Bill O’Reilly asked Donald Trump tonight if his birtherism has hurt him with black voters.

No, he didn’t try to nail down Trump on whether he still thinks that nonsense. No, he didn’t find it important that Trump may or may not still believe an insane conspiracy theory about the sitting President of the United States.

He just asked if it hurts his poll numbers.

Trump said “I don’t know, I have no idea” before pointing out he doesn’t talk about it anymore.



O’Reilly asked Donald Trump tonight if his birtherism has hurt him with black voters.

No, he didn’t try to nail down Trump on whether he still thinks that nonsense. No, he didn’t find it important that Trump may or may not still believe an insane conspiracy theory about the sitting President of the United States.

He just asked if it hurts his poll numbers.

Trump said “I don’t know, I have no idea” before pointing out he doesn’t talk about it anymore.

Which, honestly, is kind of an insufficient answer.

CNN’s Dana Bash said what many voters have long suspected. The media has lowered the bar for Donald Trump and goes easier on him with their coverage because they expect less out of the GOP nominee.

Bash was talking about the presidential debates when she provided a perfect example of the media’s double standard in the way they cover Trump and Clinton.

Dana Bash said, “I think the stakes are much higher in this debate and all the debates for Hillary Clinton because the expectations are higher for her because she’s a seasoned politician. She’s a seasoned debater. You know, yes we saw Donald Trump in the primaries debate for the first time, but he is a first-time politician. So um, for lots of reasons. Maybe it’s not fair, but that’s the way it is. The onus is on her.”

Since when does being a first-time candidate mean that the media expects less and grades on a curve?

An old colleague and I were having breakfast this morning when he looked up at the news (I can’t remember which network …MSNBC, I think) and noticed a split screen of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. He lamented long about how terrible both candidates are in this election and I guess we just have to choose the lesser of the two evils or, as he put it, “…put on a blindfold and just pick. It doesn’t really make any difference.”

And that’s when I went off.

I am really sick and tired of people saying both candidates are equally horrible choices, how much America thoroughly hates both of them to the core, that there’s not a single positive trait in either one of them and wow, if only we had voted for that guy behind the deli counter or the neighbor’s cat, America would be WAY better off.

Fuck you. Fuck the deli guy and fuck your neighbor’s cat.