The numbers are in for the final night of the Democratic National Convention which featured a speech from Kamala Harris and rumors about a special celebrity appearance. Beyonce and Taylor Swift were among the names of performers floated and the media gladly helped spread the rumors that turned out to be false, just like almost everything said during four nights of the DNC. 

The rumors certainly didn't hurt those ratings, but in the end it was false and phony -- a perfect metaphor for the Harris campaign.

Instead of trying to find out who was behind the deception, the media helped spread the rumor.

Ari Fleischer spotted somebody in the media who was not angry that the press got duped (or were willing participants in the deception), but impressed by the Harris campaign and DNC's dishonesty: 

"Good job, guys." That could have been written by any number of people who laughably call themselves "journalists." 

Disgusting, indefensible and not at all surprising. 

The Harris campaign lies to the media and spits on their interview requests, and their response is basically "thank you, may we have another!"