Breaking: this wasn’t just the highest-rated GOP primary debate, ever. This was off the charts. Here’s my story: http://t.co/aK4FTx4BsR

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 7, 2015

Numbers off the charts. How many were tuning in hoping to watch a train wreck? How many were just curious?

None of that matters to Fox, which got exactly what they hoped - big numbers. Do they care who’s saying what or whether anything is actual factual? They got the media boost they wished for.

That’s all that mattered to Fox last night.