If Chuck Colson had been born 30 years later, he would have been a Fux Noise contributor.

Revising history, as only FNC can. Lordy, what mopes.

Bizarre typo in my sentence – here’s the proper read: “The strange part about it is that his then-newfound moral purity did not compel him to simply come forward about what he had been doing for Nixon under the cloak of the presidency.”

Colson discovered his devotion to religion around the same time he was due to go to prison for his crimes. The strange part about is that his then-newfound moral purity did not compel him to simply come forward about he had been doing for Nixon under the cloak of the presidency.

Colson further distinguished himself just a few years ago when he criticized Mark Felt for having leaked information as “Deep Throat”. Ben Bradlee had a great response to that one about Colson (and I believe either Erlichman or Haldeman) not having any moral standing to be talking about these things.

Colson should be remembered for the quote that used to hang on his office wall at the White House: “Get them by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow.”

It’s nice that he tried to do some nice things later in his life but this does not undo the terrible things he did with Nixon – and his lack of humility and contriteness about his criminal acts puts his conversion and aspirations toward morality into serious question.

An example of Fox’s “image rehab” {somewhat akin to their chyrons describing ’lil dick Morris as a “FMR CLINTON ADVISER”}

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He was also known as the evil genius of the Nixon administration, and the master of dirty tricks. I remember so well the Summer of 73, and watching the Watergate hearings.

For those of you too young to know Colson also pleaded guilty to efforts to discredit Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg. It was Ellsberg who had leaked the secret Defense Department study of Vietnam that became known as the Pentagon Papers.

The efforts to discredit Ellsberg included use of Nixon’s plumbers, a covert group established to investigate White House leaks in 1971 to break into the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist to look for information that could discredit Ellsberg’s anti-war efforts.

I guess we should be glad they didn't call him a Democrat!