I have never understood the fascination with the actual identity of Deep Throat. I keep thinking it’s going to be some hotel bellhop or something, thus completely taking the fun out of the actual revealing, which is supposedly promised when ‘Throat passes away. Remember Al Capone’s vault?
Deep Throat is supposedly “gravely ill“:
We’ll all know one day very soon, however. Bob Woodward, a reporter on the team that covered the Watergate story, has advised his executive editor at the Washington Post that Throat is ill. And Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Post and one of the few people to whom Woodward confided his source’s identity, has publicly acknowledged that he has written Throat’s obituary.
(Quoting the Los Angeles Times.) Given the fact that, as the American Mind points out, Pat Buchanan has looked fine in his recent MSNBC appearances, it seems he can be eliminated as a suspect. Another suspect I think we can safely eliminate is George Bush The Elder, who has looked strong and in good health over the last couple months during his involvement with tsunami relief, including his Super Bowl appearance just last night. Bush 41 was implicated as a candidate for the “Deep Throat” tag in a recent (and ridiculous) rumor:
Bush was motivated to cooperate with Woodward, [Woodward and Bernstein biographer Adrian] Havill claims, because Nixon reneged on a promise to make Bush vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned.
Like I said, maybe it’s because I’m from a different generation, but I have very little interest in this source’s identity. I thought the FBI determined years ago it was Richard Jewell.
Update: The idea of Deep Throat’s identity being released upon his death has led a few to start cruising the hospitals looking for people linked to Nixon who are ill. Others perhaps are hoping for Deep Throat to pass away soon, so the person’s identity will be revealed. This is unfortunate, and in some ways reminds me of all the speculation about Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s condition.
Nathan Novak at 11:50 am
What is the current health of Fred Fielding?
Comment by Amateur Sleuth — February 7, 2005 @ 12:11 pm
As I depart this earth, know that I did it only to protect the integrity of the office of the President. DT
Comment by DT — February 7, 2005 @ 2:10 pm
William Rehnquist is gravely ill, but that must be a coincidence. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1971, and would not have had any information from the White House.
If it is Rehnquist, it is really going to hit the fan.
That’s why I’m confident it’s not Rehnquist.
Comment by No brains — February 7, 2005 @ 3:02 pm
This kind of crushes the recent speculation that it was President George H.W. Bush.
Comment by Chad Evans — February 7, 2005 @ 3:34 pm
Anyone seen Alexander Haig Lately?!
Comment by Peter — February 7, 2005 @ 4:30 pm
You think they’d let Woodward or Bradlee write the Pope’s obituary?
Comment by Eric Anderson — February 7, 2005 @ 7:45 pm
How about Gerald Ford. Has he been seen recently? Because he didn’t go to the Clinton library opening. Nor did he attend the Bush inaugural. Perhaps once appointed by Nixon to replace Agnew, he saw his way to the presidency by ousting the Pres.? Or maybe he passed on the info. to Haig? Perhaps Ford is the larynx behind the emouth of Deep Throat?!
Comment by Ira — February 7, 2005 @ 9:15 pm
Recent reporting has suggested that George Bush, Sr. Prez#41, was deep throat. I suppose that he may have had friends at the WH in 1973-74 to feed him timely info to give to Woodward. Interestingly, Woodward has said recently, that deep throat is “gravely ill”. This hint may be a stretch but the senior George Bush has been diagnosed with a thyroid condition meducally known as “Graves Disease”.
Comment by Anonymous — February 7, 2005 @ 9:28 pm
It’s got to be Haig. His access to events, his sense of history and honor, his ego, his background combined with where his ambition landed him speaks of an independent thinker with an historical perspective on the meaning of the events unfolding before his eyes.
Comment by doug — February 8, 2005 @ 12:32 am
Deep Throat is definitely Pope John Paul II.
Comment by Anonymous — February 8, 2005 @ 1:02 am
NO WAY ITS the pope –can he speak english?
Comment by kisss — February 8, 2005 @ 3:56 am
Pat Nixon=Deep Throat
No, it’s not an old wive’s tale…..
Comment by Rod — February 8, 2005 @ 12:02 pm