Notes From D.R. | Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene

So former FBI bigwig W. Mark Felt has been exposed as Deep Throat, the operative who helped to bring down Richard Nixon’s presidency in the 1970s. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are already claiming that the media will turn Felt into a left-wing folk hero because he essentially deposed a Republican president; I really can’t see that happening, because after all, Felt was an aide-de-camp to the notorious J. Edgar Hoover. (However, I’m sure that a lot of anti-Bush people are fantasizing this week about a 21st-century Deep Throat, someone who could present hardcore proof that Bush invaded Iraq knowing that there were no actual weapons of mass destruction…)