Giving credit where credit is due, NBC (and simulcast on MSNBC) wasn’t anywhere near the dumpster fire on Saturday night that CBS was in covering the assassination attempt against former President Trump that left at least one Trump rally attendee dead and others injured. That said, there were still a few humdingers, such as pathetic use of the GOP drinking game/bingo word “seizing” and more perverted speculation.
Nearly 90 minutes after NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt frustratingly urged viewers to not assign motives to the shooter, he interviewed Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA), who presents the area in which the shooting took place, and demanded the GOP be the ones to watch their words.
Kelly wasn’t having any of it:
NBC’s Lester Holt lectures GOP Congressman Mike Kelly, who was nearby to Trump when a gunman tried to assassinate him: “Do you…
