Fox Admits Bias

London bureau chief, Scott Norvell, opens his big trap and seals the deal in the May 20 Wall Street Journal Europe.

Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly. And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that they aren't subsidizing Bill's bombast; we payers of the BBC license fee don't enjoy that peace of mind.

Fox News is, after all, a private channel and our presenters are quite open about where they stand on particular stories. That's our appeal. People watch us because they know what they are getting. The Beeb's institutionalized leftism would be easier to tolerate if the corporation was a little more honest about it.

Not that there really was any question between any sentient beings... but the clarity is good. Maybe this will finally end Bill O'Reilly's sanctimonious ramblings about being fair and balanced.... but I doubt it.

Via Slate

Mark Felt It Is!

Vanity Fair magazine said on Tuesday that Mark Felt, a former FBI official, had revealed himself to be "Deep Throat," the legendary source who leaked Watergate scandal secrets to the Washington Post and brought down President Richard Nixon.

I guess the real question is why come out now?

He was acting associate FBI director after Hoover died, in May of '72. He might have concluded that the bureau was being politicized during that period. His denial in 1999 was not too convincing:

Are you Deep Throat? The answer to that is yes and no. I'm the person that they're talking about. [Chatterbox was initially tantalized by this, but quickly realized Felt meant "I'm the Mark Felt who worked at the FBI in 1972."] I was involved very deeply in all that ... went on. But I'm not guilty of disclosure, leaking it to the press, or anything like that.

My hope is that he wants to send a message to others out there now that it's never too late to keep government agencies from being used for politcal gain.