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C'mon. Pretty generic question. I saw it live. Trump has said hedge fund managers should pay higher taxes and what candidate in their right mind wouldn't say that everybody who needs health care should be able to get it? Does Cruz or some other candidate really support people who need health care not getting it?

"That candidate is considered a political outsider by all of the pundits," she said.

True of Trump. Is there a problem with this?

"He's tapping into the anger of voters, delivers a populist message.

I concur. Still no problem.

"He believes everyone in the country should have healthcare

Does your candidate believe some Americans should NOT have health care? If not, who?

[and] he advocates for hedge fund managers to pay higher taxes," Brzezinski added.

Ok. This one, I'm stupid on. I don't know what situation hedge fund managers are in now and whether they are or aren't already being treated like anybody else with the current tax code. So, you get me on this one if it is some sort of bad, socialist, Bernie Sanders-like thing.

"He is drawing thousands of people at his rallies and bringing in a lot of new voters into the political process. Who am I describing?"

Well heck I guess he MUST be a socialist because he is drawing thousands to his rallies.

Maybe had Mika added "He supports taxing upper-income Americans to rates of 85% and beyond, Trump could have recognized a difference. Maybe had Mika mentioned "He wants everybody to have a FREE public college education", Trump could have recognized the difference.

So unless Trump's stance on hedge fund managers is some big pinko-commie socialist liberal idea, I see absolutely NOTHING you can criticize him for here. If hedge fund manager taxation is a big socialist idea, then I concede the hit. Otherwise this is a BS setup put out there to make Trump look bad and get all of those who disagree with him to push it viral. Try again.

Excellent post. Everyone knows the media's "gotcha" game. :)

Camille Paglia:

And let me take this opportunity to say that of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest.

As a guest on NBC's "Today" show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric's small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network.

Mika doesn't make anywhere NEAR Couric's $7500-an-hour going rate.

She's not smart enough.

Like a trained parrot, Mika can read her prepared talking points back fairly well. The CTE from the repeated poundings on her dorm room bed headboard hasn't incapacitated her TOO much - at least not yet...