Bernie Sanders

Rebkeh

(2,450 posts) Tue Mar 29, 2016, 03:43 PM Mar 2016

10 Ways the Media and Political Establishment Have Tried to Orchestrate the Democratic Primary

ELECTION 2016
10 Ways the Media and Political Establishment Have Tried to Orchestrate the Democratic Primary
They wanted to declare it over before actual voters could vote.

By RoseAnn DeMoro
March 28, 2016

(AlterNet) It’s not over. Far from it. The economic and political establishment, which includes the Democratic National Committee, its Wall Street and corporate backers and the major media—most of it now owned by a half dozen big corporations—have worked feverishly to turn the Democratic primary process into a coronation for Hillary Clinton.

Bottom line: they wanted to declare it over before actual voters could vote, but their carefully crafted strategy began to #FeelTheBern.

Here are 10 ways the establishment has sought to orchestrate the results, and why the race has a long ways to go.

The article goes on to list:

1. Major Media Blackout

2. They’re Debating When?

3. Sanders Booms, Media Works to Marginalize

4. Vote Rigging

5. The Sexism Canard

6. Undemocratic Primaries

7. Superdelegates Toe the Line

8. Who's Most Electable, Who Is Not

9. The Math, the Math

10. Forward to Victory

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We aren't buying it, this is not Reality TV. This is reality.

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10 Ways the Media and Political Establishment Have Tried to Orchestrate the Democratic Primary (Original Post) Rebkeh Mar 2016 OP

It is so rigged it makes my stomach turn! bkkyosemite Mar 2016 #1

this is so right on mooseprime Mar 2016 #2

Hmmmm SmittynMo Mar 2016 #3

They've overplayed their hand. TIME TO PANIC Mar 2016 #4

They have all exposed themselves and their corruption! in_cog_ni_to Mar 2016 #5

bkkyosemite

(5,792 posts)

1. It is so rigged it makes my stomach turn!

Reply to Rebkeh (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 03:45 PM

Mar 2016

mooseprime

(474 posts)

2. this is so right on

Reply to Rebkeh (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 03:51 PM

Mar 2016

i'm beginning to think that Sanders doesn't stand a chance if he continues to operate inside the "democratic" party structure. I wonder if he can just say to hell with it and run as an independent. the numbers are there.

SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)

3. Hmmmm

Reply to mooseprime (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 04:12 PM

Mar 2016

Think about that for a second. The GOP is in total disarray. The Democrats can never win without the Bernie vote. Where does that leave US? Our political system? Very interesting.

TIME TO PANIC

(1,894 posts)

4. They've overplayed their hand.

Reply to Rebkeh (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 04:19 PM

Mar 2016

No matter what the outcome of this election is, their days of being viewed as relevant are over.

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)

5. They have all exposed themselves and their corruption!

Reply to Rebkeh (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 04:51 PM

Mar 2016

DWS/DNC is not even trying to hide the fact she/they doesn't /don't want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee. She went to far as to block his access to his own data files - forcing him to sue her arse! And, of course, Obama had to endorse her!

The media's 10 month Bernie Blackout told us everything we needed to know about their corruption. Even Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow have jumped the shark! BIG MONEY GOT TO THEM! The same Air America Rachel Maddow, we all knew and loved, has chosen a big paycheck over the good of the country. It's pathetic! Maddow does (almost) a weekly one-on-one Clinton interview for an HOUR....FREE PUBLICITY...weekly. And Chris Hayes? Mr. so-called "Progressive" who ALWAYS stood up for the less fortunate, decided a big paycheck meant way more to him than having someone like Bernie be our president. Shame on them all for being corporate SHILLS.

Well, guess what? They're LOSING THIS FIGHT! The internet brings us the truth they're so conveniently hiding from us.

We The People will win!

99%>1%! You're losing this one, AHOLES.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

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