Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumJust listened to first 15 min of Diane Rehm. Upset! Are you upset? I am not upset!
They are tripping over themselves. They asked a Michigan reporter about the night - she mentioned Hillary, Kasich, Trump and Cruz and Rubio - not Sanders. Stu Rothenberg and Tom Jelton said "the journalists and pundits got it wrong" as if the king and queen makers (in their minds) can see outside of the bubble they live in.
They went back to the MI reporter and asked her specifically about Bernie's win - she mumbled something about how it caught Bernie and his group by surprise, and that it was due to Dems crossing over to vote for Kasich.
Blah blah blan - after 15 min I just LMAO.
Berning through the pundits so-called expertise. I love it!
StandingInLeftField
(972 posts)That's the ticket! Yea.....
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)how good Clinton did in the election. I do not think they even mentioned who she ran against.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Merryland
(1,134 posts)isn't Diane Rehm a personal "friend" of Hillary Clinton's? I honestly think I read that somewhere, can't vouch for it.
appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)last May 1. Her first topic was 'you have duel citizenship, US and Israel'. Bernie said no he doesn't. Diane then said, 'how many other members of Congress also have duel citizenship?'. I wouldn't give her, or the National Petroleum Council the time day. How Bernie has the patience and tolerance to endure this stuff is just remarkable. I couldn't do it.
merrily
(45,251 posts)who impressed her most. So says her wiki. Explains a lot.
appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)a lot of it. Don't I know it well.
merrily
(45,251 posts)I did, March 1, Massachusetts. I was so proud to vote for Bernie.
appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)And his Inauguration of course, President Bernie Sanders!
merrily
(45,251 posts)appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)"Brutal Night for (MSM) Narrative", USA Today. He's Not going away 'quite yet'. Ya think? Lol.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2016/03/09/rieder-brutal-night-media-narrative/81518604/
merrily
(45,251 posts)appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)from him and have seen him only once on MSNBC in about two years, since he was bumped for fracking ties I think. That was abrupt.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/politics/hillary-clinton-ed-rendell-bloomberg/
merrily
(45,251 posts)There must have been something else.
appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)Ties with the 'Fix the Debt' outfit to cut SS, Safety Net and more-
https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/msnbc-disclose-fix-the-debt-co-chair-ed-rendell-s-conflicts-of-interest-when-booking
merrily
(45,251 posts)conflicts. Matthews wife is running for office, needing the help of the DNC, and Alan Greenspan is, well, Alan Greenspan and has loads of ties to the Clintons. Yet Andrea and Chris "report" on Clinton and DNC matters--and without even a disclosure at the start of each show, as far as I know. So, if MSNBC cited his fracking ties as a the reason he disappeared, I would be dubious.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)When are these people going to realize that Bernie is going to keep winning, particularly in states like Michigan that don't require people to register with a party to vote in a primary. The Independents are the ones crossing left or right and, last night, they Felt the Bern.
merrily
(45,251 posts)because her supporters voted for Kasich. What would that say about Hillary's policies and appeal? What would it say about polls?
Kinda the same things Bernie's supporters have been posting about her policies and about polls, no?
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Much of the time she simply does not listen to what the guests say, asking questions that make her lack of listening glaringly obvious, and she seems pretty conservative, although not right-wing, to me.
I've gotten so I don't bother to listen to any of her politically oriented shows, so I won't be turning her on today. Although it might be fascinating, perhaps hilarious, to listen to her after Bernie wins the nomination.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)But given that NPR mostly does the bidding of its corporate sponsors these days she will probably be replaced with somebody worse.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)Here is a column from the NPR ombudsman recapping it and criticizing Rehm pretty harshly.
http://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2015/06/12/413981429/diane-rehm-and-a-bungled-interview-with-senator-bernie-sanders
Her pathetic so called apology included this line:
"However I am glad to play a role in putting this rumor to rest."
She elevated a "rumor" that existed only in the anti-Semitic dark back alleys of the internet and put it out in the mainstream media, presenting it first as a fact to Sanders.
I don't buy her story that somebody suggested to her on Facebook that she should ask Sanders about this. It has David Brock written all over it.
merrily
(45,251 posts)she claimed Bernie had said "All lives matter," when in fact Hillary and O'Malley said it and Bernie was the only one who did not say it. And they didn't correct it until after a commercial break.
Then, of course, there was NPR's claiming that they weren't covering Bernie because he was doing nothing worth covering. When he did something worth covering, they'd cover it. Not his rallies with 30,000 in attendance, not the fact he was not accepting any money except individual donations and was still racking up millions, not any of the other sea changes. Oh yes, and he was running for the Democratic Presidential nomination. NWCMA (Not worth covering, my a$$)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280109865
appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)days after the event. What sloppy journalism or intentional false info.
merrily
(45,251 posts)appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)Was that after the dual citizenship lie? I would think Rehm would not have doubled down on Bernie. I got the impression that she nearly lost her job over the dual citizenship lie. She said it was the worst experience of her career and only a few weeks later she announced she would be retiring after this election season.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)and are all in for Hillary. This employee said that NPR is under heavy criticism for its Hillary slant.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Your NPR peeps need to know that Bernie does better than Hillary in head to head match ups with GOPers, including Trump.
And they deserve every bit of that criticism. All the msm does, but NPR is a public station. In light of that, they've been utterly disgraceful, IMO.
Hope you've been well. I don't think we've run into each other since shortly before Christmas.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)NPR and the Beltway: Like a lot of us, these folks are getting older, esp. in careers (MSM-oriented) which are dissolving away. The biggest problem is ceding authority to corporate while expecting the latter to wink & nod and let the "liberals" have a safehouse of admittedly important issues centered on civil rights and protections, sympathy-environmentalism, and sufficient money to prop up D.C.-based lobby groups. These calcified institutions are literally feel fighting for their lives. And corporate power doesn't give a crap about that. It has both parties.
merrily
(45,251 posts)(Don't mind me: I am still in shock about Downton Abbey ending.)
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)phenomenon without mentioning guess-who one time. You have to admire the verbal gymnastics.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I don't give a crap what the Red baiting witch has to say.