Bernie Sanders

[boutons_deux]

Robert Reich: Here’s why mainstream media marginalizes Bernie Sanders

if you read the Washington Post or the New York Times, or watch CNN or even MSNBC, or listen to the major pollsters and pundits, you’d come to the same conclusion as my friend. Every success by Bernie is met with a story or column or talking head whose message is “but he can’t possibly win.”

Or the media simply ignore Sanders. Early on, the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review noted that Sanders’ candidacy had been ignored by the mainstream media “as nearly as they could a sitting U.S. senator who entered the presidential race.”

Some Sanders supporters speak in dark tones about a media conspiracy against Bernie. That’s baloney. The mainstream media are incapable of conspiring with anyone or anything. They wouldn’t dare try. Their reputations are on the line. If the public stops trusting them, their brands are worth nothing.

The real reason the major media can’t see what’s happening is because the national media exist inside the bubble of establishment politics, centered in Washington, and the bubble of establishment power, centered in New York.

As such, the major national media are interested mainly in personalities and in the money behind the personalities.

Political reporting is dominated by stories about the quirks and foibles of the candidates, and about the people and resources behind them.

Within this frame of reference, it seems nonsensical that a 74-year-old Jew from Vermont, originally from Brooklyn, who calls himself a Democratic socialist, who’s not a Democratic insider and wasn’t even a member of the Democratic Party until recently, who has never been a fixture in the Washington or Manhattan circles of power and influence, and who has no major backers among the political or corporate or Wall Street elites of America, could possibly win the nomination.

But precisely because the major media are habituated to paying attention to personalities, they haven’t been attending to Bernie’s message – or to its resonance among Democratic and independent voters (as well as many Republicans).

The major media don’t know how to report on political movements that emerge from the hopes and frustrations of millions of Americans.

Movements don’t fit into the normal political story about which candidate is up and who’s down.

The major media have come to see much of America through the eyes of the establishment. That’s not surprising.

After all, they depend on establishment corporations for advertising revenues,

their reporters and columnists rely on the establishment for news and access,

their top media personalities socialize with the rich and powerful and are themselves rich and powerful, and

their publishers and senior executives are themselves part of the establishment.

So it’s understandable that the major media haven’t noticed how determined Americans are to reverse the increasing concentration of wealth and political power that have been eroding our economy and democracy. And it’s understandable, even if unjustifiable, that they continue to marginalize Bernie Sanders.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/robe...e+Raw+Story%29

[Nbadan]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...contributions/



So this is accusing someone of taking money from oil industries but he has too.





What the ?

I mean he has taken way less, but he's taken money so anyone explain dis to me.

Not that similar....

The Huffington Post article from July 17, 2015, cited by Sanders found that "nearly all of the lobbyists bundling contributions for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign have at one time or another worked for the fossil fuel industry." It links to 40 registered lobbyists but only offers details on some donors who still work for the industry.

There's a difference between a contribution and a payoff....someone is feelin the Bern...

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Hillary Clinton attacks Bernie Sanders for being a “single issue” candidate:

“If we broke up the big banks tomorrow would that end racism? Would that end sexism? Would that end discrimination against the L.G.B.T. community? Would that make people feel more welcoming to immigrants overnight?”


What she fails to see is that ending the dominance of Wall Street, large corporations, and billionaires over American politics is the prerequisite to everything else that needs doing. We can’t hope to reverse climate change as long as big money has a strangle hold on our democracy.

We can’t overcome structural racism, sexism or discrimination against the LGBT community, or achieve equal opportunity and upward mobility for the poor, unless we reclaim our government from the moneyed interests.

We can't rebuild the middle class when giant corporations and Wall Street make the rules.

We can’t have a sensible foreign policy when giant military contractors have disproportionate influence.

We can’t have a sensible health care system without limiting the power of pharmaceutical companies and for-profit insurers.
In other words, the only way toward an economy that works for all of America and not simply for the powerful and privileged is by way of a democracy that’s responsive to all of America, and not only the powerful and privileged.

And the only means of achieving a democracy that’s responsive to all of America is by reducing the power of the moneyed interests.

This is what Bernie Sanders’s “political revolution” is all about.

This is not “single-issue” politics. It is essential to the politics we must create in America.

https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/?fref=nf


Yep, Hillz won't even attempt to TOUCH her paymasters in BigFinance.

[z0sa]

People who call Bernie a single issue candidate are either too lazy or too stupid to simply follow the money.

[Reck]

"Over the course of the last week, we have offered three specific dates for a debate in New York, all of which the Sanders campaign rejected," Clinton's national press secretary, Brian Fallon, said in a statement today. "The Sanders campaign needs to stop with the games."
The Clinton campaign offered to debate Sanders on Monday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m., as well as on Thursday, April 14, and on ABC News' "Good Morning America" on Friday, April 15 -- a date and time the Sanders campaign had originally signed off on, Fallon said.

"Senator Sanders and his team should stop the delays and accept a debate on April 14 on the morning of April 15th," Fallon added in the statement.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hilla...ry?id=38106197

LOL Bernie

[boutons_deux]

Sanders wins most delegates at Clark County convention

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders scored a surprise victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday at the Clark County Democratic Convention, where Sanders won the largest number of delegates a month after losing the Nevada caucuses.

Long lines, a packed convention center and the controversial suspension of the county party’s credentials chair threatened to disrupt the operation of the convention throughout the day. But after five hours of registration and check-in, thousands of people had packed into the Cashman Center, and by early evening, the delegates had been counted and Sanders announced as the winner.

The county convention was the second in a three-step process for Nevada to choose its delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention this summer.

The first was the February caucuses, the results of which are used to apportion 23 of the delegates Nevada will send to the national convention.

The second step, the county convention, is when delegates are selected to the state convention in May.

The third step is the state convention, when 12 more delegates are apportioned based on attendees’ preferences.

Nearly 9,000 delegates were elected on caucus day in late February, but only 3,825 showed up to Saturday’s convention. An additional 915 elected alternates and 604 unelected alternates also turned out to support their favored candidate.

The final delegate count was 2,964 for Sanders and 2,386 for Clinton. That means the Sanders campaign will send 1,613 delegates to the state convention, while the Clinton campaign will send 1,298.

“We pretty much won Nevada,” said Sanders’ state director, Joan Kato, smiling as the results were announced.

What that means is the delegates from Clark County — along with the delegates selected by Nevada's other counties Saturday — will attend the state convention in May, where they will help select delegates to go to July’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

But, because of the way delegate-selection rules work in Nevada, they will only get to decide the proportion of 12 delegates — five pledged party leaders and elected official delegates and seven at-large delegates — that go to each candidate.

The apportionment of 23 delegates, known as “district-level” delegates, is already decided, as they are based proportionally on the Feb. 20 caucus results in each district. In the February caucuses, Clinton had won 55 percent of delegates to the county convention — 4,889 to Sanders’ 4,026.

There are an additional eight unpledged party leaders and elected official delegates who will attend the national convention.

Sanders supporters were surprised and pleased Saturday.

“I’m friends with a lot of people that support Bernie, and they were bringing people here,” said Zamir Anderson, a 20-year-old College of Southern Nevada student. “Especially with how we did in Utah, Alaska, I feel like he’s gaining a lot of traction.”

The convention wasn’t without its hiccups. Convention-goers complained of expectedly long lines and having to wait outside without shade for hours.

“I thought it was going to be more organized and faster,” said Elda Armenta, a 43-year-old Sanders supporter from Las Vegas. “It doesn’t even look like the organizers know what they’re doing.”

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/apr...county-conven/

we'll see if Reid's dirty tricks with the LV hotel unions will carry the state.

[FkLA]

[z0sa]

Lol Shillary supporters. Every liberal bastion by far prefers Bernie

[Reck]

Nice try but they're not at same venue..

"That does not make Trump and Cruz sound strong," said Clinton to the crowd of 1,400. "

https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-s...031155343.html

[spurraider21]

lol semen shielding for shillary

[Reck]

lol semen shielding for shillary

You cant stop sucking the old man's . Somebody has to bring common sense to the discussion.

And since when does stating truth becomes "shielding"?

I am just calling it like it is.

[spurraider21]

not really, i've pointed out his flaws too, criticized him for using government/taxpayer money to go on a honeymoon, etc. but you've been shielding for shillary for some time now

[Reck]

not really, i've pointed out his flaws too, criticized him for using government/taxpayer money to go on a honeymoon, etc. but you've been shielding for shillary for some time now

I would be doing the same if it was Bernie getting all this ridiculous, often misinformed ty takes.

Hillary is short of having horns come out of her forehead according to most of you. Politicians are all ty with their own baggage. That's a fact we can all agree on.

[FkLA]

Nice try but they're not at same venue..

"That does not make Trump and Cruz sound strong," said Clinton to the crowd of 1,400. "

https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-s...031155343.html

Yeah, no they're not at the same venue. Each candidate knows what type of crowds to expect and they schedule the venues accordingly. Shillary's rallies would look even deader if she scheduled at yuge venues like Bernie does.

I would be doing the same if it was Bernie getting all this ridiculous, often misinformed ty takes.

Hillary is short of having horns come out of her forehead according to most of you. Politicians are all ty with their own baggage. That's a fact we can all agree on.

What baggage does the great Bernard Sanders have that makes him ty?

[Reck]

What baggage does the great Bernard Sanders have that makes him ty?

Socialism, communist ties, not a democrat at all.

In fact, Bernie lied his way into a position to run for president. Guy is a lifelong independent. He knew that as that, he wouldn't get very far running for president so he became a democrat for the sole purpose to get traction.

Again, personally I dont give a about any of that. If people brought all that up I'd counter it with the positive.

Everyone has baggage from their past.

[spurraider21]

Socialism, communist ties, not a democrat at all.

In fact, Bernie lied his way into a position to run for president. Guy is a lifelong independent. He knew that as that, he wouldn't get very far running for president so he became a democrat for the sole purpose to get traction.

Again, personally I dont give a about any of that. If people brought all that up I'd counter it with the positive.

Everyone has baggage from their past.

everybody knows he's not a democrat. he doesn't call himself a democrat either. he's just running under the democrat ticket, it's not really a secret. that's not "baggage." socialism isn't baggage either considering he wears it as a badge of honor.

whats the difference between socialism and communism, reck?

[rmt]

Yeah, no they're not at the same venue. Each candidate knows what type of crowds to expect and they schedule the venues accordingly. Shillary's rallies would look even deader if she scheduled at yuge venues like Bernie does.

What baggage does the great Bernard Sanders have that makes him ty?

I think that it's not good that almost all of his assets are listed under his wife's name. That with $174,000 salary as senator, he has $25k-$65 in credit card debt. That he didn't collect his first steady paycheck until he was an elected official pushing 40 years old.

So if Hillary can't draw big crowds, who is voting for her? Are there that many union people and blacks?

[Reck]

everybody knows he's not a democrat. he doesn't call himself a democrat either. he's just running under the democrat ticket, it's not really a secret. that's not "baggage." socialism isn't baggage either considering he wears it as a badge of honor.

whats the difference between socialism and communism, reck?

Is not really baggage but it is misleading as . No?

For someone who likes to throw the honest card every chance he gets, he sure does his fair share of shenanigans. That's all I'm saying.

And what does that question have to do with anything? Whether I point out the difference between the two, they always seem to go hand in hand. It also wouldn't change how people view the two.

[boutons_deux]

Occupy CNN: Protest Breaks out Against the Lack of Sanders Coverage


Bernie Sanders supporters called for an end to the "Bernie blackout" from the "Clinton News Network."

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/occupy-cnn-protest-breaks-out-against-lack-sanders-coverage

[FkLA]

Socialism, communist ties, not a democrat at all.

In fact, Bernie lied his way into a position to run for president. Guy is a lifelong independent. He knew that as that, he wouldn't get very far running for president so he became a democrat for the sole purpose to get traction.

Again, personally I dont give a about any of that. If people brought all that up I'd counter it with the positive.

Everyone has baggage from their past.

You're just grasping at straws.

He has no ties to communism. His independent status is public record, not sure how he could lie or trick his way into the position he's in. He is a self-described democratic socialist and there's nothing wrong or baggage worthy about that.

[FkLA]

I think that it's not good that almost all of his assets are listed under his wife's name. That with $174,000 salary as senator, he has $25k-$65 in credit card debt. That he didn't collect his first steady paycheck until he was an elected official pushing 40 years old.

So if Hillary can't draw big crowds, who is voting for her? Are there that many union people and blacks?

Oh are you saying he isn't the typical politician that uses his position to amass wealth? That's exactly why he's so beloved.

Yes, the blacks won the Southern states for her. She's also hitting the nursing homes hard to get all the alzheimers patients to cash early votes for her. Bill has broken several rules as well during these primary elections tbf.

[FkLA]

27000 in NYC:

Brooklyn

[Splits]

I think that it's not good that almost all of his assets are listed under his wife's name. That with $174,000 salary as senator, he has $25k-$65 in credit card debt. That he didn't collect his first steady paycheck until he was an elected official pushing 40 years old.

So if Hillary can't draw big crowds, who is voting for her? Are there that many union people and blacks?

lolwut?

why are they teaching climate change in science classes

dees niggers

[DAF86]

No chance this guy wins in the most conservative country in the World, tbh.

[rmt]

Oh are you saying he isn't the typical politician that uses his position to amass wealth? That's exactly why he's so beloved.

Yes, the blacks won the Southern states for her. She's also hitting the nursing homes hard to get all the alzheimers patients to cash early votes for her. Bill has broken several rules as well during these primary elections tbf.

I'm saying that anyone who's been collecting $174,000 in salary for the time that he has should not be in credit card debt, that it is su ious for ANYONE to have all their assets in their spouse's name only and that 40 is very old to be collecting anyone's first steady paycheck. As a result of all these flags, I would not want a person with such poor personal finances involved with the country's finances.