Thank you to digby for highlighting a 1973 LA Times column from the great Art Buchwald. (You can see the original piece at the link and his full list)
“A Response Checklist”- (a few highlights with some edits for 44 years later)
“These are difficult times for people defending Nixon t*ump”….
“As a public service I am printing instant responses for Nixonites t*umpsters when they are attacked at a party waffle house (that’s where supporters were interviewed on NPR yesterday cause everyone wants to know how they feel….right?).
Please cut it out and carry it in your pocket.”
1. Everyone does it.
2. What about Chappaquiddick Benghaziiiiiiiii?
3. A President can’t keep track of EVERYTHING his staff is doing.
4. The press is blowing the whole thing up.
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6. The Democrats are sore because they lost the election.
7. Are you going to believe a rat like John Dean nutcase like James Comey or the President of the United States?
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9. What about Chappaquiddick Benghaziiiiiiiiiii?
10. If you impeach Nixon t*ump, you get Agnew Pence.
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23. I’m not breaking the law but sometimes you have to do it to save the country.
25. Do you realize what Watergate t*ump/Russia is doing to the dollar abroad?
28. I’m sick and tired of Watergate t*ump/Russia and so is everybody else.
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32. What about Chappaquiddick Benghaziiiiiiiiiii?
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As they say, everything old new again….only this is so much worse.