Yesterday, in a meeting about immigration Donald Trump made an obviously racist remark about immigrants from places like Haiti and El Salvador as well as African nations. "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" This is a shocking statement from the president... if you've paid absolutely no attention to politics in the two-plus years since that Donald Trump came down that escalator and turned the political world into his own (very offensive) reality show. This is why I find it pretty disingenuous when we all get excited about things like CNN's reaction to Trump's comments yesterday. Is it good that Don Lemon and company pulled no punches about the president yesterday?

Absolutely. It's certainly better than the alternative. But it shouldn't be a cause for celebration when our news says the most obvious truth that there is. Is that really how low the bar has gotten for an industry whose guiding principle is to inform the public? I mean, it is, but it shouldn't be. We should expect more.

But you know what is newsworthy? The former head of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele calling Donald Trump a racist.

I mean, it's still just stating the obvious, and still far too little too late. But the Republican party is definitely an entity where the bar is decidedly this low and we would be silly to expect anything more from them. So... Good for Michael Steele, I guess.