I turned on Fox for the first time in my life to watch the townhall debate. I feel violated.

some time - do not miss them.

into how he can't win.

How far they've fallen.

The Guardian and Al Jazeera are much better anyway. BBC isn't half bad either.

support independent media. We try

You might as well talk to the wall.

People must have their telescreens. Every day. multiple new posts on DU about this or that new outrage with the biased coverage. But people send in their checks to the cable/ sat companies and continue to support the corporate plutocracy propaganda machine - and worse, continue to watch the propaganda.

... and they are so stuck in it they can't even perceive the regular world.

And I'm including the Clinton campaign, the DNC establishment along with the M$M and the sophisticated pundit class.

Once this crew finds a narrative with which they become comfortable, it becomes nearly impossible for them to accept a new or different reality when it intrudes itself on their 'conventional wisdom'.

That's why they were convinced that JEB! was going to be the GOP nominee almost to the moment he dropped out.
And it is why they simply cannot comprehend that big money and all of Hillary Clinton's connections and banker pals may not be enough for her to cruise back into the White House.

For the first time in thirty years, I'm not paying much attention to M$M reporting on the presidential election ... it isn't even entertaining because they are so full of themselves and so smug that they know it all.