'Beltway media is eating it up'

Salon's Joan Walsh (rightly) believes Donald Trump is a total farce. "Still, the Beltway media is eating it up," she writes. "Trumpmania is making the recent swoon over the supposedly "serious" Paul Ryan seem sober. Just this morning, I watched a "Morning Joe" panel work itself up over the thrill a Trump candidacy would bring, with Donnie Deutsch admitting "we won't let him go away" and Mark Halperin predicting Trump might ultimately run by popular demand." What a surprise.