Quondam Democratic hero exiled to the woodshed

Woodward's lack of integrity

He was the front half of Woodstein

Their work on the Watergate scandal was, says Wikipedia,

“The single greatest reporting effort of all time,” says Gene Roberts, the former executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and former managing editor of The New York Times.

Bob Woodward

And speaking of a lack of integrity, the hypocrisy of the destruction of Richard Nixon by his Democratic enemies was just awesome to behold.

I watched the hearings on TV and the show was breathtaking.

It was the Ninth Wonder of the World.

Sam Ervin was so spectacular in his effrontery as to be downright extra-terrestrial.

Not a single one of those toads in the congress hadn’t done worse, in his time, than Richard Nixon, or approved worse when done by someone of his own party.

Well, maybe one.

But I can't even guess who he might have been.

The only excuse for this shameful farce was that the Washington culture of impunity for political crimes and shenanigans had to be broken with and could not be perpetuated.

So Nixon had to be punished once the cat was out of the bag.

But this ignores why the cat was out of the bag, and who had spilled it out.

And, anyway, what actually happened to Richard Nixon and the nation did not put so much as a dent in that same culture of impunity.

The excuse was a lie and the whole affair was just a singular act of spectacular hatred.

“Well, he had it coming” misses the point by a country mile.

But the victors write the histories.

And the news, too.