• anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      5 个月前

      No they meant watergate, Roger Ailes, the founding CEO of Fox News, was Nixon’s media guy during watergate.

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          5 个月前

          For sure, but Watergate was specifically the spark that inspired them.

          The comment you replied to included the caveat “eventually”, but the whitewater scandal was almost the opposite, as it was largely the right wing looking for scandals to promote on places like Fox News.