NBC's Savannah Guthrie was in a tough spot heading into the town hall her network hosted with President Donald Trump Thursday evening. A last minute addition after the debate negotiations fell apart, the town hall drew scrutiny for being scheduled opposite the ABC forum with Democratic challenger Joe Biden. 

Add in the president's predilection for twisting facts and it's a challenge for any moderator. Oh, and Trump also tweeted insults at NBC and Guthrie a few hours before the town hall kicked off. 

Guthrie met the challenge head-on, peppering Trump with tough questions and openly challenging some of his more outlandish assertions. 

Among the topics Guthrie nailed: getting Trump to say he couldn't recall if he took a Covid test before the last debate, his defense of his retweet of an insane QAnon conspiracy theory that the bin Laden raid was faked, and his $400 million debt. And he ducked the chance to denounce QAnon once again.

Predictably, Trump surrogates and Fox News hosts (do we repeat ourselves?) complained that Guthrie was too harsh. 

But if the president of the United States shares a fake story that his predecessor schemed to fake the killing of a terrorist leader and murdered our own Navy SEALs, he should expect to get a question about it. 

Nothing Guthrie asked was inappropriate or irrelevant. She was in a tough, high pressure spot and held her on, asking questions to which the American people deserve answers. 

Trump campaign advisor Mercedes Schlapp, wife of CPAC head honcho Matt Schlapp, is becoming a regular contender for our daily Media Loser, and Thursday was a perfect illustration why. 

After Fox News' Greg Gutfeld tweeted a complaint that NBC's Guthrie was "badgering" Trump, Schlapp quoted him with her own comment, saying the ABC Biden forum “feels like I am watching an episode of Mister Rodgers' Neighborhood."

Besides the fact that Schlapp misspelled the last name of Fred Rogers, the late host of the beloved PBS children’s TV show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the insinuation that invoking Rogers’ name was a valid way to criticize anyone struck many as completely absurd. 

As you probably can imagine, Twitter users had some jokes. The overwhelming reaction was that Rogers was a decent and universally liked figure, and comparing him to Biden was a great message for the Democratic nominee, and a terrible one for the Trump camp to highlight.

Now, the next morning after the dueling town halls, Schlapp's tweeted faux pas has continued to resonate, with several writers and political commentators framing the election as a contest between "Mr. Rogers vs. Crazy Uncle" -- a reference to Guthrie's comment to Trump that a president should use more prudence in what he tweets, and not act like "someone's crazy uncle."

The Biden campaign would be hard-pressed to create a better message for the final weeks of the campaign, and it was delivered to them courtesy of a top Trump campaign flack.