Instapundit reports that “Deep Throat” has been unmasked. Ho-hum.
The real “DT” was revealed in my wife’s movie six years ago!
Not True!
May 31, 2005 - 9:30 am
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I loved that movie!
Speaking of which when I was young-six years old-I had an obsession with giraffes and I begged my parents to see the movie Deep Throat. I was certain it was about giraffes…my parents didn’t now anything….like new math – pfffffffttt!
or spelling…now=know Wow. [The nuns should be shot! 0r at least slapped with a splintered ruler]
That post sounds a lot dirtier than it really is, Roger.
Maybe, maybe not.
If this guy really is deep throat, then why would Bernstein continue to honor his pledge not to reveal the name until after DT’s death? Bernstein’s reaction makes sense only if Flint is not DT.
That’s great. Woodward and Bernstein were probably wondering who (of a handful) they were going to choose to complete the Deep Throat fairytale. Now it’s out of their hands maybe.
Sounds like the kids inherited dad’s principles. Good old dad must have been pretty comfortable working with Woodward.
Sure hope they enjoy the thirty pieces of silver.
Color me skeptical.
I’ve always thought “deep throat” was a composite character — maybe one main guy, along with several other sources. But there’s always the chance of making a buck, so here we have a guy taking credit. . .
Dick was a howl (Dan Hedaya was just about perfect in the role of Nixon) and imagine my surprise to find that a most interesing film I saw some years ago on cable, Lies and Whispers, was a family affair!
Once upon a time I cared who DT is/was. These days my curiosity is merely idle. Yawn.
I can’t believe the short list of potential Deep Throats doesn’t include Pat Buchanan, who has long been a suspect.
I’m with Fausta on this; Deep Throat was not one person, but several.
Rick Ballard,
You just have to love the unshakeable integrity of:
“I don’t think (being Deep Throat) was anything to be proud of,” Felt indicated to his son, Mark Jr., at one point, according to the article. “You (should) not leak information to anyone.”
Unless, of course, there’s tuition, or a mortgage, or a car, or a vacation, or whatever to be paid off. If you have a unpaid bill, or simply need to recover the funds that went to pay a bill…
is it just me, or is the timing of this revelation awfully suspicious:
just when the public is beginning to see how the MSM abuses unnamed sources for its propaganda (viz newsweal’s gaffe), Vanity Fair executes the perfect ploy to reinforce the validity of unnamed sources by throwing the spotlight on ‘Deep Throat.’ Naturally, the WaPo has now ‘reluctantly’ corroborated the story.
ex-dem,
It could be stage setting for an anonymously sourced scandal in this administration. The al-WaPo Group would do anything to have another Watergate. It could also have been seen as a last chance to get the geezer to confirm that a Deep Throat actually existed.
Wonder how many FBI regs he broke spewing to Woodward. He sure sounds like a good Hoover man.
ex-dem,
Does this really improve the reputation of anonymous sources? To me, it just confirms the validity of Charlies rule: leakers have ulterior motives. In this case the motives seem even more interesting than the leak itself. That’s the big story here.
chuck — you and i see it that way, sure; but that’s because we’re not wearing tinfoil hats.
rick — did you catch AP’s priceless slip noted over at Powerline? (http://powerlineblog.com/archives/010602.php)
We can ask Robert Hoffman and Dustin Redford, who were being played by Woodstein and Burnward during the real-life reel-life pre-make.
ex-dem,
Saw it – Power Line now has an archived Jay Epstein piece up that outlined the correct supposition concerning the Feeb sources in 1974. The al-WaPo Group PR campaign wrt Woodward & Bernstein looks pretty threadbare after reading Epstein’s piece.
maybe its a small demographic, but you could hardly overstate the impact of “All The President’s Men” on the likes of me.
(BTW Buddy, have you and Condi decided when you will anounce for ’08?)
I keep trying to get in touch with her, but so far all its gotten me is 6 months to a year, suspended.
rick — “… an unwillingness to see the complexity of bureaucratic in-fighting and of politics within the government itself.”
sounds like willful ignorance to me.
bud – you mean she can hide, but she can’t run?
Ex, you can bet Baron-of-the-people de Villipin has her photo pinned to the wall over his new PM desk. Making mad faces at it, practicing.
I cannot express the trepidation I felt waiting for the title of your wife’s movie to display…
he’ll melt, though, when he discovers they wear the same shade of toenail varnish.
Man, there’s is some good comix in that movie, Foley, Garr, Hedaya, Ferrell, Shearer, everybody, really…but I don’t recall the Betsy Jobs character from RMN’s administration. Clinton’s, maybe.
Ex means de Villipin, tho McEnroe already has his boots back on.
ex-dem,
When the knives come out at CIA and State the press vultures go into overdrive. Sometimes – if a story is a neat fit to the al-WaPo or NYT master template they just turn into sharks in a feeding frenzy. Plame fits that model pretty well.
Willfull ignorance doesn’t quite cover the lack of scruples on display when the vulture/sharks get the scent of what they want to be blood. If you consider them no brighter than a vulture or a shark while sharing principles with both species – much is explained.
Roger:
Matthews played an old Woodward-Bernstein interview with Russert where Tim brought up the quote from Bernsteins ex that correctly told who Deep Throat was. It was fun to see Bernstein claim that his ex had no clue and it is even more fun to know that the great secret wasn’t held quite as tightly as WB claimed.
Unelected callow careerists with the enormous power of a national news institution behind them. Drunk frat boys with grenades. Ben Bradlee’s good reputation was the imprimature. Dick Morris just said–on Fox tonight–that he thought the whole thing was a great benefit to the nation, as RMN was not okay upstairs and might well have “…canceled the next election.” Whaaa?
behaving like a cross between a vulture and a shark?? perhaps we should prosecute them for the unauthorized practice of law.
Ha! Say, how come you lawyers are always ‘practicing’? Don’t you ever get to where you’re actually ‘doing’ it?
Buddy,
This is great – geezer Feeb admits spoon feeding crap to the “world’s greatest investigative reporters” whose oh so moralizing editor allows it to be regurgitated onto the frontpage of the WaPo. Isn’t Bradlee’s brother-in-law former Sen. Graham (D)FL?
J. Edgar’s looking up and giggling through the pain today. What a collection of second raters.
I know. The salon-power is absolutely unbelievable. No kidding–it really is. They had the palace–just, weren’t quite ready to fully declare that ole Constitution a ‘dead letter’.
i could answer thjat, bud, but it will cost you.
(hic) “that”
PIMF (hic)
That’s okay, ex, we realize you’re into your 50th billable hour for May 31.
You DO know i have diplomatic immunity, right? I’m from, uh, Yugoslavia?
WaPo take: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8052678/
OMG! I saw your wife’s movie, and it was more accurate than “All The President’s Men”!
(Little wonder you’re bored by the latest nonsense.)