Sanders not surprised ‘media establishment’ backing Clinton

[n2doc]

In the wake of the Des Moines Register’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Sunday said he is not surprised to learn that the “media establishment” is backing the front-runner’s presidential bid.

“We are taking on the economic establishment, we’re taking on the political establishment and, with all due respect, we are taking on the media establishment,” Sanders said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“I expect that Secretary Clinton will get a lot of the endorsements from mainstream media, but I have the endorsement – and I’m very proud to say – of 2.5 million individual contributions to my campaign,” he added.

Sanders also said he disagreed with the Register’s reasoning that Clinton is the most qualified candidate in terms of foreign policy experience, pointing to her vote for the war in Iraq as a senator.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/266835-sanders-not-surprised-media-establishment-backing-clinton

[merrily]

1. I'm not impressed, Bernie.

No one is surprised that the media establishment is backing Hillary.

Five to seven mega corporations have been controlling most of our news media for years, thanks to lowering of anti-monopoly standards.

[n2doc]

2. I wish he would start criticizing her SOS tenure as well

The Iraq vote can be dismissed as a going-along-with-the-times (cough Krugman cough) but her bloodthirsty middle eastern and central American actions and preferences are worse, because they show a consistent neocon character.

[merrily]

3. He and O'Malley have both gone after her on regime change during the debates.

I haven't listened to one of his rally speeches in a while, though.

[n2doc]

5. That's good. I haven't been watching the debates

Makes my blood pressure rise too much. I already know who I am voting for….

[Proserpina]

4. With any luck, it won't come to that

The Party is fractured enough.

[kennetha]

6. That would be sort of dicey wouldn't it?

Cause she worked for President Obama. She was his choice for SOS. Ultimately her policies were his policies.

Also, is Bernie saying that because she voted for the Iraq war, she isn't qualified to be commander in chief and president? If so, what does he think of Obama elevating her, after he defeated her partly because of that vote, to Secretary of State?

Not really an easy argument for Sanders to make, without picking a fight with the Obama administration.

[n2doc]

7. True. But HRC was known for being more hawkish than the President

Don't know if that nuance can be captured. She was frustrated that the President wasn't more of a war monger.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/the-obama-clinton-detente-how-long-will-it-last-109970

In “Hard Choices,” which she was promoting in the interview with Goldberg, Clinton devoted a chapter to the mess in Syria, a topic that was one of her key policy differences with Obama. Shortly before she left the State Department, she and then-CIA head David Petraeus advocated a plan to arm Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assad’s regime — a plan Obama nixed.

In the Goldberg interview, however, she used more pointed language than in the past, describing Obama’s decision against aiding the rebels as a “failure.” But her toughest words were about Obama’s overall approach on foreign policy, which some of the president’s advisers have described as “Don’t do stupid sh—,” or “Don’t do stupid stuff.”

“Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle,” she said.

[ViseGrip]

8. While getting that 'experience', Hillary used bad judgement. She's been appointed, but will now

not be rehired like when she was sent to the senate. she's done. hill and bill both in elected office.