Washington Post: Sanders a risk… the media hates Bernie thread

This entire article is ridiculous but I’ll concentrate on this…

dAs if that weren’t bad enough, Sanders carries decades of ideological baggage, having in the past praised Communist regimes and joined a socialist party that took Iran’s side during the Iranian hostage crisis.

What a load of BS.

He praised Cuba for giving its citizens universal healthcare and free education. He also said living conditions weren’t nearly as bad as how they were portrayed.

He commented on how efficient, clean and inexpensive the Soviet public transportation system was compared to the system (or lack thereof) in the US.

That’s the extent of his praise for communist regimes.

The Iran thing is fake news. He was never even a member of the Socialist Workers Party, which is the party the author is referring to.

Max Boot, Republican neocon, Bushie, and one of the biggest proponents of the invasion of Iraq. The supposedly “liberal” WaPo hired all kinds of writers just like him. Take a look at this list. You can find all kinda conservative Republicans and righties in general. The Post is swimming in them!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/

(under Opinion Writers)

Thiessen, Gerson, Kagan, Rubin, Lane, Abernathy, O’Rourke, Brooks, Daniels, Hewitt, McCardle, Olsen, Will, Parker, plus several centrists who could be from either party, like Ignatius and Samuelson. That’s just me skimming the list.

Admittedly, some of the folks above are now “Never Trumpers,” but they haven’t stopped being right-wing, and 99% are still Republicans.

No Dem and no one further to their left should give a damn what Boot says about Sanders. However, I do give him some credit for at least critiquing his own party’s slavish devotion to Trump. He’s been pretty good on that subject. But no one should take his advice when it comes to who should be the Dem nominee. He’s an old-school wingnut/neocon, with some regrets and reassessments, cuzza Trump.

I am going to endorse the following candidates: Pete Buttigieg, Elizatbeth Warren, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Mike Bloomberg, and if all else fails, Donald Trump. Thank you.

Thank you guys for all of those examples. Tragically sad and strangely funny at the same time.

First time I noticed how bad it was was when John Heilemann, on Morning Joe said (and I’m paraphrasing):

“Bernie is just kinda sitting there — at the top (in a very dismissive voice). But Klobuchar and the others are really making their move.”

Most of the guests were lauding the rise of everyone but Sanders, harping on that, and kinda making Sanders sound like he was losing by being Number One. I think it was Scarborough alone — a Republican conservative (Never Trumper) — who tried to give Sanders some kudos.

Strange Days, indeed.

Here is a comprehensive Media Hates Sanders article with screenshots: Too difficult to cut and paste with all the images and videos.

The Bernie Blackout Is Real, and These Screenshots Prove It

Yeah. There is ugliness all over, and it’s no accident that Sanders supporters have been singled out for responsibility. Truth is…as he says…there is ugliness all over. But only Sanders supporters seem to be “known” for this.

Somebody asked earlier today what arguments he could use to convince a Buttigieg supporter that his supporters are worse than Sanders’. And I said, forget it. You can’t win that argument. There is no empirical data on this. People believe what they want to believe. And in the case of Sanders, it’s some baloney that Clinton started to emphasize that she’s a woman (Bernie Bros), and you repeat that often enough, and see a couple of examples of it…and there you go. You can’t convince people that it’s exaggerated.

Georgia@nationalparke
imo one of the most incredible scams in media is the washington post letting jennifer rubin churn out daily anti-bernie vitriol then claiming in the same pages he has “escaped scrutiny”

Fabiana Jung@JungFabiana
There is a white lady on MSNBC right now suggesting that Latinos are voting for Bernie because the pro-Bernie kids in the family are manipulating their parents who can’t speak English. #NevadaCaucus

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James Carville says the big winner in Nevada is Putin pic.twitter.com/KV2TjpNiCD

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 22, 2020

Very disturbing watching @MSNBC’s Brian Williams talking about the Democratic establishment “killing” @BernieSanders. This network is worse than Fox News now. #NotMeUs pic.twitter.com/fcmLNrpWk2

— 🌹 Clark Feels The Bern (@Clarknt67) February 22, 2020

Nobody likes their health insurance provider.

Nobody likes Democratic leadership.

Why does almost no one on cable TV understand this?

— John Iadarola (@johniadarola) February 22, 2020

josh@josh_fbi
it seems bernie has lost that most beloved demographic, vastly overpaid media assholes who know nothing and whom everyone hates

Linda Sarsour@lsarsour
It’s like everyone wants more young people to vote, working class folks, immigrant communities and then when they do their choice is questioned. Unless those groups vote the establishment choices, somehow they are uninformed & making the wrong decision. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
All the anti-Sanders op-eds, the endorsements against him, the warnings from party leaders, the dirty ads from DC groups, the CIA leaks.

None of it matters. They no longer have power. And they know it. That’s why they’re freaking out.

Their last hope: beg Bloomberg to stop this

Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
With the Sanders surge, one MSNBC host – one of their highest-paid and most prominent ones – now positioning himself to back Trump’s re-election after 4 years of non-stop alarmism about Trump the fascist dictator Russian puppet posing an existential threat to US democracy:

Apologies if this has already been posted:

Blowback Hits MSNBC After Chris Matthews Compares Sanders’ Win to Nazis Conquering France

Blowback Hits MSNBC After Chris Matthews Compares Sanders’ Win to Nazis Conquering France

“Why is Chris Matthews on this air talking about the victory Bernie Sanders, who had kin murdered in the Holocaust, analogizing it to the Nazi conquest of France?” MSNBC guest Anand Giridharadas asked

MSNBC host Chris Matthews is taking heat for comparing Bernie Sanders’ win in Nevada on Saturday to the 1940 Nazi invasion of France.

After being asked about his take on Sanders’ win, Matthews said, “I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940. And the general, Reynaud, calls up Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says, ‘How can that be? You’ve got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over.’”

Sanders’ communications director, Mike Casca, took to Twitter to express his dismay with Matthews’ comments, writing, “ never thought part of my job would be pleading with a national news network to stop likening the campaign of a Jewish presidential candidate whose family was wiped out by the Nazis to the Third Reich… but here we are.”

Author and Time magazine editor at large Anand Giridharadas was a guest on MSNBC Sunday morning and went after Matthews, while also taking others from the network to task about how Sanders’ success is being analyzed and who is doing the analysis.

“This is a moment for curiosity in America,” Giridharadas said. “I think about this network, which I love, which you love. And I think we have to look within also. Why is a lobbyist for Uber and Mark Zuckerberg on the air many nights explaining a political revolution to us? Why is Chris Matthews on this air talking about the victory Bernie Sanders, who had kin murdered in the Holocaust, analogizing it to the Nazi conquest of France?”

Sanders Denounces Reported Russian Election Interference by ‘Thug’ Putin

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— PoliticsVideo23 (@politicsvideo23) February 23, 2020

Matthews was also criticized earlier this month after he voiced fears of a Sanders presidency and talked about socialist-led “executions in Central Park.”

Some called for the host to resign over his latest remarks while others, like Sanders supporter and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, advised people to “listen to what Anand is saying.” She added, “Mass movements are beginning to transform our political landscape in a way we haven’t seen in a long time. This kind of politics is an important shift away from saviorism. It’s not about ‘the one’ — it’s about the many.”

wv wrote:

That Krystal Ball vid is worth watching. At least the last three mins or so.

What I wonder is, what will the Dem-MSM actually DO, if Bernie gets the Nomination?

Will they torpedo him? Because, think about it — if you are corporate-centrist, whats the best-case-scenario? If Bernie loses to Trump, the Dems will NEVER put up another progressive. At least they wont for the next 20 years.
What we’ll get is ‘fake progressives’ like Warren and Buddachex.

So a lot is riding on Bernie. The whole American progressive movement.

He’s gotta win.

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But…the old guard is over 65, and dying off year-by-year. The young’uns perceive the status quo as an existential threat. Not just a difference in opinions about policies, or philosophy of government. They don’t want to live in a Mad Max movie that starts with a completely trashed environment. The gig is up for corporate polluters. It is. It’s over. So we can either do this peacefully, or those Millennials that everyone thinks are so happy to hang out in Mom’s basement are going to emerge with some baseball bats. I am seeing a most stronger commitment now than I did in 2016. It ain’t a scientific sample. But it’s what I see. It’s a matter of time.

Zooey wrote:

But…the old guard is over 65,
and dying off year-by-year…
The gig is up for corporate polluters.
It is. It’s over.
So we can either do this peacefully,
or those Millennials…
are going to emerge with some baseball bats….

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You are such an optimist.

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