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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI've been traveling, seeing old friends.
Most people I'm seeing after many years, and seemingly most new acquaintances, support Bernie Sanders and are excited about his message.
In my hotel room, I've watched some TV for the first time in months. Every candidate EXCEPT Bernie is talked about.
I've never seen such a disconnect between media and people.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Republican candidates that in other countries would be lucky to get a mention.
Even when they do cover Bernie, they make it about Hillary and portray him oddly.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)The RW media has been villifying Hillary & Bill & their daughter for 25 years.
It began when Bill Clinton ripped GHW Bush's second term from him.
RW Media, gerrymandering, voter suppression & fraud went into overdrive after that, along with dragging out Palin to fire up the anti-Black Man idiots with guns.
The RW & the Bush crime family became heavily invested in the war on American voters from that day forward.
Welcome to the world that the Clintons, Gore, Obama and any other Dem candidate has endured from the single message driven RW Media.
Hillary, Bernie, Warren..they are all strong candidates and are all Dems fighting to restore what the RW has successfully chipped away at.
The Rw media machine will follow their orders of pre-scripted messages to keep the public from believing the truth.
That's what they are doing to Sanders.
They play a game & its intended to turn voters away from ANY Dem with a powerful message that threatens the world of RW policy dominance.
They have done it at local, county, State & Federal levels, all the way to the Supreme Court.
Dem candidates stay in the fight by finding ways outside the media.
In the end, any Dem candidates left standing are worthy of our vote. They have well earned it through the battlefield they had to conquer to get to that final spot. They have survived, on behalf of their love of country & citizens, and have the scars to proove it.
The more threatening the Dem candidate becomes, the more they suffer the massive machine that the Right Wing has grown to be today.
You make it your mission to find a way around the RW manipulation, and keep fighting on.
If not, then Democracy surely disappears after 2016.
What's the fight worth?
Cleita
(75,480 posts)surprising considering her speech yesterday that she would be a topic. I'm not dissing her but the press. Soon they will go back to ragging on Benghazi and the Foundation when speaking of her. The RW clown car will get way too much positive press because that's what they do.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Fox news aired a special on Hillary & the Email scandal they helped create.
Bengazhi too.
I caught it as I flipped channels to see if any other MSM had been invited other than CSPAN. (none that I noticed), apparently they had to watch CSPAN like the rest of us.
But there was Fox dragging up Email scandal interviews, and quick clips that showed Clinton as bad a light as could be found.
Damage control. Playing one Dem against the other & silencing the actual message of their vision for this country.
From the MSM, to talk radio, internet forums, and from the pulpits of churches, the RW has found a way to master manipulate the free thinking of Americans.
It will be a battle like no other to reverse the damage done.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Exactly why Hillary Clinton has ignored the RW media this time around.
She knows who they are & what their purpose is.
Good luck to Sanders & any Dem candidate getting positive recognition via the media.
They tell us what they want us to know.
That's pretty much it.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)debates (assuming they are not rigged) will help and of course social media. And there is always Ed Schultz.
I also think that the sheeple are different this time around. They are waking up.
Cirque du So-What
(25,939 posts)I'd tell you the same things that you've been hearing so far. All of my friends and acquaintances - the ones who possess even a nanogram of political awareness - are sick of having a corporatist agenda shoved down our throats and are ready for a voice in the wilderness like that of Bernie Sanders to provide some pushback against it.
merrily
(45,251 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Ron Green
(9,822 posts)for any sort of political news that isn't Hillary-vs-the Clown Car. Now it's Donna Brazile, for heaven's sake, with some other shills on "State of the Union." Wait...they've used a clip of Bernie, but only to talk about Hillary! These "journalists" WILL NOT TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES, ONLY THE RACE!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)However, CBS and the other network stations of ABC and NBC are local feeds and not all affiliates carry all the shows offered by the network. I don't know where you are but that could be the problem.