tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53949632011-09-16T09:13:16.470-07:00My Deep Throat BlogsWho was Deep Throat? I STILL think it was John Dean!Ericnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394963.post-1081128638335181152004-04-04T18:30:00.000-07:002004-04-04T18:33:33.623-07:00John Dean: Holy Hero or Serial Perjurer?
I haven't updated this for awhile, and I thought I'd add this post -- a sort of long book review quote, really -- because it offers a quick summary for people who don't have time to read Silent Coup or Secret Agenda.
What follows is excerpted from a 1997 discussion of Silent Coup on the 25th anniversary of Watergate: The reason this carefully Ericnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394963.post-1071936584299821832003-12-20T08:09:00.000-08:002004-08-22T19:05:07.946-07:00Big media's most sacred cow
I know it's been a long time with no posts here. But there are a couple of things of interest.
First, this article offers the best single encapsulation I have seen of the sexual blackmail aspect of Watergate. Neither I nor anyone else can offer absolute proof -- but if you study the John Dean stuff and use a little common sense, you can begin to see that what Ericnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394963.post-1055916361884444592003-06-17T23:06:00.000-07:002004-06-17T15:15:41.170-07:0031 Years and Swallowing
On this, the thirty first anniversary of the Watergate break-in, I thought I'd start with an email I wrote last month to a famous blogger, Joshua Micah Marshall.
Subject: Deep Throat (nothing on TPM since last June, I thnk....)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 12:04:42 -0400
From: Eric Scheie
To: talk@talkingpointsmemo.com
Reading your column, I wondered why you haven't Ericnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394963.post-1053875724338259792003-05-25T08:15:00.000-07:002003-05-26T11:41:38.026-07:00
Corporal Punishment for Bad Journalists?
...At Least Jayson Blair Didn't Overthrow the Government!
"No foundation. All the way down the line."
-William Saroyan, "The Time of your Life" (1939)
I have to thank the blog granddaddy again for making me think about what passes for journalism (and what I think is a major factor in the popularity of blog journalism).
Right now, people Ericnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394963.post-10529660080160292003-05-14T19:33:00.000-07:002003-05-14T19:33:26.420-07:00Who was Deep Throat?
Was he really Fred Fielding?
For many years, I have been convinced that Deep Throat was none other than John Dean, and the following is a collection of diaries I wrote when I explored this issue.
Considering that Fred Fielding and John Dean were close friends who ran the White House Counsel's office together, and considering that Dean was the senior partner in the Ericnoreply@blogger.com