{"id":778,"date":"2009-08-20T05:17:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T10:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2009-08-20T05:17:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T10:17:16","slug":"nixon-and-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/the-media\/nixon-and-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nixon and Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re dubious about my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/history\/the-media-assassination-of-richard-nixon-35-years-later\/\">revisionist history<\/a>&#8221; version of Watergate, just keep your eyes open.  The legacy media&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/\">modus operandi <\/a>hasn&#8217;t changed.  The only thing that changes is the identity of their hate object du jour.  Then it was Nixon.  Today it&#8217;s Palin.  Notice the venom with which they keep beating on her, even though she&#8217;s out of office, because, against all odds, they still consider her a threat.  When you see a story about her in the MSM, ask yourself, &#8220;Is this positive or negative coverage?&#8221;  Now imagine all the hatred and malice they&#8217;ve directed at her ramped up about an order of magnitude and directed at a sitting President.  That was Watergate.  To grasp the reality of it, all you have to do is go back and read the newspapers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/palin-1.jpg\" alt=\"palin-1\" title=\"palin-1\" width=\"124\" height=\"92\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-779\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Nixon+and+Palin\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/the-media\/nixon-and-palin\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re dubious about my &#8220;revisionist history&#8221; version of Watergate, just keep your eyes open. The legacy media&#8217;s modus operandi hasn&#8217;t changed. The only thing that changes is the identity of their hate object du jour. Then it was Nixon. Today it&#8217;s Palin. Notice the venom with which they keep beating on her, even though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/the-media\/nixon-and-palin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nixon and Palin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demonization","category-the-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwEq0-cy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}