2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumKey Clinton Ally (Brock): 'Black Lives Don't Matter' To Bernie Sanders
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-brock-sanders-black-lives-matter[font face="times new roman"]David Brock, a longtime ally of the Clinton family, told the Associated Press on Thursday that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) latest TV ad showed a disregard for Democratic voters of color.
Brock told the AP that he thought Sanders' new "America" ad, which uses Simon and Garfunkel's song of the same name in lieu of spoken words, was focused on white voters. The ad shows Sanders greeting mostly white supporters on the campaign trail, with the crowds' sizes slowly increasing.
Brock characterized the ad as a "significant slight to the Democratic base."
"From this ad it seems black lives don't matter much to Bernie Sanders," Brock told the AP.[/font]
Ugh, yes, David Brock is still circulating. Clinton needs to unload this hack--connections to people like him is exactly the reason she's struggling, again, to gain her party's nomination despite spending 16 years trying to scare everyone else out of the race.
Don't get me wrong. I like Clinton and would enthusiastically support her in the fall. Politically I'm probably much closer to her than I am to Sanders. I'm not that happy that Sen. Sanders is the only real opposition she has for the nomination. I think Sanders goes for overly simplistic answers to pretty complicated problems in our economy. That said, I'm leaning Bernie's direction, because Clinton's organization is, once again, showing signs of desperation and lashing out with bogus rhetoric, as soon as the going gets rough. Sanders's relatively even keel in these tiffs tells me how he'd manage a crisis. Clinton's connections to people like David Brock only serves to remind me why the Founding Fathers believed in the rotation in office. Hillary Clinton, for all her talents and good sense, has been too close to the center of power for too long.
zazen
(2,978 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)cheapdate
(3,811 posts)MeNMyVolt
(1,095 posts)Not that I'm in any position to "forgive", but Media Matters has been a very positive force the last 8 years.
Bucky
(54,087 posts)He's trying to drag the campaign into the mud. His old white ass is actually trying to play the race card. That only works if black voters were gullible. He's hurting his candidate. He's hurting us.
senz
(11,945 posts)Old habits die hard.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)He called Anita Hill "slutty" and blamed the victim, so Brock is the last person who should be talking about black lives.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)he was right there with Joe Biden making sure it got done.
HIGH CRIME.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)kennetha
(3,666 posts)but the absence of people of color in Sander's ad is pretty glaring. I mean the idea is to show "America" rising up on behalf of Sanders. But it's a pretty white toast vision of America. I understand that that's who shows up at Sander's rallies, but you would have thought they might put him in some places that show some people of color too being moved by his inspirational message.
I know this is probably intended to be aired only in places like Iowa and New Hampshire that are not anything close to microcosms of the country at large, but still.....
Bucky
(54,087 posts)Shame on Sanders's crew for not knowing that. That said, David Brock is an asswipe.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)It's not a national ad.
Also, Clinton's closing ad has the same number of African Americans. I eagerly await your condemnation of her ad.
kennetha
(3,666 posts)Clinton's ad show her speaking to a roomful of school children near the start back when she was first lady. More than half of those kids are black it seems. Plus in the rallies near the end of the ad, there are many black faces.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Something the "there's not enough melanin!!!!" crowd has refused to do.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)At last, she was the only one that didn't have a plan so far as I know.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)It's an improvement but her stance on marijuana is still troubling.
And don't even get me started on the death penalty...
Stellar
(5,644 posts)I appreciate it.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)He must believe us black people are stupid.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Under any other set of circumstances, this is what would we would be labeled.
In darkened rooms with ambiance lighting and out of unfriendly earshot.....stupid or ignorant might slip out.