HOW CLINTON MEDIA MACHINE BLOCKED SANDERS CIVIL RIGHTS PLAY

[Uncle Joe]

(snip)

But there were a few big problems. Bernie Sanders’s issues go to the heart of what ails much of Black America. The Bill-and-Hillary record on a number of critical matters, from the incarceration of black youth to the best way to aid struggling black families, youths, single mothers and the unemployed, was at best mixed.

In contrast to Sanders, she is saddled with her closeness to the financial community that has wreaked havoc with the lives of African Americans who are struggling economically. This coziness with representatives of the One Percent goes well beyond delivering well-paid speeches to Goldman Sachs.

Clinton also has been a pumped-up, eager hawk on military action — a position generally unpopular with African Americans, for whom military service has often been a job opportunity of last resort, with the obvious consequences to life and limb. Many other reasons for African Americans not to identify closely with Clinton can be found. She knows this: that’s why she worked so hard to publicly associate herself with President Barack Obama and his policies — though in reality she and the president differed on a number of key points, including her avidity for foreign intervention.

The clincher, though, was surely the revelation that, at the same time the young Hillary Clinton was a proud Goldwater Republican in the early-mid sixties, the young Bernie Sanders was getting arrested as a supporter of civil rights.

(snip)

And so the Clinton PR apparatus, as formidable as any, went to work.

(snip)

And, as reported by the New York Times, although African Americans are turning out for Clinton in very high percentages in the primaries, high enough to damage Sanders, they are not turning out in high numbers — heralding a crisis that could devastate the Democrats in November.

Expect even greater efforts by the Clinton camp to prevent Sanders from getting this story out as the campaign reaches break-point. But will the media provide the analysis voters deserve?

http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/03/03/how-clinton-media-machine-blocked-sanders-civil-rights-play/

This is a good article.

[Cleita]

1. Most of us from the beginning expected dirty tricks.

I'm sure Bernie has too. He served in Congress during the Clinton administration and the Senate when Hillary was a Senator and SOS. I think he knows better than any of us what they will throw his way. I think he has a plan. As Thom Hartmann once said on his show about Bernie, he said no one should underestimate him.

[Uncle Joe]

2. I couldn't agree more, Cleita.

[Punkingal]

26. I saw Howard Dean a couple of times say you shouldn't mess with Bernie.

In reference to red-baiting, he said that only makes him stronger. In reference to the DNC holding his information, Dean said the same thing.

[MaggieD]

55. You mean liking stealing a campaign's data, or faking endorsements?

Or impersonating union workers? Stuff like that?

[Cleita]

57. How about getting a bunch of Las Vegas culinary workers, to caucus while getting

paid at the last minute when it looked like she might lose. Did anyone check if these mostly Filipino and Hispanic workers were citizens even?

Or how about her husband walking around a precinct with a bull horn preventing many from gerting in to vote.

[MaggieD]

58. Huh? You're against people voting?

Why?

[Cleita]

59. Only American citizens are allowed to vote. It's in the Constitution.

If people are at work being paid where their bosses and union reps can see who they are voting for and they all vote for one candidate, that is buying their vote and it's election fraud.

[MaggieD]

60. Caucuses can allow whomever they like

They are governed by the parties - not the constitution. In most states both parties that hold caucuses forbid challenging a caucus attendee's right to vote.

Has this bothered you in other caucus states, or just NV because he lost (despite his campaign stealing data, impersonating union workers, and faking endorsements)?

[Cleita]

62. Only citizens can vote in a federal election, no matter how its done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_foreigners_to_vote_in_the_United_States

The right of foreigners to vote in the United States has historically been a contentious issue. A foreigner, in this context, is an alien, or a person who is not a citizen of the United States.

Under current law, non-citizens are not allowed to vote in federal elections, and it is a federal crime for a non-citizen to vote or register to vote in such an election, punishable by imprisonment and/or the initiation of removal proceedings against that individual.[1]

This is according to US code 611

(a) It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless-
(1) the election is held partly for some other purpose;
(2) aliens are authorized to vote for such other purpose under a State constitution or statute or a local ordinance; and
(3) voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for a candidate for any one or more of such Federal offices.

(b) Any person who violates this section shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to an alien if-
(1) each natural parent of the alien (or, in the case of an adopted alien, each adoptive parent of the alien) is or was a citizen (whether by birth or naturalization);
(2) the alien permanently resided in the United States prior to attaining the age of 16; and
(3) the alien reasonably believed at the time of voting in violation of such subsection that he or she was a citizen of the United States.
(Added Pub. L. 104–208, div. C, title II, §216(a), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–572 ; amended Pub. L. 106–395, title II, §201(d)(1), Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1635 .)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 611, acts June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 724 ; Feb. 7, 1972, Pub. L. 92–225, title II, §206, 86 Stat. 10 ; Oct. 15, 1974, Pub. L. 93–443, title I, §§101(e)(2), 103, 88 Stat. 1267 , 1272, prohibited campaign contributions by government contractors, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–283, title II, §201(a), May 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 496 . See section 30119 of Title 52, Voting and Elections.

Amendments
2000-Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–395 added subsec. (c).

Effective Date of 2000 Amendment
Pub. L. 106–395, title II, §201(d)(3), Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1636 , provided that: "The amendment made by paragraph (1) [amending this section] shall be effective as if included in the enactment of section 216 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–208; 110 Stat. 3009–572). The amendment made by paragraph (2) [amending section 1015 of this title] shall be effective as if included in the enactment of section 215 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–208; 110 Stat. 3009–572). The amendments made by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply to an alien prosecuted on or after September 30, 1996, except in the case of an alien whose criminal proceeding (including judicial review thereof) has been finally concluded before the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 2000]."

You can find it here: http://uscode.house.gov/

[MaggieD]

63. It's not a federal election - it's a nominating contest

All that stuff does not apply. Seems to me his supporters are kind of new to this whole primary thing.

[Cleita]

64. Okay I tried to be reasonable with you, but apparently you will invent your

own reality to suit your purpose. It's still illegal, nominating contest or not. It's part of the selection process for President of the United States and only US citizens can do it LEGALLY.

[MaggieD]

65. I'm telling you reality

I've been involved in this stuff for 38 years. Caucus rules forbid challenging the attendee's right to caucus. So you can let your imagination run wild, but you are making baseless allegations.

[Cleita]

66. I didn't make the rules. They are there on the government websites to read. eom

[MaggieD]

67. Apparently you do not understand caucus rules

And you don't want to because it doesn't advance your argument.

Have a nice day.

[Segami]

3. "..The Bush campaign ...

— with brilliant dirty tricks performed at a safe distance for deniability — turned around a difficult situation and buried an inconvenient fact about W. that could have cost him key support in battleground states. Is the Clinton campaign doing the same thing?..."

Same play book.....

[Uncle Joe]

4. They absolutely are.

[karynnj]

44. Yes, trying to distort that Bernie actually had a real record on civil rights is absolutely in line

with the swiftboating in 2004. There is a difference in the virulence - as the Bush allies attempted to make Kerry's service a negative rather than a zero. Bush allies went beyond diminishing or questioning Kerry's real heroism - they claimed he was both a coward and guilty of war crimes.

Here, it seems that the Clinton allies simply wanted to zero out Bernie's actions in the civil rights movement. They are not suggesting Bernie did anything wrong, but rather that he was not significantly committed. This in spite of Bernie joining CORE, taking a year off college, and getting arrested. Keep in mind, that Bernie was not the son of the upper class, where he was guaranteed a place in society when he chose to return to it.

Part of doing this was to argue that the problem was all in the south. The Chicago area candidate is trying to make the real racism of Chicago disappear - effectively erasing Bernie's activism and the lack of activism there by HRC. It is interesting that this appears to have worked in Boston, Massachusetts. Like Chicago, Boston had race problems in the past. They, of all people, have to know that it was not just in the south that this had to be fought. They also had a front row seat in 2008 as HRC angrily fought Obama using race whenever it could help her.

I remember in 2005 or 2006 being horrified when Wolfson, a Clinton ally spoke of how what he learned in 2004 was that swiftboating worked and the Democrats should use it.

[AtomicKitten]

50. It is absolutely reminiscent of the Swift Boat Liars.

Hillary's 'by any means necessary' campaign is drawing tactics from some unsavory sources.

[Hydra]

5. It's a shame that PoCs get so ripped off like this

Bernie is probably the best advocate minorities could ask for, but the Clinton machine somehow spins that as a negative and Hillary herself as part of the outside classes.

Maybe that's why the turnout is so low. The establishment seems to shoot for apathy as much as victory.

[Uncle Joe]

10. I don't believe the African American community is enthralled with Hillary and apathy

is definitely part of HRC and Schultz's game plan, the highly limited number of and ridiculously scheduled debates combined with the corporate media conglomerates' blackout of Bernie for most all of last year as an attempt to protect Hillary's greatest strength; name recognition, while allowing the Republicans to rule the airwaves are a testament to this.

I feel the same way as you, Hydra.

One thing is for certain, the corporate media conglomerates have done a major job on the American People.

It will take nothing less than relentless and intrepid perseverance by the American People to overcome this.

[Hydra]

11. I'm sure you're correct, I don't think the PoC communities are super warm for Clinton

But the thing is, Bernie's record should have been a major draw, but Team Hill successfully framed the civil rights movement as being too far away from today to have mattered.

That's kinda like saying the suffragettes did nothing of importance and should be ignored.

[Uncle Joe]

12. While at the same time they disregard or ignore Bernie's later words and actions in support

of the African American Community throughout his career, whether it be his support for Jessie Jackson, protecting welfare, arguing against mass incarceration, always fighting to increase the minimum wage and against war except for a last resort, not a matter of shaping the world to our corporate benefactors' desires.

These actions and policies disproportionately affect the weakest among us and minorities in particular.

I do believe when some people get to the top, too many of them forget where they came from regardless of race.

[jillan]

6. It's over - they succeeded. Once the media started falling for it & spreading the bs daily,

they won. Mission accomplished. A very successful smear campaign.

[AzDar]

7. K & R

[dreamnightwind]

8. Great article by a man who knows of what he speaks

Russ Baker is the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4274612-family-of-secrets

This tactic by the Clinton campaign, and her Democratic and media proxies, is one of the more disgusting ones I have ever seen. Very sad to see how effective it has been.

Too often, power rather than justice decides the victor.

It ain't over yet, but her "firewall" has been very effectively constructed, and the propaganda catapulted far and wide.

[Uncle Joe]

13. I agree on all counts, dreamnightwind.

Peace to you.

[Enthusiast]

24. Huge +1!

[KoKo]

46. ...!

[SammyWinstonJack]

56. This makes me despise her even more! She's disgusting and doesn't deserve the nomination.

[grasswire]

9. wow, Russell Baker!!

[Betty Karlson]

14. K&R for truth!

[OZi]

15. Good stuff.

Thanks for sharing.

[Paka]

16. Too many disgusting techniques to even count any more.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. This is so depressing,

especially because it seems like you can't even bring these things up without being accused of "whitesplaining" or whatever. I don't even try.

[PatrickforO]

18. Hoodwinked by race politics.

Sad, and we can be guaranteed that the corporate elites are laughing because once again we have allowed ourselves to be divided instead of being united against the people who are actually the problem - the 1%.

[Beartracks]

19. "Although AAs are turning out for Clinton in very high percentages...

... in the primaries, high enough to damage Sanders, they are not turning out in high numbers — heralding a crisis that could devastate the Democrats in November."

A very important point.

It's too bad Bernie's being blocked from the very people who really need to know more about him.

=================

[Loudestlib]

20. They "Swift-boated" Bernie's civil rights record.

[Dr. Strange]

69. Yup--Bernie got Capeharted.

[senz]

21. We watched it play out on DU even worse than the article portrayed it

We not only witnessed OPs denying Bernie's youthful Civil Rights activism, we watched for months as Hill supporters tried to drive a wedge between Bernie, with his lifetime advocacy for PoC, and AAs. We were treated to endless nonsense OPs about "Bernie's problem with African Americans," and saw numerous OPs falsifying his respectful relationship with BLM protesters.

Now we know why they did it: the Hill campaign knew that she couldn't win without the AA vote, and since her record with AA issues is quite checkered, and in some places dreadful ("superpredators," welfare reform), they had to ignore and/or falsify Bernie's record.

It's pretty sad when the only way you can win is through deflection and falsehood.

Thank you for an interesting OP, Uncle Joe.

[Enthusiast]

23. Yooge plus one!

[FlatBaroque]

32. To each and every Hillary supporter who pushed this strategy at DU I can say only one thing:

[Vattel]

39. +1,000

[Enthusiast]

22. Kicked and recommended to the Max!

[EffieBlack]

25. You know we can see this thread, right?

Nothing like watching white folks chat amongst themselves about how and why black people vote, ring their hands about how upset and depressed they are that we're getting "ripped off," and conclude that that we're not supporting their candidate, not because we're thinking, rational people, but because we've been tricked by "propaganda."

Yet, when we speak for ourselves and try tell you what we think and what motivates us, we're shouted down, told "you don't speak for all black people," mocked, often silenced and more often just ignored by the very people who then go into other threads to discuss us and draw their own conclusions in hopes that we won't get in the way of the conversation by trying to have about us but without us.

Fascinating.

[CentralMass]

27. If you have spoken as to what motivates you and why you are voting for Hillary please point us to it

[EffieBlack]

30. We have spoken about it repeatedly. It's all over DU and elsewhere

If you have never seen it, you haven't been paying attention.

[CentralMass]

33. I'get asked this question point blank probably a dozen times and never get a succinct answer.

[Uncle Joe]

48. I'm happy you can see this, lest DU is having a major technological glitch but

this isn't a case of "white folks chatting amongst themselves about how and why black people vote" this discussion/thread/article is open to all races as it should be.

[TM99]

53. We aren't all white.

Thank you very much.

And the race baiting start one day after Sanders formal announcement with a Cha hit piece and the first of many Cali-Democrat count the color folks at his rally posts.

Deny it all you want. Pretend it is about some sanctimonious attack on the progressive whites here who wonder why this is so effective. But it is real. Swift-boating works. If it didn't, then it wouldn't be a strategy. And the process has been a very long time in American politics.

[bvar22]

61. Please enlighten us.

What has ANY Clinton ever done for PoC?

*Mass Incarcerations disproportionately minorities

*Private Prisons, disproportionately filled with PoC

*Draconian Mandatory Sentencing Laws that affected Poc disproportionately

*Welfare Deform

*Outsourcing and (so called) Free Trade that put downward pressure on jobs, wages, and benefits, that caused those barely hanging on to drop into abject poverty,
disproportionately affecting minorities


So give me a list.
I have also asked this question numerous times on DU, and never gotten an answer.
Only insults.

[Gwhittey]

68. Wow

How in hell do you know who in here is black, white or anything? Do you know I am part Native American decent? How would you know that unless I told you? Oh that right you bought into the meme that only white men support Sanders. Hey your know a Arab newspaper just endorsed him?

[asuhornets]

28. The Clinton Machine

did not block anything. Sanders never had a chance with POC, he was not there in the beginning and he definitely was not there in the end. The Clintons have been there since day one. They build the relationships with POC for over 30 years. Sanders could not compete with that. You thought Sanders was going to be able to drop out of the sky and become the Democratic nominee after being a Democrat for 8 months. It doesn't work that way. You have to put in the work.

[Vinca]

34. I'm always amused at the "Clintons have done so much for POC" posts when the exact

opposite is true. She does have a knack for pandering, though, I'll give her that.

[asuhornets]

35. She has been winning the POC by 84% to 16%. That's incredible.

[Vinca]

40. It is incredible. Especially given the results of policies the Clintons have supported

and enacted over the past 2+ decades. I honestly do not understand the reason for their overwhelming support.

[asuhornets]

41. The Clintons

have been there since day one, period. There is nothing to understand. Bill Clinton created 23 million jobs that benefited all groups of people-those jobs put many POC in the middle class. We will never forget that.

[Vinca]

47. You point out exactly what I don't understand.

The jobs helped everyone, not just POC, and in the end - after Bill signed NAFTA - we lost more jobs than we gained. There's a reason Main Streets are ghost towns. I heard a comment today that black people like Hillary because she's advocating community policing. Okay. That's fine, but isn't that a policy that applies to everyone? I was a cop in the 1980's and we were practicing community policing then. This isn't a ground breaking policy, it's just lip service. It seems for Bernie to make inroads in the AA community, he must insert the word "black" into his policy positions. It doesn't seem to matter that what he proposes will help everyone. From now on, think of it as Medicare for all black people, free public college for all black students, a reversal of trade policies that stole black jobs, etc.

[asuhornets]

49. Not at all..

Bernie does not need to black policies.You speak of NAFTA,most people don't even know what that is-black or white. Bill Clinton policies gave everyone more disposal income. That's what you are missing.

[Vinca]

51. The key word is "everyone."

Bill Clinton - and Hillary - worked for everyone. Bernie's proposals would be great for everyone - just like the Clinton's. So what's the difference? Is it a celebrity thing like the Trump phenomena? Bernie hasn't been front and center for decades on end so he's not as well known. Is it an age thing? Religion? There's no obvious reason why black voters should so obviously disrespect a man who put everything on the line for civil rights back in the day and is now offering plans that would benefit them more than what Hillary has proposed. I'm just puzzled by it all.

[asuhornets]

71. Your words:

"There's no obvious reason why black voters should so obviously disrespect a man who put everything on the line for civil rights back in the day and is now offering plans that would benefit them more than what Hillary has proposed." Black people are not disrespecting him. As far as Trump, black folks ain't voting for him. And yea u r right, he is not well known. His age-I don't think that matters. Bernie did not make himself well known sooner.

[Uncle Joe]

72. It was never about "me" with Bernie, he served as Mayor, Congressman, Senator and is now

running for President to change our corrupted and dysfunctional system.

I believe Citizens United was the straw that broke the camel's back insofar as spurring Bernie to run for President, in regards to saving our democratic republic; such as it is, time is of the essence.

[asuhornets]

73. I hear ya passion..n/t

[eridani]

74. Putting PoC in jail since day 1, you mean? n/t

[Nanjeanne]

29. Well this is politics as usual - and will not change until people really get sick and tired of this.

It's the kind of beating down that keeps good people out of politics and many voters demoralized. It's not that Sanders people aren't coming out to vote - it's that they keep hearing from the media that it's a done deal - Clinton has clinched it - the superdelegates are all in her corner - so why bother . . . and we just keep getting more of the same.

[kgnu_fan]

31. kick

[lumberjack_jeff]

36. Clinton is making a great deal of effort to discourage people from voting.

Gone are the days of DNC registration tables at local colleges.

[bigtree]

37. this is more of the 'low information voter' bullshit

...just another way to push that despicable excuse for Sanders not attracting more black voters. In this absurd revisionism, black voters are somehow different and apart from white voters in their ability to gather information on these candidates and make a decision based on the merits of these candidates.

Goddamn disgusting.

[SidDithers]

38. But Bernie marched with Martin...

That's not enough?

Sid

[bigtree]

43. is that right?

Propane Jane @docrocktex26
We were told to just give Bern some time to introduce himself back in July, but now it's (March) and it's our fault for not being impressed.

[asuhornets]

42. Bernie's misstep

was thinking POC were angry with President Obama or the Clintons.

[Uncle Joe]

70. Your misstep is in believing that Bernie is running a race; based on "personalities" and not

recognizing that Bernie and his message are about critical issues, policies and how mega-bucks have corrupted the system, hampering the government's ability to represent the best interests of the American People.

The system has become dysfunctional, that's what Bernie and the movement are about.

[KoKo]

45. Recommend!

Thank You, Uncle Joe. A very interesting read.

Just looking at the timeline in the article one can't ignore the "Dirty Tricks."

And, look at what just went on in Massachusetts polling places where Bernie and Hillary were neck and neck in polls. Networks didn't even call the MA vote until around midnight that night because it was so close. I don't see MSM covering that when it was really voter intimidation, by a former President to help his wife, that caused many not to be able to vote because of the disrupton. Bill knew which polling places to target that would help Hillary. Instead of covering that and the Bernie Chicago Photo all we get from MSM is Trump and Rubio's "body part size" confrontation covered 24/7. And, Jonathan Capehart is still out there as a Media Consultant prattling his stuff.

[Bread and Circus]

52. This is been a big con game and a lot on DU have played right along. Dispicable.

I hope they get what they deserve.

[questionseverything]

54. the clinton plan for decades seems to be

to bankrupt the country by making taxpayers pay to have their own kids locked up by the war on drugs especially mj

why anyone supports that i do not understand