I think this should be seen for what it is, a bait and switch...Donald Trump loves attention, the Republicans entering or thinking of entering the Presidential race need a media buffer to take enough attention to both 'out-noise' the din of any positive and/or useful information from the White House, and so the candidates have breathing room to get their feet under them and organized before taking any media heat for missteps, and the Press needs headline attention grabbers..there's the press sheep going over the cliff to follow the story right now..Trump will eventually drop out, some new candidate will be debuted and Trump will endorse him.

Do something...go to Change.org and sign the "Tell NBC to Dump Donald Trump". Please spread the word and sign it. This man must be made to realize he cannot attempt to destroy someone else so he could make money. Please sign it. Thank you.

How does one change racist White-supremist's beliefs? Remember the early Tea Party poster images showing President Obama in what obviously was a racist viewpoint? These grass-roots voting citizens who clustered together (after the election was over) with anyone else that shared their hate culture have not only survived mainstream criticism, but have gone on to elect representatives into our beloved Government---we all did not foresee the racist hate running that deep did we. This group is liken to White-supremists, so how does one change their racist beliefs? You can not. That is why Donald Trump is getting so much attention and you know it as well as many other Americans, especially the Tea Party. The Republican Party will capitalize for re-election and political survival.

How does one fight evil? I have asked people I meet from around the world---whom usually shrug an 'I don't know'---only to learn most people does not believe evil exist at all, and refers the word in religious context. Racist hate is an evil that corrodes our world leading progressive society (not necessarily Democratic or Republican), but an evil---hate---that is the most powerful of any of the other deadly sins; powerful enough to drive fellow mankind to kill without remorse (Arizona); powerful enough to bring down our society; and powerful enough to elect some cowboy into office where he surely will push the nuclear button that must be fought---and won.

So, how does one fight evil? How do you find the courage to openly discuss racial hate on national television programing; when does the race issue get discussed and resolved; when will the great hate battle take place; and do you folks at MSNBC have what it takes to fight evil? The only way to fight evil is to fight; there is no other option---fight.

See I have a Palin Panty Sniffer responding.

G. you are conveniently forgetting that the party that has been caught the most with their pants down is the republican party. larry "i am not gay, i have never been gay" craig was caught soliciting sex with a male in a twin cities airport bathroom. and i am sure you remember foley who was caught soliciting sex from teenage pages. david vitter had a diaper fettish with the prostitutes he frequented. recently chris lee was caught trying to solicit sex on craigs list. and everyone knows about the mistress that george h.w. bush kept. democrats and republicans do it, but republicans come off as being morally upright, and they went after president clinton for having an affair, newt heading the charge-when he was having an affair, trying to bring the president down for something he was doing himself. democrats will vote for a gay person running for office, but the republicans won't. larry craig-gay. foley-gay. there are others. mitch mcConnell? i'm just sayin'.

also, rachel maddow can work openly as a gay woman on MSNBC. shepard smith has to keep his sexuality a secret.

Susette:Bush had a mistress? New to me. You forgot to mention ,Spitzer,Edwards,and the granddaddy of them all Ted and John Kennedy Someone lost there life because of Ted .

dearest john,

apparently i have to explain this to you. everybody knows that rachel maddow is gay because she SAYS it on air, she admits it to everybody, whether or not it is "obvious" is not the point.

so, john edwards, i have never noticed that rachel has a lisp or spits, but you are saying that having a lisp and spitting is a "defect" that all gays and lesbians share? kind of like gay or lesbian radar? if you have a lisp and spit you must be gay?

shepard smith doesn't have a lisp, neither does foley, or larry "wide stance" craig, or charlie crist. i haven't noticed any spitting from these gay men either.

oh, i must have misunderstood your post, maybe this only applies to lesbians.

jeff, i am not excusing any democratic politician for having an affair. i have read many books written about the kennedy's, and am well aware of their philandering ways. i am not excusing john edwards, bill clinton, elliot spitzer, ted, jack or bobby kennedy, and i am sure there are more democratic politicians, and yes democratic people in general who have indiscriminate sex. clearly my point to another poster is this: THEY "ALL" DO IT! "G" appears to be saying that monica is a "two-ton", and that rachel has a "lisp" and "spits", throwing insults at women, and at people in general whom he feels are flawed, and from what i have read, all of them democratic people. republicans clearly do not take the high road, as they like to say they do, when it comes to sex. we have seen this over and over again in the past few years-one republican politician after another getting caught in affairs, or persuing gay sex, which they condemn openly. it makes me sick that politicians who are living a lie will have sex with a gay man, but refuse to speak out for the homosexual population in general, helping to end discrimination because the republican politician knows that he would surely not be re-elected, and he doesn't want to risk feeling embarassed or ashamed, or "less-than".

to this day on fox news or anywhere else, no one says anything about jennifer fitzgerald, h.w.bush's mistress, but they always talk about clinton and lewinski. bush #1 had a long-standing affair with jennifer, beginning when bush was our delegate to red china. she went with the then vice president to geneva in 1984 during the arms talks, where they stayed together in a gov't guest house. this is all common knowledge, and a very good example of how the press kept his long-standing affair quiet, since the democrats didn't try to bring him down, the way the republicans did to clinton.

jeff-i know all about chappaquiddick and the death of mary jo kopechne. it became a national scandal, and it should have. from everything i have heard and read about the incident, to make a long story short, is that ted and mary jo left the party for personal reasons (to have sex?), of course that was not admitted to in ted's testimony at the inquest into kopechne's death. i don't know if teddy was drinking or if he had his mind on other things, but they happened to run into a police officer who thought they were lost when ted's car parked first onto a private Cemetery road. the police officer started walking toward them to help them because he thought they were lost. probably trying to avoid the embarrassment of being caught with a woman who wasn't his wife, teddy sped off and made a wrong turn on Dyke Road, eventually driving his car into the water. he was able to get out the submerged car, but mary jo was not. his explanation for what happened was questionable at best, but as we know powerful people get off with a slap on the wrist, and he IS a kennedy.

and how many people lost their life because bush sent our troops into iraq?