Of all the biased hot takes to come from the media during the impeachment process, none lacked any sense of self-awareness more than the panel discussion that took place Thursday morning on CNN. Responding to former Attorney General Eric Holder's anti-William Barr op-ed in the Washington Post, the panel eagerly agreed with Holder, while conveniently ignoring Holder's own history and how he would have been treated if their own standards applied to him.

Jeffrey Toobin was the first on Holder's op-ed, arguing that he broke the "informal nonaggression pact" because, "things are different now and you know this is not a personal thing and it really is about a vision of the constitution that Attorney General Barr has about executive authority that is so different from even Republican attorneys general in the past that Holder felt he had to speak out."

In a sense Toobin is right, things are different now. What's different is that a Republican is president. Using Holder and Toobin's own logic, both Eric Holder and Barack Obama should have been impeached for obstructing Congress when they failed to turn over documents related to Operation Fast and Furious.

Instead of calling out Holder for his obvious hypocrisy, Gloria Borger took the opportunity to pretend that in the midst of the IG report on Crossfire Hurricane that everything was on the up and up at the FBI, "But he also makes the point he thinks that Barr is effectively lying for partisan reasons." She added, "and so Holder is saying, he ought to leave or he ought to be taken out of office" again failing to note that Holder and Obama, using their own logic, should have been impeached.

David Gregory also failed to call out Holder, "You know, President Trump, when he was complaining about Jeff Sessions says Barack Obama, President Obama, he had Eric Holder who looked after him, that was his perception. What Holder is saying, no, there should be some distance that an attorney general has from an administration even though you’re named by the president, that there's some independence by the Justice Department, by the FBI." It wasn't a perception, Holder called himself, "the president's wingman."

Here is a transcript for the December 12 show: