From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is away this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And this, you've heard many people say this week, was a huge mistake.

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump supporters

into what I call the basket of deplorables. Hillary Clinton speaking last weekend at a fundraiser in

New York City. The racist, sexes, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that.

And he has lifted them up. The other basket of Trump supporters, she said, are the economically

disenfranchised, frustrated with government and lack of opportunity. But never mind that, this is a horse race,

and by running down tens of millions of Americans, the frontrunner stumbled. Sure, the number two

horse has built his entire campaign on disparagement, but look, the robot in pearls was caught generalizing. So in rushed

the media handicappers to lecture on Clinton's in politic politics and to calculate the damage.

So how bad is this going to be for Hillary Clinton? Let's talk to our panel. It was memorable,

therefore it will be memorable as a gaffe. It was memorable, therefore it will be

memorable as a gaffe. It was a mistake. And Canada's at some point have to learn that they should not

talk up this way. And I guess it was the NCHI shouldn't have said it more than anything that I objected to.

Tana Hasey Coates is national correspondent for the Atlantic. This week, irked by the pundits lecturing over a rare moment of absolute candor,

he took it upon himself to fact-check Clinton's harsh assertion. You have a press corps that, you know,

for much of this campaign, has really dogged Hillary Clinton. Sometimes, you know, a failure and

incorrectly for being secretive and for not being open and, you know, being a closed candidate.

I mean, we just went through this whole thing about how Hillary Clinton doesn't hold any press comes.

And the minute, you know, the press gets something that seemed to be an honest expression.

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