June 18, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:Josh Marshall thinks Pat Buchanan
Josh Marshall thinks Pat Buchanan is Deep Throat.
I'm not saying he's not; frankly, I don't care enough to know anything about the subject. But some of the reasoning's hilarious:
One of the great mysteries of Watergate and Deep Throat's identity is why exactly he's wanted to remain anonymous for so long. I mean, during Watergate? Sure. For a while after? Fine. But ten, twenty, thirty years later? Deep Throat may be an odd figure in American history. But for most he'd be a hero, someone who turned on a corrupt administration, the ultimate whistleblower, etc.After all this time, why wouldn't this person come forward to get some of the limelight?
It's hard to figure ... unless he was someone still operating in those Republican circles where that sort of disloyalty would be very damning and even career-threatening. That is, unless it was someone like Patrick J. Buchanan.
It seems to me that if Buchanan were really concerned about alienating his peeps in the GOP, he'd be more worried about, oh, say, his running for national office on a third party ticket and thus siphoning off some of the party's base during a tight election year than he would about admitting he blew the whistle in a 30 year old political scandal.
But I'm just a lone weblogger. What do I know?
Posted by Jane Galt at June 18, 2002 4:08 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links"); ?>