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June 09, 2005
Online Opinion Compares 'Watergate and the Iraq War'
Jason Leopold, writing in a June 10, 2005 post at Online Opinion, "Australia's e-Journal of Social and Political Debate," thinks "The parallels between the Bush and Nixon administrations are eerily familiar. Both," he asserts, "bullied the press, were and are highly secretive, obsessed over leaks, engaged and are in engaging in massive cover-ups and have quickly branded aides as disloyal if they dared to raise questions about the presidents policies.
Mr. Leopold said "The Washington Post, the very paper that is credited with forcing Nixon resignation, summed it up perfectly in a November 25, 2003 story on the similarities between the two administrations:
Bush ... structures his White House much as Nixon did. Nixon governed largely with four other men: Henry A. Kissinger, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Charles Colson. This is not unlike the "iron triangle" of aides who led Bush's campaign and the handful of underlings now - Cheney, chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr, national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice and communications director Dan Bartlett - who are in on most top decisions. Nixon essentially ended the tradition of powerful Cabinets in favor of a few powerful White House aides - a model Bush has followed.Mr. Leopold said, "Unfortunately, neither the Washington Post nor any other mainstream newspaper or magazine in this country will ever be credited with exposing another Watergate. Mainstream reporters just don't have the guts to put their careers on the line to sniff around, ask tough questions, and perhaps find sources like W. Mark Felt." he declared. "Not even Woodward has the muckraking qualities he used to have. Worse, editors for large papers don't encourage reporters to practice that kind of reporting anymore, because they don't want to rock the boat, or risk losing their jobs, or be seen as liberal and therefore beckon the ire of the blogosphere." See "Watergate and the Iraq War - A higher standard of truthfulness?" for more of Mr. Leopold's interesting analysis.The most striking similarity is in the area of secrecy and what Nixon staffers called "managing the news". Nixon created the White House Office of Communications, the office that has become the center of Bush's vaunted message discipline.
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 9, 2005 09:11 PM
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