Early Returns in 'Deep Throat' Contest: Rehnquist Takes the Lead!

[CottonBear]

Early Returns in 'Deep Throat' Contest: Rehnquist Takes the Lead!

By Greg Mitchell

Published: February 09, 2005 updated 5:00 PM ET

NEW YORK As so often in the past, the press once again is feeding a Deep Throat frenzy, apparently set off by the opening of the Woodward and Bernstein archives on Watergate at the University of Texas last week.

The mania shows no sign of abating, with the chattering classes still chattering over John Dean's op-ed for Sunday's Los Angeles Times, which suggested that (a) Deep Throat is ailing, perhaps near death, and (b) former Washington Post helmsman Ben Bradlee has written his obituary, neither of which could be confirmed, of course.

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Here at E&P, we thought we'd join in the fun, since Deep Throat, whoever or whatever it is, is the most famous journalistic source in history. Send us your pick for the most likely candidate (to: [e-mail]), and we will tabulate the results. We will also award a free subscription to whoever is first to submit the correct name -- assuming, that is, we ever learn who he/she/it is.

In the early returns, based on dozens of submissions, the clear frontrunner is (ailing) Chief Justice Willam Rehnquist. Mark Felt holds second, and (ailing) President Ford is in third. Other interesting picks include: Ben Stein, Bill Casey, Leonard Garment, Henry Kissinger, G. Gordon Liddy, Earl Silbert, Steven Bull, Fred Fielding's secretary, and Richard M. Nixon himself ("he was so self-destructive").

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000790508

Hey: Fun with Deep Throat! A chance to win a free subscription. Whoever is the first to submit the correct name wins.

[Cocoa]

1. jeez

Deep Throat getting thyroid cancer.

[Malva Zebrina]

2. Haig has tongue cancer

:shrug:

[aden_nak]

3. I find this situation to be highly ironic.

The media is transfixed on finding out the identity of Deep Throat. . . who was essentially a high level informant that exposed the corruption of a vile President and his Administration.

Attention Media: Perhaps you should be out there trying to find the NEXT Deep Throat rather than reliving your former, faded "glory days" by hashing up the old one.

[HereSince1628]

4. Interesting no Fred Fielding, the guy identified by U o fIllinois

classes.

How did he escape consideration?

[CottonBear]

5. Still healthy? n/t

[Chef]

6. Try this

James Bierbower; Lawyer in High-Profile Cases
James Joseph Bierbower, 81, a well-known Washington lawyer who represented Nixon campaign aide Jeb Stuart Magruder during the Watergate trials and EPA official Rita Lavelle during a Superfund inquiry, died of pneumonia Feb. 5 at Charlotte Hall Nursing Home in St. Mary's County. He had Alzheimer's disease. He practiced law for 49 years in Washington, representing a bevy of capital characters. Most infamous was Magruder, a White House aide who admitted that he perjured himself, recanted and testified against others in the scandal.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12579-2005Feb9.html