Hume Must Resign...But Won't

I see that Oliver Willis is hosting a petition to demand Brit Hume's ouster as anchor of the Fox News Channel. I'd say that's only fair---his offense and Dan Rather's have something in common, namely that they both involve advancing untruths about a president. But Hume's is surely the ranker; while Rather's oversights and journalistic sloppiness were certainly caused in part by partisan bias, what Hume did was to tell a very meticulously crafted lie, and it's impossible that he didn't know what he was doing.

So I signed up (and you might want to also). But I expect no results (nor should you). The shameless can't be shamed.