You're No Nixon

From the guardian.co.uk:

Say what you like about George W Bush – and many people have done just that – but he was no Richard Nixon. He was worse, according to America's leading presidential scholars...a survey of political experts by the Siena Research Institute in New York places Nixon far ahead of Bush in a poll of the best and worst US presidents and even in front of the harmless, by American presidential standards, if ineffectual Jimmy Carter.

And let's not forget Nixon. From Hunter S. Thompson's pitiless and brilliant obituary of Tricky Dick:

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.

Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism--which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful.