Very, very true. All Linda Tripp asked for was...well, nothing really. I suppose she didn't want to be fired from her GS job in government, but that wasn't a demand or anything. To fire her (as she ultimately was) amounted to vengeance and retaliation.
Methinks the media will drop this Deep Throat story like a hot potato after the Sunday Talk shows get through with it. There are too many embarrassing revelations coming to light about Woodward, the Washington Post, the ham fisted Felt family, and the media's use of anonymous sources.
The MSM has been trotting out Ben Bradley daily....almost hourly to shore up the canards which the Washington Post and Woodward have inculcated into the minds of the American public. The parallels which we mention (Tripp and Felt) are self-evident with the exception that Felt was under obligation of law to not divuldge 302 information...but he did. Tripp was under no such legal strictures. Felt was a law unto himself and the Media, which worships at the monacre of "A Nation of Laws, Not Men", have been feverishly trying to recast priorities now that they have been exposed as duplicitous shills by their own words. They are now in the process of accepting what they previously regarded as unacceptible. The American public needs to tell them to fish or cut bait. Make up their minds, but don't try to make up our minds.