The cable networks ran a full-court press in covering President Obama’s endorsement on Thursday afternoon of Hillary Clinton with MSNBC giving Brian Williams the keys to the network for a few hours and, in the first 10 minutes, he seemed to blame talk radio for not reminding voters of Donald Trump’s birtherim enough that was, in his words, an “original sin.”

MSNBC Live host Craig Melvin cut a segment short at 1:52 p.m. Eastern to report the tweet from the President’s endorsement of Clinton as being unrivaled in qualifications for the presidency.

After reading the tweet, Melvin stepped aside for Williams, who declared that “[t]his was not expected” in light of Bernie Sanders visiting the White House just hours beforehand and Democrats “using words like gentle and delicate to talk about the treatment he requires and deserves.”

A few moments later, Williams brought on Hardball host Chris Matthews, who pontificated yet again that he thinks the President hasn’t forgotten about Trump’s birtherism charges from 2012 so he wants to help Democrats “win not just an election this fall, but a mandate.”

“That means perhaps taking the U.S. Senate, that means Hillary Clinton winning by 54 percent, 55 percent in the popular vote, a swinging, big time victory for her, maybe up to the Lyndon Johnson level. He also I think would like to humiliate Donald Trump and teach the Republican Party not to ever do this again,” Matthews added.

Naturally, Williams complimented Matthews and picked up on Matthews’s points about birtherism to compare it to the Original Sin from the Bible plus blame “the outrage machine” for helping voters forget about Trump’s wasteful crusade:

Chris, something you go back to and you're right to do it, and you just did, with the pace of the daily news cycle in this country, the outrage machine that takes a big lungful of air every day and expends it by the next day and then starts up the next day, cranks up again, people forget what you call Donald Trump's original sin. The way a lot of people became aware of him as a political player with an opinion was when he called out the President for his — where he was born.

For as much as the media loves to attack Christianity, it might help them in illustrating their bias if they stopped using Christian-like phrases in their news reporting.

The relevant portions of the transcript from MSNBC Live on June 9 can be found below.