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Closing out a special edition NBC Nightly News on Sunday night, weekday anchor Lester Holt and correspondent Harry Smith irresponsibly framed the Orlando terror attack on a gay nightclub as being an issue of gun control and mass shootings instead of one concerning the ideology of radical Islamists and anyone who wavers from it.
Holt set the tone minutes earlier by teasing Smith’s commentary by lamenting: “When we come back, our final thoughts and the look back at this horrifying trend in the United States.”