During a panel discussion on Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer urged the liberal Today’s Professionals pundits to assign blame for the upcoming budget sequester: “I want you to complete the following sentence, ‘And the blame goes to…’ Almost by every analysis people agree this will hurt the economy, hurt the recovery, might even damage national security. And the blame goes to?” [Listen to the audio]

Chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman ranted: “The American public for not being invested enough in the terms of what it means and firing every one of these SOBs the next time it comes around.” Advertising executive Donny Deutsch agreed, arguing: “We are a country now of complete non-self sacrifice. You can’t blame the politicians. Blame us, because nobody wants to give on anything.” – See video, read more at: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/nbc-panelists-blame-american-public-and-republicans-sequester#sthash.S9dB0Slo.dpu