More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On Sunday's MediaBuzz on Fox News, Time columnist Joe Klein rushed to the defense of embattled NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams: "I think that we're living in an era where the ferocity of the prosecution is much greater than the severity of most of these crimes. And that's true not only for people like Brian Williams, but also for most of the journal – the politicians we cover."
Klein then bizarrely compared Williams to a lying politician: "I really want to have a president who has messed around....there was another one who lied to the American people continually on matters of war and peace, who messed around, who drank a pitcher of martinis every night and my grandfather voted for him four times -- Franklin Roosevelt."