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From Ann’s latest column:
Of course, in Felt’s defense, he wasn’t Deep Throat. There was no Deep Throat. Now we know.
As most people had generally assumed, the shadowy figure who made his first appearance in a late draft of “All The President’s Men” was a composite of several sources — among them, apparently, Mark Felt. But in telling the glorious story of “How The Washington Post Saved America,” it was more thrilling to portray Deep Throat as a single mysterious individual, spilling his guts to Bob Woodward.
Now that Woodward and Felt are both claiming Felt was Deep Throat, the jig is up. The fictional Deep Throat knew things Felt could not possibly have known, such as the 18 1/2-minute gap on one of the White House tapes. Only six people knew about the gap when Woodward reported it. All of them worked at the White House. Felt not only didn’t work at the White House, but when the story broke, he also didn’t even work at the FBI anymore.
Deep Throat was a smoker and heavy drinker, neither of which describes Mark Felt.
#2I like the notion of the Vik "payoff". Cool! I do usually try to put something like that in the posts. Today I was dashing out the door when I posted this. I just thought Coulter's observations on this were fascinating. Up until a couple of days ago, everyone was thinking the Deep Throat mystery was finally solved. Was the resolution really a fakeout? In confirming Felt as Deep Throat, are Woodward, Bernstein, and the Washington Post, rather than reporting the news, purposely misreporting the facts? Perhaps the payoff could be some thoughts along those lines.
Aside from the fact that Ann Coulter wrote it (borrowing heavily on more serious scholars), why do you care whether there was indeed a Deep Throat or not? I'm not renouncing history, but the reality or lack thereof of one singular individual Throat seems to be not very related to the major themes of your blog. I'd be interested to know if there is a Vik "payoff" to that particular piece of information.