Quote of the Day
By David McKee ~ June 4th, 2010 @ 9:18 am
“I don’t know of an American president who’s resigned. There may have been one.” — radio host Michael Savage. Uhhh … ever hear tell of a fella called Richard Nixon? (I’m one of those Americans who made the mistake of believing Nixon was innocent, rendering the memory doubly fresh. Savage is 20 years my senior, so what’s his excuse for not knowing?)
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June 5th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
David,
I somehow missed this entry, or I would have commented earlier:
Savage didn’t forget. He lied; he knew that Nixon had resigned, but chose to add the “There may have been one” for when he was (later, off-air) confronted by the fact that the one President who resigned from office was a Republican.
I had been following the Watergate stories as they broke, day by day. I knew Nixon was a crook before he said “I am not a crook”.
Democrats AND Republicans in the House of Representatives impeached him as a crook; and Democrats AND Republicans in the Senate were anxious to put him on trial, then remove him from office if the charges proved true that he was a crook.
He knew that they would have been proved true, so he resigned so as to avoid the stigma of being the only US president to be impeached and removed from office – then he was retroactively pardoned by a Republican president for all crimes he might have committed while was president.
Savage lied because he wants his followers to beat the drums for the right’s call for Obama to resign or be removed from office (one way or another) – and he knows that feeding the tea partiers’ frenzy is good for his ratings.
By the way, Savage is far from the only one: I recommend the book “Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right” for a truthful review of “conservative” lies.