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2005-05-31 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve 2005-05-31 12:03|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Contacted by E&P, former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward relied on the man dubbed 'Deep Throat' for crucial advice in their Watergate sleuthing, would neither confirm of deny Felt was the source, and said that the Woodward-Bernstein team would not change its stance.
"I think people are jumping up and down about this, but we have nothing to say other than what we have said which is when the individual dies, we will disclose his identity," he said. "Other sources have released us from pledges, but nothing has happened that could change that in these circumstances." The offices of Woodward and former Post editor Ben Bradlee told E&P they would have no comment.
"There have been numerous books and articles and speculation in journalism classes devoted to Deep Throat," Bernstein told E&P, when contacted at his Manhattan office. "When the individual dies, we will disclose his identity. We have always said the same thing. We do not go into any detail about it, not to play games, but to protect the source."
Asked if he was aware of the Vanity Fair article prior to its publication or had spoken with Felt, Bernstein declined comment. He also declined comment when asked directly if Felt was Deep Throat. "I'm not going to go beyond this," he said. "I've said what I am going to say."
When asked if this report was different than most past reports on Deep Throat's identity because it involved alleged commments by the famed anonymous source, Bernstein said, "that is not exactly true," but declined to elaborate further.

Like I said, there goes the exclusive book deal.

Posted by Steve ">Steve 2005-05-31 12:47|| 2005-05-31 12:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Via Bros. Judd:

Timothy Noah nailed that one.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2065299/

In the summer of 1999, [Bob] Woodward showed up unexpectedly at the home of Felt's daughter, Joan, in Santa Rosa, California, north of San Francisco, and took him to lunch, Joan Felt, who was taking care of him at her home, told me.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-05-31 13:05|| 2005-05-31 13:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Is it OK if I don't give a rat's ass?

Seriously, this is as exciting as new information about the Whiskey Rebellion. But the press, being self-centered boomers, will lick this up like a kitten in a bowl of spilled milk. It'll remind them of the Glory Days of the press, when poorly-sourced stories could bring down an administration, and they'll be even less tolerable than normal.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-05-31 13:19|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-05-31 13:19|| Front Page Top

#4 This just in: Oakland A's win 1972 World Series!

Posted by Kent Brockman 2005-05-31 13:22|| 2005-05-31 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Media under siege for running a story from a single anonymous source. The next week the best known single anonymous source goes public and takes over the news cycles.

Coincidence? We report, you decide.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-05-31 16:19|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-05-31 16:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Well we knew all along Deep Threat wasn't Freddy B.

Posted by Darryl Harmonica 2005-05-31 18:04|| 2005-05-31 18:04|| Front Page Top

#7 And all this time I thought Linda Lovelace was Deep Throat.

Posted by HarryReams 2005-05-31 20:57|| 2005-05-31 20:57|| Front Page Top

#8 WaPo confirms, Felt was "Deep Throat"

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-31 21:05|| 2005-05-31 21:05|| Front Page Top

#9 And on FoxNews they made a fairly good case refuting that it was Felt - or that he repeatedly lied through his teeth not very long ago - when it no longer mattered to anyone but historians and wankers.

I don't really care. Deep Throat is no American Hero. I've always figured it was a construct that Woodward came up with to make the bits and pieces seem unassailable and factual. Everything from the fact that Woodward said DT was a chain smoker (Felt quit in '48 he says) to the hard-to-swallow notion that there was a single source who had such access across so many different Executive Branch Depts.

Pfeh.

Posted by .com 2005-05-31 21:16|| 2005-05-31 21:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Deep Throat wqas Felt by Linda Lovelace.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-05-31 21:18|| 2005-05-31 21:18|| Front Page Top

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