Posted on 06/02/2005 6:09:52 AM PDT by Liz
No sooner had The Washington Post confirmed that Mark Felt, the FBI's former No. 2, was its secret Water gate informant nicknamed "Deep Throat" than the frenzy began. Now it's time for everyone — Felt and his family included — to start cashing in.
Bob Woodward just so happens to have been working on a book about Deep Throat — which is now going to be rushed into print, it was announced yesterday. (Last year, he and Carl Bernstein sold their Watergate papers to the University of Texas-Austin for $5 million.)
And the Felt family admits that the road to their father's decision to come clean about his role — after years of denials — began with their thought that there was money to be made.
According to Vanity Fair, which first disclosed his Watergate role, Felt's daughter Joan complained that "Bob Woodward's going to get all the glory from this, but we could make at least enough money to pay some bills."
So the decision to end the 30-year-old mystery appears to have less to do with history than with scoring quick cash.
Moreover, it turns out that Felt was motivated to help Woodward not so much by a sense of duty than a desire for payback — he'd hoped to succeed J. Edgar Hoover as FBI director and was incensed when he was passed over for L. Patrick Gray, whom he considered a White House pawn.
The same liberals who are now hailing Mark Felt as a principled citizen who did his duty at the risk of his career were far less charitable back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan — in the first such act of his presidency — pardoned Felt, who'd been convicted of approving illegal FBI break-ins during the hunt for radical Weather Underground fugitives.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Money to be made? Gee, I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked (/end Claude Rains impersonation.)
If Hollywood deigns to make a movie of this horror show, we should all flatout refuse to attend.
Besides his slavish fanaticism to his own self-serving ambitions, what was Felt's hidden agenda?
It is no small consideration that the post-Nixon nation saw the horrific rise of liberalism---and the juggernaut to tolerate every idiocy the left wing could concoct.
Felt's disturbing motivation was solely to satisfy his vainglorious ambitions, not the good of the country.
No wonder Felt was passed over for promotion. The FBI had his number, alright.
Any other agent would be prosecuted for violating his oath of loyalty to the USA as an FBI agent.
What a TV news spectacle this guy's family put on---crowing about his "heroics."
Now it seems they are itching to pocket the proceeds from this disgraceful conduct.
Well this excplains why he was passed over for the position. He had no problem selling out the country. All "spys" either did it for money or revenge for some slight they think they received. He fits the spy profile perfectly. Now he and his fam are going to try to cash in.
Spy? Try another three-letter word: Cad.
That's to nice.
I love the hypocrites that whine that "no president should be allowed to lie to the people"--although these same people were very very quiet indeed when it was Clinton who was doing the lying!
Both might well apply in this case. I have nothing but contempt for this man and his family.
The Mantra of the Felts: "Give me the money!"
The fact that his family pressured him to come forward now to cash in while he's still alive to verify it, tells me a lot about the ethics and integrity of the parent.
Truth be told, the other Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace, had more honor than Felt.
Damn, I wish we could get that on a tee shirt.
.....and she has infinitely more sex appeal than he does (snicker).....
Make no mistake, the folly of the Felts shows how low the depraved Left has brought us as a Nation.
According to them, we are now supposed to lay down without complaint----be "tolerant and compassionate" like all good lefties--- and allow these craven people to walk all over us, and pick our pockets in the process.
Like hell we will. No way, Jose.
Nixon's major crime was loyalty to his friends.
As a result, he helped to cover up an investigation into wrongdoing.
He was threatened with impeachment by Democrats, who had an overwhelming majority, after much hounding by the Old Media - who were representing the communists who were still looking for an opportunity to avenge Nixon's bringing down Alger Hiss (as well as McCarthy's demeaning their Hollywood idols). Representatives of Nixon's party, Republicans, took a walk from the Capitol to the WH to ask in a private conversation that he resign.
Nixon further showed his loyalty to his friends and his country by resigning, instead of forcing the party and country to split in a raucous trial over this, though he never believed his actions were wrong. In fact he believed that the state of war gave the executive branch the right to do what his subordinates did, though he never specifically authorized their ill-fated actions, and cited WW2 precedents.
An unbiased history of Watergate would include this, and you won't get that from most history books or the Old Media FRAUDcasters.
In addition, you probably will find it hard to locate the information that the US Atty Gen was well into an (grand jury?) investigation of the break-in before WP and MF "broke" the story in the media. MF ought to have gone to him and the judge with information he had, rather than doing what he did for his own aggrandizement.
Felt's illegal leaking of FBI files was due to avarice, not nobility.
Bump for later read.
Excellent summary and the options that Felt had instead of what he did.
Just as they did with McCarthy, the left demonized Richard Nixon. Anyone who stands in their way, by exposing them for what they are, they seek to destroy. They must live a lie or die because the American people, despite all the sneaky things the left has done, still rejects them. They are getting closer though and unless we are diligent they will steal their way back in via Hillary.
Now is the time to fight them and to expose Hillary just as the Swift Boat Vets exposed Kerry. That will take effort and lots of repetition so that we can be ignored by the MSM. Just as Hillary is moving rapidly to the right, the MSM is mysteriously becoming more credible in some instances. We are frequently saying, Did that come from AP? The NYT said that? That was in the WP? It is all a part of the leftist plan to steal power.
On Tuesday, an old man emerged from the shadows to solve a mystery that had long intrigued political experts, journalists and just plain Americans. Yesterday, as he was chauffeured away from his house in Santa Rosa, Calif., he rolled down his car window and jovially told reporters that he now plans to "write a book or something and get all the money I can."
Welcome, Deep Throat, to the modern media marketing machine.
Follow the Money: The Marketing Of Deep Throat
Publishers and Producers Eager for Secret Source's Story
By Jennifer Frey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 2, 2005; Page C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101993.html
The other day I posted..."No one confesses to anything unless a book is in the works"
#24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414107/posts
The Poster didn't agree with me. Plus, Felt had mentioned earlier the kid(s) needed money for college. Law school is expensive. Woodward (Post) after keeping his part of the bargain all these years, had to be just a tad upset seeing Felt go to Vanity Fair. This says a lot of Felt and Loyalty.;)
Did the taxpayers of Texas pay Woodward and Bernstein 5 million bucks for their papers? I certainly hope this was all private money. Inquiring sheeple want to know if we've been fleeced by the lefties at UT again.l
I don't think he'll withstand the scrutiny he will now have to endure, nor will Woodward and Bernstein seem so bright and shiny. It's long past time for people to stop worhiping at the altar of Watergate, and "gotcha" leftwing journalism. And the timing couldn't be better. The power of Watergate journalism us waning, as Dan Rather will tell you. :)
Whatever short term monetary gains Felt gets, I think the longterm benefits to the rest of us outweigh that. I'm glad he came forward. The mask is off.
At what point does this become malfeasance with public funds?
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