Deep Throat dies

[OTD]

The NYT says Mark Felt has died. No link yet.

 

[Angola!]

Who's Deep Throat?


Kidding.

Wow, this is big news.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Phew, for a second I thought you were talking about Jenna Jameson.

 

[DanOregon]

He's on deep background.

I know people have differing views on what he did and some of his other activities with the FBI, but a final farewell to one of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th Century.

No disrespect intended, but there are a lot of RIPs on this board.

 

[Double J]

I thought it really was a d_b, considering Linda Lovelace has been dead for years.....carry on.

 

[MileHigh]

AP news alert just moved.

 

[MileHigh]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121900056.html?hpid=topnews

 

[budcrew08]

Without looking at a link or anything, wasn't he about 94 or 95? So at the least, he lived a long and interesting life.

RIP, Mr. Felt.

 

[buckweaver]

Wow, another big one tonight. Damn. RIP.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

I guess now Woodward and Bernstein can reveal that he was Deep Throat.

RIP.

 

[DanOregon]

Apparently Woodstein visited Felt three weeks ago.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20081120/NEWS/811200327/1348/NEWS09?Title=A__Deep_Throat__reunion

 

[Wenders]

What surprised me most about that was hearing that Bernstein had never met him. I know Woodward had all of the communications but I would have thought that after all the **** was done going down that he would have met him at some point.

Thanks for the link, Dan. Great story.

 

[wicked]

Did anyone's paper tear up A1 to get it on there?

 

[buckweaver]

Not A1, but tore up our skybox and stuck it prominently inside.

 

[spnited]

Farewell to a great American hero.

 

[MGoBlue]

in case no one has posted, NYTimes obit a fantastic red beginning to very end.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/washington/19felt.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

 

[mike311gd]

Phew, for a second I thought you were talking about Jenna Jameson.

She can't deepthroat.

 

[buckweaver]

Here's the great first-person account Woodward wrote when Felt confirmed his identity in 2005: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060102124.html

And the story of Bernstein's first -- and only -- meeting with "Deep Throat" just last month: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20081120/NEWS/811200327/1348/NEWS09?Title=A__Deep_Throat__reunion

And, of course, the Vanity Fair article itself: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2005/07/deepthroat200507

 

[I Digress]

For some reason, I thought he died, like, last year or something. And yes, he was an American hero.

 

[sporting_guista]

Linda Lovelace died in '02 - WTF