CNN contributor Bill Bennett must feel vindicated. Who knew Richard Nixon was such a racist? /snark
WASHINGTON — On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down state criminal abortion laws in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence.
Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases, such as interracial pregnancies. “There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.”
Just as interesting is the revelation that then California Governor, Ronald Reagan approved of the now infamous Saturday Night Massacre, cheer leading all the way. No wonder the GOP of today love him so much:
Nine months later, after Nixon precipitated the resignations of two top Justice Department officials and forced the firing of the special prosecutor looking into the Watergate affair, Ronald Reagan, who was then the governor of California and would later be president, told the White House that he heartily approved.
Reagan told the White House that the action — which would become known as the “Saturday Night Massacre” — was “probably the best thing that ever happened — none of them belong where they were,” according to a Nixon aide’s notes of the private conversation. Read on...
People on both sides of the issue seem to forget there was no total ban before Roe v Wade, but a pastiche of laws from state-to-state, maybe even city-to-city, and whether the laws were against abortion or supported them, they were subject to the whims of the electoriate and local politicians.
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was such a fucktard even before he yanked the chain and forced CBS to cancel the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
What a guy!
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
he did that to the Smothers Brothers!!!! What a cretin! Tricky Dicky doesn't begin to cover his "personality" Remember when Danny Ackroyd did that tricky dick skit? Nixon was such a kreep! He had all the cointelpro stuff going, and did his best to get John Lennon banned from the country! Good riddance! Ptuiie!
... and it was one of the reasons why the Right had Lennon assassinated shortly before Reagan became president — a little over a month before Reagan took the oath of office.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
Lennon WAS under surveillance by the FBI...
The PTB didn't care for his philosophy one bit.
"It may be they have a death wish. You know that’s been the problem with our Jewish friends for centuries.”
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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had such a way with words.
I think not!!
He never lacked a cork-screw.
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reduced the funding for public television when their news broadcasts cut too close to the truth. Can you say "Fascism"?
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
"When you have a black and a white"
He must be rolling in his rotten grave at our biracial president.
Is it the 21st century yet?
There must be Quakers rolling in their collective graves at the notion that Nixon was one of them.
'Talk to the hand'
They're quaking in their graves.
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Yes they are.
'Talk to the hand'
indigestion!!
People had to hold their arms up like that back then
Sticky roll-on deoderants.
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:-D
Raise your hands if you're sure.
'Talk to the hand'
"'When you have a black and a white,'” he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.'”
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To him they were probably one in the same
(He seemed to forget incest or the life of the mother).
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Those political catch lines were inserted 30 years later, to allow hard right politicians to appear more "moderate" to the middle.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
reason to hate the Original DICK! (tough luck Cheney, you're just a cheap knockoff - a cubic zirconia of corruption and sleaze)
Nixon may be the original, but in my opinion Cheney makes him look like a boy scout in comparison. I think Dick has achieved more evil than Nixon could ever dream of.
Plus, in comparison to today's political climate, Nixon would be called a dirty hippy, liberal progressive by the Fox Noos crowd.
Kinda strange how he seperates "a black and a white" and "or a rape". If a black person and a white person had consensual sex, why would he automatically think the woman would want an abortion? At the same time he was logical in the case of any sort of rape.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
why would he automatically think the woman would want an abortion?
He doesn't. It would appear that a mixed race baby SHOULD be aborted, in his opinion.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
However, the social structure was different then and people were very small-minded. I have family that still think along those lines. It's a scary, scary world for them. Kinda sad too.
Imagine what our kids and grandkids will say about the way politicians talk about gays and lesbians now.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
these are not the insights or rantings of a man from a different age.
These attitudes still exist today.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Just look at the GOP bigots(e.g TN legislative aide) that when exposed, don't even apologize, they simply say that their racist comments, jokes, pictures, etc. got sent to the WRONG people. I shudder to think of the private conversations taking place among the Palins, Limbaughs, Hannitys...
there is 'man'....ranting.
Men have no business being involved in any decisions related to a woman's body/health - especially regarding whether she should carry an unwanted child to term and be forced to handle the economic and psychic burdens that may entail for the rest of her (and the child's) life.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
How about if the woman's lover is a man?
I'm all for pro-choice but all too often the male role is totally disregarded. Pro-choice can be a difficult position to be in when you're a man and have no say in what your partner decides.
I'm just sayin'.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
is that the bottom line is that the woman has to put her body through a huge amount of crap, sometimes life threatening, to have said child. The consenting male's view should be weighed and considered, but it always going to be the woman's decision to put herself through it. Just imagine what it would be like if men had to carry and birth a baby.
He could always refrain from impregnating a woman that hasn't indicated her intentions to bear his child should she become pregnant.
Just sayin'.
that women have an equal obligation to speak to their current partners or partners about their previous partners, any potential STD exposure, etc.
Women's responsibility for "their bodies" is a two way street.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Yes! Like I said, when a man has a baby, maybe we'll talk! Till then, its a womans business - stay the hell out of my womb!! We're big girls - and can think for ourselves.
Prevalant, actually
Who would have thunk it?
Interesting also about Reagan's enthusiastic praise for the Saturday Night Massacre. Years later, he would reward with a Supreme Court nomination the man who executed the Saturday Night Massacre: Robert Bork.
Or man on dog- guess he got sidetracked
n/m
you might want to check with Ricky 'man-on-dog' Santorum for the final word on that scenario. He's the expert!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Don't forget about the mule fucker guy!
Most female mules are sterile, so he's probably safe.
Well at least the mule fucker doesn't have to worry about Nixons draconian birth control policies.
the presidency where darth cheney and rummy learned to hone their evil.
was he racist or the most politically prescient mind of our times? In 1973 he anticipated the fall and decline of the Republican party and much like Herod he saw only one solution.
he was racist, and a fuckin criminal.
back on the meds
a little "end snark* disclaimer would help, lol!
Kinda hard to read sarcasm ya know...
you can read it. That's what my pappy always sayed.
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Nice baritone singing voice though.
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on Futurama as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfl9DpLWWZY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98VT44zaCJg&fe...
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peep this yo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvYm68dOQ4k&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P7peu7Wy7w&fe...
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of Robot Nixon going on a rampage after winning the 3000 election...GAH!
I remember that one. They also don't have the clip where Al Gore, playing his own head, is Emperor of the Universe.
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I love me some Futurama...
Wish they were still makin new ones...
They are. Comedy Central has commisioned Matt Groening to make full length Futurama movies. So far three or four have been made.
now we can go on a two hour Bender.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Bender's STILL gonna be my next tattoo.
To put it on your butt?
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
is the secret to Time Travel on Fry's ass?
FRY: Well it was bound to be somewhere.
I have too many Hello Kitty and My Little Pony tattoos on me hindquarters.
I don't think I would have shared that.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
I got pics!
I guess sexting isn't just for teenagers anymore.
Nope not anymore by golly!
Now the people (like me) that you REALLY don't wanna see nekkid, are gonna be ALL over the intar-webs.
It's gonna be awesome!
No doubt! The first movie, "Bender's Big Score" has a great segment at the beginning about Fox's decision to cancel the show in the first place.
The other two Futurama movies that I have seen are "The Beast with a Thousand Backs" and "Bender's Game"(great title). A fourth movie should be out sometime this year.
Already out...and it was supposed to be the end of Futurama forever. And it sort of ends on that note, with an open end. It'll be great to see how it gets resolved when the show starts up again.
It's a great episode.
What Comedy Central commissioned was 26 more new episodes, due to the DVD sales of the 4 Futurama DVD movies.
Either way..it's more Fry & Leela!
it don't matter none to me...as long as I get my Bender fix.
Your right, Lib, I read about it a year or so ago and musta got my facts crossed. Regardless, more Futurama is a good, good thing.
that brings together almost the entire surviving cast of the original Star Trek has to be a good, good thing.
:)
Funny thing about time: It strips away the layers of GOP bullshit, and exposes Ronnie "rotten brain" Raygun as the anti american, corporate fascist piece of crap that he was.
Fifty years from now, I wonder what our grandkids will think when they read about how the most dynamic and substantial working class in history, pissed it all away for a measley $50 "across the board" tax cut from the GOP?
The baby boomers have got to be the dumbest schmucks America has ever produced. Exhibit A: Reagan their hero, and 2 (that's TWO) terms of George Wanker Bush!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
That obscurantist, ironical post-modernist Ricky will sick the "You can't use generational arguments!" thought police on you.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
Another thing that pisses me off about the boomers is their unwillingness to get up off their asses
and into the streets to protest government policy.
You never saw the Boomers getting tear gassed in Chicago or getting shot down at Kent State like the younger people of today!
Because hundreds of thousands of todays youth and young adults and Gen xers took to the streets in protest
the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have ended - no thanks to the Boomers.
Divide and conquer...if we keep fighting and blaming amongst ourselves, the wealthy 5% can stay in power.
Just say'n :-( RIP
We need to remembern never forget......
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are cutting us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
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Rot in hell tricky dicky
Republican.
like him.
Haven't you heard, according to the conservatives nixon, ray gunn and boosh were liberals.
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Not a word on this breathtaking blatant racist statement in the same Philadelphia 'newspaper' that hired John Yoo and Rick Santorum to uninterruptedly spew their propaganda, denials and hate.
Instead? We in the largely Democratic city of Philadelphia get to hear about Nixon's 'defense team' wanting to paint the prosecutors as extorting the Criminal President by 'pointing a gun' at Nixon's head...
Reality may have a liberal bias, but the MSM here sure as hell doesn't.
(Especially in Philadelphia where there is have NO -as in NONE- Liberal radio, but instead we have a daily 10 hours of 0'liely, hannity, beck, smerconnish, etal ... does liberal radio still even exist?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCp8Edp4pfo&fe...
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If you've read Reagan's daughter Patti's early 90s autobiography, The Way I See It, you know Reagan thought Nixon should have been even more underhanded and punitive in covering up Watergate.
Is anyone surprised at this "revelation"?? I just wish we had some GW bush tapes. That would be fun.
Duct?
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Tricia and her husband?
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Not surprised. Worth a big laugh. Hey, if you don't like government, just sabotage it at every turn. Along with the Constitution. Yeah, now I know why all those GOP Prez candidates were trying to outdo each other in their claims of being "foot soldiers for Reagan".
Between Nixon, Reagan and Bush and I might add Clinton I now have a better opinion of LBJ. As a young man I disliked him a lot; even if he was a Dem. Probably because he was a Texan, and definitely because of nam but he also seem to be a scheming, conniving SOB.
But from an historical point of view I think he may have accomplished more than any of the others. He passed the civil rights legislation, anti-poverty, consumer protection and even environmental protection acts. Of course his biggest and yet to be topped Medicare and Medicaid. A little late, but I salute you, you old SOB.
than Pat Robertson's stance on abortion. He is against it when it comes to "white babies" but he endorsed it for the country of China because there were too many of them -- and probably because they were not white or Christian.
Pat Robertson is a real scumbag. May he rot in hell when he gets there.
The internet is full of bogus 'American patriots', posting from places like Latvia, Qatar, and Nigeria.
Nixon and Reagan are both dead but they are still douchbags.
Thank you Dick Nixon for making me politically aware at age 10 with Watergate.
It's been a fun ride fighting pricks like you....
Nixon's infamy lives on. His ugly visage is representative of lying crooks everywhere and he makes a perfect mascot for C&L, the best political blog on the planet!
btw, kudos to the artist who designed C&L's Tricky Dick logo. Perfection!
I imagine, given tricky Dicky's 'frothy mixture' style views, he simply would have regarded the Obama presidency so much an abortion in itself.
Nixon, like Reagan, Bush Sr., bush jr., ... actually the ENTIRE LOT of the GOP officials are rotten to the core. They are a cross-welding evil wrapped in the US flag and rolled in moms home-made apple pie. The sooner we can stomp that mindset out of existence, the better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhquKI_wq_0
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This won't mean much to the current Republican party. They've disowned Nixon and routinely use him to smear President Obama.
How did Nixon not anticipate these tapes would be uncovered decades later? When it comes to the torture tapes over the past 8 years, where there are approximately 92 of them that were supposedly destroyed by Cheney, why does it seem there is a double-standard in the GOP between what occurred around 1969-1974 and 2001-2009? If such tapes are destroyed, would that really mean that Cheney, Bush, Rove, et al. will likely go scot-free? And, did Nixon ever intend to destroy any of the tapes he made?
According to Johnathan Turly video evidence is just an obvious bonus. Destroying evidence is in itself evidence of intent.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
So Nixon was a Rethug Zombie. I guess Mr. Liddy is a real lord of the f@cktards too then, huh?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
therefore Dick's cousin, he can kiss my Mexican/Cherokee/Chickasaw/Choctaw/Apache/English/Scottish/Irish/Welsh behind (a behind which came into the world on the 7th anni of his stupid ass leaving the presidency)
(of all the Presidents to be related to, it had to be him *sigh*)
I've never seen change without a fire
We have Nixon to thank for starting HMO's or Private Insurance Companies. They aren't really talking about that point are they! Although he really wasn't the worst president that ever served.
No one who suffered through the presidency of this lout could possibly be surprised by these revelations about his racism. Here was a guy who owed his reputation on Henry Kissinger, yet the moment his secretary of state left earshot, Tricky Dick was wont to refer to him as "Jewboy." I can think of only one president we've ever had that proved to be worse than Dick Nixon. He lives in Dallas now and did Tricky one worser: Nixon inherited Vietnam from JFK and Johnson. Dubya invaded Iraq on false pretexts.
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
I don't have anything to say on the subject. Just that I can't believe there's not a single "comment deleted" on a string like this. I checked it out expecting they'd be all up and down through here. Unbelievable. Unless they're just deleting entire entries.
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