See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
By midday Friday, the liberal media’s primal instinct to defend Hillary Clinton and attack NBC’s Today co-host Matt Lauer dragged on past the 36 hours mark in smearing Lauer for simply asking her about the e-mail scandal on Wednesday night was on full display with Wednesday’s CNN Tonight excoriating Lauer’s questioning as an “embarrassment to journalism.”
Further, former Clinton administration official David Gergen and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof all lectured that their criticism of Lauer should serve as a warning shot to first debate moderator and NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt that he better be “fair” or else (translation: go easy on Hillary).