himself spoke to much of this. One of his more famous speeches highlighted the ways of the dark government forces within Russia and elsewhere whose ways were antithetical to America’s sense of freedom. Sadly, much of those words can apply today to how the government of America cozy’s up with the media depending on who’s in power. If you look honestly at how the last three elections were covered and how those within the campaigns were covered, you’d understand what I mean. A free and honest press openly discussing Hillary while faithfully summarizing her various public hearings would’ve made her run for president this last time the true joke that it was. Had Fox News never torched Ron Paul because he wasn’t falling in line with traditional warmongering hawkish conservatism, we’d never had the grounds to get desperate enough for a Trump to rise. The constant pushing by media to blur the lines between identity and ideology only fuels the flames. Again, I understand it’s nothing new. People fought wars in the distant past for mere ideological differences. This is a different kind of war. Minds are being ruined. All for money. I’m not biased in my view of what party is correct because they’re both wrong. Hypocrisy runs rampant in cyclical fashion depending on what power is in majority/minority and what’s the hot political scoop for media to twist and distort for engagement. Hate for those who think differently than you is an inherent trait, I agree. America in true form is the ultimate nullifier of such nonsense. You don’t have time to be shitty to those who look differently than you if you’re trying to hold a job and find yourself at the gas pump next to several people who are of different race/ethnicities. Trying to enjoy the 4th of July cook out means cranking a couple beers next to the grill and not wasting time off from work picking fights with people. It is those who aren’t productive in society while lacking any responsibilities who are most vulnerable to the increased partisanship. Young. Around my age and below. It’s why someone can get beaten up for merely trying to show up to a college campus and speak, or wearing a red hat will get you beaten up. People who have things to do and families to provide for are too busy to get into physical altercations over ideas, we contract out the fighting to our representatives as designed. The issue is, the media continues to encourage division as well as some in government who taunt it. I’m young and I honestly don’t think this country can last much longer with this soup of insanity. We’re trillions in debt. We’re the worlds policeman. The value of the dollar today versus when many of the boomers and others came up is a joke. This is out of control.
@@tonylang3163 - I think you mean to say that lack of evidence is obvious, and Trump will not get removed in the Senate. Your awkward sentence made it hard for me to understand you at first.
The significant difference between Nixon and Trump on impeachment is this: Both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate would had voted Nixon to be removed. To my understanding with the Trump impeachment, it's totally across party lines. There will not be enough Republicans that will support removing Trump in the Senate.
If Nixon had spent some time in prison, not much time, just a few months or even just a few weeks, it would've set a great precedent going forwards. Instead, it set the worst kind of precedent in a democracy: The precedent in which a President can do and/or be involved in all series of crimes and unconstitutional acts, and get away by being pardoned by his own Vice-President. This should not be able to take place in a democracy! I think that the Constitution should be amended to annul the power of the Presidential pardon. Not in many democracies does a Head of State have the ability to pardon other citizens, as well as the ability to pardon his or her predecessor. The phrase "No one is above the law" is not true in the U.S.. This is extremely serious. Think about the vast array of crimes which citizens often become incarcerated for. A President can do all of those with impunity, with immunity. During the Nixon administration there were multiple, super illegal plans put forward. Plans such as fire-bombing a building, having a few people dressed as firemen and, in the confusion, steal documents and other objects inside said building. It came relatively close to being approved. The most famous of these plans was, of course, the Watergate break-in. One could be forgiven to think that such plots and plans happened only in Nazi Germany, in communist East-Germany, in the Soviet union itself, in Tito's Yugoslavia, in Mao's china, in the Congo, in Iran, in Russia, etc. But no, it happened right in the "beacon of democracy", in the U.S.A.. To add to that, just a decade earlier, a U.S. President had his skull blown apart in broad daylight. The brother of such President, RFK, a previous Attorney General would himself end up as a victim before his election had even taken place. Why am I writing all of this? Because history does have a tendency to repeat itself.
And yet 45 years+ You Americans go after Julian Assange for publishing the Truth.
I recommend to those who are interested to read Watergate A new history by Garrett M. Graff. One thing you will learn is that John Dean was much more involved than he reveals in this documentary. He has been whitewashing his involvement in Watergate for years. He was part of, and a driving force in helping the illegal activities until he new was going to be charged. Then he changed his tune.
IF YOU WERE TO LOOK UNDER THE RUGS IN WASHINGTON'S GOVERNMENTAL OFFICES YOU WOULD FIND MORE >>>>>> DIRT THAN YOU COULD SHAKE A BROOM AT.
As a guess, I would have thought that the enemies list was more the work of Haldeman than Nixon.
Whilst Bernstein is quite a likeable guy, Woodward's incredible smugness is so off-putting that I would almost take Nixon's side on the issue of Watergate because of it. I can see why, before they worked together in earnest, Bernstein really did not like Woodward. He thought he was an Ivy League educated, over-privileged snob and because of his smug manner, it's easy to see why Bernstein was repelled by him somewhat.
Rumour has it the break in was to recover the real report on the autopsy on JFK.
Watching this after the events of January 6, 2021 is heartbreaking, incredibly they managed to elect an even worse president than Nixon
Frontline Pbs shouid redo this documentary...what a show..
The one thing left out? PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY!
Hey Sherry. This movie was a 'dry-run' for what is happening in America now. Well done on the Production.
32:45 there is the jfk assassination the Cubans and hunt. Do some homework American 🇺🇸 wake up
He trusted right wing Cuban extremist to carry out a simple break in , they failed .. Oswald was also on his way to meet up with a similar Cuban group , but was iterupterrd by a patrol cop .. bungling opporations , like the bay of pigs seems to be their trade mark ...😎😎
Magnificent documentary. Fascinating subject.
Damn, but this is seriously good stuff. And I'm not even American. For the life of me, I can't understand how Nixon won the 1972 election so astoundingly. What was he doing so right?? because the sheer abasement that is depicted in these documentaries (there's a couple of others of similar calibre) is worse than anything I ever imagined while I was growing up in the 70's, all this stuff in the background and never much paying attention to it.
Nixon was a strong President coming after LBJ, a democrat that American's were still furious with because he's the one who sent their sons and daughters to Vietnam. Nixon was well dressed, sharp, spoke extremely well and had been around a long time. Nobody knew who Nixon's opponent was, which was George McGovern and thus it was nearly impossible for an unknown like McGovern to beat a powerhouse like Nixon.
thank god we had Woodward and Bernstein! journalist should always see them as a guide line
Where are these Republican's today? It really shows how the GOP is in a different universe.
The book had names of Political Pedophiles in high place and they wanted the evidence so to be used as black mail and control of America 🙈🙉🙊👀
By far the best document on watergate
45 years later, we went through many of the same in the last 4 years, it has always been there..
Nixon self sabotaged
Nothing has changed over the years lol
Some rewriting of their involvement in the scandal by these talking heads, I think.
DID NIXON ORDER THE WATERGATE BREAK-IN OR JUST TRY TO HIDE ITS LINKS TO THE WHITE HOUSE?: According to convicted Watergate co-conspirator Jeb Magruder, now a retired Presbyterian minister, President Richard Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in at the office of the Democratic National Party in Washington, DC., in order to tap the telephone(s) of DNP chairman Larry O'Brien and photograph various documents. The date is Thursday, March 30, 1972. This significant admission can be found near the end of this video shortly after 1:50:00.
Magruder was known to change his stories just to remain somewhat relevant. I doubt Nixon ordered the break-in(s) a deep dive shows that Libby pressed Colson to get Halderman to ok his ridiculous plan/break-in.
Watergate was a brilliant example what can happen when religious fundamentalists (this time christians) get too much power. Main characters (Magruder, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Nixon) were all members of some crazy religious sect, and thought that secular laws do not concern them. We all know what happened.
very astute observation it was definitely a sign of the times where there were very serious "squares" fighting to stay in power/control. Colson and Liddy were probably the same as well.
Watching this in January 2021 This is light hearted compared to what #45 has done
great doc but just it waits till 2020
Pretty good documentary although it seems to me that not enough emphasis has been put on the deep reasons for the Watergate burglary (performed by same people involved the mongoose operation in the early 60s...). Why endanger a presidency for supposed secrets in the Democrat party safe??? Think about it !! It is as though the documentary says it all except the big issue itself !
And in 2020 the Government is tapping all our phones, FB, ect. Ask SNOWDEN---- whats going on now make this look like a jokE.
Nixon’s criminal presidency seems quaint nowadays
History funny Nixon brought in the tape recorder system & that Helped ending his career also hell bent angry on getting back at those so called friends who never rang to say you want come play golf ⛳ we all been thru such things in life left out but most of us grow out of it trying to be with the popular insn't all that some of us dont like attention .
Are the Dems doing the same now?
Nixon started digging his own grave when the idiot decided to start recording conversations in his office.
I always have to puke when I see Henry Kissinger. A war criminal, subversive, opportunist. He has this diabolic skil to manipulate so many people and always with an ace in the hole on the safe side. This man is a combination of Mephisto and Machiavelli.
During war-time, some freedoms and laws can (and probably should) be temporarily suspended. The trouble was that Nixon had been at 'war' with SOMEONE for thirty years. He couldn't make the distinction between 'political opponents' and 'personal enemies'. If you listen to those involved it is significant that they call each other, even their superiors, John, Al, Roger, Alan etc (a reasonably civil first name basis) but with him it was always Nixon or 'The President'. Tells you a lot.
30.43 newspaper article says policeman are seeking a sixth man?So one guy got away?
Nixon´s history is still being white washed-- Prescott Bush brought him into politics in the 1930s-40s; he was vice president under Eisenhauer meaning that he knew well what the cia was doing in vietnam and the people involved and was scared shitless including the shipment of American weapons to North Viet Nam from Okanawa--not needed for a Japan invasion because the atom bombs brought Japan to it´s knees. Conscious avoidance of many many facts continue to this day! By the way, Jack Rubenstein worked for him in 1947--known today as Jack Ruby.
Your govnment is unamerican, just like mine.
Lie liie lie some more
Fucshitheads Ul yours zhitheads p .
They all could very well be talking about Trump.
Sherry, thanks for posting. I noticed you are one of the producers of this for PBS. Are you trying to tell us something about Trump?
Nixon quote to british journalist: "If the President does it, that means it is not illegal." Only right wing perverts could elect someone with those ideas. Republicans are, largely, human garbage. Obviously that has not changed. Criminals, plain, pure, and simple.
Well said sir 👍
LIES!!!
And now you have Trump
TROUBLE IS TODAY WE HAVE NO WOODWARD - BERNSTEIN. WE HAVE CRAYON SCRIBBLERS! WELCOME TO NO PRINTLESS MEDIA! QUOTE DAVID SIMON (MAYBE HE WILL DO AN HBO MINI SERIES ON THIS)
Gee whizz!! This is soooo much like what is going on in the orange one's office right now!!
Sort of. Nixon resigned before the formal impeachment vote in the House occurred. Also, had Nixon went through the whole impeachment process, even Senators in his own party would had voted him out. Nixon would had been removed with bipartisanship. With Trump...it's completely partisan.
I come to watch this out of a sense of wanting to better understand today’s times, but to mainly reach out to those of you who are coming here out of spite towards your republican fellow Americans. Understand this. It’s not the trump voters. It’s not the republicans. It’s not the presidency. It’s not the Congress. *ITS THE MEDIA* The press is why we’re so divided, whether it’s saying people will be jailed if they don’t buy Obamacare (O’Reilly) or that Russians will hack your heating systems this winter (Maddow). *OBAMA* : Overly covered favorably by majority media, masking his misdeeds. Overly covered negatively by minority media, masking his accomplishments. Called illegitimate president by minority media. Birth certificate conspiracy. Secret Kenyan Muslim babble. Evilllllll. Minority media partisans had great ratings bashing him night after night. *TRUMP* : Overly covered negatively by majority media, masking his accomplishments. Overly covered positively by minority media, masking his misdeeds. Called illegitimate president by majority media. Russian asset traitor. Dossier conspiracy. Secret Putin puppet. Evillllll. Majority media has enjoyed stellar ratings bashing him night after night. These aren’t journalists, and they don’t give a damn how uninformed you’ll be for trusting them. They don’t care if you find out pictures of immigrant children crying behind fences for their parents are from the last administration, they want you damned mad. They need you mad. They need your engagement. Your engagement is money. Money is their livelihood, not truth. Truth isn’t sexy. They don’t care if footage of a gun show in Kentucky is used as war footage. It looks violent. It looks like a situation is out of control overseas because of Trump. They don’t care. They don’t care if you find out you’re not going to jail for not buying Obamacare or that he’s actually unquestionably American or anything. These are the people who are supposed to be unbiased. Headlines say one thing that contradicts one teeny tiny sentence at the bottom of the page. Factually misleading information is cranked out in hyper speed to piss you off. To get your attention. Your attention is money. Unbiased truth is long dead. The sooner we realize it the quicker we can save this place, if not it’s over. You will find yourself hating your own fellow citizens with such a passion that there’s no returning. We’re almost to that point. Because of the media’s own actions, half the nation has no damned idea how we got Trump. Millions think the intelligence agencies confirmed Russians hacked DNC servers to get Hillary’s emails. That’s not true at all. Comey testified no agency got to touch or examine those servers. The DNC didn’t cooperate at all. We’re on a pathway to collapse and honestly we deserve it. Nobody wants to find or accept the truth. We want convenience and confirmation. Not change or challenge. Good riddance.
Your thesis is that mainstream media has been biased positivity toward the left, while negatively biased toward the right. While exposing your own flawed bias in the process. You're over projecting blame on the media. While the media (BOTH liberal and conservative biased) no question has engaged in behavior that reinforces attitudes and behavior; it's realistically been a small piece of an overall picture. People have held overgeneralizing bias based on their political ideologies for centuries. Media influence simply reinforces what has long existed. There has always been political media used to "anger" the public to their ideology beliefs. Presidents have always been bashed in the media. I don't know how old you are, but I recommend you do a deeper dive into political ideological influence in this country dating back over a century. You talk about today, we are getting to the point hating fellow citizens with a passion. Sir, research and do some reading on what the political atmosphere was during Vietnam. Research and read political ideological hate during the Kennedy Presidency. Heck sir, when Kennedy went to Texas in 1963, Dallas was well known for it's radical conservative ideology, which had no problem turning their hate into violence against anyone on the left. Conservative media happily reinforced beliefs that already existed. Also, primary socialization. Political ideological hate towards those who hold different beliefs than their own has always been shared and discussed and conditioned in people's own homes and families. Media was never required to condition political ideological hate into people. Overly biased families did that themselves. There were families decades ago who would no longer be on speaking terms when there were differences in political ideology. The ultimate responsibility to embracing critical thinking and civil discourse stems from ourselves. You think today's media is the reason many people are angry and at times hateful with others? The media simply reinforces an anger and hate that has already been in existence among many people.
Green Cm I appreciate your respectful and in depth response. I’m 25, and my point isn’t that the country is divided more now than ever. My point wasn’t that the country has never had political divisions before. It’s a part of the duopoly with the parties. My point was, in respect to now. It is entirely on the media as to why. I’ve done research, which is what’s led me to conclude the press has completely failed. At least in the long distant past, American journalism was serious. The real deal. Did you have your hot button opinion pieces? Yes, but your television had heated debates. Discussion. Real questions. Real tough interviews. Room for people on totally opposite sides to clash and clang their ideas to the betterment of everyone. Nowadays its all dead. Opinion is key. I didn’t suggest that left leaning media has always been dominant, I’m merely speaking on recent history. That said, the sway and swing of majority/minority coverage is applicable to just about anytime in this country. Whoever is the media darling and popular candidate will get a lot of positive attention to their successes large or small with minimal scrutiny of their misdeeds and failures. That’s downright disgusting and destructive. That structure is on magnitudes higher now with technology and constant news cycles. The everyday person is too busy trying to earn a keep and feed bellies to closely watch every development. We trust the media to be our informers. JFK himself spoke to much of this. One of his more famous speeches highlighted the ways of the dark government forces within Russia and elsewhere whose ways were antithetical to America’s sense of freedom. Sadly, much of those words can apply today to how the government of America cozy’s up with the media depending on who’s in power. If you look honestly at how the last three elections were covered and how those within the campaigns were covered, you’d understand what I mean. A free and honest press openly discussing Hillary while faithfully summarizing her various public hearings would’ve made her run for president this last time the true joke that it was. Had Fox News never torched Ron Paul because he wasn’t falling in line with traditional warmongering hawkish conservatism, we’d never had the grounds to get desperate enough for a Trump to rise. The constant pushing by media to blur the lines between identity and ideology only fuels the flames. Again, I understand it’s nothing new. People fought wars in the distant past for mere ideological differences. This is a different kind of war. Minds are being ruined. All for money. I’m not biased in my view of what party is correct because they’re both wrong. Hypocrisy runs rampant in cyclical fashion depending on what power is in majority/minority and what’s the hot political scoop for media to twist and distort for engagement. Hate for those who think differently than you is an inherent trait, I agree. America in true form is the ultimate nullifier of such nonsense. You don’t have time to be shitty to those who look differently than you if you’re trying to hold a job and find yourself at the gas pump next to several people who are of different race/ethnicities. Trying to enjoy the 4th of July cook out means cranking a couple beers next to the grill and not wasting time off from work picking fights with people. It is those who aren’t productive in society while lacking any responsibilities who are most vulnerable to the increased partisanship. Young. Around my age and below. It’s why someone can get beaten up for merely trying to show up to a college campus and speak, or wearing a red hat will get you beaten up. People who have things to do and families to provide for are too busy to get into physical altercations over ideas, we contract out the fighting to our representatives as designed. The issue is, the media continues to encourage division as well as some in government who taunt it. I’m young and I honestly don’t think this country can last much longer with this soup of insanity. We’re trillions in debt. We’re the worlds policeman. The value of the dollar today versus when many of the boomers and others came up is a joke. This is out of control.
People defending Donald Trump really need to watch this.
too bad all those of us who continue to defend the President need is actual proof of a wrong doing
@@tonylang3163 - I think you mean to say that lack of evidence is obvious, and Trump will not get removed in the Senate. Your awkward sentence made it hard for me to understand you at first.
The significant difference between Nixon and Trump on impeachment is this: Both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate would had voted Nixon to be removed. To my understanding with the Trump impeachment, it's totally across party lines. There will not be enough Republicans that will support removing Trump in the Senate.
LMAO...I couldn't help but bust out laughing from 31:58 to 32:23 Gordon Liddy is a dumbass.