Jim Romenesko’s highlighting an interview/shoeshine of PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers done by John Eggerton of Broadcasting and Cable magazine. In between the softball questions, Moyers boasts typically that former CPB content cop Kenneth Tomlinson was just a Bush “hit man” who opposed aggressive journalism as performed heroically by Moyers: “It is an old canard of right-wing ideologues like Tomlinson to equate tough journalism with liberalism.” He then claims his guest list was incredibly diverse. (Moyers, balanced? Ha.You can still see the analysis of Louis Barbash on this score.)

I think it’s more accurate to charge that Moyers is the one who is pushing a canard, confusing his aggressive liberalism with tough journalism. The only thing this guy could assault Bill Clinton about was the need for more stringent campaign-finance “reform.”