Bernie Sanders

n2doc

(47,953 posts) Tue May 5, 2015, 10:19 AM May 2015

US Presidential Race: For Meet the Press, Bernie Sanders Is He Who Must Not Be Named

Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination last week–but Meet the Press‘s Chuck Todd, who’s “obsessed with elections,” didn’t seem to notice. (cc photo: Paul Morigi/Brookings)

Meet the Press host Chuck Todd can’t seem to get enough of the 2016 presidential race. Yet the one major candidate who announced he was running last week–Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who declared on April 30 he was running for the Democratic nomination–was strikingly ignored on Meet the Press‘s May 2 broadcast.

It’s not that the broadcast didn’t have time to talk about the 2016 race. One of the show’s guest was Martin O’Malley, brought on to talk about the Baltimore protests as former mayor of Baltimore and former Maryland governor, but also as someone “weighing a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination”: “Do you think you can still run on your record, as mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland,” Todd asked him. “Do you think this is a positive thing that voters will look at…?”

Todd closed his interview by saying: “We’ll see you, you’ll probably announce in Baltimore.” But we didn’t see anything about the candidate who actually announced that week in Washington, DC.

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US Presidential Race: For Meet the Press, Bernie Sanders Is He Who Must Not Be Named (Original Post) n2doc May 2015 OP

Considering this show was about Baltimore, it made sense to have O'Malley on leftofcool May 2015 #1

Did you read the article? n2doc May 2015 #3

Oh, he'll have to, sooner or later.... daleanime May 2015 #2

Same for NPR (at least as long as I could stand to listen to it) corkhead May 2015 #4

National Pentagon Radio is not keen on a Sanders candidacy. n/t FlatBaroque May 2015 #7

Toad is a GOP shill. It's not surprising. onecaliberal May 2015 #5

IMO Todd will be an asshole for his entire life. L0oniX May 2015 #6

And to watch the rest of the brown noses at MSNBC suck up to him makes me vomit. nt Snotcicles May 2015 #12

I heard that! cilla4progress May 2015 #8

Greed and hatred don't like kindness and generosity. I pity the rich. Let's not be angry about it. Gregorian May 2015 #9

... Jack Rabbit May 2015 #10

Chuck is one of those idiots who believes he can create his own reality. Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #11

K&R........This is why I boycott Meet the Press. Enthusiast May 2015 #13

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)

1. Considering this show was about Baltimore, it made sense to have O'Malley on

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 10:24 AM

May 2015

The entire news media has been centered on Baltimore. As much as I dislike Chuckie Todd, he will have Bernie on and probably more than once.

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

3. Did you read the article?

Reply to leftofcool (Reply #1)

Tue May 5, 2015, 10:26 AM

May 2015

It wasn't all about O'Malley. The Toad mentioned a bunch of fringe GOP'ers, plus Hillary, Jeb, Just about everyone else except Sanders.

daleanime

(17,796 posts)

2. Oh, he'll have to, sooner or later....

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 10:24 AM

May 2015

and he won't enjoy it.

corkhead

(6,119 posts)

4. Same for NPR (at least as long as I could stand to listen to it)

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 10:36 AM

May 2015

all about the republicon clown car + Hillary, but no mention of Bernie, at least while I was briefly listening yesterday morning while my internet was down.

FlatBaroque

(3,160 posts)

7. National Pentagon Radio is not keen on a Sanders candidacy. n/t

Reply to corkhead (Reply #4)

Tue May 5, 2015, 10:42 AM

May 2015

onecaliberal

(32,861 posts)

5. Toad is a GOP shill. It's not surprising.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 10:37 AM

May 2015

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)

6. IMO Todd will be an asshole for his entire life.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 10:40 AM

May 2015

Snotcicles

(9,089 posts)

12. And to watch the rest of the brown noses at MSNBC suck up to him makes me vomit. nt

Reply to L0oniX (Reply #6)

Tue May 5, 2015, 02:40 PM

May 2015

cilla4progress

(24,733 posts)

8. I heard that!

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 11:05 AM

May 2015

(downloaded onto my Ipod). It was crazy - I kept waiting to hear Bernie's name. Not even a one-line teaser for next week. It made the show seem stupid and irrelevant. And I hate Todd's questioning. It's so formulaic.

I'm not going to bother downloading it again. Maybe I'll send Todd an email or whatever to let him know of my disgust.

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)

9. Greed and hatred don't like kindness and generosity. I pity the rich. Let's not be angry about it.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 12:42 PM

May 2015

Yes, it's easy to hate people for what Todd is doing, like when someone doesn't return your call. And it doesn't feel like we can feel good without winning. But we can feel great about who we are and what we stand for.

I had dropped out of DU for a couple of years, in disgust. Then along came Bernie Sanders, and I realized that what we have in common is what makes the world a good place to live in.

We can feel good even if we lose. I find it hard to even type that, but there is a truth that I've discovered through this campaign, as brief as it has been. I feel alive again.