2016 Postmortem
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What the fuck is wrong with yall? In case you haven't noticed we have a full blown lunatic running for President, but yall are too busy scouring over every meal that Hillary has ever eaten, looking for something, anything to make her look evil. Meanwhile Trump is hiding his taxes and writing his own Dr's statement. This shit is crazy.
MADem
(135,425 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)but anyone who does should do it.
doc03
(35,335 posts)and his business ties with China and Russia.
Mika
(17,751 posts)They_Live
(3,232 posts)Detroit?
Syria?
Just curious.
Mika
(17,751 posts)Once a beautiful city. Once secular. Now sharia law.
They_Live
(3,232 posts)That's a shame.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)About this country...apart from Benjamin Franklin adorned paper in multiples!
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Phony false equivalency abounds.
They are trying to make this a close race for their ratings. That much is obvious.
ancianita
(36,055 posts)They trot out the candidates, advise their best strategies, give them free arena coverage and keep up the on-screen conflict-driven excitement that whips the political horse race around the track.
Much like those fake-ass mascot or product races often shown on digital screens in baseball parks.
The body politic is enthralled at the unfair feel of the production, casting and plot, but paid its money and takes its chances.
As George Orwell said in 1984, "If there is hope, it lies in the proles." That's us.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Nailed it.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Get on the twitter machine and correct the record by tweeting to them every time they spin instead of report. Call them on their dishonesty. When you do, copy to other outlets. Use as many hashtags as you can to spread the word. And don't forget to copy the GOP, Ryan, Trump, and any other of the insane right you want to know that you are paying attention.
barbtries
(28,793 posts)i am so sick of NPR - they're promoting trump it seems every chance they get. i do not get it, but it pisses me off.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Vomit. And none of my friends saw the bias.
jaxind
(1,074 posts)I always wondered why the media are making it so easy for Trump...don't they realize that when this country goes to hell (if Trump gets elected), they're going to be affected too! Also, Trump wants an investigation into the Clinton Foundation..well, how about an investigation to see if he has the same ties to Russia that Manafort has?? Just because Manafort has left the campaign does not absolve Trump of any shenanigans he may have had!
hibbing
(10,098 posts)The media sure fell short of their obligations during the proliferation and promotion of this god awful war in Iraq, let alone the economic mismanagement.
Peace
pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)RUMP would make them GENIUSes. meanwhile RUMP is all wile e coyote.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...if it helped their ratings, and even more importantly, if it would cement their position as a privileged class.
oasis
(49,383 posts)in a long time. He told the CNN interviewer l "the media treats Hillary press conferences like a feeding frenzy". He went on to use the AP "Clinton Foundation" story as an example of how the MSM cherry picks facts to create a distortion of the overall picture. Dean said he did not blame Hillary for not doing pressers.
This is the first time I ever seen Dean blast the press.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)The media and they that own them are used to feeding off a country, but never being responsible for what happens to that country. In any country in the world, they know they will be able to afford to buy whatever, and that people will try to woo them with free stuff. They are, for all intents and purposes, Pirates flying the Jolly Roger.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)tenderfoot
(8,431 posts)eom
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)and made George seem normal. They Made George Bush a war hero and John Kerry a coward.
I stopped paying attention in 1998 during the Clinton witch hunt. Not one of them questioned the impeachment for being rooted in political revenge for Nixon. The fact is, there was no impeachable offense. The impeachment circus gave them ratings.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)interested in commenting and asking WaPo why they haven't reported on the fact (for example)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512382540
... that FBI director Comey, when questioned by Rep Cartwright, had to admit that NOT ONE of the Clinton emails that are purported to contain Classified Info - NOT ONE had a Classified Header on it .. as required by the governing reg/manual. Thus, Comey confirmed that Clinton did NOT LIE about not sending or receiving anything marked Classified. (BTW: WaPo allows url's to be included in reader comments)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/24/vote-on-the-topic-for-a-future-washington-post-editorial/?utm_term=.be8b6547d1f8#comments
(more)
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)They can't see because their sight is obscured with bushel baskets of $$$.
They can't talk about it because their mouths are stuffed with $$$.
In their gated communities and private schools and police forces everything is just fine, thanks.
different equation
(69 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)We sold our airwaves, we failed to regulate them, and here we are with media who chase ratings and profits with no obligation to inform us.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)They are corrupted with money like every damn thing in this country it seems like.
Pakid
(478 posts)Every time there licenses come up for renewal we should write a couple million letters asking that they not be renewed and keep it up until they change there ways and start honest reporting just the facts with no BS.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...to include cable. Treat access to our brains as a responsibility as well as a right.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)showing sow motion, instant replay over and over for three days.
A million people complain about their biased treatment of Hillary and blind eye to Trump...crickets