Nit-picking time:

In a New York Times opinion piece reviewing the New Hampshire phone-jamming by Republicans, we read: (exerpts, emp add)

A Small-Time Crime With Hints of Big-Time Connections Lights Up the Net

Bloggers are fascinated by what they see as eerie parallels between Watergate and a phone-jamming scandal in New Hampshire. It has low-level Republican operatives involved in dirty campaign tricks. It has checks from donors with murky backgrounds. It has telephone calls to the White House.

The parallels drawn with Watergate are a good place to start:

1. The return of the "second-rate burglary." The New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal is being dismissed as small-time, state-level misconduct, but it occurred at a critical moment in a tough election.

Beg to differ. It was famously described as a third-rate burglary. How did that get overlooked by the author (or perhaps the bloggers, which is what the essay is mostly about)?


posted by Quiddity at 4/18/2006 08:16:00 AM