For our DU youngsters: NUNBERG might be today's Martha MITCHELL

[UTUSN]

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I love Madeline KAHN:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mitchell

Martha MITCHELL

.... In the days immediately after the Watergate break-in in 1972, her husband enlisted former FBI agent Steve King to prevent her from learning about the break-in or contacting reporters. Despite these efforts, Martha learned that one of her friends, her daughter's bodyguard and driver James W. McCord Jr., was among those arrested. She began to explore the events in order to help him. While on a phone call with Helen Thomas about the Watergate break-in, King pulled the phone cord from the wall. She was held against her will in a California hotel room and forcefully sedated by a psychiatrist after a physical struggle with five men that left her needing stitches.[2][3] Nixon aides, in an effort to discredit Mitchell, told the press that she had a "drinking problem".[citation needed] Mitchell began contacting reporters when her husband's role in the scandal became known, initially in an effort to defend him. [4] Nixon was later to tell interviewer David Frost in 1977 that Martha was a distraction to John Mitchell, such that no one was minding the store, and "If it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate." Because of these allegations, she was discredited and abandoned by most of her family, except for her son Jay. The Mitchells separated in 1973. ....

Martha Mitchell was portrayed in the 1995 film Nixon by actress Madeline Kahn who, like Mitchell, also died at the age of 57 of cancer. ....

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[Gabi Hayes]

1. I like my pic better....

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10322640

[UTUSN]

5. Holy Zeus, every time I come up with something on my own, it's been *done*!1

So why do Charles PIERCE, et al., get PAID for my original stuff?!1

[Gabi Hayes]

7. Almost Every time I look something up, thinking its my idea.....

It’s not

Sad! It’s Sad!

[nolabear]

2. Youre right! Martha was known to drink a bit.

[ChubbyStar]

3. Thanks for this!

K&R!

[GP6971]

4. I think Watergatge will pale

to this once everything is found out.

[Glimmer of Hope]

6. I learned about her from this excellent podcast:

http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/watergate.html

[UTUSN]

8. What date? (I don't have access.) I made my post/connection ON MY OWN/original!1

HAH, now all these people have been talking about it all day!1

[JohnnyLib2]

9. Wonderful thought.

We sure need one.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. So is all this comparing of Sam Nunberg to Martha Mitchell

intended to say that he's a credible source of some kind?

He seems, from what I've heard of his performance today, to be a genuine nut case. She actually had the goods on people in the Nixon administration and was presented by them, including her husband, as crazy. Which she wasn't.

[UTUSN]

11. "all this" - until I did the comparing I didn't know it was going on.

And when I opened up DU late afternoon I didn't know who Nunberg is or what he did today. When I caught up I made my Martha connection.

That said, yes, he's said breathlessly damaging things about his cohorts, true things judging from their reactions, so what's wrong?!1

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. There have been a couple of threads connecting Nunberg to Mitchell,

and apparently it's a trending thing on Twitter.

What's bothering me is that the comparison just isn't valid. At least not in my understanding about either of those two.

Oh, well.