The corporate media wants a horse race, and Hillary's performance is scaring the SHIT out of them.

[RBInMaine]

It's how they get headlines and sell ads. The corporate media wants a horse race. So some will do what they can to salvage the disaster that is Snorting Donald. Disgusting.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. They can still make a profit if they cover his slow motion train wreck as a train wreck.

Lots of lookey-loos out there.

Trump will continue to oblige by spouting outrageous idiocies.

[Ligyron]

4. Yes! and this is what I don't get...

Most of Trump's supporters are big NASCAR fans and go to the races to see a wreck so why not cover it as such? I guess they're afraid they'll get discouraged and stop watching.

I don't see how any intelligent, caring person could even think about putting Trump in the W.H. and most of those media heads do have some intelligence at least.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. They've already started to bolster his shit

and are furiously trying to put the lipstick on his pig performance. They are selectively pulling out the sound-bites they liked from him and are discarding the rest of the incoherent and rambling babble that he uttered last night, which constituted the majority of his utterances.

[underpants]

3. The spin is "he won the first 20 minutes"

Complete nonsense. He lasted 5 minutes and went off. Life outside the bubble is hard.

[yellowcanine]

6. He did not "win" even the first 5 minutes.

Yes he waited a bit to implode so one could say he was "normal" by low bar Trump standards. But the sniffing, wheezing and clutching the sides of the podium started very early on as well as the grimaces, outbursts, etc.

[lonestarnot]

5. Precisely.