#2351
Posted: 3/7/16 at 9:31pm
It's a media conspiracy to discredit him.
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#2352
Posted: 3/7/16 at 10:20pm
If you don't think race and class are related then you have no idea of the history of racial caste systems in this country. It's not me who needs to take the blinders off.
#2353
Posted: 3/7/16 at 10:25pm
And yet the fact remains that Clinton is bigger with minority voters than Sanders. Are they wearing blinders, too?
#2354
Posted: 3/7/16 at 10:36pm
DAILY BEAST: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Bernie
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/07/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-being-bernie.html
#2355
Posted: 3/7/16 at 11:17pm
It hasn't been all bad for Bernie today. The NRA backs his position on gun manufacturer liability. Deets at https://twitter.com/NRA/status/706859878703177728
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
#2356
Posted: 3/7/16 at 11:18pm
BOOM! Feel the Bullet!
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#2357
Posted: 3/8/16 at 12:12am
Sounds like someone else is stuck in the past. Yes, I am fully aware of the racial caste system in this country, including restrictive covenants that until the 50's at least in my hometown, restricted home ownership to people of a certain pigmentation and religion. But, when a successful black man is pulled over because he is driving a nice car in Hollywood, Sandra Bland, a middle class black women is killed while in police custody in Texas, and Trayvon Martin (whose family is also middle class) dies because of assumptions about him because of his race, something else is going on. Obama is an Ivy League educated constitutional lawyer (as is his wife), and a sitting president, is the subject of racial slurs as is his wife. Clearly we are dealing with something other than just class being the trigger for racial animus.
#2358
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:02am
I often think the media are as irresponsible as the worst of the candidates:
http://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-on-bernie-sanders-in-16-hours/
#2359
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:21am
Like the pervasive stories about Hillary's non-scandals, it's almost as if there are actual conspiracies to bring down certain candidates at certain times.
We know that's not true, but it definitely seems like it. In reality, it's just lazy journalism by lazy journalists, accepting each other's media narratives, and running with them.
#2360
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:31am
PJ, it's more than just laziness. Salon's page has been tilted pro-Sanders, anti-Clinton for months now.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#2361
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:33am
It's difficult to believe the media aren't trying to drive the narrative. Not to a particular conclusion, necessarily, but to create various "story arcs."
#2362
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:40am
Reginald Tresilian said: "It's difficult to believe the media aren't trying to drive the narrative. Not to a particular conclusion, necessarily, but to create various "story arcs."
Absolutely, which is why I more or less stopped watching the news and reading candidate stories online.
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#2363
Posted: 3/8/16 at 9:22am
Yeah, the whole horse race preoccupation that the media has creating and then casting aside various candidates. The fact that Trump has not had a need to spend hardly any money on advertising is a case in point. With regard to Bernie and Hillary - I have seen organizations with bias clearly for one or the other - who create click bait to find a way to monetize political commentary. It started years ago with Fox News, and has spread across various channels, organizations and platforms.
#2364
Posted: 3/8/16 at 10:12am
When Sanders's campaign winds down, what can/should HRC offer him? I don't see him on the ticket, and he's not qualified for the top tier Cabinet posts (State, Def, Treas). Maybe Labor or Commerce?
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#2365
Posted: 3/8/16 at 10:39am
Certainly not Commerce!!!
The International Trade Administration as well as the Patent & Trademark Office are subordinate to Commerce. His nomination before a GOP-lead Senate would be d.o.a.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
#2368
Posted: 3/8/16 at 7:09pm
Barney's getting desperate
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/08/politics/bernie-sanders-lawsuit-ohio-teenage-voters/index.html
#2370
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:14pm
Oh PalJoey. Can't you see every poll says she's the least trusted most hated Lady Hitler in history? How can you miss that?
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#2372
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:24pm
madbrian said: "When Sanders's campaign winds down, what can/should HRC offer him? I don't see him on the ticket, and he's not qualified for the top tier Cabinet posts (State, Def, Treas). Maybe Labor or Commerce?"
Hello, no. PJ and I covered this upthread. No cabinet positions for Sanders, please. We need a, now, very powerful progressive voice like Sanders to remain in the Senate. This myopic view that the Presidency (and, thereby, executive branch) is the only one that matters is ridiculous. Not saying you, personally, have that view Brian - just that the notion that others are floating, that Bernie would be better off in Hillary's cabinet than in the Senate, is incredibly short-sighted. Besides which, the only cabinet position he'd be remotely interested in would be the Treasury and there is no ****ing way Hillary's offering him that. He needs to stay in the Senate with Warren and become the progressive super-duo of Congress.
I think what she can offer him, is, frankly, the same thing he can offer her. The chance to stump for her throughout the summer, helping sustain his message of economic populism through the convention and the election and securing his legacy as a political figure who helped move the Democratic party further to the left. I believe they'll both emerge strong from this election and, by staying in the Senate he'll be able to keep the heat on Hillary to uphold all of her progressive campaign promises. It's a win-win for everyone.
#2373
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:32pm
IF...Bernie doesn't pick up his marbles and go home.
#2374
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:38pm
Sander is up 51-48 in Michigan with 20% in. That's not what polling showed, but maybe the 4 counties where polls close at 9 will swing the primary to Hillary.
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#2375
Posted: 3/8/16 at 8:40pm
Look, I was a liberal arts major. So you may have to dumb this down for me, but help me out here political and statistical wonks. I know that Trump and Hillary have been declared the winners in Mississippi, which, of course was completely expected. But how is it that CNN can make that projection with just, according to their site right now, 1% of the votes in?
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