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Hillary Clinton

BobbyDrake

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7. Media perception and optics still matter, though. The narrative can't be fixed overnight

Reply to CajunBlazer (Reply #5)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:36 PM

Jul 2016

if some folks make the mistake of screwing it up on Day 1. The media is already using the dead-enders behavior to establish false equivalence with the RNC's hatefest.

This outcome is infuriating because it was perfectly avoidable.

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"We are being played" [View all] EileenFB Jul 2016 OP

"You have to stand for something... yallerdawg Jul 2016 #1

Sanders' un-Democratic delegates are giving the media everything it asked for and then some. BobbyDrake Jul 2016 #2

The few Sanders or Bust people at the convention are totally ineffective... CajunBlazer Jul 2016 #5

Media perception and optics still matter, though. The narrative can't be fixed overnight BobbyDrake Jul 2016 #7

I don't know what meda you have been watching... CajunBlazer Jul 2016 #8

OK... BobbyDrake Jul 2016 #9

No, I watch TV networks which try their best to be unbiased CajunBlazer Jul 2016 #11

CNN is your "unbiased" source of news? The network that put Trumps campaign manager on the payroll? BobbyDrake Jul 2016 #12

Yep and they put many democrative operatives on the payroll as well CajunBlazer Jul 2016 #13

I didn't claim to watch unbiased news. You did, and failed to present an example. BobbyDrake Jul 2016 #16

This isn't debating match CajunBlazer Jul 2016 #17

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2016 #14

Sounds reasonable CajunBlazer Jul 2016 #15

Hard to argue that we are not. 2naSalit Jul 2016 #3

We are being played by our media who still pretend to be our 4th Estate but are really BlueCaliDem Jul 2016 #4

I like you a lot Cali, but that is total BS CajunBlazer Jul 2016 #6

Come on now Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2016 #10