On "Now with Alex Wagner" Thursday, the host and guests from Bloomberg Businessweek and the New York Times had a discussion about the latest of the many scandals plaguing Hillary's campaign, during which they took a couple of hilarious swipes at liberal "watchdog" group Media Matters for America.

The Times' Jeremy Peters took the first jab. He pondered whether Team Clinton would learn a lesson and begin to handle objections and legitimate questions differently when he used Media Matters as an example of extreme partisans doing damage control for Hillary, saying, "This isn't all coming from the Clinton camp itself, but it comes from that orbit around them, where you have these people whose main goal is to misdirect and to obfuscate every time there is the slightest bit of criticism about the Clintons' leadership."

Host Wagner jumped in at this point to make her predictable objection to the characterization of misdirection and obfuscation, saying that the partisans just think of it as "clarifying," when both reporters quickly jumped in and corrected her. Bloomberg's Josh Green said that "they know what they are doing," and then Peters came in with the kill strike:

PETERS: They are definitely misdirecting here, I mean, this is what Media Matters exists to do.

But it wasn't over for poor Media Matters just yet. Wagner asked Green about the author of the book Clinton Cash, Peter Schweizer, upon whose work much of the Times' devastating reporting was based. Green described him as a fair and serious person, one who is next going after Jeb Bush, and dismissed out of hand the notion that the allegations in the book were unserious or trumped-up. He also threw in a nice finishing move on Media Matters, asserting of Schweizer:

GREEN: He's a very well-regarded guy by most people who aren't on the payroll of Media Matters for America, who aren't Clinton partisans. And I think as this Times story showed today, the material he's got in this book is serious stuff based on real things that happened in the real world and raise a lot of questions.

Burn!