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In covering President Obama’s refusal to refer to terrorism as Islamic extremism, CBS and NBC devoted portions of their reports on Thursday night to comments Rudy Giuliani made the day before with NBC reserving a majority of their airtime to attacking the former New York City Mayor for having “set off a war of words” and taking presidential criticism “to another level.”
NBC Nightly News interim anchor Lester Holt scolded Giuliani before correspondent Andrea Mitchell’s report by declaring that he set off “a firestorm” over telling an audience that “I do not believe that the President loves America” and suggested that Giuliani went too far.