More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Hours before Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America both seized on a hit piece in Florida’s Sun Sentinel newspaper demanding that Marco Rubio resign his Senate seat. At the top of Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: “Florida Senator Marco Rubio gets dealt a tough blow from one of his state's newspapers.”
In the report that followed minutes later, correspondent Peter Alexander touted how the paper “slammed the candidate overnight for his record of missing more roll calls than any other senator this year.” He quoted the nasty attack: “You are paid $174,000 per year to represent us, to fight for us, to solve our problems. You are ripping us off, Senator.”