Meat just doesn’t get redder than this. If John Ziegler tried to keep it friendly with Matt Lauer yesterday, he had no such reticence with Norah O’Donnell later on MS-NBC. He called NBC an “advocacy organization” and wondered why O’Donnell didn’t get fired after misquoting Sarah Palin:

John’s quite clever in this interview. Unlike with Matt Lauer, where the lengthy segment gave plenty of time for dialogue, John knew he would only have a limited time to talk with O’Donnell. He winds up dominating the conversation, only giving O’Donnell a couple of opportunities to respond. In this case, he peppers O’Donnell with some of the specific examples that he didn’t get to use with Lauer’s more broad questions.

Don’t kid yourselves, though; MS-NBC (and Fox, for that matter) love this kind of action. It’s practically all they do. They may want to see O’Donnell take better control of an interview, but otherwise, it’s golden for all involved.

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