Mark Felt, Richard Nixon and Eretz Israel
Ben Stein:
Now, we read that Mark Felt's family and Mark Felt put out their story solely to make money off it. So, this makes the family's karma even more unnerving. The father, patriarch, Mark, took out his anger and frustration for being passed over at the FBI, by ruining the career of the peacemaker, Richard Nixon. So, he condemned a whole subcontinent to genocide and slavery and poverty to please his own wounded vanity. (Maybe his nickname should be "sour grapes" and not "deep throat" because he has as much in common with that fox as with a porn star.) And, blood will tell, as the old saying goes: his posterity is now dragging out his old body and putting it on display to make money. (Have you noticed how Mark Felt looks like one of those old Nazi war criminals they find in Bolivia or Paraguay? That same, haunted, hunted look combined with a glee at what he has managed to get away with so far?)
And it gets worse: it's been reported that Mark Felt is at least part Jewish. The reason this is worse is that at the same time that Mark Felt was betraying Richard Nixon, Nixon was saving Eretz Israel. It is a terrifying chapter in betrayal and ingratitude. If he even knows what shame is, I wonder if he felt a moment's shame as he tortured the man who brought security and salvation to the land of so many of his and my fellow Jews. Somehow, as I look at his demented face, I doubt it.
The neocons will probably go after Stein over this one.
posted by Adam Lawson @ 1:09 PM
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3 Comments:
Hmmm....so, according to you, Richard Nixon would have ended the Vietnam war well before Gerald Ford finally saw its conclusion, and that Mark Felt was not justified in bringing attention to the fact that Richard Nixon violated his Constitutional oath of office by fixing the 1972 election? Am I reading you correctly?
Your post seems to ignore much of the historical facts surrounding the Watergate era. Though I do agree that there is no doubt that Felt's revelation that he was Deep Throat was done entirely for fiscal gain.
I was merely cutting and pasting what Ben Stein had written. The opinions are his.
Just a point of clarification. I think the VN war was a mistake but it seems to be seldom mentioned that the collapse of the Saigon regime came after the Dem congress cut off aid to the South. The Soviets, of course, continued aid to the North. US troops had been withdrawn two years earlier as part of the Paris peace agreement.
Stein's comments reflect his gratefulness for Nixon's emergency resupply of Israel during the Yom Kippur war and possibly saving it from destruction.
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