Know Who Else Bowed to Japan's Emperor? Nixon.
Did I just make an argument for or against him? Crap. [LIFE]
Fox Reporter to Host Totally Balanced Anti-Health Care Reform Event
Look at that, a "reporter" for a "legitimate news organization" is co-hosting a "day of health care events" sponsored by a conservative advocacy group! His name is John Stossel and as of last month he works for Fox News.
William Safire's Finest Speech
Columnist and presidential speechwriter Bill Safire was one of only three non-disloyal Jews President Nixon could name. Here is the speech he drafted for Nixon to read in case the Apollo 11 Astronauts became stranded on the moon!
Will We Get a Frost/Bush?
Tonight, New York's channel 21 will broadcast the Watergate portion of the David Frost interviews of Richard Nixon. This seems as good a time as any to ask if we'll ever get the equivalent from George W. Bush.
Peggy Noonan Advocating National Single-Payer Health Care Via Ghost of FDR(?!)
Today, noted Twitterer Peggy Noonan is writing fanfic about the ghosts of FDR and Nixon, who are coming back to Earth to advise their modern political parties. It is insane.
Sanford's Presser: Instant Classic
Mark Sanford's press conference. Did you watch that performance? Wow. He just... he just kept going. How did it compare to some classic political meltdowns of the past? Favorably!
Nixon Believed in Aborting Mixed-Race Babies
If only America had listened to Richard Nixon, the Republican Party wouldn't be in the trouble it's in. Because Barack Obama wouldn't have been born. He would have been aborted, because his mom was white and his dad was black.
Bill O'Reilly Just Making Things Up About Nixon
Here's Bill O'Reilly, correcting in-house libtard Alan Colmes' ludicrous assertion that Richard Nixon shook hands with Mao Zedong, so it's OK for Barack Obama to give Hugo Chavez a handjob. Nixon never touched Mao.
Blago Declares Self the 'Anti-Nixon,' Promptly Acts Like Nixon
Like the Richard Nixon groupie he is, Rod Blagojevich quickly broke his promise to Rachel Maddow to become the "anti-Nixon." Instead he broke court rules and dodged questions, on national television.
Blago a Huge Nixon Groupie
In 1980, a vacationing Rod Blagojevich camped in front of Richard Nixon's home, with a friend, until the pariah ex-president emerged and this picture was taken. What the hell is wrong with this guy?
Chris Wallace Defends Bush Against Mean Ron Howard
Ron Howard, TV's Opie, just directed the film version of Frost/Nixon, because the man knows Oscar-bait when he sees it. And also, sure, because it's politically relevant or something. Howard, the very definition of American Middlebrow, is not a political director, though this year he endorsed Obama because he is a…
Upper East Side Co-op Board Rejects Nixon
Wow. So remember the story of how Representative Charlie Rengel had those rent-stabilized apartments? And that led to this expose on how the Rudin family keeps renting out its luxury apartments at ridiculously low cost to connected insiders? Now that story has led to the amazing tale of how Richard Nixon was …
Roger Stone Knew Guv's Terrible Secret, According to Roger Stone
Roger Stone, GOP dirty trickster, attempts to reinsert himself into the news as often as possible. And as the man is a proud Nixonite, you can't ever actually believe a goddamn word he says. But the Miami Herald reported this weekend that Stone wrote a letter to the FBI last November informing them that former New…
Nixon, Blogger
In honor of Presidents Day, our nation's greatest ever president, Richard Milhous "Dick" Nixon, started a blog! Because everyone gets a blog! It's called "The New Nixon Blog" and America's Dead President Hero "would be fascinated by the blogosphere," according to his blog, written by the staff of his presidential…
