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Carl Bernstein has resurfaced just in time to proclaim that he’s a bitter liberal. To be more specific, Bernstein thinks that President Bush has done more damage to the Constitution than Nixon did.

After a long explanation of how the American system “worked,” eventually, with Watergate, Bernstein said:

“In the case George W. Bush, the American system has obviously failed, tragically, about which we can talk more in a minute. But imagine the difference in our worldview today, had the institutions, particularly of government, done their job to ensure that a mendacious and dangerous president (as has since been proven many times over, beyond mere assertion) be restrained in a war that has killed thousands of American soldiers, brought turmoil to the lives of millions, and constrained the goodwill towards the United States in much of the world.”

Bernstein has had BDS from the start. What does Bernstein present as evidence of President Bush’s mendacity? According to Dictionary.com, the definition of mendacious is:

telling lies, esp. habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful

Mr. Bernstein doesn’t offer any proof that President Bush is a habitual liar. He simply throws accusations around, which won’t cut it with intellectually honest people. That said, it’s something that the hateful wing of the Democrats accepts as an article of faith. No proof is needed because progressives know that conservatives are evil, rotten to the core. Most people remember Dean saying that “We’re in a struggle between good and evil and we’re the good.” Dean didn’t offer any proof, either. In fact, Dean’s had a history of that type of antagonism:

MR. RUSSERT: Let me talk about some of the things you have said about the Republicans.

Here’s Howard Dean in January: “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for…”

Howard Dean in February: “This is a struggle between good and evil and we’re the good?”

Do you really hate Republicans? Do you consider them evil?

DR. DEAN: I don’t; well, actually that was a little out of context. But I don’t hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country.

The reason I bring Dean into this is to show that Bernstein is a typical BDS-afflicted progressive. It isn’t difficult finding other liberals who think like Mr. Bernstein. I’d opine that it’s far more difficult finding liberals who take a more civil tone than finding civil-tongued progressives.

“In the current administration we have seen from the President down, especially Vice President Cheney, Attorney General Gonzales, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, a willingness to ignore the great constitutional history of the United States, to suspend, really, many of the constitutional guarantees that have made us a nation apart, with real freedoms unknown elsewhere, unrestricted by short-term political objectives of our leaders.

Shame on Mr. Bernstein for that litany of unfounded accusations. It’s obvious that he’s referring to the NSA intercept program. The simple fact is that there are a number of rulings that support President Bush’s not seeking FISA warrants in intercepting international communications. That isn’t good enough for Bernstein, though, because he’s a Bush-hating partisan whose mind was closed ages ago.

“But perhaps worst, has been the lying and mendacity of the president and his men and women, in the reasons they cited for going to war, their conduct of the war, their attempts to smear their political opponents.

Bernstein’s partisanship really shows here. Where were his condemnations of Clinton when Echelon was revealed? I didn’t hear Bernstein complaining about Clinton not seeking search warrants for searching Aldrich Ames’ house. I guess it isn’t a big deal with Mr. Bernstein when a ‘virtuous’ liberal doesn’t get warrants to capture a spy but it is a big deal when a conservative actually tries preventing terrorist attacks by not getting a search warrant.

Mr. Bernstein’s accusations are as arbitrary as they are vicious.

Mr. Bernstein’s double standards are showing and it isn’t flattering.

Technorati Tags: Watergate, Bernstein, Bill Clinton, Echelon, Aldrich Ames, NSA, Partisanship,Howard Dean

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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