More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On Monday’s NBC Today, MSNBC political analyst Nicolle Wallace explained the Republican Party’s long-term distrust of the press: “At the core is a massive generational distrust with the mainstream media and it bubbled over in the debate last week.”
Moments later, co-host Savannah Guthrie tried to dismiss such GOP objections to liberal media bias as nothing more than political posturing: “But isn't the bottom line just what you said, blaming the media is a longtime winning strategy?”