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Bernie Blackout by MSM Monopolies

posted 4 years ago by CharlotteXavier (2357)
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This just in from HQ:

“Are you familiar with this phenomenon?

When a poll shows less than favorable news for our campaign, it’s national news. Non-stop. They show it on the screen and pundits talk gleefully about how the campaign is over.

But when a poll shows us winning in an early state, or like this week’s Emerson poll that showed us down 2 nationally to Biden and leading Warren by 4, there’s nary a peep.

It’s the Bernie Blackout.

Now, I am not here to tell you which polls are bad and which ones are good. I am here to tell you that the coverage of the polls seems to correlate well with how good or bad we are doing in them.

I am here to say that we control our own destiny in this race. Not them. Us. And if we keep fighting, if you keep volunteering, if you keep giving what you can when you can, we are going to win.”
Faiz Shakir
Campaign Manager

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Not really sure I'm buying into this. The MSM covers Bernie extensively - just as they did in 2016. They report the ups and downs as they do every candidate. Sounds like his campaign manager feels they're being pushed aside right now - possibly because Biden is taking the spotlight away from the others (THANKS TO T-RUMP) ?

[–] CharlotteXavier (2357) 4 years ago

MSM covers mostly only anything they can put a negative slant on with Bernie. You probably don’t notice because you don’t care, which is fine, but it’s obvious if you pay attention. Bernie has been leading in Nevada, has leads for NH, is tied in California. I’m not denying that some polls show one thing while other polls paint a different picture. What I’m challenging is the blackout by MSM in the polls Bernie is leading in, including against trump in which he blows Biden and warren out of the water in many major polls that you won’t hear about on cable news. Why would you? Bernie poses an existential threat to MSM monopolies so they are little more than propaganda churning machines in regards to reporting on Bernie.

[–] CharlotteXavier (2357) 4 years ago

Here are two recent gems from MSM on Bernie.

1) CNN reported that Bernie had a STROKE. That is a filthy LIE.

2) After the last debate, one of Bernie’s best quotes was attributed to Warren by NBC and then widely circulated around MSM - CNN, NY Mag, Boston Globe, to name just a few:

“ I get a little bit tired, I must say, of people defending a system which is dysfunctional, which is cruel. Eighty-seven million uninsured, thirty-thousand people dying every single year, five-hundred thousand going bankrupt—for what reason?—they came down with cancer.
“I will tell you what the issue is here,” Sanders continued. “The issue is whether the Democratic Party has the guts to stand up to the healthcare industry which made a $100 billion in profits; whether we have the guts to stand up to the corrupt, price-fixing pharmaceutical industy which is charging us the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. If we don’t have the guts to do that—if all we can do is take their money—we should be ashamed of ourselves.”

They ended up making a lame correction that no one saw. Can’t you see how sinister this is? Warren wants to preserve the medical insurance industry so not only is this not her quote, she wouldn’t uphold it and may well take their money for the DNC if she were to win the primary. It’s a bait and switch.

You don’t have to be rooting for the person they’re doing this to, to see the Orwellian nightmare panning out here and if it doesn’t profoundly disturb you, at least listen to them with a healthy dose of scepticism because one day if it suits them, they’ll try to destroy what it is you believe in.