On Thursday night’s evening news broadcasts, NBC and CBS couldn’t stop insulting the GOP while talking about the Democratic race. From CBS’ Charlie Rose claiming that the tenor of the Democrat campaign was “sounding more and more” like the Republicans, to NBC’s Lester Holt telling Republicans to “move over” because it was the Democrats turn to “grab the limelight” with their “nasty” in-fighting.
While supposedly reporting on the fighting words exchanged between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, each network conveniently found ways to bash the Republican campaign.
It started with CBS’ Evening News, where fill-in anchor Charlie Rose told Sanders in a pre-recorded interview that he was sounding “more like the Republican campaign” with comments that went “too far,” about Clinton being to blame for the Iraq War
ROSE: People are saying the tenor of this campaign has changed and it's sounding more and more like the Republican campaign.
ROSE: I'm asking where the tenor of this campaign is going, and is that going too far to say she bears responsibility for Iraqi war deaths?
NBC was much more heavy-handed, opening with a graphic of Clinton and Sanders that read. “Getting Nasty.” Anchor Lester Holt opened with telling Republican candidates to “move over” because “tonight it is the Democrats grabbing the limelight the with nasty back-and-forth.”
Correspondent Andrea Mitchell then confirmed it was a “turning point in the campaign” for Democrats who were “no longer taking the high road.” In the segment Mitchell highlighted, “For months, Democrats have been bragging that they don’t fight like Republicans.”
Mitchell also hyped how the holier-than-thou Democrat party leaders were warning their candidates to not stoop to the level of Republicans.
MITCHELL: [P]arty leaders are warning both campaigns that having the two Democrats accusing each other of not being qualified is tailor made for Republican attack ads in the fall.
As if that wasn’t enough, moving into the GOP segment, Holt opened with, “[I]t’s no less nasty on the Republican side.”
