Limbaugh/Beck during Watergate?

WI Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck were around during Watergate? How would they have viewed it and also what would be their attitudes toward Nixon, Woodward/Bernstein, and the Senate hearings not to mention Nixon's eventual resignation?
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
Woodward and Bernstein are treacherous commiesymps who are trying to destroy America by leaking national secrets to the amnesty-granting, acid-dropping, abortion-having hippies and liberals who want to stab us in the back and turn Kansas into a collective farm for Brezhnev's Bolshies.
 
Nixon wasn't exactly a conservative, but he was better than McGovern. The relationship would have been like Rush's political relationship with each Bush. Supportive overall, but not afraid to go after him when he was wrong (which Nixon often was). Reagan he wasn't.

I should note that having talk radio like today's would probably butterfly away Watergate, because the whole dynamic of both the 1968 and 1972 campaigns would have changed.
 

pnyckqx

Banned
WI Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck were around during Watergate? How would they have viewed it and also what would be their attitudes toward Nixon, Woodward/Bernstein, and the Senate hearings not to mention Nixon's eventual resignation?
Unless you're butterflying away the Fairness Doctrine, Limbaugh is a still a rock DJ in Pittsburgh, and Beck has probably drank himself to death.
 
This is actually a really interesting AH question.
But I assume they'd back the President every step of the way, and say that the big Government Democratic congress is overreaching to put the Commie George McGovern in office as another strive towards the total revolt by the Gay Mafia to institute a black panther socialist-syndicalist puppet Government for the U.S.S.R and new world U.N order.
And hopefully at some point they'd also say, "You can't lick our Dick!"
 
I like to think that in those days, such nonsense as what passes for political discourse nowadays would be unthinkable, and that Limbaugh and Beck would be a bit more civil.

Anyway, they'd back Nixon all the way. They'd say that Woodward and Bernstein were providing aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States in a Cold (and Hot, in Vietnam) War. Woodward and Bernstein would, in their minds, be actively hampering the American effort to win the hearts and minds of the world, in the interest of personal gain. As the affair proceeded to the Senate, they'd get to denouncing the entire Democratic Party as power-hungry gits who'd sell the United States out for another term in office.

When Nixon gets around to resigning, he'd be lionized as the antithesis to the Democrats and the congressional officials probing his administration--where they sacrificed the strength of the Executive Branch on the alter of personal advancement, Nixon resigned from office and allowed a black mark upon his legacy in the interest of sparing the nation the struggle of an impeachment proceeding.
 

Pangur

Donor
How well would a shock jock be received by society generally and by the republicans specifically? My guess would be - not very well. They would be trying to work in a society where the Vietnam war was very much in play. They would I would speculate be seen as crude cave men. The other question is which Radio syndicate would employ them?
 
What would they also have to say about Nixon and Kissinger restoring ties with China and what about their views on the war effort in Vietnam? Any 'support the troops' attitude?
 

Pangur

Donor
Thinking about this they could well have had the exact opposite effect that wanted to achieve - their ranting would have turned folk against both them as well as even more so against the war
 
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"Help the Bear, Fellahs"

They would do more harm than good to the Conservative cause.

It was an Earlier sort of COnservativism back i nthe day, a more mature and restrained conservativism, in short it was actual CONSERVATIVISM!

The "Silent Majority" would be as put off and scandalized by these two circus monkeys as they were by the radical anti-war left.

"Adult serious people, just don't act this way" would be the prevailing thought."

"If they have something of value to say ,that why can't they act like grown-ups when they say it"

"We don't like the radical left BECAUSE they act like children and circus monkeys, why in the world would we approve of people who behave that way just because they say they're speaking for us"
 

GarethC

Donor
Beck is what, 48 now?

If he had been born in 1924 to be 48 in 1972, he'd have probably served in WW2 or, less likely, Korea. I wonder how that would have changed his views?

Beck had a drinking problem by the time he was 18 - would he have been discharged for that, and would it have been medical or dishonorable? If the latter, would his chosen career be open to him?
 

Pangur

Donor
Beck is what, 48 now?

If he had been born in 1924 to be 48 in 1972, he'd have probably served in WW2 or, less likely, Korea. I wonder how that would have changed his views?

Beck had a drinking problem by the time he was 18 - would he have been discharged for that, and would it have been medical or dishonorable? If the latter, would his chosen career be open to him?

Now there is an interesting twist to the question. Works quite well either way, they serve and may not hold the same views ir they don't and would have even less cred that the do now
 

pnyckqx

Banned
Beck is what, 48 now?

If he had been born in 1924 to be 48 in 1972, he'd have probably served in WW2 or, less likely, Korea. I wonder how that would have changed his views?

Beck had a drinking problem by the time he was 18 - would he have been discharged for that, and would it have been medical or dishonorable? If the latter, would his chosen career be open to him?
Lots of soldiers, including many high ranking generals had drinking problems by today's standards.

Alcohol abuse wasn't really curtailed until after the army started cracking down on drug abuse. It took a good many years for the problem to even be acknowledged by the military.

All for naught anyway. With the fairness doctrine in place, neither Beck nor Limbaugh will be allowed to host shows that deal with political discourse. No station is going to deal with the hassle.
 
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