As our colleague Tim Miller commented, in defending the decision of NABJ to invite Trump: “People should see this! A grumpy, cruel, hard-of-hearing, race-baiting a—hole.”

Pete Buttigieg was on a recent Jon Stewart and made the observation: "What is the point of having a conversation with someone with whom you agree?" Clearly, he was not talking about chit-chat over the back fence, but this exactly why it was important for the NABJ to do it. It was not an endorsement, but a chance for him to strut his nonsense before an audience that he claimed to be courting. If that is his idea of courting, no wonder he's been divorced three times and has to resort to paying for it or taking it outright.