Deep Throat Was Felt

Nick_Walter · May 31, 2005, 9:01am

So W. Mark Felt has apparently fessed up that he was Deep Throat.

linky

Matthew_Gallant · May 31, 2005, 10:29am

WaPo must confirm so we can move on to figuring out who The Narrator is.

John_Many_Jars · May 31, 2005, 10:36am

The nurse in Deep Throat was played by Carol Connors, who several years later would give birth to Thora Birch!

magnet · May 31, 2005, 11:00am

I knew it was Mark!

balut · May 31, 2005, 11:36am

I believe HRose predicted this in his blog several months ago.

Squirrel_Killer · May 31, 2005, 2:40pm

Confirmed.

SpoofyChop · May 31, 2005, 3:16pm

Well, not exactly. What if he’s either:

Lying.
Thinks he is Deep Throat but really isn’t? (I saw it proposed that he could have been a source for W&B but not the source.)

I think this will only be finally resolved if Woodward & Bernstein confirm it.

Matthew_Gallant · May 31, 2005, 3:19pm

Well, not exactly. What if he’s either:

Lying.
Thinks he is Deep Throat but really isn’t? (I saw it proposed that he could have been a source for W&B but not the source.)

I think this will only be finally resolved if Woodward & Bernstein confirm it.[/quote]
The executive editor of the Post at the time confirmed it, what more do you want?

Woolen_Horde · May 31, 2005, 3:20pm

Well, not exactly. What if he’s either:

Lying.
Thinks he is Deep Throat but really isn’t? (I saw it proposed that he could have been a source for W&B but not the source.)

I think this will only be finally resolved if Woodward & Bernstein confirm it.[/quote]

Uh, they just did. Bradlee, too.

www.washingtonpost.com

Desslock · May 31, 2005, 3:20pm

Woodward confirmed it, according to CNN

SpoofyChop · May 31, 2005, 4:00pm

Well for you not to be a ding-dong, but that’s probably too much to ask.

My apologies to everybody else…that looked like the exact same article I saw on CNN earlier that simply repeated the fact that Felt claimed he was Deep Throat.

I just didn’t actually “read” the article though.

:oops:

Jason_McCullough · May 31, 2005, 4:58pm

What I’m curious about is why he held it until he died.

Jason_McCullough · May 31, 2005, 5:46pm

Now that’s Nixon’s dead, the thing he’s most useful for is revealing the true rot at the heart of the washington conservative establishment. Liddy and Buchanan going after Felt today on television; the Corner over at National Review going after him; and most mind-boggingly from there:

K-Lo, you should be watching FOX. … I’ll bet Richard Nixon is looking down on Washington right now and having a good laugh. The very liberals who detested him simply cannot get enough of him

Yeah, Richard Nixon is in heaven. Of all the people I’d rank into heaven/hell, Nixon’s probably right next to Ol’ Scratch himself.

Nick_Walter · May 31, 2005, 5:52pm

Now that is hyperbole of the first degree, and only confirms my long standing policy of taking any Jason McCullough post with a huge grain of salt.

Nixon was not a saint, but he wasn’t a murderer or child molester either. He was just a politician who broke the rules in his quest to stay in power, and then paid the price.

As an atheist I am not a naturally good source for sorting people into heaven/hell classifications but I don’t view Nixon as evil.

shift6 · May 31, 2005, 6:04pm

http://www.quartertothree.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14071&highlight=nixon+evil

wildpokerman · May 31, 2005, 8:39pm

Which Clinton should I vote for?

Ignatius_P_Reilly · May 31, 2005, 8:59pm

And what rules they were!

Daniel_Morris:

Nixon’s partial resume:

Extended Vietnam War by five years, unnecessarily, so that he would not be the president who got “beaten” over there.

Launched unsanctioned carpet-bombing campaigns in Laos and Cambodia that may have killed over half a million people.

Encouraged the slaughter of East Timorese by the Indonesian government.

Brought about regime change in several nations by means of coup or outright murder.

Acquiesced to the assassinations of many world figures, including an abundance of political journalists abroad and a Greek dissident on the streets of Washington D.C.

Maintained – and acted upon – an enemies list of American elected officials, law enforcement agents, and journalists.

Used the FBI and CIA as his personal dirty-tricks squads to commit felonies here in the States.

And, let’s not forget, brought about the most serious constitutional crisis since the Civil War with his reckless and illegal defiance of the Watergate investigation, showing the willingess to fire special prosecutors and ultimately defy even the Supreme Court.

Nixon is responsible for the most serious crimes this nation ever committed overseas, and was responsible for everything short of rolling tanks into the streets to defend his reign here at home. (He might have resorted to that, too, had he found any takers among the Joint Chiefs of Staff.)

Johan_O · May 31, 2005, 9:23pm

Also besides the points posted by Reilly there is that Elllsberg thing:
“In one of Nixon’s actions against Ellsberg, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt broke into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office in September 1971, hoping to find information they could use to discredit him. The revelation of the break-in became part of the Watergate scandal. On May 3, 1972, the White House secretly flew a dozen Cuban CIA “assets” to Washington DC with orders to assault or assassinate Ellsberg. (They backed out because the crowd was too large.) Because of the gross governmental misconduct, all charges against Ellsberg were eventually dropped.” According to wiki, which potentionally makes Nixon complicit in conspiracy to commit murder.

Bill_Dungsroman · May 31, 2005, 10:24pm

I’m not. Seriously?

Hey Nick, the title of this thread should be “Deep Throat Was Felt.” Come on, man!

Nick_Walter · June 1, 2005, 5:11am

Excellent point, I’ve made the appropriate edits.