MESSAGE CONTROL: Entire Media Freaks Out After Trump Over-Performance in Forum.

Suddenly, Lauer is garbage, no better—in the eyes of the mainstream media—than some basement-dwelling right-wing blogger.

His sin? He allowed Trump to speak during the candidate forum, and didn’t press the Republican presidential nominee on his answers to the liking of the liberal media. This morning, I detailed the extent of the hate being spewed against Lauer by his colleagues in the mainstream media.

And it’s not letting up. The New York Times editorial board wrote on Friday that moderators should do more than ask questions and let candidates answer—they should engage in rigorous (probably NYT-approved) fact checking.

Well, of Republicans, anyway. This is all a message to future moderators — go Candy Crowley on Trump or the cool kids won’t like you anymore.

But here’s what’s really going on:

Clearly, the mainstream media is panicking about Clinton’s drop in the polls. They’re lashing out at each other. The Post is mad at The Times, and everyone has decided that Lauer is the problem. Lauer’s own employers are calling his performance a “disaster.”

It seems obvious they’re all just upset that Trump hasn’t said or done anything to take the heat off of Clinton’s two weeks of bad news coverage.

Yep. And, by the way, notice that Trump didn’t say something stupid and step all over Hillary’s problems this week. I assume that’s the influence of Kellyanne Conway, but whatever it is, it’s a major change, and one that Dems should find worrisome.