The Watergate Scandal?

Question

I've found alot of information about the watergate scandal on the internet, but I can't seem to find any to answer this question. How was the watergate scandal like a witchhunt (like salem witch trials)?

Answer 1

You did not know who was the person causing the problems during the Watergate scandal. Just like a witchhunt, people looked for someone who is causing the problem. Of course, the person (Nixon) guilty will try to hide themselves from discovery.

Answer 2

The comment was made that the "liberal media" went out looking for stuff to incriminate the Republican party.
They actually said it was like a witch hunt in that way.

This article discusses that concept:

"Even conservative critics have accepted the notion that Woodward and Bernstein were instrumental in Nixon's downfall. "[T]he Washington Post.. decided to make the Watergate break-in a major moral issue, a lead followed by the rest of the East Coast media," Paul Johnson wrote in his book Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000. This "Watergate witch-hunt," Johnson declared, was "run by liberals in the media..the first media Putsch in history."

Woodward dismisses both detractors and fans who contend that the media unseated a president. "To say that the press brought down Nixon, that's horseshit," he says. "The press always plays a role, whether by being passive or by being aggressive, but it's a mistake to overemphasize" the media's coverage."

from
http://hnn.us/articles/6813.html

Answer 3

The Democrats were so outraged by what happened that they were looking for someone to blame, try and convict and they did find a few like Halderman, Gordon Liddy.