Quite the opposite. Trump's "child molester" speech was at the top of the news cycle for less than 24 hours. The next day, Friday, was the Paris terrorist attack, and Trump's rant thus faded from view, fortunately for him.
you are right....some people see a hot thread on FR and assume the masses of the entire planet are just as involved with that thread as we are.
Paris made the Trump comments go quietly in the night. This is lucky for Trump. Those comments would NOT have sold on the open market. It would have helped Carson, which is not a good thing.