The Lauer interview with Hillary and Trump DID NOT GO WELL FOR DEMOCRACY.

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Matt Lauer should stick to cooking on the Today Show.  He did not do well last night.  He grilled Hillary about emails for 1/3 of the show and he let TRUMP LIE AND SAY WHATEVER but did not ask Hard Questions to Trump.  Trump could have been asked about: Mulitiple Bankruptcy, Pay to Play and Bondi of FL, the cost of upgrading the military is 150 Billion and where is he going to get the money,  the not paying people who work for him OR WHAT IS HE HIDING BY NOW SHOWING HIS TAXES.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Were Interviewed by Matt Lauer. It Didn't Go Well. For Democracy.

Wednesday night NBC's Matt Lauer held "Commander in Chief" pre-debate interviews in the USS Intrepid, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the first almost-debate of the 2016 general election. It didn't go well. 

Why NBC News chief Andrew Lack decided Matt Lauer would be the perfect moderator is anyone's guess. Rachel Maddow, whose MSNBC show is the new network's crown jewel, and who literally wrote the book on the evening's topic, was literally on deck to mop up at 9 PM after Lauer nearly sunk the ship.

In a nutshell, Lauer put the screws to Clinton, almost berating her over her emails, which have nothing to do with the event's topic, while he effectively pour Trump a beer and sat back watching football. The systemic sexism was mind-boggling. 

Almost immediately, journalists (yours truly included) took to social media with jaws hanging open, shocked at the journalistic malpractice NBC News (remember NBC's CNBC GOP debate that was also an unmitigated disaster?) has foisted upon the American democracy.

New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait penned a widely-circulated article titled, "Matt Lauer’s Pathetic Interview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Is the Scariest Thing I’ve Seen in This Campaign."

It begins, "I had not taken seriously the possibility that Donald Trump could win the presidency until I saw Matt Lauer host an hour-long interview with the two major party candidates. Lauer’s performance was not merely a failure, it was horrifying and shocking."

Chait sums up the consequences, noting that, as it turns out, the average voter, especially those who are still undecided, "subsist on a news diet supplied by the likes of Matt Lauer. And the reality transmitted to them from Lauer matches the reality of the polls, which is a world in which Clinton and Trump are equivalently flawed."

In other words, Lauer has perpetrated the myth that either candidate is equally acceptable.