MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA ARE CRITICIZING MATT
LAUER'S PERFORMANCE AS AN INTERVIEWER DURING THE COMMANDER
IN CHIEF FORUM THAT NBC HELD LAST NIGHT.
SOME OF THE
CRITICISM IS WARRANTED, AND WE
WILL SHOW YOU SOME CLIPS PROVING WHAT THE CRITICISMS CLAIM.
BUT
LET ME TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT IS
GOING ON.
AND HERE IS MATT
YGLESIAS FROM VOX.
EVERYONE IS GOING NUTS ON MATT LAUER.
HONESTLY I'M A
LITTLE SURPRISED BY IT.
YOU COVERED IT, WHAT IS YOUR TAKE
FIRST.
WHAT I DID NOTICE WAS THAT HE WAS EXTREMELY HARD ON HILLARY
CLINTON.
THEY WERE TOUGH QUESTIONS, TONS OF FOLLOW-UP
QUESTIONS.
TO BE QUITE HONEST, I AM NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT I
THINK THE TOUGH QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ASKED.
I NOTICED THE SAME WAS
NOT TRUE OF DONALD TRUMP'S PORTION.
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT
THAT IS COMPLETELY MATT LAUER'S
FAULT, BUT DONALD TRUMP IS SO GOOD AT MANIPULATING THE
CONVERSATION THAT THERE WERE MOMENTS WHERE MATT LAUER GOT
CRITICIZED.
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IF DONALD TRUMP COMES IN AT MANIPULATING, I THINK, I HOPE, I
WOULD BE LIKE THAT IS KIND OF INTERESTING.
ON THE OTHER HAND,
HERE IS YOUR INTERVIEW ON HOWARD STERN WHERE YOU CLEARLY SAID YOU
WERE FOR THE IRAQ WAR.
IT'S ABOUT 18 MONTHS TOO LATE.
LET'S
DO SOME MATH ON THAT.
I AM NOT DEFENDING MATT LAUER.
THE REASON
WHY I AM SURPRISED AT THE
PRESS'S REACTION IS BECAUSE THESE ARE CHICKENS COMING HOME
TO ROOST.
THE PEOPLE MOST SURPRISED SHOULD BE MATT LAUER.
I HAVE DONE WHAT EVERY REPORTER HAS DONE FOR DECADES, AND NOW
YOU ARE ON MY ASS?
THEY COWER AWAY FROM THAT BECAUSE THE
REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN YELLING AT
THEM FOR 40 STRAIGHT YEARS.
TRUMP YELLS AND EVERYONE WHO
EVEN DARES TO ASK HIM THE SLIGHTEST, MOST NORMAL QUESTION
IN THE WORLD.
HE WAS INTIMIDATED BY TRUCK, LIKE ALMOST EVERY
OTHER REPORTER IN THIS CYCLE.
ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU GUYS ARE MAD
AT MATT LAUER?
OKAY FINE, BUT LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR.
THE MEDIA IN GENERAL HAS FAILED THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE
ELECTION CYCLE.
THROUGHOUT THE PRIMARIES YOU HAD MODERATORS WHO
REFUSE TO ASK FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS WHEN CANDIDATES WOULD
LIE.
THE ONLY DEBATE THAT I CAN REMEMBER THROUGHOUT THIS
ELECTION CYCLE THAT WAS WORTH WATCHING BECAUSE THERE WERE
TOUGH QUESTIONS ASKED WAS THE ONE BY UNIVISION.
I REALLY
ENJOYED THAT.
CHRIS WALLACE JUST RECENTLY SAID, HE IS NOT
PLANNING ON CALLING OUT LIES.
THIS IS NOT A MATT LAUER ISSUE.
ANDERSON COOPER'S TOWN HALLS WITH REPUBLICANS WAS 100 TIMES
WORSE THAN MATT LAUER.
IT WAS EMBARRASSING.
DO YOU LIKE PI—A
COLADA'S ON THE BEACH?
HOW MUCH
DO YOU LIKE YOUR WIFE?
JONATHAN WRITES SOME GREAT STUFF, AND SO
DOES MATT, SO WE PICKED TWO EXAMPLES OF GUYS WHO ACTUALLY DO
A GREAT JOB.
THERE ARE A DOZEN MORE PRESS THAT WERE SHOCKED FOR
THE FIRST TIME.
YOU CAN'T ALL OF A SUDDEN BE SHOCKED WHEN IT IS
TRUMP.
REMEMBER, THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
FOR 40 YEARS.
LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS.
THE REPORTERS ARE SO
SCARED AND NEUTRAL.
FOR THEM TO ALL OF A SUDDEN WAKE UP TODAY IS
A LITTLE DISINGENUOUS IN MASS.
I THINK THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING IS
EVIDENCED BY JONATHAN CHAIT'S HEADLINE.
I THINK THAT IS WHAT
IS DRIVING THIS.
HIS HEADLINE IS HOLY CRAP, TRUMP MIGHT WIN.
THAT
IS WHAT I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU.
ALL THE ELITES LOVE HILLARY
CLINTON.
THAN WHEN WE WAKE UP AND YOU SAY THE POLLS ARE
WINNING, NO.
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE'VE BEEN SAYING ALL THIS
TIME.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE PARTY, YOU ARE A LITTLE LATE TO
IT.
REPORTERS, BE TOUGH ON ALL OF THEM.