More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
While acknowledging that Hillary Clinton’s Goldman Sachs speeches revealed by WikiLeaks could have cost the Democratic candidate her party’s nomination if uncovered during the primary campaign, on Monday’s NBC Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd actually spun the news as an advantage for Clinton in the general election.
Co-host Matt Lauer wondered: “For months and months, Hillary Clinton refused to talk about or release the transcripts of those speeches to Goldman Sachs....Do you have a better sense of why she didn't release them?” Todd replied: “I sure do....Look, the Democratic Party is moving in a direction much faster to the left than Hillary Clinton ever was....I think it would have been absolutely damaging in the primary and possibly cost her the nomination.”