Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumWashington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours
In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday, March 6, to 3:54 PM EST Monday, March 7a window that includes the crucial Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, and the next mornings spin:
March 6, 10:20 PM: Bernie Sanders Pledges the US Wont Be No. 1 in Incarceration. Hell Need to Release Lots of Criminals
March 7, 12:39 AM: Clinton Is Running for President. Sanders Is Doing Something Else
March 7, 4:04 AM: This Is Huge: Trump, Sanders Both Using Same Catchphrase
March 7, 4:49 AM: Mental Health Patients to Bernie Sanders: Dont Compare Us to the GOP Candidates
March 7, 6:00 AM: Excuse Me, Im Talking: Bernie Sanders Shuts Down Hillary Clinton, Repeatedly
March 7, 9:24 AM: Bernie Sanderss Two Big Lies About the Global Economy
March 7, 8:25 AM: Five Reasons Bernie Sanders Lost Last Nights Democratic Debate
March 7, 8:44 AM: An Awkward Reality for Bernie Sanders: A Strategy Focused on Whiter States
March 7, 8:44 AM: Bernie Sanders Says White People Dont Know What Its Like to Live in a Ghetto. About That
March 7, 11:49 AM: The NRA Just Praised Bernie Sanders and Did Him No Favors in Doing So
March 7, 12:55 PM: Even Bernie Sanders Can Beat Donald Trump
March 7, 1:08 PM: What Bernie Sanders Still Doesnt Get About Arguing With Hillary Clinton
March 7, 1:44 PM: Why Obama Says Bank Reform Is a Success but Bernie Sanders Says Its a Failure
March 7, 2:16 PM: Heres Something Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders Have in Common: And the Piece of the Argument That Bernie Doesnt Get Quite Right.
March 7, 3:31 PM: Excuse Me!: Bernie Sanders Doesnt Know How to Talk About Black People
March 7, 3:54 PM: And the Most Partisan Senator of 2015 Is
Bernie Sanders!
All of these posts paint his candidacy in a negative light, mainly by advancing the narrative that hes a clueless white man incapable of winning over people of color or speaking to women. Even the one article about Sanders beating Trump implies this is somehow a surprisedespite the fact that Sanders consistently out-polls Hillary Clinton against the New York businessman.
There were two posts in this time frame that one could consider neutral: These Academics Say Bernie Sanders College Plan Will Be a Boon for African-American Students, Will It? and Democratic Debate: Clinton, Sanders Spar Over Fracking, Gun Control, Trade and Jobs. None could be read as positive.
more at link: http://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-on-bernie-sanders-in-16-hours/
mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)Things are only going to get worse as the campaign slogs on. Get used to it.
dchill
(39,724 posts)Fairgo
(1,571 posts)shit snorkle. I think they can stay submerged indefinitely
Donkees
(32,053 posts)"Bernie Sanders Just Unleashed on Media Pundits in the Most Devastating Way Possible"
People are telling us, whether its the Washington Post editorial board or anybody else, our ideas are too ambitious cant happen. Too bold really? Well, heres something which is really bold. In the last 30 years, there has been a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class and working families of this country. The middle class has become poorer and trillions of dollars have been transferred to the top one-tenth of 1 percent Where was The Washington Post to express concern that the middle class was shrinking? Where was The Washington Post talking about this radical transformation of America?
Sanders continued his salvo, fact-checking their record. Check out where all the geniuses on the editorial page were with regard to the invasion of Iraq, Sanders said.
In fact, The Nation reported in 2014 that the Washington Post published more than 140 stories promoting the Iraq War on its front page in the months before the invasion, and the paper received numerous other criticisms for their reporting.
Bernie Sanders famously voted against the Iraq War, contrary to the vast majority of Congress at the time, including Democratic frontrunner and then-Senator Hillary Clinton.
http://usuncut.com/politics/bernie-sanders-response-to-washington-post-editorial-is-perfect/