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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. And Bernie surrogates are being told by Bernie to knock it off as well....or be exposed as
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:34 PM
Aug 2015

more anti-Hillary and pro-mass media than pro-socialist.

How much more clear can Bernie be??

"But watch the actual video and then read the dismissive way the New York Times reports the encounter. I've written about the loaded language the media uses to report about Hillary Clinton, and we see the same thing in this piece:

When a gaggle of reporters — “corporate media” in Sanders parlance — mentioned Mrs. Clinton here, he snarled, “That’s the sport you guys like,” meaning their focus on the kind of political questions he disdains. When asked to reconcile his anti-establishment status with being a “career politician,” Mr. Sanders, who except for two years has held political office continually since 1981, glared at the young reporter who asked the question.

“Career politician?” he said to her with a disdainful laugh. “Other questions.”"

Autumn

(45,108 posts)
5. A link to Bernie surrogates being told by Bernie to knock it off as well if you will please.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 02:20 PM
Aug 2015

Because I saw that video and maybe I slept though it or didn't get the same decoder ring you got. The media is not a Bernie surrogate

snarled glared disdainful laugh A piss poor written hit piece and the edited written narrative you quote does not bear out was said by Bernie in the video. I will wait for the link to Bernie surrogates being told by Bernie to knock it off.

Bernie handed the media their ass because as usual they ignore his message which is important to focus on gotcha nonsense.

Autumn

(45,108 posts)
7. The media is not a surrogate of Bernie's.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 02:33 PM
Aug 2015

They have done their best to make sure nothing he said is reported and his message is not heard. So you have no link to Bernie surrogates being told by Bernie to knock it off as well. Because it wasn't said.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
8. You failed to respond to what was asked of you Fred. Where is the link to prove your assertion is
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 02:36 PM
Aug 2015

not just yet another lie from the man who attempted to defend the Saudi Clerics on DU the week they were flogging Badawi, would you like me to like to that exchange Fred? Or how about to the 'ablaze discussion'?
You know those Republicans who hate Obama for being black, not for policy reasons? There are people who are the same way toward Jewish people. I don't care for that sort of thing, Fred. That's why people who make assertions need to account for their assertions. That 'make up some bullshit and evade when called on it routine is getting old.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. Oh, the media have disliked Hillary, and vice versa, since the 1990s. She can't win them, so she
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:53 PM
Aug 2015

ignores and goes around them as much as possible. And keeps winning despite all attempts to bring her down. This campaign she's talked to them as little as possible, a sure way to anger them, but what does she have to gain by feeding them either?

A Washington Post article (linked below) discusses the 2 major media revolutions that have occurred during her political career and speculate that her success, in spite of decades of concerted negative coverage and outright attacks by both mainstream and right-wing media, is "an affront to the power of the press."

As for Bernie, I love Bernie. He refused to answer that question about Hillary's hair, too. Please, let Bernie be "catching." He may well be able to continue to rise above media attacks too. After all, they dismissed him completely, and yet -- well, we dismissed them, and here he is!

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/05/22/the-political-media-dont-like-hillary-clinton-but-what-if-she-doesnt-need-them/|

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
4. ya, this and his comment about attacks on clinton are pure sexism has me applauding the man.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 02:14 PM
Aug 2015

these are the conversations i want him to have in his everyday campaign. that to me is being advocate of women. not necessarily this one, though it is kick ass not denigrating our democrats. all the candidates do this well.....

Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
10. In bold, snarled, glared, disdained, disdainful. I didn't see that.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 03:10 PM
Aug 2015

In case you miss the distortion they are trying to push, they now bold the words...




Update: Watch the video. IGNORE the written distortion.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
11. didn't Hillary, in 2008, say she "didn't know if Obama is a Muslim"?
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 03:18 PM
Aug 2015

And there is the difference between Sanders and Clinton.

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