something like 16 negative stories about Bernie just because the DNC wanted them to? Is the DNC the equivalent of the Russians for the Mainstream media?

When the news refer to Pete Peterson as a philanthropist instead of a lobbying vampire squid, that is propaganda. They do it in a million subtle ways.

Period, end of story.
I read it on a fake news site.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5f57xu/the_american_political...

Good old WaPo, dumbing America down since 1917. Now with more Bezos.

In trying to decide where to even start examining this screed, I realized that there's no point to the effort. This is a narrative developed and repeated for so long that few even hear it anymore, it just is. Point after point, distraction after distraction, it goes all the way around anything that might lead the reader to look at what is.

"Identity Politics" and "Fake News" is what they want you to listen to. Pretend that this election is the result of some "other", be it Russian, Young, Male, or Racist, it most assuredly has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the "party of the people" spent the last decade lowering expectations and telling millions of Americans that they just don't count. That their experience and pain don't really exist, and if they do, they aren't important enough to bother about.

The Clinton campaign literally told America to "quit fucking whining" about not getting their share and now they're all asking each other for some rationalization for losing the nation to a sideshow barker.

American Political Parties Have Broken our Political System. Once we allowed them, they took over the whole system and took it for themselves.

"The capital's paper of record crashes legacy media on an iceberg"

Great article. Thanks for posting.

P.s. Minor point: Matt Taibbi last name needs an 'I' in the title.

It shocks many people to learn the the formerly respected NYT is now widely disrespected. Even my Lefty brother was shocked when I told him my opinion of the NYT--it isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

P.S. Don't actually try using NYT for toilet paper because it will leave black stuff on your butt.

KGB mastermind Vladimir Vladimirovich. Vlad's right hand man in the Kremlin, Akita Inu, has been put in charge of this reverse psychology PSYOP.

The purpose of the PSYOP was to increase American readership of the 200+ websites listed and the Washington Post was chosen because Bezo's has managed to make it "the paper of record" with the largest on-line viewership in the US. WaPo's editor's took the bait. They swallowed it - hook, line and sinker - like a 50 pound pike, and got reeled in by Vlad.

Prior to this operation, less than 0.5% of the US population knew these 200 sites even existed. But now, due to the American penchant for anything new, sources within the Kremlin have reported exponential increases in traffic to their sites - in some cases ten, twenty fold. The Propornot PSYOP has proven to be a resounding success.

BTW, the reason the people behind Propornot cannot be revealed is because many of the names could possibly be tracked back to double agents from the former KGB.