Rolling Stone endorses Hillary Clinton

[Cryptoad]

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Source: hill

Rolling Stone magazine is endorsing Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.
"Hillary Clinton has an impressive command of policy, the details, trade-offs and how it gets done. It's easy to blame billionaires for everything, but quite another to know what to do about it," editor and publisher Jann S. Wenner said in an editorial published Wednesday.

While praising aspects of Democratic rival Bernie Sanders's call for breaking up the big banks and his emphasis on inequality, Wenner blasted the independent Vermont senator's explanation of a "political revolution" to get his agenda through Congress.

"This is a vague, deeply disingenuous idea that ignores the reality of modern America," Wenner wrote, adding, "I have been to the revolution before. It ain't happening." He also praised Clinton's experience as secretary of State and focus on social justice issues.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/274009-rolling-stone-endorses-hillary

[JonLeibowitz]

1. Matt Taibbi weighs in...

Arguably the leading political voice in Rolling Stone:

As with the Times and other outlets, the editors are entitled to their opinion. It's not mine.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/712474806080446466

He's right, if Wenner, with his $700,000,000 wants to endorse the plutocratic candidate, Wenner has every right to do so.

[MadDAsHell]

2. Is this the magazine facing the $25m lawsuit for defamation and purposely publishing false stories?

http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/12/24/3734983/frat-brothers-lawsuit-uva-rolling-stone/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rolling-stone-sued-by-uva-students-over-rape-story_us_55b94f35e4b0af35367a390d

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/nicole-eramo-sues-rolling-stone-uva_n_7266972.html

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. She is right up there With Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show...

[stonecutter357]

4. K&R!

[KamaAina]

5. Who would ever have thought that Rolling Stone would one day be part of the establishment?

[tabasco]

6. Anyone who realized it would become a multi-million dollar enterprise.

Thanks for asking!

[Zorro]

9. Dontcha know?

Every financially successful business is evil.

[seabeckind]

13. It's all in the goal of the company.

When success is determined only financially, we really shouldn't expect any action that doesn't have a financial motive, should we?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. It was used as an example of anti-establishment at the end of the book "Firestarter".

[PatrynXX]

12. not sure Rolling Stone coming off a fake story

is like all that popular nowadays. Maxim maybe Rolling Stone? hasn't been on the radar since they shrank it.

[Doc_Technical]

7. Those guys at Rolling Stone sold out

It hasn't been the same after they moved
from San Francisco to New York.

[jbeck]

8. I just cancelled my subscription to Rolling Stone

I am so happy that Mr. Wenner in his vaulted position and with his condescending words finds it to be his responsibility to blast Bernie Sanders. I may be a dreamer but I am not the only one.

[Plucketeer]

16. This just shows to go

that short-sightedness and non-comprehension are NOT an exclusive of those in the lower strata of our society.

[jhart3333]

17. Me too.

I'm a dreamer too.

[seabeckind]

10. Ahh, the "no, we can't" argument.

So we shouldn't bother to try.

Rolling Stone started as a counter-argument to the establishment.

They found it's easier to get along if it goes along.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. I half expect to hear a Black Sabbath track used to sell mouthwash.

[LiberalLovinLug]

19. Its as if the "Yes We Can" had been squashed by Obama

Or sabotaged by Obama himself in exchange for membership in The Club. Either way, once the 'No We Can't" had been fully established, and sealed down even further with Obama's second term win, Hillary is simply carrying on Obama's legacy. Its the simplest, easiest route. The now established "No We Can't" meme is the new normal. So when Sanders actually re-animated the "Yes We Can" meme, the DLC establishment were shocked at his popularity because they figured it they had finally killed it, and loyal Democrats had resigned themselves to the "No We Can't" New Corporate Democrat position. The Clintons, the DNC, and the rest of the corporate puppets have moved on even from the Third Way now, and into the Fourth Way. No more triangulating with the Republicans, the new fourth way is to BECOME the Republicans, or at least what they once were.

[mahannah]

15. RS doesn't have much of a clue about music these days either.

[seabeckind]

18. "progressive ideas have a broad popularity"

Yes, they do. And they are implemented when the people speak to the entrenched power base.

This is from an earlier RS article:

Sanders believes that such progressive ideas have a broad popularity, not just among a lefty fringe but across the working class, even in red states. And yet progressive movements in recent years have wound up marginalized in the face of establishment pushback (Dean, the Occupy Wall Street movement) or else, as in the case of support for Obama, left as promises unfulfilled. Sanders believes that by keeping his focus on economic populism, he has a shot — a long one, he admits — at beating the historical odds. "Once you get off of the social issues — abortion, gay rights, guns — and into the economic issues," he says, "there is a lot more agreement than the pundits understand."

(SNIP)

The bigger question facing Sanders, whatever you think about the merits of his ideas, is how he would ever possibly implement them, assuming he's not elected along with a Democratic sweep of both houses of Congress. Sanders, on the stump, praises President Obama for running a brilliant campaign in 2008. But then he goes on to say that the president's biggest mistake ("and I had the opportunity to tell him this — I'm not sure how happy he was to hear it, but that's what I do!&quot was to demobilize his millions of passionate supporters after Election Day: "Politics in Washington is not about a president sitting down with Mitch McConnell or John Boehner and having a drink [and] trying to work it out — that's just media nonsense. You guys want free tuition at public colleges and universities? You bring a million of your friends to march on Washington, D.C.!"

Sanders insists that the nation is less polarized than it is portrayed in the mainstream media. Through the Obama years, the Democratic Party's strategy has been to specifically target the so-called coalition of the ascendant — young people, minorities, college-educated women — by heightening contradictions with the GOP on issues like immigration, LGBT rights, overpolicing and abortion.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/weekend-with-bernie-sanders-20150709#ixzz43l0QCylQ
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"Through the Obama years, the Democratic Party's strategy has been to specifically target the so-called coalition of the ascendant — young people, minorities, college-educated women "

And then promptly forgets the promises -- until the next election or fundraising letter.

Got one of those today from DWS. Time to send off another $50 to Bernie.

[Laser102]

20. Rolling Stone is just one of the many, many, endorsements she has received. Good for her and them.

[azurnoir]

21. Locking not LBN fine for GDP though