More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On Friday, all three network morning shows hailed Hillary Clinton’s vicious tirade against Donald Trump during a speech on Thursday. On NBC’s Today, correspondent Kristen Welker excitedly asked: “Did Hillary Clinton finally crack the code for taking on Donald Trump? That's the big question this morning after Clinton delivered a withering 35-minute speech arguing that electing Trump would be a, quote, ‘historic mistake.’”
The reporter gushed: “It was a passionate address many Democrats had been waiting to hear, but was also aimed at independents and moderate Republicans.” She declared: “Clinton arguing that he' is, quote, ‘temperamentally unfit”....[she] mocked him, while also picking apart Trump's foreign policy proposals point by point...”