More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
While all three broadcast networks hailed Bruce Jenner for choosing to switch genders and become Caitlyn Jenner just one week ago – devoting 48 minutes to the story in three days – on Friday, those same networks were aghast that Spokane, Washington NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal had chosen to identify herself as black despite being white.
On the June 2 Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie gushed over Bruce Jenner coming out as transgender: “You almost get the sense that Caitlyn [Jenner] is euphoric to be free.” In sharp contrast, she led Friday’s program with a very different attitude toward Dolezal: “Who are you? A prominent NAACP leader under fire, accused by her own family of lying about being black...”