The Austrian Watergate...

Josef Fritzl, recently taken into custody for keeping his daughter and the seven children he grandfathered with her in a dungeon for over two decades, shot back at the media Wednesday, saying "I am not a monster." His explanation was twofold. First, of course, the media is biased against him. Secondly, he didn't have to take his 19 year-old, chronically ill (grand)daughter to the hospital. Instead, if he were a worse man, he could have simply killed the whole family. "Without me," Fritzl said, "Kerstin would not still be alive today."

Maybe that black heart did have some sympathy to it after all. But, then again, remember the last time liberal bias and a "I am not a..." speech were the first line of defence...