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Tom Burka is a national treasure:

Opinions You Should Have - June 2005 Archives: Republicans today criticized Paul Revere for his famous ride, saying that he had violated professional colonial ethics by divulging military secrets in violation of his duty to his lord, the King of England. 'These were sensitive informations about military troop movements with which he had been entrusted,' said G. Gordon Liddy, an expert on ethics in government and a professor at several unaccredited law schools.

'Paul Revere was a traitor and a law breaker,' said Anakin Skywalker in a confidential interview shortly before his limbs were lopped off and he burst into flame.

Conservatives all over America pointed out that Revere also endangered people's lives by riding willy nilly all over Massachusetts at a full gallop in the dark of night. 'He could have trampled someone,' said Bill O'Reilly. 'Paul Revere was a reckless and irresponsible nazi,' he added.

Pat Buchanan derided Revere as a 'coward' and a 'snake' who was unwilling to be direct with the British government regarding his complaints about the monarchy. 'There were channels,' he said.

Peggy Noonan shook her head. 'There's nothing sadder than Americans who have no respect for the rule of law,' she said.

Comments

[Ari]

How fortunate that there was a person with such respect for the rule of law. Thank you, Mark Felt.

[Old Ari]

The criticism is too late, the damage has been done, the revolting colonies are doomed, no good will come of this!

[SZ]

Peggy Noonan is a really weird woman. Her column on Mark Felt accuses him of Pol Pot's murders. The logic train to Neverland I guess, where Nixon, that petty little punk who broke into the offices of his opponents, openly contemplated having Brookings bombed, and had tapes of himself and his associates committing felonies, is the hero. The whistleblower who exposed the hyena for the criminal he was is the villian.

The only reason Nixon handed over those tapes in the first place was because he knew that Federal Marshals were outside ready to bust in and confiscate them. The fear of getting maced and smacked in the legs with a billy club convinced him. Nixon was a rat and a coward, and he was exposed for the whole world to see.

And oh yeah, Peggy Noonan thinks that the only reason we lost Vietnam was because of Mark Felt. I'm glad to have that all cleared up.

sz - who doesn't know what kind of crack Peggy's smoking - perhaps Ashcroft sent her a care package from Justice's "best busts stash" before he went back home to preach the gospel according to Attila the Hun.

[General Gage]

That sonofabitch ruined my whole day!

[Bruce Moomaw]

My God, if you think Noonan has lost it, take a look at Ben Stein's "American Spectator" piece comparing Felt to a Nazi war criminal for "betraying Eretz Israel": http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8255 . Of course, the Spectator has been cranking up for quite some time to spout this line about Watergate -- they repeated it when Nixon died -- and never mind the fact that at least 97 Senators and all but one of National Review's editors had agreed when the "smoking gun" tape came out that Nixon definitely had to go. (The one exception was Ernest van den Haag, who a year later was praising Allard Lowenstein.) A sizable chunk of the American Right allied with the current Administration is flat-out fascistic, and this is only belatedly being recognized by the non-fascist Right such as Andrew Sullivan.

[shirley]

ya wuts up bob and sue here