Quotes of the Day

Lowell Ponte in Discover the Networks wrote:

FBI Deputy Director W. Mark Felt, passed over by President Nixon for promotion to succeed the late J. Edgar Hoover as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, violated professional ethics and his oath of secrecy in an apparent fit of anger, vengeance and a desire to win favors from the liberal press and perhaps a future Democratic President. Felt became the secret support on which Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein constructed the gallows with which the media and Democrats in control of Congress and the courts were able to lynch Mr. Nixon for crimes no greater than those committed by recent Democratic presidents.

And.

The coup that overthrew President Nixon was largely orchestrated by Senator Edward Kennedy to reverse the left-repudiating 1972 election and serve Kennedy's presidential ambitions. This coup led to Communist victory in Vietnam, toppling dominoes in Southeast Asia, and encouragement to left revolutionary movements worldwide. It also allowed Kennedy and his liberal media allies to identify the tragic Vietnam War not with President John F. Kennedy, who committed the first 17,000 armed troops there, but with Republican President Nixon.

But this coup also had unexpected consequences. It led to the election of Democratic President Jimmy Carter in 1976. Carter withdrew support from America's key ally the Shah of Iran, which led to a medieval Islamist dictatorship in Iran, the 500,000+ deaths of the Iran-Iraq War, the militarization of Saddam Hussein, the destabilization of the Middle East and Islamic world, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the creation of Al Qaeda under terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, and bin Laden's eventual attacks of 9-11 on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. All this and more has come from the media coup that removed an overwhelmingly-reelected President Nixon.

Ayn Rand in her works of fiction and non-fiction drew a line between rational self-interest, the achievement of goals without imposing costs on others, versus what we now call malignant narcissism, the pursuit of desires through the sacrifices imposed on other people.

How many millions of people died at the hands of the communists in Cambodia and Vietnam so that malignant narcissists like Edward Kennedy and W. Mark Felt could pursue their own career ambitions?

What can I say to such individuals?

Thanks a lot assholes!

And I have another question.

Is it too late to hang the bloodsoaked motherfuckers?
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