#dnc propaganda

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Donald Trump: An unabashed racist who sexually assaults women and wants to abolish Roe v. Wade

Bernie Sanders: Trying to uphold Roe v. Wade, hasn’t sexually assaulted women, and is not a racist.

Clinton Democrats: These are exactly the same.

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Medicare For All is being attacked from the far right and the center right. It’s propaganda and it’s desperation, and it’s outright lies.

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Clinton Democrats, The DNC, the DCCC, Corporately owned media, MSNBC, CNN, centrists in general: If Bernie wins, then Putin and the Russian bots have won, because they are “backing” the Sanders campaign.

Me: Wow. So let me make sure I got this right: If Bernie wins, and average Americans somehow end up getting better healthcare via Medicare For All, and if the U.S. starts fighting climate change with the Green New Deal, and if people’s remaining student debt is cancelled, and if people get to go to college for free, and if sick people suddenly don’t have to file for bankruptcy due to illness, and if people start getting paid living wages, and if our government begins making policy to make housing more affordable for everyone, and if Wall Street, multinational conglomerates and the super wealthy are finally taxed their fair share to help pay for all of this ..... if those things happen, then RUSSIA WINS????? Damn. That’s a super weird flex for Russia, but go off, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Clinton Dems: Remember, the only reason Trump is in the White House is because of toxic BernieBros

Me: Hm. I had no idea that 52 percent of white women were toxic BernieBros ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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ONCE KNOWN AS THE LONE, FORTHRIGHT VOICE OF LIBERALISM on cable news, MSNBC began a lurch to the center in 2015 with its new chairman, Andrew Lack, going on a conservative pundit hiring spree and shedding the network’s “Lean Forward” branding.

Even so, MSNBC is positioned to have an outsized influence on the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.  According to the Norman Lear Center, liberals watch MSNBC at (respectively) three and 10 times the rate of more moderate and conservative viewers. After Fox News, MSNBC is the most-watched cable news network, beating out CNN. What’s more, the median age of MSNBC’s audience is 65—and older voters turn out in high numbers in primary contests.

To understand how MSNBC may be shaping the 2020 election, In These Times analyzed the network’s August and September coverage of the Democratic presidential contest’s leading candidates—Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. We focused on the network’s flagship primetime shows: The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, All In with Chris Hayes, The Beat with Ari Melber, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and The Rachel Maddow Show.

In These Times tallied how often the three candidates were discussed and logged whether the coverage was positive, negative or neutral. For example, while poll results by themselves (whether favorable or unfavorable to a candidate) were simply logged as neutral, commentary about a candidate “surging” was logged as positive and “stagnant” as negative. Clips and previews for upcoming segments were not included.

The coverage quickly revealed a pattern. Over the two months, these six programs focused on Biden, often to the exclusion of Warren and Sanders. Sanders received not only the least total coverage (less than one-third of Biden’s), but the most negative. As to the substance, MSNBC’s reporting revolved around poll results and so-called electability.

After the 2016 presidential election, in which the press was criticized for disproportionately giving Donald Trump $2 billion of free media, MSNBC may be repeating history. While pundits get paid to have opinions, MSNBC’s seem to dwell in an alternate reality: As momentum mounts for longstanding liberal goals like single-payer health care and bold climate action, MSNBC’s coverage seems devoted, instead, to narrowing the liberal imagination.

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