When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

Brooke Gladstone is away this week.

I'm Bob Garfield, and this is, well, you know.

They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us.

They're bringing drugs.

They're bringing crime.

They're rapists.

And some, I assume, are good people.

After Donald Trump finished sewing up the paranoid racist vote recently, this happened.

Trump has been surging in the Republican polls, up to second place in the first primary state

of New Hampshire.

That new national CNN poll also has Donald Trump polling in second place behind Jab Bush.

But look at Donald Trump here at 12 percent. He is bleeding off a tremendous amount of support from the field.

That's pretty impressive, huh? Yeah, it's not fair to call Donald Trump a joke candidate anymore.

No, it's fair. From bertha ravings to comparing Obamacare to Nazism to declarations of Native Mexican

criminality, Trump is absolutely a joke, along the lines of

the kid in geometry class making fart sounds in his armpit. What's not a joke is how the press

reported those poll numbers, and most others. Republican races, Democratic races, general elections,

it's not funny because journalistic malpractice, especially serial malpractice, is no laughing matter.

The CNN poll shows Jeb Bush in the lead, followed by Donald Trump, followed by Huckabee, Ben Carson, Paul.

It's hard to even know where to begin, but let's start at the most basic.

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