More Proof of Panic By Team Hillary

There's a swarm of angry Democrats who are lambasting Matt Lauer for his performance at last night's Commander in Chief forum on MSNBC and NBC.  Lauer was the sole moderator.  According to these critics, Lauer was too tough on Hillary and too easy on Trump.  That's crazy.  I saw the event, and it is not even close to the truth.  The reality is that Hillary did poorly on the forum and now her allies are looking for excuses.  After all, America surely knows that MSNBC and NBC are biased against Hillary and in favor of Trump.  It's hard to write such a ridiculous thing.  If anything, Lauer was biased against Trump and helped Hillary.  He let Clinton talk at length on many answers while he kept arguing with Trump in the middle of answers.  I realize that letting Hillary talk may be letting her kill herself on her own, but it is certainly not being hard on her.  The big criticism of Lauer is that he spent too much time on the email issue.  It was two short questions.  Hillary and her filibuster-like answers are what stretched the subject into a major block of time.  Then she got hit by a veteran with a question on the same subject.  More time spent.  Then a veteran asked her about her vote in favor of the Iraq War and her other warlike moves; that was hardly Lauer being unfair.  Hillary then went into full filibuster mode; there were no short answers, only long, long ones.  That was Hillary, not Lauer.

In a half hour, Trump took nearly twice as many questions as Clinton.  That's because Trump answered the questions and moved on.  Hillary just wouldn't end her answers without prodding by Lauer to do so.

First we had a news conference this morning so that Clinton could try to change the subject away from her poor performance last night.  Now we have a major attack on Matt Lauer in the hopes of changing the way that the debate moderators treat Hillary.  Hopefully it won't work.  Clinton did poorly last night; she owns that performance and ought to move on.