I guess if you're a Democrat, you have to take your heroes where you can find them. When you set the bar of morality so low for yourself, it's only fair that you set the bar low for your heroes too. So, you worship America's most dysfunctional family, which includes President Kennedy, who got headaches if he didn't have sex every day with a woman not his wife. And you keep reelecting a Kennedy brother who walked away, while a woman slowly suffocated to death in a car at the bottom of a cold, black pond. You defend for decades the couple who turned over nuclear secrets to the Soviets. You elect and then reelect a sexual predator to the Presidency. You go on fishing trips with kindly old Fidel Castro. And now you have another hero -- Deep Throat -- former FBI agent W. Mark Felt, who, in a fit of pique at being passed over for promotion, chose to rat out Richard Nixon. He didn't have the moral courage to take his evidence to a grand jury. He didn't have the moral courage to go public with his accusations. He instead arranged clandestine meetings with a single news outlet to leak his information, assuring that his career and pension would be secure and he would stay out of prison. By that very act, he proved that he did not have the integrity to head up the nation's top law enforcement agency. But, I guess by Democratic standards, cowardice, criminality and betrayal should not disqualify someone from being a hero -- a National Hero, as his family describes him. And why did this national hero give up his secret now? Why didn't he have the dignity to take his secret to the grave? Very probably because he wanted to bask in the glow of Democratic worship before his death. Or, there's talk that his family needs money and this opens the door to a million-dollar book deal. I smell another movie in the works. Or maybe he thinks by telling his story now, he will somehow earn forgiveness before death claims him. He will -- from Democrats -- who don't mind if their heroes are a bit tarnished.
Here's Ben Stein's take on it from the American Spectator on-line. Deep Throat and Genocide By Ben Stein Published 6/1/2005 12:22:42 AM Re: The "news" that former FBI agent Mark Felt broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's articles that helped depose Richard Nixon, a few thoughts. Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW's, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad? Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded. That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's karma. When his enemies brought him down, and they had been laying for him since he proved that Alger Hiss was a traitor, since Alger Hiss was their fair-haired boy, this is what they bought for themselves in the Karma Supermarket that is life: 1.) The defeat of the South Vietnamese government with decades of death and hardship for the people of Vietnam. 2.) The assumption of power in Cambodia by the bloodiest government of all time, the Khmer Rouge, who killed a third of their own people, often by making children beat their own parents to death. No one doubts RN would never have let this happen. So, this is the great boast of the enemies of Richard Nixon, including Mark Felt: they made the conditions necessary for the Cambodian genocide. If there is such a thing as karma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life or the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide. I hope they are happy now -- because their future looks pretty bleak to me.
