More plausible too.

One assumes that Weiner is writing this stuff for the same reasons SDAI writes his stuff, to make a point. I honestly don't think he really intends people to think he is actually talking to a Bush mole in real life. It says something about the atrophied credulity factor in the Left that so many people think this is a documentary.

A key clue is the wish fulfillment in this stuff, very much like the military wish fulfillment in SDAI's military fiction.

Sure. The Republicans won the election because they hacked the election computers. Keep grabbing those straws...any wild speculation is better than facing the possibility that your ideas and policies were rejected. Americans LOVE socialism! They DO! They HAVE TO!

And it's all going to unravel! Any day now! Wait and see!

I also can't help noticing that Shallow Throat doesn't talk like a politician or Washington flunky. He talks like a theater critic.

"I've changed," said Shallow Throat. "The blood-thirst in the White House for war and domination around the globe is almost palpable, and it sickens me. The move domestically toward more and more police-state powers is rushing forward daily, and it frightens me. I've hung in there as long as I can, because I was able to help alter or slow down some of the more egregious policies, but those days are coming to an end. Those few of us with moral qualms about what's being done are more and more discouraged. I'll be leaving shortly. What's left of my soul requires it. If I stay much longer, I'll be sucked into the vortex of greed and power-hunger that is the central core of the Bush Administration -- that same core that will be their ultimate undoing."



"What will you do?" I asked.

"I'll follow the example of other women and men of courage who have left rotten enterprises in the government and corporations and unions. I love my country and the institutions set up by our founding fathers, and I will speak up and work toward the day when those extremists who have hijacked my party will be revealed for what they are and be removed from the offices they hold and are besmirching.

"The cracks already are starting to grow. True conservatives, appalled at what Bush and Ashcroft are doing to the Constitutional guarantees of due process, and at the establishment of huge, Big Brother-type information-gathering agencies, are starting to rebel, from both inside and outside the Administration. I may try to be a bridge between the civil libertarians and my fellow conservative Republicans -- who are worried that our party has gone way too far to the extreme right -- to bring our country back toward the middle.

"As a lifelong Republican, I can't, and won't, join the Democrat party. But I may choose to support the anti-war groups that are opposed not only to the coming war with Iraq but to the imperial tendencies of the Bush Administration. I never thought I'd hear myself say those words, but so far has Bush&Co. moved the government to the outer fringes of morality and foreign policy respectability that I have no choice. And, now that the conglomerates control the major newspapers and TV networks, I will support the last truly free press in America -- the internet -- and work toward trying to establish a more objective media, maybe even founding our own TV network, one beholden to no party or faction."



My recommendation: don't hang on to the "reality" of this stuff too tightly, or you'll end up looking as dorky as the crop circle fanatics.

BTW, speaking of Throats, this is the most plausible theory behind the identity of the Deep Throat from "All the President's Men." Given Woodward's tendency to "elaborate," it's not surprising.