The Martha Mitchell Effect
Nixon, notoriously known as a man who shifted
blame away from himself and onto others, shamelessly placed the Watergate
scandal onto Martha’s shoulders. In an interview with popular talk show host
David Frost (September 1977 on Frost on America) Nixon said, “If it hadn't been
for Martha Mitchell, there‘d have been no Watergate.”
When in reality if it had not been for him and his criminal cohorts, there would have been no Watergate ... History repeats itself when humanity does not learn from it ... I take that a step further, history is written by the winners and those writing the history books ... or to quote... Leo Tolstoy — 'History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true.'
When in reality if it had not been for him and his criminal cohorts, there would have been no Watergate ... History repeats itself when humanity does not learn from it ... I take that a step further, history is written by the winners and those writing the history books ... or to quote... Leo Tolstoy — 'History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true.'
Martha Mitchell's claims of White House wrong doing
were thought at first as unbelievable, but were eventually proven correct. On
January 1, 1975, her husband John Mitchell was convicted of conspiracy,
obstruction of justice, and perjury and served nineteen months in federal
prison.
Martha Mitchell was right, despite being
accused of suffering from delusions and diagnosed as such. The Nixon
administration was up to their “dirty tricks” as she so correctly described …
The Martha Mitchell
effect is the process by which a psychiatrist, psychologist, or other
mental health clinician mistakes the patient‘s perception of real events as
delusional and misdiagnoses accordingly.
I am “one with Martha
Mitchell” as to being labeled “wrong” or even delusional to speak of the real
presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, tragically although this be a fundamental in the Catholic Church's teaching many Bishops and priests no longer believe it and those who do will not speak about it …
I am also labeled wrong that the hierarchy church has not cleaned up its act, when it comes to corruption and abuse within …
I am also labeled wrong that the hierarchy church has not cleaned up its act, when it comes to corruption and abuse within …
Martha Mitchell pointed
out again and again about the corruption in the Nixon administration and no one
would listen to her … Nixon’s henchmen and Nixon himself labeled her delusional
and criticized Martha Mitchell whenever they could and basically character
assassinated her… the old labeled placed on women, “she is just histrionic”… …. Not until “deep throat appeared on the
scene” did the Watergate story get creditability and of course “deep throat was
a man”, so hence he was naturally given more credit, than a “woman such as Martha
Mitchell”… she who was highly educated and in the core of the scandal …
I am one such woman,
trying to be heard in a Catholic hierarchy that is ruled exclusively by men,
many with questionable character and many who are suffering from gynophobia.
These same men are taught
in many seminaries that sex with a man is not a sin … sex with a woman is… WOW
hard to fight that reasoning, if it can be labeled reasonable at all …
These statements, I make are based on face to face interviewing,
I have had with current priests, who fear retribution if they speak up publicly, yet
they are disgusted with the
state of the church and
the hierarchy, or those who have left the seminarian, because they went there to
become priests not members of a gay brothel …
Many in the hierarchy think of themselves as being “Greek gods” of sorts, and that they
control the heavens … and as a natural consequence
of them believing themselves to be “gods”… they leap into the Greek “gods” lifestyle,
which throughout Greek mythology, the gods, engaged in relationships with young
men, often without their consent. Upon seeing the beautiful Ganymede, Zeus
transformed into an eagle and kidnapped the boy to become his lover. Zeus made
Ganymede his cup-bearer, granting the boy eternal youth to perform the task.
This
woman was held hostage and drugged because she knew too much about Watergate
Nixon’s goons made Martha Mitchell the subject of a
sexist smear campaign
In the
summer of 1972, Martha Mitchell was on the telephone in her hotel room in
Newport Beach, California, when a security guard for President Richard Nixon’s
reelection campaign walked over and yanked the cord out of the wall. According
to Mitchell, for the next 24 hours, the guard, who was working on orders from
her husband, former attorney general John Mitchell, refused to let her leave.
Every time she tried to escape, the guard caught her. Later she recounted,
“From then on I saw no one — allowed no food — and literally kept a prisoner.”
At more than one point, things got physical. Mitchell said that the guard,
Stephen King, kicked her and, later, during one of her escape attempts, put her
hand through a glass window, causing an injury that required six stitches. The
incident was humiliating. Mitchell reported, “He came into my room while the
doors were closed and I was undressed.” At some point, King called a doctor,
who walked into the room without saying a word to Mitchell. He and King threw
her on the bed and held her down while the doctor removed her pants and
administered a tranquilizing shot to her rear end.
Mitchell wasn’t
being held captive as a part of some ransom scheme. It was a threat and a
sinister political maneuver. That summer, Nixon was running for reelection, and
her husband was serving as the campaign’s manager. A 53-year-old southern belle
from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, she was a lively figure in the Washington social
scene, known for her
willingness to say exactly what she thought. But perhaps more impressive than
her talk were her powers of observation. Mitchell was known to listen in on her
husband’s meetings and report back to her journalist friends. When four burglars
were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters,
Mitchell recognized one of them and guessed that her husband and the president
were involved, though she couldn’t say exactly how. She got on the phone with a
reporter friend to voice her lurking suspicions. Thus began what she called
“the most horrible experience I ever had,” which culminated in a sexist
campaign to discredit a woman who knew too much.
There was
something distinctly gendered about Martha Mitchell’s treatment, even before
Watergate. “Why do they always call me outspoken?” she wondered. “Can’t they
just say I’m frank?” It was hard to imagine someone saying the same of a male
Washington insider. After the burglary, the White House tried to discredit
Mitchell, arguing that she was insane and had been institutionalized.
But none of
this changed the fact that Martha Mitchell was right about Nixon. While there
was no direct evidence suggesting that Nixon ordered the break-in, Washington
Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein revealed that he had
orchestrated a cover-up, which involved paying the burglars hush money and
sending in the CIA to muck up the FBI’s investigation.
In response to
the smear campaign, Mitchell wrote an incensed letter to Parade, “to set
the record straight.” She laid out exactly how she had been detained and
physically abused. She ended the letter, “I will not let these lies be told.”
She continued to call on her friends in the media, including White House
reporter Helen Thomas, whom she told, “They’re not going to get away with this,
Helen.”
After being
held hostage, everything went wrong for Mitchell. From the hotel in California,
she was flown back East, where she was taken to the Westchester Country Club,
in Rye, New York. She gave her husband an ultimatum: either he resign as
Nixon’s campaign manager or she would leave him. John Mitchell stepped down,
saying he wanted to focus on his family.
But not long after, Martha Mitchell told Helen Thomas, “We have been suffering.” In another conversation, she said, “I love him very much. He loves me because I’ve stood up for him. But he is defending the president, who planned the whole god-damned thing. I’m under surveillance day and night. I’m no fool.”
But not long after, Martha Mitchell told Helen Thomas, “We have been suffering.” In another conversation, she said, “I love him very much. He loves me because I’ve stood up for him. But he is defending the president, who planned the whole god-damned thing. I’m under surveillance day and night. I’m no fool.”
John Mitchell
moved out of their home; by all accounts, the subsequent divorce proceedings
were acrimonious. The breakup of the fallen Washington darlings was discussed
widely in the press, with stories of Martha throwing John’s clothes out the
window. The only bright spot for Martha was that Nixon didn’t get away with it.
In 1974, amid impeachment proceedings, the president gave a televised address
announcing his resignation. In 1975, John Mitchell was convicted on five counts
for the cover-up and served 19 months in federal prison. Martha said later,
“Four years ago we had everything, and now we have nothing.” By 1976, she was
dead at the age of 57, from a rare bone cancer.
Now
to be fair Martha Mitchell was known to be a drunk and the booze loosened her
lips more than usu
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And
of you think such things do not happen... Just look to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò … who went into
hiding fearing for his life, when he blew the whistle on the Pope and the hierarchy
in the Church … there is also a Pastor in my home diocese who has threatened seminarians and their families with harm if they did not
remain silent about this Pastor’s behavior …
So yes Martha Mitchell had
her flaws (as being an alcoholic) … but she was on the money when it came to
corruption in the Nixon White House … and I wonder will we ever learn … for such
corruption continued post Nixon as well … in politics and in the church in their fundamental thinking , which is power, money and greed …
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| The above statement is coming from a man who cried when he said, "I am not a crook" ... that is him being emotional to me! |
And you want to talk erratic behavior … Richard
Nixon ate dog biscuits, got looped on martinis, walked the beach in his suit
and lace-ups and spied on Ted Kennedy. Secret Service agents revealed Nixon’s
bizarre behavior before he resigned …
That was in the good old days when Secret Service agents, could write
books and did not have to sign confidentiality agreements about what they saw,
with the people they were in charge of protecting… Richard Nixon’s code name with
the Secret Service was “Searchlight”
Back to the hierarchy … and the Bishops … the priests are
expect to be like “Secret Service agents to their Bishop”… meaning they are expected
to take a bullet for their Bishop … but they do not phrase it that way... They
say … “we are to be obedient to the Bishop and whatever he says” … so whatever
the Bishop says … the diocesan priest is to do or he is no longer “favored” and
if he tries to tell the truth (and the Bishop does not want the truth out) … that
priest can kiss his Roman Collar good-bye … and again these are not my words
but the words of priests, I have personally spoken to within the current
church who want to remain anonymous … WOW priests
afraid of their Bishops … I thought you were to fear the Lord as the first step
to being holy .. not a bishop …
Interesting the team that first uncovered the depth of corruption in the Catholic Church in Boston , MA was called 'Spotlight" (like the code name for Nixon Searchlight) ...
ah... God humor, you just cannot cover up your corruption, forever ... God will use men (and women, like good old Martha) to shine a light on it eventually ...
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