NBC’s ‘Dateline’ Obama Special — Holt Goes All Gush with Obama, Censors Scandals

Curtis Houck | January 16, 2017
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Friday’s edition of Dateline NBC featured the long-planned hour-long special Reality of Hope dedicated to outgoing President Barack Obama and, naturally, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt stayed clear of all Obama scandals in lieu of gush over his so-called accomplishments. 

Holt promised “an evening of hard questions,” but they instead boiled down to how Obama will want himself remembered, if he felt “free” when he sang Amazing Grace in South Carolina, and how he “had a tough time getting what you wanted through” thanks to Republicans.

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