News Media not covering DNC corruption
Brazile's bombshell was a dud with the broadcast news.
Disgraced former CNN contributor Donna Brazile made explosive allegations that the Democratic National Committee basically rigged the 2016 primary in Hillary Clinton’s favor, but ABC, NBC and CBS’ evening newscasts failed to cover it.
...On Thursday, after CNN and Fox News both covered the Brazile claims, CBS opened with details on the deadly ambush in Niger, while NBC and ABC both opened with the proposed tax cut.
...“NBC Nightly News” didn’t cover the scandal on Thursday, but it was mentioned Friday morning on the “Today” show. A network insider told Fox News that the story is on the rundown for Friday’s edition of “Nightly News.”
ABC and CBS did not immediately respond to request for comment regarding why they failed to cover the bombshell, but Media Research Center News Analyst Nicholas Fondacaro has a theory.
“They didn’t want to ruin their narrative that Clinton was a pure angel who was a victim of Donald Trump and Russian collusion,” Fondacaro wrote.
OK. Disturbing, but at least there is the print media, right?
How does NYTimes cover Donna Brazile's revelation of documentary evidence that Hillary collude with the DNC? With headlines that don't even mention Brazile:
1) Trump Accuses Clinton, DNC of 'Illegally' Coordinating
2) Trump Say American Public 'Deserves' Clinton Investigation
Here's the opening paragraph of article # 1:President Donald Trump is alleging without evidence that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign finance and money laundering laws with the joint fundraising agreement they signed in 2015.
Brazile's revelations appear only the third paragraph, in a manner which goes out of its way to make her allegations seem insubstantial.
Trump's accusation follows Politico's publication of an excerpt from former acting DNC Chair Donna Brazile's upcoming book. Brazile alleges she found "proof" that the 2016 Democratic primary was rigged in Clinton's favor. Brazile writes that she believes no laws were violated.
Note the scare-quotes around "proof"... as if isn't a journalist's whole job to tell us what the actual truth is! Do Brazile's documents prove what she's saying or not? Apparently that is not a question worth entertaining.
Of course the news media went out of it's way to cover the DNC trial earlier this year. Or not.
And then smeared any independent media that did cover it.
I can certainly see why Republicans hate the news media.
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Yah, I noticed that scanning major outlets online.
Apparently CNN did some video on it, but nothing showed up on their website which gets a tremendous number of hits. Somebody posted front page of NYTimes--nada. The major newspaper in my state while publishing most russia-gate stories, has not published anything about this. Just saw now on TOP counter-attacks on Brazile. Has been a persistent story near the top of Drudge since the article came out. LATimes today main article: "POLITICS One year later, Democrats try to use painful lessons of 2016 to guide future campaigns."
Except for alternative media both right and left, the story is either ignored or made into a minor story.
"The corruption didn't make a difference" defense
My go to is always
Joy Reid FTW!
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
We Only Cheated a Little Bit... Even If You Discount All the
cheating we "DID do", Bernie still would not have won.
...and his email list that was hacked to us was definitely NOT used to purge voter roles in NY... and you got no paper trail...
Come at me Bro. You got nothin' on us.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Snort.
Funny, my argument against Her was that if she would cheat against members of her own party to win what was seen as a coronation anyway, I damn sure couldn’t trust her as a leader, period. And they wonder why Her has a believeabilty issue. I know I’m not the only one smart enough to figure that one out.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Why would they do that?
Did you know that 2 of the Kardashians are pregnant and not wed, and another has hired a surrogate, leaving only 1 left that ain't pregnant now? Well there is Mom, of course, the turn-em trans wonder queen.
When will you learn what is important to the Lumpenproletariat ?
Keep posting. I read every word.
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
Did I completely misunderstand your comment?
I get that you're bringing up the absurdity of what the media covers, instead of important stuff. But they don't go back to the 50s and mention whether a pregnant woman is married or not, and they're not transphobic like your comment appears to be.
Wtf?
Apologies
My snark-o-meter was tuned too high...
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
Well, at this point
it's Brazile's word against DWS and everyone else, so....
I suspect the MSM will wait on it until it shakes out.
I know! That would almost be a "First" for them in twenty years.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
I always try to gauge
what part of the story is getting through to the low-info voters. My test subjects are some friends and family members who I know get whatever tiny amount of political news they get from the local news and shows like Good Morning America.
This was so frustrating during the primary, especially early on. Whatever morning show they watched would display a quick graphic showing Hillary beating Bernie 387-22 (with no explanation of the difference between delegates and superdelegates) in between the latest Kardashian news and a fun, new cookie recipe.
I can't count the number of times I heard "Bernie seems cool and I like what he says but come on, he really doesn't have a chance."
Today I casually asked my bro-in-law (lifelong Democrat who voted Hillary even though he doesn't like her because Trump) if he heard about the DNC scandal and predictably: "it sounds like all she did was bail out the DNC - we should be thanking her because without the DNC how would we fight Trump?" Sigh.
His eyes glaze over any time I try to explain anything political to him on a deeper level than Good Morning America does (not because he's stupid, he's not, just because he's completely, utterly uninterested), so I didn't even bother. I just changed the subject to football and moved on.
It's something I think political junkies (defined as anyone who reads/comments on a site like this) lose sight of a lot of the time: we are a tiny minority of the population.
The problem is that there's 50 of my brother-in-law for every one gjohnsit. That's why Tom Perez dgaf about the outraged tweets I send him. He knows there aren't enough of me to really make a difference in shit. He knows if he can nail the Good Morning America talking point he's golden.
You’ve hit the nail on the head.
we are a minority. Even so many of the people I know who consider themselves politically aware have their accepted sources and they don’t want to hear anything else. It’s hard to break through the politics as team sport.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
GMA Stephanopolous, Clinton tool of the worst kind
Did friends ever see him apologize for the Clinton Foundation on GMA? ~shrug~
Stephanopoulos seeks to move past Clinton donations scandal
Nothing to see here ... ooh weather!
Apparently, the Clinton Fraudantion only helps with AIDS
in Africa. This is what people always say when they are defending it. "But they have done so much to help the children in Africa who have AIDS" There are children in other countries that also have AIDS so why aren't they receiving help from the Clintons? Don't those kids need help too?
I have a hard time believing that the the Saudis and others in the Middle East care about kids having AIDS.
The fact that this is the only thing that people say about the Clinton fraudantion tells me a lot. It's a fraud. The Clintons use the money for travel, hotels and then hosting fundraisers at golf courses or other places where they play at.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Clintons didn't help my brother
he died from AIDS complications three years after working his ass off to get "them" elected. oof
RIP Richie
I am sorry for your loss, eyo
this is a loss that is so hard to recover from because it wasn't only our government that didn't care that thousands were dying, but so many other felt the same way.
Reagan had a choice when this first started. Education and treatment or abstinence only which is what Jerry Falwell talked him into.
So many people who had a death sentence hanging over them somehow found the endurance to keep fighting for treatments to save their lives.
This epidemic took over 40,000 lives by the time Clinton took office. I can't help imagining if there would be a difference in the infection rate today, which is just as high as it was when the epidemic started, if Reagan had gone the other route.
The high infection rate today makes me angry and disgusted beyond words. So many people worked so damn hard to stop this epidemic, yet to this dy, people are still having unprotected sex because they now think that AIDS is like a disease such as diabetes. If they take their medications, then they can live a long life.
Take care eyo
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Bill got rid of the Surgeon General too
She suggested that young people mutually masturbate, and people lost their minds. I think it was on Bill's watch.
The Message Happens in the Receiver.
The idea of Framing is extremely important. The message must be crafted to be processed, affirmatively, in the receiver of the message.
Talking to someone and getting them to change their views requires seeds be planted and then nurtured. I think the idea of sponsorship of media and politicians, and the fact that they are the same institutions is powerful. As soon as we get grooving in that discussion or on that train of thought, all kinds of ugly comes out -- nonpartisan ugly.
The result is a change in the way the brain perceives those other messages.
Messaging and framing are not cheating or being deceitful, they're just good communication.
I also think that BIG vs little is a powerful frame that is honest about reality. Those, in general should be floating around the internets in droves.
But if you want to grab someone out of their corporate media stupor, you've got to find something personal and personally important or personally offensive -- a metaphor, a policy, a particular political situation... and stop there. Let that fester and pick the scab off in your next meeting.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
@k9disc lol yeah, I do try to
lol yeah, I do try to pry at them over time. So far GMA is winning tho:/
Yea, But It's a Faulty Tower They Have Built.
A distinct un-reality, that corporate media crowd. It's the zeitgeist, social version of cognitive dissonance. The thing is that it's rife with soft targets.
Keep on them, find the angle that is personal and meaningful, tie it into troubles they are having or experiencing elsewhere...
I think any honest communication about the things you're talking about are healthy and meaningful. Disparate piles of values from many sources don't make a puzzle picture until the right piece drops into place. Keep looking for those pieces, those personal pieces.
I think this as part of my job, as what I do to foster change. I speak with people all the time about forbidden topics, and I try to learn more, to drop seeds, and to speak with values and metaphors that activate humanity and empathy.
and blah blah blah...
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
I've gotten through to at least 2 of my good friends
Democrats both, but doing just that really - planting seeds that are now starting to sprout. It hasn't always been pleasant for them, and I know I go into too much detail. But I've used personal things about everyday life really. Same with a Republican co-worker. She and I now agree on a lot. Start easy but keep harping is my motto. God help them.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Just like they buried Bernie during the primary
the MSM will bury this also, cause a) they won't
profit from it and b) it then changes their narrative,
of Russia, Russia, trump, trump, c)tptb hard on for
her heinous d) all the above.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Any and all progressives, always.
They're doing it to Hildebrand in California and Swearegan in WV right now.
We frighten them
now we need to take it to the next
step and beat them
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
On Peter Douche's feed...
Which is in response to this tweet
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
Effing a-hole Armando (gag) n/t
Oh
my gosh. What's going on? This is crazier than Pravda.
"Important:" LOL! Please clap.
thanks, good to know Armando is on it! On what? CT rigging 2020 for Bernie! Important! Right now! Better donate to the DNC! Or else!
golf clap
ROTFL
I don't think my snark meter goes that high.
And they are serious!
Peter Douche's snark is razor sharp.
I'm not a tweeter - no account, generally no interest - but about once a week a check out his feed and have a good laugh. Somebody's gotta pick that low-hanging fruit!
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
@Dopeman @GreatLakeSailor I wonder if he posted
I wonder if he posted anything similar at the GOS and if the conspiracy theory rule is applied equally to Hillbots? Nevermind. I know the answer to that one.
I did reply to Armando on Twitter. My first tweet at him ever and I was blocked. I was mocking him, but it was awfully mild. I'm a sensitive sort, so I'll just commiserate with him that people are mean sometimes.
I read it was on virtually every diary there
I think snoopydawg said that, but I didn't go to check it out. I watched him spread DNC talking points before I stopped going there, and find him repulsive. I doubt anyone but maybe TomP would dare call it CT, because the wonderful Armondo is God's gift to the world. You didn't know that? (Sorry, gag, I need to brush my teeth now.)
I assumed the NYT possessed AT LEAST enough shame
to shunt this story to the back pages like they normally do when presented with news they'd rather not cover.
But this display...goddamn.
I suppose I'm not as cynical as I had thought.
Democratic Party needs to be
Democratic Party needs to be destroyed.
Sadly, the sheepdog Bernie Sanders lacks the balls to do it. After every incident like this, it just goes to show he cares more about keeping the Democratic Party alive vs. actually fighting for the things he pretends to care about.
I'm sad I got suckered by him.
Get lost.
Sanders has more cajones in his little finger than you have in your whole body. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
@orlbucfan Sure, what meaningless
Sure, what meaningless drivel.
You can't get over your infatuation of a sheepdog.
Sanders the big man doesn't have the balls to destroy the Democratic Party.
He is a Democratic Company Man. He cares more about corporate power within the Democratic Party than actually killing the damn party.
How many instances do you need to have driven into your skull to see this? Everyone knows the Democratic Party is a cancer to this world that needs to be completely and utterly destroyed. So why doesn't Sanders do it?
Come on, Sanders used to talk about how both parties were the same and a detriment to the country. Now that he has immense power as an independent what does he do? He uses it to save the decaying corpse of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party is an impediment to progress. Everyday saving that monstrous organization is another day we are prevented from having a functioning country. The Democratic Party will never give us single payer healthcare, free college, stopping the wars which kill tens of millions of people, dealing with climate change, stopping the military machine, etc. Sanders shows his true colors. He has immense power but refuses to use it to get the job done. He is a sheepdog meant to corral people back into their veal pens. Nothing more.
@Strife Delivery
Unfortunately, this isn't just a political party problem. It's a global loose alliance of many of the most powerful and ruthless psychopaths in the world, involving giant corporations/billionaires/trillionaires backed by wealth sucked out of the rest of the world, as well as their political puppets.
Why didn't the powerful Eisenhower 'have the balls' to do away with this monstrous machine back when it was far smaller and he was directly referring to only the military industrial complex? Why hasn't any person or group ever been able to do so?
Why is Bernie the only one being castigated when he told us so many times that one man could do nothing alone, that change would have to come from the American people, en masse - of whom one could say that they apparently 'lack the balls' to rise up in peaceful protest against this overarching threat to fight for their lives and democracy, if one chose to ignore the circumstances to cast blame against them all for not doing so.
Bernie has never claimed to be Superman capable of saving the world all on his lonesome. He's a decent man, surrounded by psychopaths in a psychopathic corporate/military/political looney-bin, doing his best to keep the notion of government of, by and for the people alive in the public mind, despite those around him trying to kill the very concept of democracy - and, it seems, anyone showing signs of helping it revive.
Nobody else has dared do as much as he has succeeded in doing from within the very belly of the beast, bringing the once-standard basics of what's now termed social democracy onto the corporate media, where once he and all such ideas as the Great Society were blacked out and reviled/dismissed in contemptuous passing.
Bernie stands alone, in more than one sense.
All of the following, and more, is being undone. Everything necessary for human survival on the planet is being despoiled.
If Bernie were to speak out and be silenced, who would carry the word of democracy and the notion of government working for, rather than against the public interest, to those Americans limited to the corporate propaganda machine that the US media has been converted into?
http://www.ushistory.org/us/56e.asp
Now, even the bare minimums of civilization are being strip-mined and poisoned; all for greed, and the world well lost. And one man is expected to be the super-hero who - at best - would not have media or any public access permitted if he ever lost it to the point of speaking as those (who I'd have thought were informed as to what's being faced) would have him do, when immediately silenced, one way or another upon that first attempt, when his interview mike can mysteriously die the instant he says anything TPTB would rather he didn't, as has already occurred?
Bernie does what he can, in the midst of the resurgence of 'the next generation' of a Fascist attempt at global take-over, Nazi/psychopathic influences and sympathizers having infiltrated and taken over the American government, while propagandizing the American public, over decades.
And that's more than most of us can do, or would have the courage to maintain doing for all of this time.
Take and use the good that Bernie can do and does and work in your own way, if you will, for the common good. But please, save the condemnations and absolute rejections for those who act out of pathological greed and malice, those controlling policy, government and the various civil, military/corporate forces of force.
Not those who can only do so much, and do whatever they must do to attempt to achieve that much good.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@Ellen North Unfortunately, this
That is completely true, which is why we can't be deceived by sheepdogs like Sanders who wish to lull us back to our veal pens to do nothing.
Eisenhower for the most part agreed with the hysteria of all the Cold War bullshit. It was only near the end when he started to see the problem and even then he did a speech. And with regards to other folks? It's either a mix of either they were killed or they accepted it. Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Obama all accepted the machine with loving arms.
Because that is not America. It just isn't. Sorry to say it to you and Al, but America is not that nor will it ever be. America is a country of people who prefer to be slaves sorry to say. Americans prefer the loud rattle of slavery vs. the actual fresh air of freedom. I wrote an essay on here about it. Americans do not want to think for themselves -- they want to be led. Eugene Debs talked about the ease of which Americans are manipulated.
"I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands"
The thing that Debs got wrong is he needed to accept the fact that Americans will not just do things in a horizontal fashion. They required, no demand a vertical structure. Americans demand a leader. People in this country refuse to use their power. They will only use their power when someone orders them to do so. As I said, if Bernie started a 3rd party people would follow. But he refuses to do what is necessary. I don't have power to start that up. He does. Who would listen to me vs. the most popular and powerful politician in this country?
I don't want a Superman. I don't want a King. Just someone in power like him to just give people the tools to do what is necessary. He's doing nothing about the notion of a government for the public. Sorry, that's wrong. What exactly is his answer? That we must vote for the imperialist, warmonger, capitalist, Wall Street monster Hillary Clinton? Good luck with that. Everything he fought for was nullified by telling you to vote for the complete opposite with Hillary Clinton.
How are we going to get single payer with "Single Payer will never ever happen" Clinton?
How will we stop the wars with psychopath war-lover Clinton?
How will we deal with climate change with fracking and oil imperialist Clinton?
All he does is lull people back into their veal pen. Nice speeches, a tranquilizing drug of hopey-dopey reform nonsense. You can't reform the Democratic Party. He could change American politics right now by starting a 3rd party and getting that infrastructure set up for future generations. He has that power, right now. But he won't use it. What does he have to lose? Don't take this wrong, but he's old. What does he have to lose? He sets up the 3rd party, gets the ball rolling with his popularity and other people take up the mantle. He would then fade back but would be known as the person who disrupted our political system.
He silences himself.
Every office in this country could be filled with Democrats and we will not get single payer, free college, ending the wars, climate change dealt with, and more. But what does he do? Tells you to vote for them. No thanks. He tells you to vote for the very people who want to do all the things he rails against. Come on.
He has power. He has power that I do not. He refuses to use it.
What power is he using? He tells everyone to join the Democratic Party, the party completely against everything he is "fighting" for. You don't have to be Superman to see the giant writing on the wall that if all you do is take your enormous power and use it, you could completely change the American political landscape.