What part of national security do Secretary Clinton’s emails constitute, and what part of national security is letting Trump skate by asking him repeatedly if he thinks he’s qualified to be Commander in Chief?

Matt Lauer is no more a tough-minded journalist than my dog Abby is. NBC has half-a-dozen more qualified reporters who could have run that so-called forum tonight and done it better, from Richard Engel to Chuck Todd. Hell, they could have brought Tom Brokaw in to guest-host and he’d have done a better job.

Don’t take it from me alone. Here’s Jonathan Chait of NY Magazine. Here are other professional journalists on Twitter.