Tag: Watergate

I didn’t even know that this movie existed until I watched on my vacation flight to Thailand. But if you have a chance to watch it, take the opportunity. Some of the events and statements in the movie apply to the current environment as well as the Watergate era it…

Last week several reports surfaced claiming that Mitt Romney’s tax forms were stolen from his accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers. And that an anonymous person(s) was making a $1 million ransom demand for their return OR if a third party wanted them they could secure them for the same $1 million fee…

Ahhh, the good old days when political criminals were actually held to account. Charlie Pierce has a fantastic piece on the 40th anniversary of the unravelling of a President. Forty years ago, on June 17, 1972, a very ordinary middle-class guy did his job, and he did it very well….

A little hyperbolic, but not an unreasonable comparison.

There’s a scene in what should be every Democrat’s favorite movie, All The President’s Men where Woodward and Bernstein are meeting with their editor, Howard Simons to talk about a conversation Woodward had with a PR guy from the White House press office.   Woodward found something funny in the way…