Transcript: Shep Smith's interview with Eric Burns -- "Deep Throat is fiction"

Studio-B with Shepard Smith ^ | 2/18/05

[OldFriend]

No disappointment at all. I always thought it was a piece of fiction created by W&B along with Bradley.

[Tribune7]

ping

[ShadowDancer]

He tried in vain to discredit Nixon and yet he did just the opposite with this.

[Sonny M]

Before the year is out, regardless, Woodward and Bernstein will reveal who they claim is deep throat.

The person, who is supposed to be "deep throat" is reportedly ill.

If its a composite character, then people will say these guys are lying.

[Wormwood]

They're lying. ;-)

[Cold Heat]

Interesting.....This way all the sources keep their ident a secret for the most part.

Gotta be one that stands out though.

[Harpo Speaks]

No news here, Eric...tell us something we didn't already know.

[NorCalRepub]

can we hunt down Woodward and that RAT Bernstien and beat them into submission now...........

[Sonny M]

Also, if I got this right, its actually 4 people who are supposed to know the identity of deep throat. Woodward, Bernstein, their editor at the time, and the so-called "deep throat" himself.

If they make an annoucement, they had better be able to offer proof.

[popdonnelly]

So Woodward and Bernstein pick one of their sources to be designated "Deep Throat", after he's deceased. Mr. "Deep" won't be around to call them liars, but I'll bet several other people will.

Remember Woodward's alleged deathbed visits to William Casey, when Casey was, according to his family, comatose?

[Zack Nguyen]

If true, imagine what this would do to the reputation of Woodward and Bernstein.

[Deb]

I absolutely agree with Burns. Woodward and Bernstein were obviously using "Deep Throat" to report what they wanted to say themselves and generate some buzz with the name.

If DT wasn't Diane Sawyer, and how could it not be a woman since its named after Linda Lovelace, then there is no Deep Throat.

[marktwain]

If true, imagine what this would do to the reputation of Woodward and Bernstein.

Yes, simply confirm what many of us have pretty much deduced: They are not really reporters, put partisan, agenda driven activists.

[Endeavor]

Don't you find it ironic that Eric Burns hosts a show which supposedly holds the media accountable - at least, up for "critique" by a handful of "journalists," and yet he isn't the least bit embarrassed that these two reporters lied about their sources? These people really are through the looking-glass.

[Prost1]

Last time I checked, Bill Clinton is ill and his wife was impeachment cousel...

[Lathspell]

A buddy pointed this interview out to me. He said that when he heard Woodward defending Rather's "fake but accurate" memos, he knew that that was the big tipoff that DT didn't exist.

[BunnySlippers]

Bump

[blanknoone]

So Woodward and Bernstein pick one of their sources to be designated "Deep Throat", after he's deceased. Mr. "Deep" won't be around to call them liars, but I'll bet several other people will.

Not a hard problem. Assuming there were say 4 or 5 sources amalgamated into deep throat, the last one to die is designated 'the one' and none of them are around to argue.

[Sonny M]

So Woodward and Bernstein pick one of their sources to be designated "Deep Throat", after he's deceased. Mr. "Deep" won't be around to call them liars, but I'll bet several other people will

Personally, I always thought it was Mark Felt or Fred Felding, but no matter what, I want proof, I am not going to take these guys at their word when they announce.

Here's the thing, if somone was deep throat, wouldn't they have come forward on there own by now? I mean, why would you keep it a secret, you would be an instant celebrity worshipped by the media, regardless of political beliefs, and if your in office already, your automatically a presidential contender.

Unless they pull a BS move and name Reinquest, then the whole thing goes kapootski.