More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows fretted over Hillary Clinton barely defeating Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucus. NBC’s Today was the most melodramatic, with co-host Matt Lauer declaring: “Hillary Clinton gets to come out of Iowa and say, technically, ‘I'm the winner,’ but this had to be a near-death experience for the once-presumptive nominee.”
Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd hyped: “Let’s call it what it is, she avoided a complete disaster, okay? A win is a win. It would have been a disaster if she would have lost....The Clinton campaign may have won technically, they're acting like they lost. The Sanders campaign is acting like they won.”