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They need to start this rally already...giving MSNBC time to bash (Original Post) tallahasseedem Jul 2016 OP
MSNBC is worthless. What happened to them? AgadorSparticus Jul 2016 #1
Comcast Funtatlaguy Jul 2016 #16
Joy Reid also. DURHAM D Jul 2016 #2
I know... tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #5
Wait, I am having a hard time keeping up..so MSNBC is now bad? what should we watch? insta8er Jul 2016 #3
I keep hoping they'll go back to their roots... tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #8
C-span will show it without narration. femmocrat Jul 2016 #12
I think you have to watch what you watch with perspective. The media loves a horserace and "scandal" nolabear Jul 2016 #14
Andrea lives for this kind of stuff Peigan68 Jul 2016 #4
Now would be a good time for Trump PatSeg Jul 2016 #6
He is! tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #7
Bernie needs to nip Trump's use of him to snipe at the DNC and Hillary in the bud. nolabear Jul 2016 #15
Bless his very little heart PatSeg Jul 2016 #22
No. I say get all this out there. Let the news cycle pass. timlot Jul 2016 #9
Good point! tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #10
No, kidding. I'm a behind on the screen, but Andrea's 100% on bashes Hortensis Jul 2016 #11
She has been against Hillary for years! tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #13
Oh, yes. I finally turned her, and others, off virtually permanently Hortensis Jul 2016 #17
You can count on Andrea to start the Hillary-bashing as soon as she gets on tv. sarae Jul 2016 #18
Don't know, but it's a group behavior. One writer on Hortensis Jul 2016 #19
Also very disappointing madamesilverspurs Jul 2016 #20
I've seen him do that a lot, especially when he's talking to women, sarae Jul 2016 #21
Even during the primaries duncang Jul 2016 #23

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
12. C-span will show it without narration.
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:00 PM
Jul 2016

They have been showing the Clinton-Kaine rally on 7/14 while we are waiting for today's big event.

nolabear

(41,986 posts)
14. I think you have to watch what you watch with perspective. The media loves a horserace and "scandal"
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:02 PM
Jul 2016

even if hey have to create it. Maybe especially if they create it. Then they can be relevant and exciting, no matter if that excitement comes from creation of anxiety in the moment and ignores the later explanations and deeper understanding of what's going on.

And sadly we are shaped by those anxieties. And sadly The Donald is a master at manipulating them. I imagine the DNC, who does engage in manipulations, as does every politician and political campaign since democracy superseded royal rule, at least uses its collective prefrontal cortex to actually think and not just feel about what it says and does.

PatSeg

(47,496 posts)
6. Now would be a good time for Trump
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 12:55 PM
Jul 2016

to do or say something totally outrageous. The media takes too much pleasure in going after Dems and tend to let republican's behavior slide.

nolabear

(41,986 posts)
15. Bernie needs to nip Trump's use of him to snipe at the DNC and Hillary in the bud.
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:04 PM
Jul 2016

You can see the joint effort to take her down by disenfranchising his followers, no matter what they do to accommodate them.

 

timlot

(456 posts)
9. No. I say get all this out there. Let the news cycle pass.
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 12:58 PM
Jul 2016

No need to avoid the story because the repub want let them.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. No, kidding. I'm a behind on the screen, but Andrea's 100% on bashes
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 12:59 PM
Jul 2016

so far. Andrea thinks mere "fear and loathing" of Donald Trump "probably" won't be enough to "motivate" Sanders supporters. Supreme Court neither. Gee, I thought we started with 75-80% keeping Hillary as their backup from the very beginning, and somehow we slid downhill and hit bottom since then?

How often do MSM viewers have to be shocked by wildly different outcomes on election day than they were lead to expect before they finally turn these cynical deceivers off?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
17. Oh, yes. I finally turned her, and others, off virtually permanently
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:07 PM
Jul 2016

the day after the NH primary in 2008. The MSNBC crew went to NH to dance around Hillary's death bed, laughing and chatting while they awaited the results as if they were starting their third round of drinks. I tuned in the next day to see Mitchell's mien after months of trashing Hillary and predicting finally finishing her off. It was subdued. I like to think depressed.

I only occasionally turn them on to see what and how many lies they're pushing on the public, like the day Director Comey testified.

sarae

(3,284 posts)
18. You can count on Andrea to start the Hillary-bashing as soon as she gets on tv.
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:15 PM
Jul 2016

It's gotten to the point where I have to switch channels when I see her face. The woman seems consumed by an obsession to destroy Hillary. What happened to make her so hyper-focused on this?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
19. Don't know, but it's a group behavior. One writer on
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:18 PM
Jul 2016

it speculated that at some point their failure to take her down became personal for some of them.

madamesilverspurs

(15,805 posts)
20. Also very disappointing
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:21 PM
Jul 2016

to witness Ben Jealous' behavior. Not saying he doesn't have legit complaints, but he was acting like the stereotypical misogynist a-hole, belligerent and dismissive and over-talking. Way not cool.




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sarae

(3,284 posts)
21. I've seen him do that a lot, especially when he's talking to women,
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:25 PM
Jul 2016

which is a major reason he's always turned me off.

duncang

(1,907 posts)
23. Even during the primaries
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 01:53 PM
Jul 2016

They and cnn gave so much time and no questioning of what donnie said because they seemed afraid he wouldn't give them a interview. They knew if they gave him heat he would start whining and bar them. So they threw softballs to donnie and went after the democrats.

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