Bravo PBS!

[Mr.Bee]

PBS (in my area) aired American Experience, Nixon
This three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that made him president,
and then brought him down.
Oh How History Repeats Itself...
It didn't work for Nixon,
It's Not going to work for you either, Don!

[lastlib]

1. Should be a warning to The Felon/Crime Minister,,,,

but he will ignore it. We The People WILL bring him down--hard.

I didn't get to watch all of it, but I DVR'd it, will finish it when I can

[Mr.Bee]

2. You can stream:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nixon/

The parallels were unbelievable, like donny is acting straight out of Nixon's playbook!

[lastlib]

3. I don't need to--I have the recording

but Thanks!



Agree on the parallels, except that The Felon/Rapist is taking Nixon's playbook to the far extremes, practically into Nazi territory. But understanding Nixon and the path he took is a key to understanding the current regime.

[shanti]

15. With tips from

Roger Stone

[malaise]

4. The Epstein files

will be this one’s demise

[calimary]

26. As long as there's something that is!

[GoCubsGo]

5. It was broadcast nationally.

They'll likely repeat it during the next week or two, and it's probably on Amazon Prime already. At some point one will be able to watch it on PBS's YouTube channel. Meanwhile, they have a whole bunch of other pertinent "American Experience" documentaries there, Including "Nazi Town, USA" and "The Gilded Age." Also check out the trailer for "Hard Hat Riots," which premiers 9/30.

Also, as noted above, this stuff is also on pbs.org.

[BigmanPigman]

24. PBS is showing it again on Sept., 6 at 5AM (PST).

[Mr.Bee]

6. All These People

out of the Joe McCarthy witch-hunt era are going to do nothing
To make themselves or this country great!

enemies list indeed!

[PatSeg]

7. Except that Nixon was actually intelligent

and well informed. He even did a few good things as president, which isn't true of Trump.

Thanks for posting. I have that recorded and will watch it later.

[Mr.Bee]

8. ...and Nixon didn't have a Congress

full of sycophants willing to do his every bidding!

[PatSeg]

9. Oh yes, that's true

His own party told him to resign or he would be impeached. It certainly was a different time.

[Mr.Bee]

10. Impeachment

was a lot stronger back then, nobody wanted that word associated with their legacy!
This one, not so much...
Twice impeached, criminal felon rapist pedophile.
Trained by Roy Cohn.

[PatSeg]

16. I agree

[rubbersole]

12. Thom Hartmann makes the point ...

..if Nixon had a faux news and rw echo chamber spewing propaganda 24/7 he would never have resigned. Good thing he didn't.

[PatSeg]

17. That is a good point

With the right backing and publicity, he could have become a dictator. He craved and loved power.

[Hekate]

18. The Roberts Court has endorsed the notion of the Imperial Presidency, & Nixon lacked that

[CBHagman]

19. And Nixon also had to face Katharine Graham, Carl Bernstein, and Bob Woodward...

...and not a Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post.

[Mr.Bee]

20. At Least We Have PBS

and Thom Hartmann
and Democracy NOW!
and DW News
and Farron Cousins
and Brian Tyler Cohen
and John Iadarola
and Robert Reich
and Cenk and Ana
and Rebel HQ
yes, a big shout out!

[andym]

21. Roger Ailes formed Fox News as a followup to his desire that a future Nixon not have to resign

"If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration. In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create a new TV network that would circumvent existing media and provide "pro-administration" coverage to millions. "People are lazy," the aides explained in a memo. "With television you just sit — watch — listen. The thinking is done for you." Nixon embraced the idea, saying he and his supporters needed "our own news" from a network that would lead "a brutal, vicious attack on the opposition." Alas, his fantasy network did not come into being at that time, and the 37th president was soon engulfed in the Watergate scandal. At first, Republicans dismissed the scandal as a Washington Post "witch hunt." But then the White House tapes proved beyond doubt that Nixon had used the levers of government to pursue vendettas against his opponents and cover up his extensive skulduggery. Disgusted GOP leaders, including Sen. Howard Baker of the Senate Watergate committee, chose principles over party. Nixon was forced to resign.

We live in a far different country today, thanks to the vision originally outlined in that 1970 memo, which Ailes realized decades later with Rupert Murdoch's money. Fox News provides an alternative reality to the "fake news," providing daily talking points to Republican elected officials and policing them the way a sheepdog does its flock. Those who dare stand up to President Trump know they will be denounced as traitors on Fox, even if they're war veterans with a Purple Heart on their chests. In Foxworld, no evidence can prove that Trump tried to extort Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 U.S. presidential election — and if he did, so what? If the president beats the impeachment rap in the Republican Senate, as he's likely to do, he should send a thank-you card to Roger Ailes and Richard Nixon, wherever they may now be."

https://theweek.com/articles/880107/why-fox-news-created.
from 2019.

[Bev54]

11. Times have changed, back then you had some republicans that still had some common sense and

perhaps some integrity. Those days are long gone and Trump is getting away with it.

[Mr.Bee]

13. But, but...

The eighteen minutes missing from the Epstein files!!

[Bev54]

14. More like the 98% of the Epstein files that the republicans themselves are hiding.

[Mr.Bee]

22. You Voted For It Again

Nixon Warned You - You Voted For It Again
Reagan Warned You - You Voted For It Again
Bush Warned You - You Voted For It Again
Trump Warned You - You Voted For It Again

Time To think of a different tactic.
second term - worst than the first!

[BigmanPigman]

23. It is going to be on again on Sept., 6 at 5AM PST

I have the DVR set.

[Peacetrain]

25. Hubby and I watched it last night.. It was awesome

[Mr.Bee]

27. Bravo PBS!

Leave It To PBS and American Experience To Bring Truth To This Lying World!