THE NEW, NUANCED, BLOGGIN' NIXON
Feb. 18th, 2008 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: President Nixon starts his own blog today.
Yes, I know he’s dead. What’s yr point?
Okay, it’s actually the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation’s blog. And evidently, it riffs off the Nixon legacy of reinvention:
So, it’s like blogs are a chance to reinvent yrself, see? Because on the Interwub, no one knows yr a dead ex-President who resigned in disgrace for wiretapping yr own office and believing that it’s not illegal if the President does it. You know, back when secret wiretapping was illegal.
Having grown up under the mushroom cloud of Watergate, I find it amazing that there are still people who will defend Nixon. On the other hand, eight years of Junior Bush makes almost anyone look good in comparison. And 25% of the country inexplicably still thinks Bush is awesome, so sure, why not give Nixon his own blog?
It’d be more fun if Nixon wrote it from beyond the grave. But then none of the presidential candidates actually write their own blogs, so I guess it’s no different.
Happy presidents day.
Dead blog,
This is dF
Yes, I know he’s dead. What’s yr point?
Okay, it’s actually the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation’s blog. And evidently, it riffs off the Nixon legacy of reinvention:
"Those who participate in the dialogue on The New Nixon blog will themselves be part of creating the next new Nixon, the nuanced new Nixon.”
So, it’s like blogs are a chance to reinvent yrself, see? Because on the Interwub, no one knows yr a dead ex-President who resigned in disgrace for wiretapping yr own office and believing that it’s not illegal if the President does it. You know, back when secret wiretapping was illegal.
Having grown up under the mushroom cloud of Watergate, I find it amazing that there are still people who will defend Nixon. On the other hand, eight years of Junior Bush makes almost anyone look good in comparison. And 25% of the country inexplicably still thinks Bush is awesome, so sure, why not give Nixon his own blog?
It’d be more fun if Nixon wrote it from beyond the grave. But then none of the presidential candidates actually write their own blogs, so I guess it’s no different.
Happy presidents day.
Dead blog,
This is dF
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grrrrrrrrr....Nixon!!
on 2008-02-19 10:01 pm (UTC)I think someone should start a new Thompson blog, since he was his biggest fan and all...
Although my dad always shuts me up on the Nixon front because I can never counter his Nixon logic:
"He gave me a 100% pay raise when I was in the military and I got a day off of work when he died. That's more than any fucking president has done for me..."