President Obama’s 16 Watergates (So Far)
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 8th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
President Obama’s 16 Watergates (So Far)
Today marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s resignation announcement in the wake of the Watergate scandal. As MSNBC’s Steve Benen has pointed out, for more than five years, conservatives have invoked Watergate in an attempt to amplify the importance of numerous scandals of the day involving President Obama.
No Obama “scandals” have matched the vast criminality involved with Watergate. The New York Times noted of Watergate’s reach: “Entangled in that skein were dozens of men implicated in the scandal, many of whom were top aides to the President. As it steadily unwound, the American people watched a parade of witnesses expose the details of a political crime whose proportions were nearly unfathomable: wiretapping, money laundering, destruction of documents, payment of hush money, character assassination, disinformation and deception — all perpetrated by people at the highest levels of Government. More than 30 people pleaded guilty or were convicted of crimes like perjury, burglary, wiretapping and obstruction of justice.”
Below is a list of the various supposed scandals conservative media figures have compared to Watergate. The list, originally published in 2012, has been updated with several more recent Watergates.
