Hunter S. Thompson and Deep Throat?
So here is a curious little story that may or may not develop. It has been posted over at Eschaton in the comments thread (under the story about "That Liberal Media" posted at 10:20 PM last night) that the death of Hunter S. Thompson will be the subject of a press release by Pat Buchanan in the near future. This has been linked to the Deep Throat of Watergate fame. Thanks to Joseph over there for a lot of this info. So is there anything to this? Well, sure enough we will know in a few days. But it goes like this....
The links below are to interviews with HST where he describes his long term friendly relationship with Pat Buchanan. Yes, that Pat Buchanan. Those who have read Thompson may remember the fascinating meeting between him and Richard Nixon to discuss football. Buchanan set it up. Not sure if they knew each other before that but they did after. And according to one of the interviews, HST liked to drink with Buchanan which I'm sure would produce some rather interesting conversations to say the least.
Then there is Thompson's suicide. Why, and why now? Well in fact we will to some degree never know, maybe to a large degree. But there is the possibility that he was sick. There has been some buzz recently that Deep Throat was very ill, possibly terminally ill. Many people have thought that Buchanan was Deep Throat. But perhaps not. Perhaps it was Thompson, and he received the information from his buddy Buchanan and perhaps a few others? And he was Deep Throat by virtue of being the one who passed the info to the boy reporters. It certainly isn't a stretch to see him having come up with the name. This is a bit far fetched but who knows. I guess we all will (or not) soon enough.
One thing, however. I certainly hope it is true. It would redefine poetic justice. That HST was able to have a major hand in bringing down someone, a very evil someone, for whom he had such crystalline hatred would be a beautiful thing. And it would be a better epitaph to HST than any I can imagine.
Link to an interview where HST discusses his relationship with Pat Buchanan
And another.
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posted by Sentenza at 12:06 AM
7 Comments:
Holy shit! This is one wild theory. I love it.
BTW, my theory is that Deep Throat is the Pope.
That would have been Paul VI. He was probably too busy reforming the Catholic Church to get involved. Although he might has well have spent the time doing it since most of his reforms have been undone.
As for the current pope, well, it looks like Old Nick might be calling home His Holiness, the great Polish misogynist any time now. Good Riddance.
hello!
i cannot find the link the comment that you site (at eschaton)... could you provide a link?
thanks!
Hunter Thompson wrote that he himself was Deep Throat and that "they" would say that it is Mark Felt.
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