CBS News reporter Brian Goldsmith asked Mike Huckabee whether or not Mormons are Christians.

Huck’s answer?  He stammered something out that wasn’t really an answer at all.  But the real answer is “Who cares?” Huck’s classification of Mormonism has absolutely no importance with regard to how he’d lead the country, and thus is irrelevant.

Goldsmith’s question wasn’t about informing the public.  It was about trying to get a public figure to say something inflammatory or embarrassing for the sake of sensational headlines.

Which, sadly, is pretty much all the mainstream media is about these days.