That's a big shocker from the man who Jon Stewart calls the "douchebag of liberty." Darrel Plant reports on a Media Matters article over on his blog, DarrelPlant.com:

Wow. I didn't know Oregon Representative Darlene Hooley was a "knee-jerk liberal." But Media Matters quotes Robert Novak in a story today:

Novak wrong on Rep. Hooley's record, wrongly accused her of hypocrisy

Syndicated columnist and CNN host Robert D. Novak accused Representative Darlene Hooley (D-OR) of hypocrisy for expressing concern about the lack of armor for U.S. troops in Iraq after -- as he claimed falsely -- she voted against funding the war. On the December 11 edition of CNN's The Capital Gang, regular panel member Novak called Hooley "a knee-jerk liberal and professional politician" and stated: "It's a definition of hypocrisy to complain about lack of armor on trucks after voting against giving the troops any trucks at all." But Novak was wrong on Hooley's record.

Hooley is a consummate moderate, so to call her a "knee-jerk liberal" is completely out of line. Novak likes to think of himself as the greatest political reporter in the nation, but the fact is that he is just another partisan hatchet man.