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June 2, 2005
Deep Throat Spills It
From The Daily Show:
JS: So, the truth is, in your mind, the truth is the media couldn't break Watergate today.
SC: That's right John, it just no longer has the credibility.
JS: The media.
SC: No, the truth.
This is true. Ever since it the facts in Iraq were assailed for having an anti-Bush agenda, the truth hasn't been of much interest.
Ok, in reality, I'm loving the bad puns that come out of this... in the comments of a weblog, we get "FELT DEEP THROAT? HARD TO SWALLOW." The Boston Herald as a strange juxtaposition to go along with its "Deep Throat Coughs It Up" headline.
All right, really, let me explain why I find this entertaining. If you were of my grandparents' generation, you saw Nixon go from the guy who exposed Alger Hiss to Vice President of the USA. If you were of my parents' generation, you saw Nixon go from the guy who lost to JFK to the guy who, like a zombie, kept coming back and became the president responsible for everything bad that happened in the early 70s. I, on the other hand, missed all of this. Instead, growing up in the 1980s, I saw Nixon go from being the disgraced former president to becoming the distinguished elder statesman. Suddenly this guy, who was supposed to stay in his hole, was out giving advice about foreign policy to all who would listen. So now, I think it's good to have a reminder of why Nixon was down in his hole in the first place. Deep Throat stayed underground for long enough. He outlasted Nixon, waited until the guy who pardoned him had passed on, and we had entered an era in which anonymous sources were being considered sketchy. The only drawback is that I have to hear about G. Gordon Liddy, again, rising with moral indignation that someone leaked to the press that he was doing something illegal.
Posted by Dean at June 2, 2005 11:31 AM