Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
A trip down memory lane…
While looking up stuff related to my post about Atrios’ reaction to Sam Seder’s replacement on Air America Radio, I came across this old post on Crooks and Liars from June 2, 2005. Sam Seder was filling in for Ron Reagan, Jr. on MSRNC’s now-defunct lunch-hour gabfest, Connected: Coast to Coast. The subject of the three-on-three debate: the revelation that former FBI Deputy Director W. Mark Felt was “Deep Throat” - the anonymous source that helped blow the lid off of Nixon’s criminal enterprise: the Watergate cover-up.
There were two things that struck me most about the clip: the renewed salience, in light of Gonzo-gate, of blogger Bill Scher’s comment that the right-wing “[doesn’t] believe that government staff - government workers - should be independent at all - that political appointees should have full control over them,” and the presence of former Alaska Senator and current candidate for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination Mike “I feel like a potted plant” Gravel in this particular fracas.
