NBC: Hillary ‘Has Stood Her Ground’ by Using ‘Put Downs’ as Hearing ‘Dissolved Into Bickering’

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Offering no surprises, Thursday’s NBC Nightly News aired glowing remarks for Hillary Clinton’s performance during the House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing with conclusions that she “stood her ground” as it “dissolved into bickering” while she “stayed above the fray” and removing Benghazi from being an issue in the 2016 campaign. 

Anchor Lester Holt declared in a tease that Clinton “appear[ed] calm even as tempers erupted” and added after the program’s opening credits that Clinton “has stood her ground in the face of withering Republican questioning” before handing off to Clinton correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell.