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Originally posted by Gattigap
Look, let's stop projecting yesterday's events to today's media and political culture.
What Deep Throat did, and when he did it, should be viewed within the prism of its time. It was during a war, with soaring gasoline prices, and the nation had a president that some people felt wasn't being entirely candid with the American people. It was a totally different era, people, and temptations to compare the two are naive.*
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I wasn't doing that, really (if I had been I would have said something like "hopefully he wasn't married to Plame"). I was keeping in mind the gentle manner in which Hoover and Nixon typically treated their political enemies, and extrapolating from there how they might treat someone who came forward with evidence of crimes by the administration.
