MSNBC: Carson Made Between $200K-$2M/Year from Doc Who Pleaded Guilty to Fraud

NBC Tries (and Fails) to Make Story on Ben Carson’s Friend a Mountain of a Molehill Story (NewsBusters)

On Thursday night and Friday morning, NBC News tried their best to go after Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson by attempting to make a mountain out of a molehill of his relationship with a man who was convicted nearly a decade ago of insurance fraud while ignoring the ongoing investigation of Hillary Clinton over her private e-mail server.

Even though competitors ABC and CBS didn’t cover this story, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt hyped on Thursday that “Republican frontrunner Ben Carson is facing new questions about his friendship with a convicted felon.”

Senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing worked to explain in the newscast’s only report on the 2016 campaign that “Ben Carson calls Alfonso Costa his very best friend” and has been “a driving force behind Carson’s charity, owner of an Italian resort where Carson often vacations, but he’s also a convicted felon.”