[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
The 15 May 2015 edition of NBC Nightly News picked up where Today left off earlier in the day by hyping former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's "long week," after his Monday remark that he would have authorized an invasion of Iraq if he had been president in 2003. Lester Holt echoed Savannah Guthrie in underling that Bush has "struggled since then to put daylight between him and his brother's legacy on Iraq." He also asserted that Karl Rove's refusal to endorse him during his interview on Today was "another potential blow...to Bush's White House ambitions."
Chris Jansing touted the Rove interview by following in the footsteps of Guthrie's "rocky week" labeling from Today: "What had already been a pretty bad week for Jeb Bush today seemed to get even worse." She later played up how the Republican strategist was "pointedly noncommital about Jeb....an apparent snub."