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MrWendel

(1,881 posts)
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 03:31 PM Apr 2016

Watch CNN Reporter Feed Bernie Sanders Attack Lines Against Hillary

http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-cnn-reporter-feed-bernie-sanders-attack-lines-against-hillary/

by Tommy Christopher



One of the standout moments at Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate was when independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was unable to name a single decision that Hillary Clinton has made that was influenced by campaign contributions. The exchange cut against the Sanders campaign’s central argument against Hillary, that she can’t be trusted to take on corporate interests because she takes large campaign contributions.

In a most unusual move, right after Thursday night’s debate, CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny literally fed Bernie Sanders an attack line to use against Hillary in case the subject ever comes up again:

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Watch CNN Reporter Feed Bernie Sanders Attack Lines Against Hillary (Original Post) MrWendel Apr 2016 OP
but the sanders crowd keeps saying he is being totally blacked out of MSM in a huge anti bernie msongs Apr 2016 #1
Obviously the MSM is trying to make this race more competitive, because it is great for ratings... anotherproletariat Apr 2016 #6
Well, it won't come up in a debate again, because this was the last one. IamMab Apr 2016 #2
I wondered about that. yallerdawg Apr 2016 #3
Pandering... fleabiscuit Apr 2016 #4
The guy learned at the feet of Jonathan Karl MattP Apr 2016 #5

msongs

(67,455 posts)
1. but the sanders crowd keeps saying he is being totally blacked out of MSM in a huge anti bernie
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 03:32 PM
Apr 2016

conspiracy

 

anotherproletariat

(1,446 posts)
6. Obviously the MSM is trying to make this race more competitive, because it is great for ratings...
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 04:26 PM
Apr 2016

I honestly think that the entire reason Sanders has succeeded to the extent he has is because of unwarranted media coverage. Those sound bites of his play well in a quick tv cut.

 

IamMab

(1,359 posts)
2. Well, it won't come up in a debate again, because this was the last one.
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 03:34 PM
Apr 2016

His campaign won't get away with whining about another debate again, and Clinton won't have to placate him after winning NY on Tuesday. So maybe he can add it to the stump speech (I doubt it, that would require him learning something new) or use it in a mailer somehow.

The 19th can't get here fast enough.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
3. I wondered about that.
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 03:41 PM
Apr 2016

From Mr. Wendel's link - Hillary puts it to rest:

CLINTON: When I got to the Senate in 2001, one of the first big votes there was on a version of the bankruptcy bill and I was deluged by women’s groups and children’s advocates groups to do everything I could to make sure that child support and women’s precarious financial situation in case of divorce or not being able to get the kind of funding they needed from a partner or a spouse in bankruptcy would not be endangered. And it was. The current — that bill was making it a very low priority. So I did go to work on behalf of all these women’s groups and children’s groups because they needed a champion. And I got that bill changed. And in return, it had nothing to do with any money whatsoever — and I resent deeply any effort by the Sanders campaign to so imply. It had to do with trying to get a deal…

STEPHANOPOULOS: But that’s not what…

CLINTON: — that would protect women. But now let me finish, George, because this has been bandied about and I just want to set the record straight. And so then three years later, part of the — part of what Senator — Senator Warren said, you played. You didn’t play the whole thing, because we’ve been allies. I faced a tough decision and I stood up for women and children. I went to the Senate floor, said that was exactly what I was doing. Then the bill did not pass. It never became law. And then when the next bill came up, 2005, women’s issues were taken care of because I had made that a point back in 2001. And so then I was against that bill. I didn’t get a chance to actually vote against it because Bill was in the hospital having a heart procedure. But I put a statement out. I was against it. So I’m happy to set this record straight. And I really want to, once again, call out the Sanders campaign, which claims they like to run a positive campaign. But they have been quite artful in raising questions and trying to cast doubts about my record.

And I really am not going to sit and take it anymore —

STEPHANOPOULOS: But Senator —

CLINTON: I have a public record. I have never, ever been influenced in a view or a vote by anyone who has given me any kind of money. So I’m just going to keep setting the record straight.

fleabiscuit

(4,542 posts)
4. Pandering...
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 03:58 PM
Apr 2016

Sanders panders to low information voters who don't have enough attention span to listen to reason and would rather live in their non sequitur ideological bubble.

MattP

(3,304 posts)
5. The guy learned at the feet of Jonathan Karl
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 04:24 PM
Apr 2016

He's from the fox like main stream reporting that in many ways is worse

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