"I've Got a Helluva Story To Tell": Ed Schultz Spills The Beans on MSNBC Collusion Against Bernie. The Media Blackout on Bernie Was Real.

Of all the things that unsettle me about the ever-changing, current hysteria enveloping the MSM-addicted masses, the thing that aggravates me most is how the Scorned Clinton Cabal and their lapdog minions on the payroll in the MSM have managed to keep up this totally ridiculous charade about the Russians tipping (or outright stealing) the election, depending on which grade of zombie you talk to. The stark truth is that they absolutely stole the nomination, through a web of deceit, lies, voter suppression/rigging/fraud and obfuscation by calling in a long laundry list of favors, cajoling and threats, to destroy Bernie Sanders campaign because like the petulant, entitled child she is, it was Her Turn.

As I've said previously, the obvious fraud of a presidential election between the two most hated, untrustworthy, lying multi-millionaire criminals should have been the most obvious and blatant evidence, that the whole idea of democracy through electoral politics is a complete farce and charade. The citizenry should instead be headlong down the path of laser-focus on the linchpin of Money In Politics, electoral fraud/disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, the stranglehold power of lobbyists over legislation, the corporate monopoly ownership of all sectors, out of control militarism and American imperialism, etc.

The most revolutionary thing about Bernie's campaign was how incredibly successful he was by not taking corporate money. He single-handedly upturned all the BS conventional wisdom that said one had to grovel for corporate cash. He was rewarded with the fealty of millions of folks who gave what they could, and more importantly canvassed and volunteered in droves, to a candidate who finally talked openly and honestly about issues effecting the majority and stood up to and brilliantly made the core of his campaign about the issue of, Money In Politics - which for anyone paying attention is the fundamental issue explaining the chronic dysfunction of American governance.

There's just absolutely no fucking way a candidate who regularly drew tens of thousands to his rallies is defeated by one who couldn't fill a high school gym. End of story.

No matter how many times we told the Neoliberal coffee klatch dupes at TOP that it was obvious the fix was in, they just closed their ears and hid behind some sanctimonious BS that the Greatest Country In The World's (remember the USA!USA!USA chants at the DNC?) elections and media were fair.

The Rational National had this video segment last night:

"Ex-Host Exposes MSNBC: 'I Was Told Not To Cover Bernie'"

"I want to make this very clear, and I hope your audience consumes this, there was more oversight and more direction given to me on content at MSNBC than there ever has been here at RT. And I think that it's very sad that that story is not getting out.

I think it's many times I was told with the lead with on MSNBC many times I was told what I was not going to do and I've got a story that had I not been involved in it I would have never believed it. And Phil Griffin, who I consider a friend to this day, was a watchdog. Far more
than anything I am exposed to here at RT."

(Question) Did he tell you what to say, did he tell you an angle to take?

"Often."

Then there's Phil Griffin again.

"In fact, when Bernie Sanders was announcing that he was going to be a candidate for the nomination of the Democratic Party in Burlington Vermont I was the only cable
host between Fox MSNBC and CNN that was there live to cover it. Now there were live cameras there but we had coordinated with the Sanders campaign that at 5:00 o'clock he was going to
make his announcement and we were going to cover this on The Ed Show.

I go to Bernie Sanders house that afternoon to do an interview in the back yard, about a 15 minute interview. The grandkids are running around, it's a big day for the Sanders family, he's going to announce that he's running for president. We're gonna carry it live later on in the day and we're gonna run this one-on-one tape with Bernie. 3,000 people are there on Lake Champlain. It's 5 minutes to air, and I get a phone call from Phil Griffin, 'you're not covering this.' I said, 'Phil, Bernie Sanders is announcing he's running for president.' 'I don't care. You're not covering this.' And it got rather contentious."

Why?

"Well, now you're asking me for opinion. I'm giving you a fact right now about what happened. And other people who were there with me will attest to the fact and back me up that this is what happened. We were told that we had to cover something down in Texas that was totally meaningless, and another press conference in Baltimore which already had been in the news for a few days. We're covering Bernie Sanders live! We're coordinated with his campaign and I'm told five minutes before you're not covering Bernie Sanders!

Now let me give you the opinion: I think the Clintons were connected to Andy Lack, connected at the hip. I think that they didn't want anybody in their prime time, or anywhere in their lineup, supporting Bernie Sanders. I think that they were in the tank for Hillary Clinton and I think it was managed.

And 45 days later I was out at MSNBC."

Who's Andy Lack? The NBC News Chairman.

Just did a cursory search for him and seems he's a serial cover up man for high-powered sexual assualters. Bubba was one and Matt Lauer another, and seems he passed up the Harvey Weinstein story. I don't have the time to fully flesh this out as I'd like, time constraints of full-time Dad being what they are.

Here's a bit I could find out though, about the kind of guy Andy Lack is. When the Lauer story broke, he claimed that there hadn't been one single complaint filed against his "dear friend." Which is the exact opposite of the Vanity Fair story's headline, "“Everybody Knew”: Inside the Fall of Today’s Matt Lauer
They passed on the Weinstein story—but NBC News’s own sexual harassment problem was hiding in plain sight."

The milquetoast MSNBC lackey Matt Lauer, quite possibly the lamest, most tepid and boring man ever to be on tv (which is probably what he's paid for). He's another Neoliberal demon who is regularly whisked away via helicopter over my apartment in Queens (in a constant flow of Economic Terrorists' preferred method of travel, so as not to be burdened by the wreckage they've wrought) to his home in the Hamptons as part of his contract. Good riddance, sleazy, predatory douchebag feeling high and mighty in the club (along with Charlie Rose, et al).

The list of truth-teller casualties at MSNBC goes on and on: Phil Donahue, Dylan Rattigan, Cenk Uygur, etc. Someone should get these guys together for a roundtable discussion. Jimmy Dore, are you listening?

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I had a front row seat to seeing all the corrupt, stupid stunts $hrill and gang pulled. There were plenty of them. The worse part was how incompetent she was. I agree: $hrill and the Orange swamp thing were the 2 worse POTUS choices in my lifetime. Rec'd!!

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Peace.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

Not only about his experiences regarding election fixing by the MSM, but by the DNC and several state Dem party groups. We had it happen here in KY. We all saw it go on in Las Vegas, NYC, AZ and CA. It would be a great summary of 2016 and how corrupt the Democratic Party has become. It could serve as a guide for 2020.
There is no way on earth that Bernie will be nominated or even backed at all by the national Democratic Party... ever again. UNLESS a majority of the party is taken over by the left side of it. I would have to think Bernie knows this, but sometimes I think he's a bit naive about the idea of reform from within. Ain't gonna happen.

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The numbers on how much coverage each candidate got don't lie. That was the quantitative data supporting the idea that there was a media blackout.

The way they talked about him--when they did--as a contemptuous joke, or--best of all-constantly asking if he was going to throw his support to Hillary Clinton, presupposing his loss, showed anyone with two brain cells to rub together that they were blacking him out when they could, browning him out when they couldn't, and reinforcing the idea that he couldn't win whenever they had to give him coverage. That's the qualitative data supporting the idea that there was a media blackout.

Glad that Schultz has come out with his story, but nobody should need that to see the truth.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

I still support him. I'm not quite sure what to think about the Russia thing, but I feel strongly that if he had pitched a fit, they would tear him apart. They already see him as this angry old man. If he had harped on any of the crap, he would have gone down faster and maybe no one would listen to him as they are now.
I think he's playing the long game. I couldn't do it, but he is. I didn't like that he supported HRC but HE SAID HE WOULD. Bernie keeping his word showed the world how different he is than most pols. It pissed me off, but what can I say? I voted for Jill. He also said he would not tell us who to vote for. Was that code? I think tramp terrified him. He felt maybe he could work with HRC, if she were president. He showed the world (to me) that he is a man of his word. That should mean a lot. Especially in today's environment.
He has said a few words regarding rigging of the primary. Again, people don't like whiners. It would hurt him, I believe, if he went full throttle on that shit. But, he is letting others take up that cause, and I think it is better for someone else to do so. I wish it weren't so, but that's probably why they call it playing politics. It really is an ugly fucking game.

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@mypiece It wasn't just tramp who scared him. He knows very well what the repugs want to do and are trying to do, and kinda doing to us right now.
If anything, this is what upsets me more. But again, if he's telling the truth, people are going to think he's a crazy man. He should be talking, in much more detail, about the Koch's plan and influences, as well as ALEC, on the Fed, State and local levels. This is what's doing the damage to our country. This is my opinion, ymmv.
The Powell Memo of 1971. Ronald Reagan as well as good ol' Maggie pushing their austerity. The Kochs and the Libertarian BS.
Naomi Klein talks about this in several of her books, The Shock Doctrine and the Rise of Disaster Capitalism, being one. Pretty scary stuff and shows that it's not a left/right issue, as Bernie as has said.

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