MSNBC is broken, very very broken

[Attorney in Texas]

40. Obviously, the Trump coverage is grotesque and obsessive but at least on MSNBC they are outraged by

his bullshit.

In the end, the MSM obsession with Trump has had several positive effects:

1. it has been been devastating to Bush and Walker (who were -- and still are -- the front runners for the nomination, but they have been damaged to the point that they may have been knocked back to being on par with Rubio);

2. it has served to highlight the differences between the Republican party and the sane majority -- if a fair immigration policy is important to any undecided voters, the MSM obsession has been a constant drumbeat to convince those voters they have no place in the Republican party -- if gender equality is an important issue for any voters on the fence, the MSM obsession has pointed out that the Republican party invites and welcomes misogyny -- if any undecided voter is have any interest in an adult discussion of policy, then the MSM obsession has confirmed that there is no place for that dialogue in the Republican party;

3. it has reinforced the point that the Republican field is a bunch of clowns with no leaders and no strong candidate, and a sizable minority of the nutjobs who will be selecting their nominee actually prefer the clowns fest.

in the end, I'd much rather listen to a Trump-a-thon than the bullshit phony tension (which does not exist between the Sanders campaign and Black Lives Matter (in truth, Sanders has a perfect record on race and he has given Black Lives Matter more access than any other campaign), the manufactured Clinton email controversy (Bush and several other Republican candidates also used a private email server), and the false will-he-or-won't-he nonsense about Biden (he's not running and there is not need for an "alternative to Clinton" because Sanders and O'Malley already serve as perfect alternative to Clinton who's not my first choice but whose candidacy and campaign are doing a damned sight better than Bush's or Walker's or Christie's or Paul's etc.).