Bill Owens, the long-time executive producer of “60 Minutes,” has announced his impending resignation from the iconic CBS Sunday news program.

Good.

His stated reason was that “over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience. So, having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward,” His memo was obtained by The New York Times, meaning that it was leaked.

If Owens had any integrity, he would have resigned in shame after the hard evidence emerged that the news magazine under his watch had deliberately sought to deceive some viewers (the lazy, inattentive ones) while pleasing others… the “by any means necessary” progressives seeking to foist a babbling fool off on the voting public as a competent potential President to succeed the resident babbling fool, Joe Biden.)

It is telling, and, frankly nauseating, that the producer ultimately responsible for the program’s deliberate deceptive editing of its October featured interview with Kamala Harris dares to stand on journalistic independence when he engaged in such flagrantly unethical conduct in pursuit of a partisan goal. President Trump sued CBS for $10 billion as a result and has accused the program of “unlawful and illegal behavior,” as he should have. It appears that CBS’s parent, Paramount, will seek a mediated settlement to avoid discovery. You see, there are definitely “Oh, God, Kamala made no sense in that answer; can’t we fix it?” emails or memos floating around. Some people don’t know yet how biased and untrustworthy the mainstream media is.

Paramount executives have recently asked the program to provide a list of upcoming Trump-related pieces it was reporting on for the duration of its season, which ends in May. The jig, as the saying goes, is up.

During his emotional meeting with the staff (that is, his minions), Owens derided the additional layers of oversight that CBS executives had placed on the program in recent months. “In a million years, the corporation didn’t know what was coming up. They trusted ‘60 Minutes’ to report the stories and program the broadcast the way ‘60 Minutes’ saw fit,” he said. Well, you made it clear they couldn’t trust your show any more, Bill: isn’t that obvious? “It’s clear the company is done with me,” Owens said. And you gave them no choice: in fact, CBS should have fired you. It only didn’t because if you had succeeded getting Harris into the White House, the network would have given you a raise.

“The”60 Minutes” correspondents Lesley Stahl and Scott Pelley witnessed this self-aggrandizing exit, with Stahl reportedly “chok[ing] up” as she praised the Democratic Party operative, saying that Owens had “taken a hell of a beating” —which he thoroughly deserved. Anderson Cooper also dialed in from Rome to offer condolences, because the CNN host also did all he could to con voters into favoring Kamala.

Predictably, the New York Times signaled its solidarity with this practitioner of unethical and biased journalism, writing that “legal experts have dismissed [the Trump suit] as baseless and far-fetched.” “Many journalists at CBS News — the former home of Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace — believe that a settlement would amount to a capitulation to Mr. Trump over what they consider standard-issue gripes about editorial judgment,” the Times adds.

“Standard issue gripes”? Owens allowed “60 Minutes,” once known for its tough interviews, to falsely represent Harris’s handling of the show’s soft-ball interview at a time when the Presidential race was rated as a toss-up, in order to bolster the Democratic Party’s chances of winning an election it deeply deserved to lose. Owens’ fall is far from sufficient punishment for CBS’s audacious election interference efforts, but it’s a good start.