More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
In a hostile interview with Mike Pence on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie actually interrupted the exchange to play a 26-second clip of a Clinton campaign attack ad ripping the Indiana Governor’s vice presidential debate performance. She then demanded Pence respond to the partisan hit job.
While Guthrie noted that Pence was “getting a lot of credit” for his handling of the debate, she quickly added that “a lot of people have noticed that you spent time denying things that Trump said that he did, in fact, say.” The anchor then dutifully teed up the Clinton campaign’s smear: “As one paper put it, ‘It’s a Clinton attack ad waiting to happen.’ And sure enough, take a look.”