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Reacting more as a supporter than an impartial observer, NBC anchor Lester Holt, during an interview with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, admitted he "winced" when he heard someone call her "dishonest." He then worried: "Do you get your feelings hurt sometimes?" Embedded video in article.

Ted Cruz got the Trump treatment at the GOP debate. He handled it much better than Trump...

At a campaign event on Friday in Nashua, NH, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said his opponent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)"got pummeled" at last night's Fox News GOP presidential debate. Trump did not attend the presidential debate, which has been attributed to his ongoing feud with FNC's "The Kelly File" host Megyn Kelly, one of the moderators of the debate. Trump said, "We have a big day coming up. We have a number one, we have February 1, I think we're going to do really well in Iowa. We're leading in the Iowa polls now and leading pretty good. And...

During Thursday night's Republican primary debate, in order to attack and bloody both Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Fox News used selectively-edited video montages of both senators saying stuff. Video is the most powerful propaganda weapon ever conceived, and not only is the use of gotcha-video in a presidential debate highly prejudicial and subjective, a debate setting is not the proper venue for any sort of gotcha question. Save the cheap gotchas for interviews. Debates are about issues, the differences between the candidates, and the differences with one another that they wish to highlight.

Who won last night's debate? Trump. And he wasn't there. Who lost? Fox News, which led the **debate** with a cheap shot at Trump. Megyn did herself no favors in that regard, and she had better hope that nothing ever disrupts the media oligopoly (a losing bet, IMHO) as if it does she is going to find her best and highest calling in Nevada somewhat outside of Clark County. The program Trump put together, with essentially zero notice, was very nice. It was the best political speechifying and rallying that I've seen since I have been sentient enough to pay...

When my kids were little they would occasionally try to get away with saying "Not fair!" when confronted by a parental edict they didn't like. My answer was always the same: "Where did you get the idea that life is supposed to be fair?" ........ Unfortunately, reality TV star and presidential candidate Donald Trump somehow missed that important nugget of wisdom growing up. Take a look at this whine-fest, courtesy of Digitas Daily:

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) apparently won over a Fox News focus group evaluating the network's Republican presidential debate on Thursday night. Veteran GOP pollster Frank Luntz, who conducted the focus group, told moderator Megyn Kelly that her grilling of Rubio on immigration had truly impressed the voters he was monitoring. "The most important and impactful moment of this debate. It was your challenge of Marco Rubio — and watch how well he did on immigration," Luntz told Kelly on her show after the debate. At the debate, Kelly had pressed Rubio using his past statements on illegal immigration. As his...

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump tweaked presidential rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday for taking a number of hits at the debate the night before. "Cruz got pummeled last night. Actually, I'm glad I wasn't there," Trump told his supporters in Nashua, New Hampshire. He added: "He got pummeled. Wow." Trump boycotted the Fox News debate on Thursday after repeatedly complaining about Fox host Megyn Kelly, one of the debate moderators. After a back and forth between Trump and the network, the Republican presidential front-runner suddenly announced he would instead host a fundraiser for veterans at the same time as...

No one looked particularly good. But Cruz is the only one who lost. It might not be the exact moment that sinks Cruz's candidacy. Donald Trump appears to deserve the credit he's taking for that. But it was definitely the moment when the bitter animosity people feel toward Cruz — his fellow candidates, his fellow senators, and even, apparently, Fox News — broke out in the open. At the heart of the attacks on Cruz is that behind his claims of conservative purity, he is, in fact, no better than the establishment candidates on the stage. He may not flip-flop...

Not too long ago, Ted Cruz looked poised to win a crucial early victory in Iowa. But his polling numbers of late have not been trending in a good direction. In new poll after new poll, Cruz seems to be falling further behind Donald Trump. And at Thursday's GOP debate in Des Moines, he clearly hoped he could turn his fortunes around with a strong performance. He didn't. The moderators and Cruz's rivals onstage subjected him to some very uncomfortable questioning -- and he didn't hold up to it all that well. Nearly all of his major vulnerabilities (except his...

To recap: Megyn Kelly, derided by Trump as a vapid Trump-basher, along with Jeb Bush and Rand Paul, derided by Trump as pathetic losers, led the attacks on Trump's leading competitors. And in the process, they helped remind Republican primary voters worried about immigration that Bush, Paul, Rubio and Cruz have all supported versions of "amnesty." Of course, Trump was conveniently absent, so he didn't have to field any tough questions about his own inconsistencies on immigration or other issues, from Kelly or anyone else.