Rachel on the Senators endorsements of BS and HRC...

[islandmkl]

she only repeated "40 Senators have endorsed Hillary...40....40 sitting Senators...40...and only ONE...just ONE...ONE has endorsed Bernie Sanders" in that mocking tone of hers, the one where she wants to make sure you get the 'intellectual' point she is making...and she IS smart and we all know that, so the hyperbolic bullshit gets a little old but it is one of her shticks..

all as a means to introduce Senator Merkley...at least she is giving him airtime...

we shall see how it goes...

[noretreatnosurrender]

1. And that one Senator

who bucked the establishment is far more important to me than all of those 40 establishment Senators combined.

[revbones]

3. So true. nt

[Zira]

6. +1

[CorporatistNation]

22. TOTALLY!

RACHEL... THE PUREST OF SHILLS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT... MUST BE THOSE $7MILLION SMACKERS!

[Gwhittey]

23. For 7 mil a year

I would be throwing you all under the bus too. Sorry but I am a Democrat Whore who just has not had the money offered to me.

[dchill]

33. She has no option...

If she wants the money.

[Trajan]

2. I guess I'm glad you are following this

I stopped watching national news media during Dim Son's coronation ...

Funny - that's when I spotted the famous Democratic Underground banner on the teevee ....

The rest, they say, is history ...

[islandmkl]

5. i only dropped in because an earlier post said they were covering Bernie's speech...

when I got there (online) they were on Cruz and some bs so I tabbed back over to the speech feed...when i went back to the M$NBC tab there were pictures of 5 Senators on the screen, who happened to be the previously uncommitted Democrats...so I had to turn up the volume to see what it was all about..

she treated Merkley fairly it seemed...and then I exited as it appears she is on a 'Senator' theme...and the HRC parade is coming up...

she is digging way too hard these days...but that could be said for about all the pundits...

[2cannan]

12. I was standing next to the DU banner that day!

God it felt so good to be able to scream and boo those thieves Bush and Cheney that day.

[moondust]

4. Sen. Merkley hit it out of the park!

He knows exactly what he's doing and doing it very, very well.

[Kittycat]

25. When is he up for reelection?

Does he need a fund drive started, as a Thank you? I know there are a Few other candidates that came out in an announcement today that Bernie is helping, aside from our regular Berniecrat list. Just something we should keep in mind, and keep sharing as well continue our support for Bernie.

[DesertFlower]

7. now senator chris murphy is on. he's a hillary

supporter, but says we have 2 great candidates.

he's also expressing his views very well.

[DesertFlower]

8. guess no one is interested in what he said.

[Armstead]

11. He did a good job. He is a good surrogate for Clinton

He was fair to both not inflammatory. He said either would be a great president like he meant it, and reasonably explained why he was supporting Clinton without putting sanders down.

A marked contrast to someone like Barney Frank.

[DesertFlower]

13. yes he did. i haven't heard many

of her surrogates put sanders down.

even though i voted for hillary i think bernie has some great ideas and if he is the nominee he will get more support.

[Agschmid]

20. +1

[moondust]

9. He should know better.

He knows something about foreign policy and therefore should know perfectly well that HRC is the wrong person to put in charge of foreign policy.

He's doing everything he can to rationalize his endorsement of her but I suspect he knows deep down that it's not really a very good idea. As a junior senator he may have been pressured by the establishment into making that endorsement. CT is also pretty closely tied into Wall Street.

[DesertFlower]

14. pressured? i've heard people say

her surrogates have been threatened. they act like the clintons are the "mob".

Jesus Hussein Christ -- enough is enough.

[moondust]

15. It doesn't take overt threats.

There are lots of more subtle ways of applying pressure.

[DesertFlower]

17. right. all 40 senators have

been pressured. do you know how insulting that is to them?

[moondust]

18. Nobody is saying that

"all 40 senators have been pressured." You're making that up. That you, Brock?

Welcome to ignore.

[DesertFlower]

19. thanks. i don't want to hear

anything more from someone as dense as you.

[oasis]

36. Stay strong. Only a wee bit to go now before all of us are ignored.

The NY primary can't get here fast enough.

Oh happy day.

[tblue37]

30. We do. When I see the Republican candidates or hear any of them speak, it

just makes me that much prouder of the quality of our candidates (and that includes O'Malley, who is still young, so I hope to see him in national politics for a long time, and maybe on the presidential ticket someday, too).

[snowy owl]

10. It was during the carnival introduction that I turned the channel knowing what was next...

then I turned back many minutes later and found her interviewing a dem who endorsed Hillary and turned again because it was just more propaganda for Clinton. I never stay but my curiosity gets the best of me. I'm always sorry.

BTW, 27,000 at rally today for Bernie - all time high. 24,000 for Obama in 2008. And so many of those people probably not able to vote. Pretty sad. Maybe Warren will be Bernie's successor in 2020 after Hillary shows her real colors.

[tblue37]

31. NYPD says 48,000, because another 20,000 or so couldn't fit into the park. nt

[snowy owl]

16. Watching CNN last night, Republican voter said voting Kasich in primary but Bernie in general

I loved that. She said closed primary and she had to vote republican.

[Lil Missy]

21. Sounds rather petty. It's her job to report facts, not sugar coat them for you. n/t

[knixphan]

24. It's actually just as much editorial

She makes it clear that her opinions take center.

[Skwmom]

26. Not just smart, but according to the MSNBC promo "arguably the smartest person in tv."

Hmmm.... maybe that's why Larry O'Donnell is trying to one up her.

[madamesilverspurs]

27. It's a valid point

that those who have worked with him for years aren't endorsing him.

You want her to pretend otherwise?

[delrem]

32. I certainly don't.

I think she ought to make it a fair issue, and not deliver it as a neener-neener type of moment.

I think discrepancies between primary results, and some of the political constituencies these endorsers represent, should be an issue.
And there are discrepancies. There are super-delegates who've declared that they don't care that their state Dems voted overwhelmingly for Sanders, they are honor bound to support Clinton.

That seems to be a fair question to delve into, in general, instead of spending 3/4 of the MSNBC time promoting Trump, the rest of the time promoting some idea of "the math of a coronation" -- which is the only way I can phrase it.

[delrem]

28. That kind of repetition is Rachel's drill-sergeant style. You will memorize this!

To my mind it's a bit like Larry King's suspenders.

[MisterP]

34. closer to--

[KPN]

29. Well, one got it right I guess.

Merkely's only 7 years a Senator and already distinguishing himself as a leader in the Senate, not to mention someone who gets things done. He will undoubtedly be one of the folks who plays a huge role in shaping the Party's future. So ... in my view, his endorsement is worth more than any of the other 40 as far as that goes.

[fun n serious]

35. Merckley is my Senator

I am for Hillary but I'm not mad at him. He is a very good progressive Senator. I wish Ron Wyden would be more like Jeff Merckely

[ThePhilosopher04]

37. She has the metaphorical gun to her head. She has no choice but to shill for Hill.

That's what happens when you make 7 million a year. Kinda like what happens when you get 250k from Wall Street to give a single speech. You do what you're told.

[Cali_Democrat]

38. I love Rachel

She's awesome.

I don't watch much cable news, but when I do I watch her.

[Blue_In_AK]

39. I can't watch her anymore.

The repetition was killing me even before she began so noticeably shilling for Hillary.