President Bush's selection of Fox News commentator Tony Snow to replace outgoing press secretary Scott McClellan was an interesting one, to say the least.

For many years, Fox News has tried to portray itself as "fair and balanced", and has chided other stations for either getting in bed with the current administration, or putting the administration in their sights, whichever accusation best supported the thesis of the pundit making it. Their commentators have taken on the self appointed mantles of "culture warriors" and other jingoistic, pseudoheroic labels to describe their war for traditional values, which were, most assuredly, under attack, and which would certainly disappear but for their valiant sacrifices as they stood in the gap.

Now, the channel of "no spin" has had its mask removed and proved itself to be its own wicked twin in a soap opera-esque turn as one of its own receives a noble appointment for his years of faithful spin serving the Bush administration. Any reasonable doubt that Fox News is shilling for the Bush administration should now begin to be erased in the minds of all reasonable Americans. Expect Ruppert Murdoch to move into the Lincoln bedroom anytime soon.