History records this of the famous Nixon Watergate scandal.
In the summer of 1972, as an American presidential election featuring incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon and Democrat Senator George McGovern swirled, two young, green Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein by name, learned of a break-in at Washington’s Watergate Hotel and office complex. A break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
Neither was happy at their new assignment that had them looking into this. It was too much like the run-of-the-mill petty crimes each had already spent time investigating. Besides, the two had never worked together on a story before.
Woodward, unhappy at another dreary task, was directed to cover the booking of the suspects. Grudgingly, he did.
Seated in a D.C. courtroom as the booking proceeded, he suddenly heard this, as he later recalled in the Woodward-Bernstein bestselling book of their tale, All the President’s Men.
The Judge asked the men their professions. Vague answers came back. One tall man was asked to step forward, and he was specifically asked his occupation.
“Security consultant” came the answer from one James McCord.
“Where?” Asked the Judge.
The man replied he was a recently retired government employee. Where in government asked the Judge.
And in a “soft drawl”, wrote Woodward, came the answer:
“CIA.”
Woodward was astonished, saying, “half aloud”…”Holy sh…..!!!!”
And with that the two young reporters were off on the investigative journalism trail that would lead to the President himself, bring down his presidency and make their young selves into world famous celebrities, replete with bestselling books telling their tale and the subject of a Hollywood blockbuster where they were portrayed by two of the Hollywood A-Listers of the day, actors Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
This comes to mind as the television pictures flood the 21st century American media of Teslas exploding into flames, torched by angry Elon Musk - and Trump - haters.
The headlines report stories like these:
From CBS:
Teslas in Las Vegas set on fire in "targeted attack," police say
From Newsweek:
Tesla Attack Map Shows Wave of Elon Musk Products Being Targeted
From Fox News:
10 places where Tesla vehicles, dealerships were attacked this year
Tesla has become a target of protests and vandalism by critics of its founder Elon Musk over his work with the Trump administration
Safe to say those headlines are but a handful from the cascade of similar stories out there.
But what’s not out there? Unlike Woodward and Bernstein in Watergate, there is no flurry of stories from today’s media looking into who, exactly, is responsible for all this mayhem. Who is paying for all of these Tesla attacks?
After all, there is no rocket science involved to know that the actual physical instruments of these attacks, whether explosives or actual people who do the deed - are getting money from somewhere. Molotov cocktails or, for that matter, any other kind of explosive, cost bucks. Whoever is putting together these “cocktails” has to buy the ingredients, or, if receiving them from someone else in already usable form, has to know that whomever provided them has gotten the money to do so from somebody somewhere.
So the obvious question. Where are today’s media’s Woodward and Bernstein? Who in the media is doing the grunt work that makes up investigative reporting of these decidedly violent attacks on Musk’s Teslas?
To say the least, Americans have a right to the answer.
So too does Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice.
And not to put too fine a point on it?
Whomever is out there financing the destruction of these Teslas, not to mention whomever is issuing death threats to Elon Musk, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
