I am missing all the fun!

Posted by Sari

I have been a Watergate junkie since I saw Fred Emery's excellent BBC documentary on the subject, and - shortly after - "All the President's Men". I watched the latter in the common TV-room of my dorm in St. Andrews University and was so into the movie I really hated walking back to my room through the dark hallways. I did not really expect G. Gordon Liddy to jump from the ladies to do me in, but something of the film's exquisite paranoia stuck even after the event. Since then I have been reading on/off stuff about the break-in: Emery's tie-in book, Woodstein original, Dean's memoirs... The whole episode in its sinister incompetency just gets me.

And now we finally know who the guy in the garage was: FBI's number two man, Mark Feldt Felt. He came out of the closet in Vanity Fair, and now everybody has an opinion from  Bill to Bernstein's ex wife. But I have to say, that even though Blogistan is a good substitute, it is still not quite the same as being able to channel-hop between between news channels in feeding frenzy. Thank goodness you can get the most important one online: the Daily Show's take can be seen here, just scroll down a bit.

Comments

[Stefan]

Daily Show is dead on as usual. Underneath all that tongue-in-cheek reporting Jon Stewart does have a lot to say. No wonder religious right hates him.

I went to the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California, a few years back. They really were spinning the whole sorry Watergate episode there, as you would expect. However, despite his multiple flaws and criminal behavior, Nixon was not that bad in foreign affairs. Even went to China.

[Sari]

I really miss Daily Show, it saved my sanity in 2001.

Presidential libraries/museums are interesting phenomenon. The only one I have visited is Kennedy's in Boston, and that at least had a pretty elaborate museum going all Camelot on Kennedys.

In my idle moments I have contemplated a road-trip through America from one presidential library to another: Start from Boston and then continue to New York and then to Michigan. Then down from Iowa through Missouri and Arkansas to Texas (with a detour in Kansas) and from there to California. The only problem is Jimmy Carter in Georgia, he is difficult to fit in the intinerery :-)