I just love the msm - Hillary sealed up the nomination & Cruz gets to live another day becuz

[jillan]

he won 2 states.

Yes, this was a conversation just heard on msnbc.

I don't know if I should laugh or scream.

[dchill]

1. Live a little. Do both!

[jalan48]

2. They've been working against Bernie since day one. Fired Ed Schultz just before primary season.

And yet he keeps winning.

[olddots]

3. theese news stations are like a S.N.L. show

they have 3 minutes of material and an hour to fill .

[840high]

4. I'm so happy I dropped cable.

[CoffeeCat]

5. CNN has clearly stated that Bernie has earned the right to stay in and that he should

stay in.

I heard that Chris Matthews is being a dick. We all know that his wife is trying to get a Congressional seat and Chris is just being a pansy panderer.

He has no credibility.

It was interesting listening to Rubio, Cruz and Kasich arguing that they are in it for the long haul. Rubio said that he cares about this country and he will fight until the end to win--he doesn't care.

It's pretty difficult for anyone to make the case that Bernie should drop out--when you have three Republican candidates openly fighting like hell to take this to the convention.

It sure makes it more difficult for the media to argue that Bernie should get out--especially when he is winning states.

[jillan]

8. Cnn has been doing a much better job covering

The primaries.

[SoapBox]

16. A few minutes ago

saw The Rube almost spitting, as was on a rant about Rump...kept calling him a fraud (so I did have to laugh!) Charlie Rose was the interviewer but couldn't even speak...he even looked way down, like he just wanted to walk off.

[yourpaljoey]

29. I was giving out Bernie stickers last night, there was great enthusiasm everywhere

The momentum is building

[Cleita]

6. I just ran across this about Melissa Harris Perry.

Seems she's not quitting M$NBC quietly.

http://www.thewrap.com/melissa-harris-perry-claims-culture-of-fear-at-msnbc-during-twitter-explosion/

Melissa Harris-Perry Claims ‘Culture of Fear’ at MSNBC During Twitter Explosion

We might have found the Kanye West of cable news.

Melissa Harris-Perry's tenure at MSNBC came to an end this week when she refused to host her show after being bumped for political coverage on numerous occasions in recent weeks.

Now Harris-Perry has taken to Twitter to bash MSNBC president Phil Griffin, apologize to former colleagues, and accuse MSNBC of having a "culture of fear." She also posted some charts about diversity in news and credited the work of her staff.

See her tweets below.

more at link.

She was a Bernie supporter too.

[jillan]

7. Msnbc has become very white.

Joy Reid gone. Martin Basir. Gone. Rev Al moved to Sunday morning when most people are sleeping. There was a guy named Lee that was not white- not sure what his nationality is - a fill in on the weekends. Craig Melvin? Where is he? There was a handsome black guy that was covering Ferguson. Where is he? All that's really left us Tamron.

Interesting isn't it?

[Cleita]

9. Don't forget Karen Finney. Even if she was a Hillary supporter she was African American too.

Yep, the new owners definitely are members of the good ole boys' country club.

[jillan]

13. Right! She was one of my favs. I was sad when they cancelled her show.

[hopemountain]

19. karen finney left to work for hillary

she was on cnn on monday.

[Cleita]

22. That's not how it happened. Her show was canceled. Then she went to work for Hillary.

That's the truth.

[hopemountain]

30. thanks for setting the facts straight, cleita

[Matariki]

10. That's kind of unprofessional of her

I mean I can see her frustration, but I don't think she's going about it in a way that helps her.

[Cleita]

11. I really liked her show. I'm disappointed. I'm glad she's not going quietly into the night

like the rest of the liberal hosts the suits have scraped off as if they were barnacles on the hull of their ship.

[Matariki]

12. I liked her show too.

Seems like the way the industry works. Media in this country sucks.

[jillan]

14. That was pretty crappy that they didn't let her cover the election, at least be on a panel.

[hopemountain]

20. so now they are demonizing her

as the kanye west of cable news. also calling her a "diva".
more power to melissa! she is correct and justified in the msnbc realignment and hostile work environment. i support her regardless which candidate she supports. i personally understand the experience of being a professional working in a hostile setting and being attacked as "angry" "uppity", etc.. of course, those words are no longer pc - so now, it's being a 'kanye west' or a 'diva'. fuck that shit.

[Cleita]

23. I totally agree and frankly, I'm not watching that news channel anymore or any of them.

Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell have censored themselves so much and talk so much about the Trump and the rest of the Republicans that they miss whole swathes of real news they should be commenting on.

[delrem]

15. Rachel Maddow said it herself, she loves horserace politics.

I think a big problem is that the horserace politics that fuels the MSM happens over such an enormous stretch of time. Close on 2 yrs. That's ... my sainted mother would say it's unacceptable.

In Canada the time between the dropping of the writ saying the election is on and the election itself is approx 10 wks.

So it happened in a blink while the circus to the south invented "BernieBros" and went Trump-magic, wondering why it all got so fucked up.

________

I think that once one has the idea of "democracy" it becomes a matter of process, of ways to implement it for best effect. I read a wiki account of democracy in Columbia, SA, after a coup that overthrew a democratically elected government. The democracy invented after the coup was an agreement to implement a duopoly portraying an antagonism between self-styled left/right liberal/conservative parties, where the coupmasters, the oligarchs, shared power because they shared the same objectives w.r.t. economic overlordship. It didn't work so well.

I wonder, is it because they didn't learn well enough from the example of the USA? Is it an intrinsically unstable pattern, because it's dependent on exploitation?

[Cleita]

24. Well, the horse race isn't about over reporting on the losers and that's what's happening. eom

[hillarysong2016]

17. Someone should create a parody movie about this, kind of like idiocracy but about

the media....and maybe in 10 years someone will indeed make a movie..."In tonight's news, Candidate Officially Lesser Evil Republican has 1 delegate to Official Most Evil Republican's 2,000 - we talk to an expert who explain why 'it ain't over!' In other news, Candidate Pinko socialist commie lost 48% to 52%...a DEVASTATING loss...we speak with three experts on how Official Democratic Establishment Candidate has things all-but-locked-up"

[deepestblue]

18. Re: the msm

The current delegate count headline on CNN includes superdelegates in order to give the impression that she has an insurmountable lead. MSNBC is also going with these totals on the screen. Right....because we all know that all of the early racked up superdelegates didn't switch to Obama in '08 when the will of the voters was said and done. The screen also erroneously says "Trump and Clinton Win Big on Super Tuesday."

A major takeaway from the election cycle to this point is the MSM can spin as often as they want, but the fact is that many voters are preferring Sanders...enough to give him very convincing wins in various states. As the campaign moves away from traditionally republican states, this can only be seen as a great sign for the future of the Sanders candidacy.

[Enthusiast]

21. More of us should boycott MSNBC.

[Cleita]

25. I second, third and fourth that. eom

[Merryland]

26. I stopped watching the networks

because they are so full of it. They are what the Soviet Union was doing with Pravda in the old days.

[Faux pas]

27. Those of us with

a heart and brain get it. No matter how much the 1% want us to dry up and blow away, I AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.

[onecaliberal]

28. M$HRC can keep hoping but it is NOT going to happen. Convention or bust baby.