Watergate

Rightbloggers Cover Benghazi Hearings with Extreme Prejudice

House Republicans finally got their hearings on Benghazi, and we have learned that the Obama Administration, the CIA, and the FBI massaged their talking points before announcing the attack last September, and that at least a couple of people thought the U.S. military could have gotten to Benghazi qu ... More >>

White House Words with Woodward More Proof of Obama Tyranny, Say Rightbloggers

Last week we learned that a White House official got into an argument with Bob Woodward. Woodward is the biggest name in Washington journalism; he has survived seven Administrations (counting the one he helped take down with his Watergate reporting), and will probably continue to publish bestsellers ... More >>

Supreme Court to Return to Campaign Finance; Citizens United Redux?

Get ready to enter the case McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission into your "grab your pitchforks" political vocabulary. The Nine announced yesterday that the highest court in the land will hear the above case this coming October; one that resurrects the campaign finance subject chopped and scr ... More >>

Obama's SOTU Riles Rightbloggers Less Than Jokes About Thirsty Marco Rubio

Last Tuesday was the State of the Union address, in which the President laid out a bunch of plans and Republicans denounced them. Rightbloggers got into this with the aplomb you'd expect. But when rising GOP star Marco Rubio had a comical moment in his official Republican response, and people had ... More >>

Checkers: Tricky's Business

Douglas McGrath's play at the Vineyard tracks Richard Nixon's tragically crooked career

Rep. Michael Grimm's Office Break-In Not Quite Watergate; Just an 8th Grader Who Broke a Window

Congressman Michael Grimm's Staten Island campaign office was "broken into" over the weekend in what the congressman initially suspected to be a Watergate-esque scandal presumably perpetrated by the cronies of his opponent in this year's election.Not quite -- it was just an eighth-grader who broke a ... More >>

The Best and Worst Parties Of All Time: Part One

This will be a six-part series detailing the most fabulous bashes I've ever attended, and also the most rotten. Believe me, I remember every free canape, cheap scent, and guilty grope. THE BEST *New Year's Eve at Studio 54 On December 31, 1978, there was only reasonable place to be--Studio 54 ... More >>

Scott Stringer, Mayoral Hopeful, Gets Burgled, Campaign Computers Stolen

Mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer's campaign office was burglarized over the weekend, and a number of laptops containing donor information were stolen, but no cash, police sources said. Audrey Gelman, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan Borough President, confirmed that a burglary had taken place, but dec ... More >>

Woodward, Bernstein and the Media "Witch Hunt" Warning

Happy 40 years, Deepthroat!Tomorrow marks the official 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal; a story that started with a small crack in a much larger shell that eventually brought down a President. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post duo and investigative journalism heroes, wil ... More >>

What is Going on in the Vatican? A Look at the VatiLeaks Scandal

What happens when you mix together the crazy plot twists of Dan Brown, the conspicuous nature of Julian Assange and a right-hand serviceman as powerful as Alfred was to Bruce Wayne? You have what the Times has called "perhaps the greatest breach in centuries in the wall of secrec ... More >>

Is Your Definition of Organic the Same as the USDA's? Cornucopia Institute Declares an Organic Watergate

The Wisconsin-based Cornucopia Institute is one of the country's leading preservers of the organic flame - a think-tank and advocacy group that benefits the small, family-owned farms that were once in the vanguard of the organic movement. Of course, big agribusiness has long since infiltrated (some ... More >>

Rightbloggers Continue Slow Progress Through Dreams from My Father, Are Up to Part about "Composites"

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama came out in 1995 and has sold over a million copies, but to rightbloggers it is a constantly fresh source of discovery. For years, some of them have insisted that Obama didn't really write it. A few weeks back, they made much of the fact that a passage from it ... More >>

VIDEO: Proof that L. Ron Hubbard Was the Most Awesome Human Being Ever

Just a few weeks after the Scientologists at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida experienced it for themselves, here it is: video from this year's L. Ron Hubbard birthday event. On March 13, LRH would have turned 101 years old (if he hadn't so wisely dropped his meat body in 1986 to research hig ... More >>

The Most Habit Forming Nuns In Screen History

I won't be reading the comments on this one because I don't want to see all the cries of "You forgot about..." I forgot nothing. I know everything. These are my faves. Deal with it or go to hell.

Studio 54, The Musical!

​I'm truthin'! The legendary '70s disco--and specifically the rise and fall of Steve Rubell, who co-founded it--is the subject of a Tommy Tune-directed musical trying out in Florida! In case they're open to some disco-survivor input, I have a few glittery recollections to share from my water ... More >>

All The President's Men Remixed With "Sabotage" Almost Makes Journalism Seem Edgy, Glamorous

Interesting factoid: the Watergate scandal caused enrollment in journalism schools to be at an all-time high in 1974, since budding journalists wanted to be just like Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. JY CINEMASHUP - All the President's Boys from Jeff Yorkes on Vim ... More >>

Illustrious Corpses

A Week After Coup Leaves Allende Dead, No One Knows Anything

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 20, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 38 The Press Desk by Alexander Cockburn THERE HAVE BEEN HEADLINES in the papers and cover stories in Time and Newsweek but one of the central facts about Chile, so far as the world's newspaper-readin ... More >>

Dick Nixon's Buddy Bebe Rebozo Comes Into the Watergate Picture

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 9, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 32 Covering up the cover-up? by Lucian K. Truscott IV In the days immediately following the break-in of Democratic National Party Headquarters at the Watergate in June 1972, Richard M. Nixon met repeated ... More >>

Deep Threat: Bob Guccione Makes Himself a Target

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 26, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 30 Deep Threat by Lucian K. Truscott IV Penthouse magazine, in the person of editor Bob Guccione, is out to challenge the recent Supreme Court decision on obscenity. "We are making ourselves a target," sa ... More >>

Watergate Proving that Norman Mailer's Paranoia Was Prescient

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 12, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 28 Mailer's 5th Estate: Who's paranoid now? by Frank Crowther "Paranoia is the most useful or the most destructive faculty of the human spirit. One never knows when it's devoted to you or your destruction ... More >>

The Horror of NOT Being on the White House Enemies List

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 5, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 27 How come you're not on the list? by Phil Tracy No revelation to come out of the Watergate hearings so far has had such damaging results as the publication of the White House "enemies" list. It strikes t ... More >>

When the Burtons and Brando and Malcolm McDowell Blew Through Town

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 21, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 25 Hype! Hype! Hooray! by Arthur Bell A heat wave blew into town last week. So did Merle Oberon, Malcolm McDowell, the Burtons, Ron O'Neal, Alice Cooper, Marlon Brando, withered endives, chopped liver fro ... More >>

Robert Klein Works a Couple of Jersey High School Proms

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 7, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 23 Class of '73: Save the last dance for anyone but me by Blair Sobol How could i refuse an offer to go to two proms in one week? Especially when one was in Newark and the other was in East Brunswick, New ... More >>

Norman Mailer's 50th Birthday Party: "Maahhvelous!"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 6 Mailer's Birthday by Lucian K. Truscott IV Norman Mailer is probably the only man in America who could give himself a birthday party, charge $50 a couple admission to the posh inner sanctum of the Fo ... More >>

Watergate Just "Seven Bad Boys Who Went Just a Bit Too Far in Their Efforts to Re-elect the President"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 18, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 The commies at Watergate? by Judith Miller WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The major problem with the Watergate trial is that the prosecution has not gotten to the bottom of the sordid affair, because it has ref ... More >>

Nixon Wins, But Nat Hentoff Has a Beef with Ed Koch

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 16, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 46 Next year in Fear City by Nat Hentoff This was going to be the first of a non-consecutive series of probes into the reasons for and the consequences of the Nixon victory, with particular emphasis on ... More >>

Just a Hard-On Away From the Presidency

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 2, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 44 Just a hard-on away from the Presidency by Bob Williams I was just a hard-on away from the Presidency, in a darkened room somewhere off the corridors of power. On a small screen a man and woman were ... More >>

A Meteor Zoomed Toward New York at 33,500 MPH Yesterday, By the Way

​A fireball was visible in the sky from at least four local states yesterday -- Valentine's Day, no less -- the American Meteor Society confirms today. The meteor was likely the size of a "small car" before it hit the upper atmosphere and deteriorated, saving us all sans Bruce Willis. "With it ... More >>

Rightbloggers Celebrate Reagan's 100th Birthday; Attack His Son, Ron Jr.; Cheer His Daughter, Sarah Palin

You may remember Ronald Reagan, whose centenary was celebrated last weekend, as former Secretary of State James Baker does -- as the man who "taught us how to love"; or, as Arizona GOP Congressman Ben Quayle does, as "the nice man who gave us jelly beans when we visited the White House" and "shrank ... More >>

Jazz Consumer Guide: Low-End Theories

Bassists shine, even amid the dark age of conservatism

Charlie Rangel's Sins Don't Rate Too High on the House Scam Meter

​ Charlie Rangel's pending date with a censure vote before the full House of Representatives has prompted a lot of historical digging into great congressional scalawags of the past. By any reasonable standard, Rangel -- no matter what you think of him -- appears to come up pretty short. Remar ... More >>

George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" Sign to Make the Presidential Library?

​In an otherwise softball-filled sit-down with Jay Leno, former President George W. Bush said he regretted speaking about the Iraq war in front of a banner that read "Mission Accomplished" (in addition to flying over the Hurricane Katrina damage and some "blunt" language). He probably says the ... More >>

NYC's Golden Gossip Era Fades

Gotham gossip loses grip, fights off rabble. Rattled tattletales tell all.

If Libby's Indicted, Cheney Will Feel the Heat

Once Scooter sings, it's a whole new Plame Affair