The media attacks on Bernie are really ramping up... This is an EXCELLENT sign!

[reformist2]

It tells me the Establishment is no longer taking the Sanders candidacy as a joke, but as a real threat to the current order in Washington DC.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

[BreakfastClub]

1. In that case, the establishment must hate Hillary. The media attack her constantly. nt

[beedle]

3. Yes, but this is the opposite

first you are crowned the winner, then they fight you, then they ridicule you, then they ignore you.

Hillary is between step 2 & 3.

[Buzz Clik]

2. I listened to an NPR report from Wisconsin yesterday.

The "field" reporter was trashing HRC and singing the praises of Sanders.

Is that a bad sign for Bernie?

[Peace Patriot]

5. "a bad sign for Bernie"? No, but it's a BIG turnaround for NPR!

They have been disgusting in their near complete black-holing of the Sanders campaign.

[Buzz Clik]

6. I think the NPR I listen to is not broadcast to any DU members but me.

But, it's always been that way.

[Onlooker]

4. Well, they've been attacking Hillary forever ...

... Don't know where you learned about the email scandal or Benghazi, for instance, but I learned about it from the establishment. I suppose in that way Bernie supporters are establishment. Hillary has gotten more exposure than Bernie, but so much of it has been negative, so Gandhi's quote applies as much to Hillary as to Bernie IMO.

[reformist2]

9. I hate to break it to you, but the e-mail/server scandal is kind of a big deal.

That doesn't qualify as "attacking" a candidate in the sense that we're talking about.

[Onlooker]

11. No, it's not a big deal

That's why it's been orchestrated into combing through her emails. The fact is that she legally used a private email account, and somehow that has been perverted by the right and left into an excuse to comb through her emails trying to find evidence of wrongdoing. It's a manufactured scandal. The same logic that is allowing them to comb through Hillary's email could be used to comb through any public officials private and public emails. Hillary did nothing wrong, but let's try to find something. Bernie did nothing wrong, but let's go through his emails and try to find something. That the left is buying into a right-wing meme and embracing a corrupt law and order argument is disgusting. At least see through the charade and understand that you are just playing politics, which is what this season is all about.

[beaglelover]

7. NO, it's because they thought he'd be smart enough to get out of the race on his own

once he realized he had no path to the nomination, but since he and his supports are choosing to live in delusional land, the media is giving him a boot in the ass to get him out the door. Thank God.

[longship]

10. Then there's the pre-coronation.

Everybody knows that the US Presidency is inherited, either by son/daughter or by spouse. It's just like England. The head of state is a family affair.

Wait a god damned minute! I think we fought a rather big war to defend our right to NOT have national power being justified by relation.

Looking at Hillary Clinton, I think the founders would be horrified.

[Avalux]

12. Smart enough to get out?

Excuse me, Bernie is winning, and from where I sit there's no reason for him to get out. He has millions of people behind him and that number gets bigger every day.

That's exactly WHY the machine of corporate entities labeled "news" is throwing everything it has at Bernie.

The only people in delusion land are those supporting the candidate who represents everything that's wrong with our top heavy economic system, and it will only get worse if she's elected. I am stupefied at how some Democrats are just fine with the incestuous relationships between corps, billionaires, and Hillary Clinton.

[seabeyond]

8. I will put not back minute men over backing ... anytime.