More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On Thursday morning, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning were in full panic mode over Donald Trump nominating Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, labeling him an “environmental disaster” and the equivalent of “putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires.”
Co-host Matt Lauer opened the Today show with this outlandish declaration : “Environmental disaster? Controversy sparked by President-elect Trump's pick to run the EPA....The ongoing lawsuit against the very agency he's tapped to lead. And his position on climate change putting a dark cloud over his nomination.”