Deep Throat, Hero or Heinous Shadow?
We have been bombarded today with the news about Mark Felt who finally admitted to being “Deep Throat” from the Watergate scandal which surrounded the Nixon administration. We have for years been told of the great Woodward and Bernstein, who snooped out the story about the cover-up by the Nixon administration, only to find that they were hand fed their information by a shadow figure trying to bring down President Nixon because he only was appointed to the number two spot at the FBI.
We have read, and been told today how much 0f a hero Mark Felt was, but when you look at what he did in the light of day, there was a much darker, more sinister side to his “leak” to the Washington Post duo. The story made their careers, along with Ben Bradlee, and they have made fortunes from the many books written, while Mark Felt lurked silently, not wanting his shame exposed. Woodward and Bernstein kept their promise for more than thirty years not to reveal the source of the now famous story. What about Mark Felt? What made him finally admit that he was indeed Deep Throat? Why didn’t he release Woodward and Bernstein to finish the story? Because in the end, he is just as shadowy, and conniving today as he was thirty plus years ago. He waited until the right amount of money was offered, and he released the story to Vanity Fair Magazine.
So what to think about someone like Mark Felt? Here is an excerpt from an article entitled, Deep Throat and Genocide, in today’s American Spectator, written by Ben Stein, whose Father was an economic advisor to the Nixon Administration. Here is the quote:
“Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW’s, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel’s life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?
Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded.
That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton — a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon’s kharma.”
You will have to jump on over to see Mr. Stein’s conclusion concerning the genocide.
Please understand that we are not writing today to make former President Nixon out to be a saint. We write for the new generation. We want them to have the other side of the story today, to balance out MSM’s vision of Mark Felt.
We also want the new generation to have a glimpse into “Woodward and Bernstein”, and their glorified investigative reporting. Rush Limbaugh today has the transcript of his radio show section entitled, Deep Throat Revelation Fallout: Myth of Investigative Journalist Smashed. Here is just a portion:
“There’s some question here about just how totally valuable understanding all that went on Mark Felt actually was. So there’s a huge myth that has arisen, and it is this: that investigative journalists are vital to the security and safety of a nation. I read the other day that back in 1972 there was a committee of investigative journalists and it had about three members. Today it has 5,000. And Woodward and Bernstein are credited for reviving or even perhaps creating the whole concept of investigative journalism.”
Later in the Limbaugh transcript, he quotes a dialogue between Pat Buchanan and Matt Lauer on the Today Show, where Buchanan states his feelings about “Woodward and Bernstein”. Buchanan says, “I think Woodward and Bernstein were stenographers in the end.”
The transcript is a montage of sound bites by several journalists, and pundits talking about Mark Felt, and Deep Throat, and is worth reading.
In conclusion, Mark Felt was a heinous shadow figure who according to Ben Stein above, “broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s articles…” which reveals just what kind of person Mark Felt really was.
We hope the future writers of history will look back on this event, and give a balanced recitation of what actually happened.
