Peggy Noonan on Deep Throat

OpinionJournal

"Is the Deep Throat story over? Yes, in the sense that it will no longer be treated as a mystery. In spite of the million questions we'll be hearing--and there are and will be many serious questions--the MSM will stick with the heroic narrative.

Mr. Felt was Deep Throat.

Deep Throat was a great man who helped a great newspaper put the stop to the lies and abuses of an out-of-control White House. End of story.

Why? Because in celebrating this story in a certain way journalists of a certain age celebrate themselves. Because to bring unwelcome and unwanted skepticism to the narrative would be to deny 20th-century journalism--and 21st-century journalists--their great claim to glory. Because the MSM is still liberal, and the great Satan of all liberals, still, is Richard Nixon. And because, as Ben Bradlee might say, It's a goddamn good story.

Or as they put it in yet another John Ford masterpiece, 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,' 'When the legend becomes the fact, print the legend.' "

Well said. Deep Throat was PO'd at Nixon because he didn't get the FBI top slot. One has to wonder how history would have turned without him... Vietnam ... Cambodia ... electing lame ass Jimmy Carter as president...

No doubt Nixon was THE ONE. He screwed the pooch. His men were out of control. But he got us the HELL OUT OF VIETNAM. Maybe not with honor, but out. He saved lives in doing so.

Fast forward. Ask yourself a question... What was John Kerry doing in Paris meeting with the North Vietnamese during the Peace Talks? It has been widely reported that he was there, and he hasn't denied it. Kennedy got us in Vietnam, Johnson screwed it up by listening to Kennedy holdovers like that vile POS Robert McNamara, and we have John Kerry (a budding future Demogog) meeting with (and encouraging?) the enemy, and extending the war. Thank you, Jackasses!