If it’s a “mistake” to interview a leading presidential candidate in front of a live audience, then the answer, Jon, is not that there are mistakes to be corrected. It’s that you are an anti-American fascist with no hope for saving. And because of people like you and Wemple, the media can’t be trusted for one second to accurately and honestly relay any information about the campaign.

That’s why live events are now considered “mistakes” by the likes of Jon and Wemple — because they don’t get to be the ones to tell you what happened, as colored by their own opinions and preferences. They don’t get to say that “Trump lied all night” until after the fact when voters have already been given a chance to make up their own minds.

In that sense, the “mistake,” by extension, is leaving anything up to voters at all.

[CNN provided Trump the same forum that they have provided other GOP candidates. I think that it might have been tactically better for CNN, in regard to their viewers and their own staff, to start the forums with another candidate, perhaps Nikki Haley. Nevertheless, there’s no “mistake” in offering a live interview to a leading presidential candidate, unless as a news organization you’ve decided to stay out of politics. — Ed]