Anyone who watches CNN knows that you won’t be getting through an Aaron Brown newscast without an overbearing Aaron Brown commentary. On Monday, MRC’s Ken Shepherd heard the latest sermon. Brown announced, “There is not an honest reporter in the country today, not an honest news organization that hasn’t in the last few days, when looking at the story of how the now CBS discredited documents on the President’s National Guard service, said ‘there but for the grace of God go I,’ excepting that some partisans will see it otherwise, will see willful deception on the part of CBS. Smarter and more reasoned heads know better. Sources can and do sometimes mislead. Sometimes they do it deliberately, sometimes inadvertently but it does happen and it happened to CBS big time.”

Pardon me if this sounds like Aaron Brown doing for Dan Rather what Dan Rather did for Bill Clinton on the O’Reilly Factor: insisting the willful deceiver is an “honest man” long after the evidence suggests otherwise.