Trump is speaking in Eugene right now and every major channel cut to him. Why?

[Shrike47]

Right in the middle of Jeopardy they decide to give Trump unpaid advertising for half an hour or whatever he goes on for. What are they thinking?

Bernie Sanders was in the area last week. I doubt they live-showed his speech.

It's beautiful here today. This is disgusting.

[RKP5637]

1. He's on MSNBC right now, wow, is he hateful, angry and hostile. He feels emboldened. He

is really going to go way over the top. He was just going on about Hillary and Elizabeth Warren. It's going to be a horrific hate fest by Trump, even worse.

[Shrike47]

4. I refuse to watch. I'm watching a M*A*S*H rerun

[RKP5637]

6. Far better choice! n/t

[scscholar]

13. Microsoft supports tRump...

so of course they've been giving him millions in advertising for months.

[Egnever]

2. It should be clear by now

They are hoping for him to say something outrageous. He does it fairly often. They all want to show it happen live.

If you think it is because they want to cover him making good policy point's I don't think you are on the right track.

[RKP5637]

3. The contortions of his face where amazing, so much pure hatred and anger. I really

fear a Trump victory would bring on some type of WWIII.

[Egnever]

5. While I agree a trump presidency would be horrific

One need only look at the defections inside the republican party itself to realize it isn't even a remote possibility.

[RKP5637]

7. I do love watching the GOP fracture!!! n/t

[Egnever]

9. shaping up to be one of the most entertaining presidential elections I can remember.

The complete meltdown of the republican party is an awesome spectacle.

[EL34x4]

18. A Trump presidency is very much a possibility

And it would behoove Democrats to act like it.

For every establishment 1%er butthurt that their guy lost and vowing to stay home on election day, Trump has signed up thousands upon thousands of new voters.

I just don't understand the "Trump has no chance" hubris around this place. There's never been a major party nominee like Trump. Nobody knows how this will play out.

[tavernier]

8. He is making fun of E Warren

Goofy Warren he has named her, with his ugly distorted facial grimace.

Just scary.

[Baobab]

10. idiots

[Gman]

11. One reason only

Ratings

[spanone]

12. they love him. it's true love. he's one of them...and they're making money.

and it's not costing trump a penny.

media quote...

Les Moonves: Trump's run is 'damn good for CBS'

Donald Trump’s candidacy might not be making America great, CBS Chairman Les Moonves said Monday, but it’s great for his company.

"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS," Moonves said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, according to The Hollywood Reporter — perfectly distilling what media critics have long suspected was motivating the round-the-clock coverage of Trump's presidential bid.

"Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates," Moonves said, noting, "[t]here's a lot of money in the marketplace."

The 2016 campaign is a "circus," he remarked, but "Donald's place in this election is a good thing."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-trump-cbs-220001#ixzz47vzaCFtm

[arcane1]

14. And all that free air time forces the other campaigns to spend like crazy to counter it.

It's a win/win for the networks.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. Listen, Hillary could win 49 states on Election Night

and the Networks and Cable News would be covering Trump rambling on into the night.

[Vinca]

16. Because he's making history - the first mentally ill candidate to get a major party nomination.

It's scary as hell to think the only thing between Trump and devastation is Hillary.

[BernieforPres2016]

17. Because Trump might drop an f bomb and/or a fight might break out in the audience

It's like a real life version of the Jerry Springer show. TV stations don't care about anything but ratings.

[Igel]

19. Yup. And that guarantees him victory.

After all, massive advertising is what made new Coke the current success that it is.

[TomCADem]

20. Spreading Nukes, Torture, Woman's Card, Ban Muslims...

...there's always a chance that he will do something or say something crazy.