Deep Throated
: Isn’t it a little embarrassing for the Washington Post that Deep Throat outs himself — Mark Felt says he’s the guy — but the Post has to run a wire-service report quoting the paper’s own “no comment”? Wodward and Bernstein still say they won’t say anything until Throat dies (felt is 91 and so that may not be too far off). The story is breaking via Vanity Fair, which also doesn’t have it up online.
: Thanks to Bill K for putting the scoop up in the comments. At first, I thought it was clever new comment spam but, no, it was breaking news. Thanks, Bill.
: Just got the call that I’ll be on MSNBC’s Connected at 5p to talk about this.
: UPDATE: Tristan Louis corrects me: The Vanity Fair story is up here. It’s now up on the mag site proper.
: OOPS: Students said they had nailed who Deep Throat was. They were wrong.
: Tim Noah summarizes now-out-of-date speculation.
: The Post proper isn’t touching the story still but it’s Aschenblog is. Handy, them bloggers.
: FLASH: Woodward confirms that Felt is the Throat.
I’m about to go on MSNBC, blogging from the studio, and I”m hearing guests who said this wasn’t true backtracking fast. Most amusing.
Bottom line: A good conspiracy theory never dies.
: If Watergate happened today, Deep Throat would have had a blog.
: I was about to go on and then they broke in with a press conference from Felt’s family. I was in the middle of opening my mouth to speak; how many would love to stop me at that point. I don’t know whether I’ll get back on…
… I didn’t.
: I say this is a good day for democracy. In this age of transparency, we believe that the people deserve to know. And Felt was an agent of truth. So was journalism. That remains a story to aspire to.
