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āThe ad focuses on Sanders as the āhonestā candidate without mentioning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.ā
Where in the hell did that brilliant observation come from? Spoiling for a scrap that isnāt there? Did you expect otherwise? WTF?
What is it about Sanders that the author doesnāt understand? Everything, evidently.
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You said it. Does every frigginā ad have to be an attack ad?
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TPM canāt mention Bernie without a plug for Hillary; there are those at TPM scared to death that Bernie might make Hillary work for that nomination.
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Bernie has managed to go his whole political career without having negative ads or attacking anyone. That may change in the near future, but heās doing his best to keep this civilā¦thing is, the media wants there to be conflict. They want there to be a scorched earth war between candidates. It gets clicks and sells papers. This is why they want Clinton to be the nominee because they know people will drink up the mud thatāll be slung.
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It isnāt just TPMā¦
TPM has turned the cornerā¦ They are so successful that they consider themselves part of the MSM.
Thusly, they now report conventional wisdom, in the same vapid, horse race terms that sully the name of journalism.
I feel bad for Prime members who actually pay for this crap.
I only come here to comment with all of you.
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Another reason for them to not objectively report on Trump or Bushā¦ Either of these vs. HRC, is a goldmine for them.
The old expression about the media being the referees needs to go away. They are trying to be choreographersā¦
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The Ready for Hillary girls must be hyperventilating, looking for a brown paper bag.
Didnāt Bernie get the memo?
Waiting for that cow McCaskill to take another cheap shot at the āextremeā candidate Sanders. Maybe sheāll call him a āStalinistā this time.
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I often wonder why the media is so lazy. Facts just donāt seem to matter.
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Very true, and it is a very predictable narrative too. They wanted Clinton versus Bush desperately due to the laziness of how that writes itself, but as someone pointed out yesterday on MSNBC, Jeb! hasnāt run for office in 13 years and the GOP has shifted heavily away from the part of the Base that would vote for him. But with those two they could write out a very standard narrative about the Bushes going after the Clintons for whateverā¦the chaos on the GOP side means that they canāt control the narrative and thatās making life very sad for them in some ways because not having a clear front runner means they canāt really be lazy and actually have to speculateā¦
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Money is more important than facts for the people at the top controlling the media outlets. It is as simple as that. The more money people like Rupert Murdoch can make the less facts actually matter.
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When the facts on the ground become to unbearable for the public, no amount of money can save Mr. Murdochās āāmedia outletāā.
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A-yepā¦but the problem is that people like Murdoch donāt care about whatās going to happen in five or ten years so long as they rake in the money today.
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Mineās from Bloomingdaleās
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Agreed. It is true, itās all about the people that post here. Marshall might as well admit it and just go ahead and introduce a Sports tab here at TPM. Enough of the pretense. Works for me.
Perfect! Yes indeed, the FUN DAYS of Bill Clintonās economy! I miss them so.
Sports tab? Film tab first! As to Bloomieās it was my first employer. Iād leave most of my salary behind before Iād leave for the day.
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A lot the media buzz, theme and fatalistic attitudes about Sanders are his elect-ability etc. So was the theme about a black man few years back called Barrack Hussein Obama.
Bernie usually refers to himself as a Democratic Socialist.
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He is looking to thread the needle and weave a tapestry that combines the best of capitalism and socialism. It Includes respect and care for our shared resources, incorporating all of us as human resources with worth to ourselves and others, in order to help avoid the Tragedy of the Commons that the Republicans and corporatists are so dead set on realizing.
He is doing an outstanding job of finding the pathway through the GOP swamp of ignorant cemented ideologies and human greed.
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Already enough sports (horse racing)
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Waaahhhhh!!!
In what universe is this story a āplugā for Hillary? It mentions her and contrasts her ads (not necessarily favorably) because, as it happens, sheās the frontrunner who Sanders is currently running against.
The constant WATB defensiveness and paranoia from his devotees is doing more to drag down peopleās perception of Bernie as a potential winner than anything in the media, mainstream or otherwise. You guys canāt see a story about him and just cheer or say āyay!ā or even āHillary is a corrupt corporatist sell-out warmonger who Bernie will easily beat!ā No, every single time all you guys ever seem to see is another exshample of teh big media conshpirishy againsht Bernie! through a confirmation bias filter that reeks of defeatism and failure.
And hereās the thing: the coverage of his candidacy has been remarkably positive on balance. Heās the left most guy in high elected office in America and yet heās treated, not as a fringe figure, but, rather as a guy whose message is resonating.
I consider the comparisons to Trump shallow and invidious, but theyāre the product of the general shallow Blitzer-like brainlessness that afflicts our whole MSM, not some grand plot to āgetā Bernie.
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