Join me if you will for a thought experiment. In the list below, in place of “Fox News,” I’m going to use “NBC News.” While you read the bullet points, think of all the Republicans and conservatives currently defending Fox News over Donald Trump, and ask yourself one simple question: If NBC News was equally guilty of these exact same sins, would these exact same people would be siding with NBC? – Just two days before a crucially important Republican presidential primary debate, NBC News released the following statement taunting the GOP frontrunner: We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president — a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings. – NBC News Vice President Bill Sammon has a daughter working for the Marco Rubio campaign. – NBC News is directly aligned with an open borders organization, a clear conflict of interest with one of the primary policy proposals being forwarded by the GOP frontrunner. – NBC News