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wolfeskins:

If the Post had taken your advice about how to behave back in the 1970s, Watergate would never have been a big deal. They weren't nice to the President at the time so they could continue to get interviews; they went out and found out what the news was and reported it. That is what newspapers are supposed to do. That's what made Woodward and Bernstein famous. Until then, they were a pair of low-level hacks covering the Metro beat and hoping to find a scoop on something about the local transit system. YAWN !!!

Richard Nixon tried to cut off the Post's sources and he even put some of the Post folks on his "enemies list". You see where that got him, right? I don't know if Danny Boy was old enough in 1972 to appreciate what they did then and what they can still do today if the opportunity presents itself.

Neither side in this mess is acting particularly professionally but there is an old adage that Danny Boy really ought to consider:

Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the boxcar-full.