The idea that Donald Trump is winning because the press can’t stay away from him is absurd.
Granted, he’s the most compelling candidate in the race.
But are the other candidates such losers (for lack of a better Trump word) that they think the media is to blame for Trump’s ascendancy to the top of every poll?
“He’s getting ten times the coverage,” complained Mike Huckabee in a clip on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program Monday.
Co-host Joe Scarborough ripped apart the idea that Trump is merely some manifestation of unfair media saturation.
“Yeah, cuz he’s having rock shows and he’s ahead of everyone by like 30 points,” he said of Trump Monday morning at the crack of dawn. “So are we supposed to be covering Rand Paul at like 2.6 percent? Or Marco Rubio, he’s so great because he delivers a student council speech?”
Oh, ouch.
Over the weekend, Trump doled out his routine compliments and insults for members of the Fourth Estate.
In the positive category: WaPo and Fox News.
And in the negative: Politico.
