Hugh Hewitt's hackery extends to Nixon Library
The Nixon library
Venturing into that room, visitors learned that Watergate, which provoked a constitutional crisis and became an enduring byword for abuses of executive power, was really a "coup" engineered by Nixon enemies. The exhibit accused Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein — without evidence — of "offering bribes" to further their famous coverage.
Digby: "I'm sure you must be wondering what kind of low-life historical hack would allow himself or herself to be associated with such an affront to truth and decency."
Yet from the start, the library had trouble being taken seriously. Its first director, Hugh Hewitt, announced that researchers deemed unfriendly would be banned from the archives, singling out the Washington Post's Bob Woodward as a candidate for exclusion. Scholars cried foul; Hewitt revoked the plan...read on
"I’m sure you must be wondering what kind of low-life historical hack would allow himself or herself to be associated with such an affront to truth and decency.”
Oh. You said historical. Give it time Bush. You're next for this dubious honor.
..and Bush is a wack, not a hack. It's bedtime on the east coast.
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Hewitt is a hack in that he does what he is told.
God bless the the Digby!!
The right wing doesn't give a damn about truth or propriety. Cheney and Bush have learned lessons well from Nixon's obstruction of justice as well as his use of executive power...
I just WISH there was a team like Woodward and Bernstein working today.
Maybe THAT's the biggest lesson learned: from the beginning of Bush's REIGH, he COWED the White House press corp to tow the line... or lose yer' clearance... and it has worked. THERE IS NO investigative journalism going on in Washington DC these days.
He was not a crook!
/snark
Hewittless is a freaking koolaid guzzling brainless believer of bullshit.
A true 23%er if I ever saw one.
Ooh, a nice juicy libel suit for Woodward and Bernstein!
I hope they break the library's budget.
Hugh Hewitt had a job directin' somethin'?!? Are we talkin' about the same Hugh Hewitt?
I mean, I can picture him as a hand on some idyllic little farm in Kansas, but I could never dream of him bein' anything else.
If you thought Richard Nixon's presidential library was a fraud, wait til you see the plans for the George W. Bush Presidential Library - and think tank.
For the disturbing look at history repeating, see:
"Nixon Presidential Library Fraud Ends As Bush's Begins."
Andy K @ 8:
wasn't there a bad in the 80's called "hugh hewitt and the news", sang a song "it's hip to drink koolaid" :)
Hewitt talks about "spreading freedom" while advocating memory holing of all repub misdeeds. Bitter 3rd stringer talk radio hosts on the march
Angry One @ 9:
GWB library and think tank---BWAHAHAHA! Why it will be right next door to the Charles Manson Center for Peace and Reconciliation.
its very strange listening to the nixons tapes, how it applies to today. Just strange
http://webstorage3.mcpa.virginia.edu/rmn/audiovisual/whrecordings/chron1...
listen to like the first 20 mins of that.
weird indeed.
"What do you put in, and what do you leave out, in a city where his birthday is a holiday?" -from the LA times article a few links in.
I grew up in Yorba Linda, and I don't think I ever heard of Nixon's birthday described as a holiday. By anyone.
Then again, I'm on the younger side and maybe not a member of the same circles (err... country clubs) as those who would be that... nutty.
Either way, I've always found Nixon fascinating, though admittedly in a tragic way. Oliver Stone's film "Nixon" shows him in a light that I think is accurate-- not a crook, not a saint, but a man who falls victim to his own hubris in the belly of the "beast."
Anyway, just my two cents. Take care.
Andy K @ 8:
Try just another commuter from the banal burbclave of Irvine.
when you have leadership that is the role model for deceit then anything is fair. that's how the snake handlers gained their position of power in the last few years. bush used them as part of his base and then allowed them out from under the rocks where they had practiced their unique conservative religion for ages. Bush and his corrupt ways has permeated all of american society. Will we ever be the same again?
by the way lest we think the evil is still not present, i was watching tv news last nite and it showed a lady who was being ostracized and criticized in colo for flying the flag upside down in protest of the war. then they interviewed one of the "good ol' boys" who was real creative in stating these people don't belong here. if they don't like how we do things, they need to leave." yes, we're still in the middle of muck. impeach now and let them all crawl quietly back into their holes.
Wow, I never thought a presidential library would provide visitors, researchers, etc. with real life, real time demostrations of what the Nixon White House was like.
Who knew you could just enter the library be emersed in a total tactile historical demonstration.
I wouldn't doubt that mann coulter and sean hannity will be hired as the directors for herr dubyah's library.
President Nixon and his 1972 re-election campaign tried to tie Democrats to the mob, gay liberation and even slavery, according to newly released papers and tapes betraying bare-knuckle tactics from the dawn of the Watergate scandal.
Hewitt spew it.
Dr. Matt @ 18:
I've gotta feelin' that job will go to Malkin. She loves to re-write history. Ever read her shit on the internment of Japanese-Americans durin' WW II? She's a natural fit, imo.
Thing Fish @ 15:
Re-read my post with this in mind: Hewitt's well deserved nickname "The Cowardly Lion". ;)
You know ancient Pharohs of Egypt, used too re-write history favorably too themselves and unfavorably too some of their predecessors or try too obliterate it completely, nothing new here, republican elite would love too clean up "Trick Dick Nixon" as a misunderstood man, wronged by his opponets, but fortunately we do not live in a dynasty like ancient Egyptians did, so this library will not be the final source of history on Nixon, he is and will be synonomous with "crook, burglar, theif, scoudrel", a shameful example of republican arrogance gone wild, just as today one following his example George W. Bush Jr, thinks he is above the law of the land, and rules like a tyrant, dictator, but history will write it correctly, it might take him leaving office in 2008 or earlier if impeachment is ever inacted, but in either case he is on his way out, and time tends too take care of these scoundrels in the end with reality of harm they did..I would venture too say Bush makes Nixon look like a petty thief in comparison too a big time mafia don, running a big criminal enterprize.
Thanks for posting the L.A. Times article. I loved the Stanley Kutler line about the museum being on a "level of reality . . . only slightly higher than Disneyland."
The last time I was there it cost $9.95 to get in, which seemed excessive. (If anyone cares, they also have the helicopter that he flew away in after his resignation.)
BTW, that's HHHH, or historical hugh hewett hackery. Historical as in not current, in the past. Yesterday the Nixon Library became part of the National Archives. There've been a coupla directors since HH, the most recent one, Naftali, is restoring the place to a (grr, how Fox has corrupted the meaning of this phrase), we present, you decide. The Nixon-approved Watergate display has been dismantled, after carefully being archived as, well, Nixon's view of the thing.
p.s. Naftali came on board at least a year ago. The move toward yesterday's transition has been a while in coming.
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