Jonathan Alter’s Newsweek column, “If Watergate Happened Now,” is a must-read. Alter imagines Roger Ailes banning the word Watergate from Fox News and going with the banner Assault on the Presidency instead. Here’s the best paragraph:
“…The No. 2 man at the FBI, W. Mark Felt, held a press conference to air complaints that the White House and his own boss were impeding the FBI probe. Of course it was only a one-day story, with Ann Coulter predictably screaming that Felt was a “traitor.” Rush Limbaugh dubbed Felt “Special Agent Sour Grapes” because he’d been passed over for the top FBI job. Within hours, the media had moved on to the tale of a runaway bride.”
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