Subjects/subject
Watergate
Tim’s take
He treats Watergate as smaller than its reputation — the break-in was "the tip of a spear" of much worse CIA and Nixon activity that never surfaced 25:24 9:59. He says he isn't satisfied with the official story, grouping it with JFK and 9/11 as explanations he doesn't buy, while mocking people who toss around "worse than Watergate" without knowing how bad it actually was 19:16 9:59. He credits the Watergate-era press corps with being the last one that actually did its job, unlike the tribal media he sees now, and once assumed the scandal had forced real institutional accountability before deciding that was just a naive lesson taught at places like Harvard 35:03 22:25 1:19:32. It also doubles as generational shorthand for the trauma that curdled his parents' generation into anxious yuppies alongside Vietnam and the oil crisis, and as a recurring plug for Russ Baker's research into what actually happened 13:59 24:08 37:35 0:48 1:09:36.
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"for you? You have great revelations of family secrets about Watergate, which we're going to talk about in a little bit. So why is the"
Why the Kennedy Assassination Matters and Alex Jones/David Icke — Incompetence and Ruthlessness+15s into the segment"war gate was the tip of a spear of a lot of like much worse shit Yeah, you know CIA Nixon were doing but yeah basically breaking into a campaign thing, you know And that's and"
"not a fan of Trump. You know that. Right. We're living through Watergate here and like you're not gonna get them is like They don't believe"
"And there was a time in the set, people forget how traumatic Watergate and then the oil crisis and the fucking inflation And then the"
"were coming in the 70s and the 60s with Vietnam first and then Watergate and all these things, you were coming off the most effective"
"I would skip the Kennedy assassination stuff and I would skip the Watergate stuff, which is by the way, what made my book a bestseller was that stuff, of course."
Coincidences: Hinckley, Neil Bush, and the Media's Cozy Friends — Live From The NY Comedy Festival (with Russ Baker)+210s into the segment"You're a smart guy. Look, it means possible. So it's worse than Watergate. I find that hard. People don't realize slogan. Yeah, it's a"
"People have said good things It's not the same thing shut up but Watergate you had somewhat of a legitimate inquisitive yeah press corps"
"history around JFK. I am NOT satisfied with the history around Watergate I am not satisfied not saying it's an inside job, but I'm simply"
Conspiracy Riff: JFK, 9/11, and the Anthony Bourdain-Kennedy Connection — The Coming Collapse+57s into the segment"take what used to be you know in Washington Post running the Watergate investigation we were in Bernstein yeah we were all supply plants"
"go through everything. They go through JFK. They go through Watergate. They go through George W. Bush, how he became the president."
"Watergate, as you know from my book, the more I researched Watergate, and I have to say, once you find that one major narrative is wrong"
Kennedy's Revolutionary Cabinet Strategy and Media Complicity — Dead President with Russ Baker+219s into the segment"the thing water gate Doesn't affect you in the way that like you getting uncomfortable in the college classroom because you know You"
Why the Alt-Media Space Got Overrun by Trolls and Lunatics — What is Shangri-La+160s into the segment"Naively that Watergate changed things that the system of oversight was ratcheted up and that the government was held itself accountable for that."