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Ironically this week, Mark Felt, former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, revealed that he was Watergate's "Deep Throat" and perhaps the most famous whistle-blower in our nation's history, but the embattled Deputy Director of the Hocking County Board of Elections (BOE) Sherole Eaton, Ohio's most well-known whistle-blower, may be fired for courageous attempt to expose alleged election tampering.

Eaton suggests that there are many potential Deep Throats throughout the Buckeye State: “…There are staff on other boards that would not come forward with things, and they have shared things with me. They were afraid they’d lose their jobs,” she told the Free Press.

The Executive Committee of the Hocking County Democratic Party met behind closed doors at a Logan, Ohio senior center on Thursday, May 26 to discuss the forced resignation of Eaton by the Hocking County BOE. Sources within the Democratic Party told the Free Press that a majority of the Executive Committee members were backers of Eaton and confronted Democratic BOE members Gerald Robinette and Susan Hughes who had voted to fire Eaton.

To Norman Solomon, you should've learned the meaning of "respect your elders." Bashing both the late great Pope John Paul II, a damn good highly-regarded man, and Pope Benedict XVI (nee, the key word is nee, Mr. Solomon, nee Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) is totally unacceptable in my book. How dare you depict these two the way you did, you piece of scum. I am Roman Catholic and proud of it, and I am defending both of these Vatican officials. I am also reprimanding you, Mr. Solomon, for talking trash about our new pope.

While I can't complain about several pieces you did bashing Pastor Rod Parsley and his extremist conservative right-wing views, two people responsible for this piece of crap that you did on our new Pope need to be condemned by God himself, Norman Solomon for writing it, and Bob Fitrakis for giving it the ultimate stamp of approval before taking it to press.

Look, you can jaw all you want about Pres. Bush and his administration as well disciples of the extreme right such as Pas. Rod Parsley and that wicked wench Ann Coulter. You can utter your displeasures about the right-wing GOP as much as you desire, but saying

Tuesday's revelation that W. Mark Felt, the former number two man at the FBI, was the anonymous source known as Deep Throat, who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in the pages of the Washington Post 30 years ago should be seen as an important reminder that even the leader of the free world can be devious, corrupt and dishonest.

Some things never change.

The parallels between the Bush and Nixon administrations are eerily familiar. Both bullied the press, were/are highly secretive, obsessed over leaks, engage(d) in massive cover-ups and quickly branded aides as disloyal if they dared to raise questions about the President’s policies.

The Washington Post, the very paper that is credited with forcing Nixon’s resignation, summed it up perfectly in a Nov. 25, 2003 story on the similarities between the two administrations.