Another week, another patronizing NY Times article on Bernie's candidacy

[markpkessinger]

Last edited Fri Aug 14, 2015, 09:14 PM - Edit history (1)

There is an article in today's New York Times tiled, Bernie Sanders, an Outlier? The Senator Begs to Differ. It is yet another in a series of pieces in the Times that, while not being overtly negative, nevertheless have carried an unmistakable air of condescension about them. Here are two comments I posted to the article (with the article linked and excerpted after the comments):

Mark Kessinger
49 minutes ago

These patronizing pieces about Bernie Sanders and his candidacy have become really tiresome. Senator Sanders is speaking to issues voters care about, and is doing so in a way that is finding powerful resonance with voters across the political spectrum. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, continues to dodge difficult questions.

And the second comment:

Mark Kessinger
42 minutes ago

The article quotes Senator Warner: "You always know where he stands,”

Yes, I DO know where Bernie Sanders stands. With Hillary Clinton, I know where she stands . . . this week.

[font size=5]Bernie Sanders, an Outlier? The Senator Begs to Differ[/font]
By JASON HOROWITZ AUG. 14, 2015

WASHINGTON — One recent afternoon, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont gave another of the populist speeches that have drawn the largest crowds of the 2016 campaign to his rallies around the country and made him the unexpected rival to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The role of “super PACs” is “corrupt and amounts to legalized bribery,” he bellowed. Waving his arms at his sides, he quoted Abraham Lincoln and shared his own “vision for the future of this country.”

On the campaign trail, the speech would have elicited wild enthusiasm from his liberal supporters. But this was the Senate, which was virtually empty except for Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who was busy editing her own speech, and Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, who was texting.

“You come here, it’s like, ‘O.K., not much response,’ ” Mr. Sanders said with some resignation in his Senate office last week.

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[Enthusiast]

1. The NY Times has become a bad source.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

2. It's been awful on political coverage going back to

the '90s. Malfeasance in some cases.

[Enthusiast]

3. Good thing they're liberal....

[Admiral Loinpresser]

4. LOL. n/t

[sadoldgirl]

5. True, the article was a soft put-down, but

I read a lot of the comments, and, boy, they laid into
the NYT for its negativity. That paper better watches
how it angers its customers.

[SoapBox]

6. That's great!

And I think we need to start kicking some media ass!

[LiberalElite]

7. I think 11 of those comments were mine -

I'm "Lifelong New Yorker."