Parade Of Nixon Aides

Journalism Jamboree

Here's political watcher Chris Matthews on what he calls the "journalism jamboree of the last 24 hours":

"I think it’s important in this discussion that we listen to reporters for the facts; not the flacks and the hacks. You have to go to the editors and the fact-checkers on a story like this.

All these guys are incredible—Pat Buchanan, Charles Colson, John Dean. But they were all involved in it, in the situation, in the White House… Pat is a Nixon loyalist.
Woodward and Bernstein weren’t questioned on the facts. No one is challenging them on the facts. You can’t get confused between the fire and the fire brigade here. The good guys are the ones catching the bad guys doing the bad things.

The problem with the journalism jamboree of the last 24 hours is that people are coming on TV that have cases to make on behalf of Nixon still, on behalf of their own biographies. But talk to Walter Pincus of the Post, Woodward and Bradlee.. those are the truth-tellers here."

Chris Matthews, of course, hosts one of the shows that give a forum to "the flacks and the hacks" that attack the investigative work of the reporters.