Was Alisyn Camerota having a Fox News flashback? Since leaving FNC and in 2014 joining CNN, Camerota has been a reliable voice for the liberal talking points of the day. But on today's New Day during a discussion of the partial government shutdown, she repeatedly put a share of the blame on the Democrats for their responsibility for the impasse.

In particular, Camerota called out Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for refusing Mike Pence's request for a counter-offer at the conclusion of a White House meeting yesterday. It wasn't just a one-time, passing comment by Camerota. She repeatedly rebutted defenses of the Dems by Joe Lockhart and co-host John Berman.

Incredibly, CNN commentator John Avlon called it "so dangerous" that President Trump is taking into account public statements by what Avlon called "folks in right-wing media, the professional polarizers"--which is shorthand in this context for Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. As if CNN isn't a pile of "professional polarizers" with their war on Trump?

Yeah, John: freedom of speech is such a pesky thing. Just the other day, CNN's Lockhart proposed that President Trump submit the text of his Oval Office address in advance to the MSM, and "we'll decide what's true." Now, Avlon kvetches about Rush and Ann speaking out. Don't liberals like to style themselves as the defenders of free speech? That's a pretense, apparently, just like the notion that journalists are "objective" and "fact-based."

Could this be a developing pattern? MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday pushed Senator Tim Kaine on Democratic culpability, demanding some sort of compromise from the party.