The media is anything but stupid. They heard what they wanted to hear and ran with it. The minor aspect of verifying the veracity of any of his stories never entered their mind.
Yep. They gave this scumbag a platform to spew his lies and pyschobabble. A man who got kicked out of Harvard for cheating, committed negligent homicide, got beaten by Carter in the Rat primaries, and gathered up his nephews for some drinking in which one of them possibly committed rape.
And the networks wonder why people are not watching their DNC press releases.