Frost:Nixon = Cold:______

[captainsblog]

Apparently, there was quite the brouhaha at the DC premiere of the new film about David Frost's late-70s chat show series with former President Nixon. Little of the controversy had to do with Frost or Nixon, but with just how analogous it would be to attempt such an interview series with our current soon-to-be-former Resident. Leading the charge against such an analogy was that wild and Foxy guy Chris Wallace (who is really looking frighteningly like his father these days), who defended against the comparison thusly:

It trivializes Nixon's crimes and completely misrepresents what George W. Bush did...I think to compare what Nixon did, and the abuses of power for pure political self-preservation, to George W. Bush trying to protect this country—even if you disagree with rendition or waterboarding—it seems to me is both a gross misreading of history both then and now.

The only thing that seems clear to me right now is that it's too early to tell. Rendition and waterboarding are enough for me to start the conversation, and to continue it through some post-January investigations so we can find out just how badly Dubya and Co. did damage our constitutional landscape.

Even less clear than that, though, is whether there would ever be a post-administration mea culpa of the type Nixon dished out. Since all we can do for the moment is guess, well, why don't we?


[Poll #1309039]

* We probably should avoid inclusion of John Barrowman, even though it would be cool for him and Bush to sit there making comparisons as to the bigger prick.

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Comments

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

I think only time will tell what GWB's legacy will be. After all, not many Presidents have really ever sat down to what I would call a tough interview. Really, how people will perceive this time is very hard to see. You have to wonder if mothers of boys in the Revolution thought it was a lost cause after so many years, so many casualties, against such a great British army. You wonder why most people now don't think LBJ should be crucified upside down for Vietnam. You wonder what would WWII been like if Truman hadn't dropped the bomb. Honestly there are some Presidents that I don't think had 2 brain cells to rub together than history has been quite kind to and vise versa.

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

I didn't answer number one because I think that he will desperately want to in order to define his legacy, but his advisors/father/wife will not let him get within ten feet of a reporter.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Nixon, at least, was competent -- barking mad and bug-eyed paranoid, poor man, but competent. Not only is W among the three most incompetent Presidents ever, he's spent every moment in office destroying this country and advancing sinister, malign disasters for his mercantile puppetmasters.

John Barrowman, Exposed.

[revmary.livejournal.com]

Boy, I missed it! LOL

Wonder if UTUBE has it, LOL...