Carl “No Bias Here” Bernstein recently criticized the Bush administration for being dishonest on a number of issues, including information about the war in Iraq and the lack of preparedness for the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Typically, he compared the Bush White House to the Nixon White House for smearing their enemies.

“During Watergate, we were called unpatriotic, dishonest, reporting hearsay and for a long time succeeded in making the conduct of the press the issue,” Bernstein said about the people he loathed in the Nixon White House. “Now, there is a political movement to make the conduct of the press the issue, rather than the conduct of public officials.” Thou shalt never question the character and veracity of the press. It is an unhelpful “side issue.”

Bernstein declared “The notion of a liberal press is absurd. When you talk about the mainstream press, most reporters and news organizations are, above all, working without ideology and with journalistic principles. The myth of liberal bias has been an effective tool of intimidating the press and convincing people in the middle that the enemy is the press.” If liberal bias is such a myth, why don’t we remember how Bernstein also ruined the presidency of Jimmy Carter? And what about those tough Bernstein scoops in the Clinton years?