More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Filling in for host Andrea Mitchell during MSNBC’s 12 p.m. ET hour on Thursday, Peter Alexander worried that Donald Trump only had a “low bar” to surpass in the upcoming debates: “Do they [the Clinton campaign] have real concerns...that the bar has been set so low for Donald Trump, in effect, that clearing that bar of acceptability is not much of a challenge? How do they combat that in some way?”
Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell parroted complaints of supposed media bias against the Democratic nominee: “That is one of their sharpest criticisms of what they anticipate. They say that he gets one dimensional questions, she gets complicated questions based on all of the policies and all of the substance that they think she brings to the table.”