[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
MTV's Anna Marie Cox invoked the Founding Fathers on the 10 August 2016 edition of CNN Newsroom as she argued that the unsavory elements of Donald Trump's presidential campaign were a more serious issue than Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal: "I think that the violence and bigotry of the Trump campaign are more important than the Hillary e-mails....our founders could foresee the kind of controversies...and the kind of corruption that Hillary Clinton's engaging in. Like, that's part of government, you know?"