More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
While Republicans officially took control of both the House and the Senate on Tuesday, NBC, ABC, and CBS all touted GOP setbacks. NBC's Today led the way, with correspondent Peter Alexander seizing on comments from the top Senate Republican: "Among incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's main goals for his party: don't be scary."
Alexander went on to promote Republican divisions and controversy: "Their first tests, whether John Boehner can hold off Tea Party conservatives challenging his speakership and the controversy over Louisiana's Steve Scalise, the House's number three Republican, still defending his speech to a white supremacist group led by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke twelve years ago."