What am I most thankful for now that the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings are over? The fact that CBS News viewers will no longer be subjected to run-away misinformation from its chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford who, as Media Matters has detailed at length, spent the spring and early summer getting pretty much everything wrong about Kagan. (See additional examples of Crawford's stumbles here, here, here, and here, all of which told the Kagan story from a GOP-friendly perspective.)

Just really dreadful reporting on CBS's part. And Crawford is supposed to be a legal expert.

So how did Crawford sum up Kagan's nomination hearings while appearing on Face the Nation over the holiday weekend? By blaming Democrats exclusively for making SCOUTS nominations so partisan, of course [emphasis added]:

“Historically, [Kagan] would have been confirmed like Justice Ginsburg was, 96-3, or Justice Breyer, 87-9, but things changed. I mean, things changed 10 years ago, when Democrats started filibustering President Bush's qualified nominees,” Crawford said. “I had a talk about all this -- I guess, what, five or six years ago with Mitch McConnell. You know, he said memories are long in the U.S. Senate. People remember what the Democrats -- including President Obama, Vice President Biden, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy -- did.”

Note the chummy, very familiar reference to GOP leader, “Mitch McConnell.” Kinda weird, right? Of course, even more bizarre is the fact that CBS News' legal correspondent thinks it's her job to go on TV and regurgitate GOP talking points.

Like I said, I'm not going to miss Crawford's work. At all.

(h/t Newsbusters!)