Bag Man: Full Season
January 13, 2019 9:42 PM - Subscribe
Is it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember? Rachel Maddow's Bag Man refreshes our memories.
I had always been under the the impression that the Agnew resignation was connected in some way with Watergate and not his own insane unrelated scandal. This was a great and entertaining corrective to that idea.
I didn't mind the breathless reveals, but I did think they hit the parallels to our current political environment pretty heavily and with a lot of unsubtle winking on the part of Maddow. We get it, he's attacking the press and the Justice department and his supporters are lapping it up, just like you-know-who.
That minor quibble aside, this was a must-listen.
posted by Jugwine at 8:36 AM on January 15, 2019 [3 favorites]
I didn't mind the breathless reveals, but I did think they hit the parallels to our current political environment pretty heavily and with a lot of unsubtle winking on the part of Maddow. We get it, he's attacking the press and the Justice department and his supporters are lapping it up, just like you-know-who.
That minor quibble aside, this was a must-listen.
posted by Jugwine at 8:36 AM on January 15, 2019 [3 favorites]
This was really good.
There were a few annoying breathless moments of, "And now... for the first time ever.. we will reveal..."
It had a bit of that LOUD VOICES OF US-STYLE NETWORK NEWS HAMMERING ON THE SELF-EVIDENT tone that was a bit grating at times, but otherwise it was riveting.
I had always been under the the impression that the Agnew resignation was connected in some way with Watergate and not his own insane unrelated scandal.
Me too!
I guess the shadow of Nixon sort of obscures the degree to which Agnew was a piece of shit completely independent of him.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 11:53 AM on January 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
There were a few annoying breathless moments of, "And now... for the first time ever.. we will reveal..."
It had a bit of that LOUD VOICES OF US-STYLE NETWORK NEWS HAMMERING ON THE SELF-EVIDENT tone that was a bit grating at times, but otherwise it was riveting.
I had always been under the the impression that the Agnew resignation was connected in some way with Watergate and not his own insane unrelated scandal.
Me too!
I guess the shadow of Nixon sort of obscures the degree to which Agnew was a piece of shit completely independent of him.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 11:53 AM on January 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
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posted by latkes at 9:48 PM on January 13, 2019 [1 favorite]