2016 Postmortem

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts) Thu Mar 10, 2016, 07:35 PM Mar 2016

NPR on politics a few minutes ago; Hillary in Tampa

On All Things Considered as I was out in the car. First, a preview of tonight's Republican debate. Then, a short piece on Hillary campaigning today in Tampa in front of a crowd of 1200 (the Tampa paper says the crowd was "about 600"; the seating capacity for the venue is 600 theater style or 1114 standing room). They played a clip of her talking about Florida's governor Rick Scott telling environmental regulators not to use the term "climate change" and turning down federal money for high speed rail between Tampa and Orlando. They said despite having a big lead in the Florida polls against Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, Hillary was campaigning in Florida.

There was no mention by NPR that Bernie is doing 3 events today in Florida to much larger crowds.

The Tampa paper online said Hillary spoke for 26 minutes.

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NPR on politics a few minutes ago; Hillary in Tampa (Original Post) BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 OP

Sanders is in Tampa now. Yuuuge crowd at State Fairgrounds. HooptieWagon Mar 2016 #1

Just another example of why NPR sucks. Hoppy Mar 2016 #2

This is not your Dad's NPR (or the one I grew up with for that matter). They have been infiltrated. silvershadow Mar 2016 #3

Corporate sponsors BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #4

It's called beltanefauve Mar 2016 #9

Turned the radio to Boston NPR during my PT sesh this morning (as the other option is Top 40)... cleopotrick Mar 2016 #5

Shouldn't have panned Top 40...truth be told, I'm both a belieber AND a directioner nt cleopotrick Mar 2016 #6

I Just Came From Bernie's Rally in Kissimmee, Florida gordyfl Mar 2016 #7

Huge Tampa crowd. HooptieWagon Mar 2016 #8

Bernie Spoke for At Least an Hour gordyfl Mar 2016 #10

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)

1. Sanders is in Tampa now. Yuuuge crowd at State Fairgrounds.

Reply to BernieforPres2016 (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 07:46 PM

Mar 2016

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)

2. Just another example of why NPR sucks.

Reply to BernieforPres2016 (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:08 PM

Mar 2016

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)

3. This is not your Dad's NPR (or the one I grew up with for that matter). They have been infiltrated.

Reply to Hoppy (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:15 PM

Mar 2016

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)

4. Corporate sponsors

Reply to silvershadow (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:22 PM

Mar 2016

Support for NPR comes from........

beltanefauve

(1,784 posts)

9. It's called

Reply to Hoppy (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 09:22 PM

Mar 2016

All Things Conservative in my household.

cleopotrick

(79 posts)

5. Turned the radio to Boston NPR during my PT sesh this morning (as the other option is Top 40)...

Reply to BernieforPres2016 (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:35 PM

Mar 2016

...over the course of 40 minutes (8:05 - 8:45) Bernie was mentioned twice, solely in the capacity that he is Hillary's competitor. On the other hand, three different clips of Hillary speeches were played and one Hillary surrogate joined the broadcast to gush about what an eminently qualified candidate HRC is. Surrogate also noted that while D-men play R-men in softball, women are natural consensus builders because R+D-women join together on a softball team to play the press corps. Thus, Hillary for President. Thankfully, NPR did not forget to recycle the "Democratic turnout is low" meme! I was nervous there for a second… Bob Seay and Steve Inskeep making sure the 617 gets the straight poop from their local public media!

cleopotrick

(79 posts)

6. Shouldn't have panned Top 40...truth be told, I'm both a belieber AND a directioner nt

Reply to cleopotrick (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:37 PM

Mar 2016

gordyfl

(598 posts)

7. I Just Came From Bernie's Rally in Kissimmee, Florida

Reply to BernieforPres2016 (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:49 PM

Mar 2016

Here's a video of the thousands exiting the event...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJd1JmFWU6QWjZLOXNsbmZNbkk/view?ts=56e213e1

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)

8. Huge Tampa crowd.

Reply to BernieforPres2016 (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 09:10 PM

Mar 2016

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153514651111245&id=584386244&set=gm.1559930711002001&source=48

Hillary had a crowd of 600 a few hours earlier.

gordyfl

(598 posts)

10. Bernie Spoke for At Least an Hour

Reply to BernieforPres2016 (Original post)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 09:46 PM

Mar 2016

I arrived at the Silver Spurs Arena about an hour and a half before Bernie arrived. I could get no where near the stage. Found a spot in the corner outside the main crowd. Here's Bernie. Sorry for the poor video...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJd1JmFWU6QRmFHeWVTejdvaDg/view?ts=56e21d61

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