Is Andrea Mitchell a bold liar or a huge fool? It's one or the other.
A few minutes ago, a very sorrowful sounding Andrea Mitchell said or implied the following about reasons for Hillary's loss:
1. Media ignored her during the primary. They gave all the coverage to Trump.
No, Andrea, dear.
Hillary was not a victim of media who anointed her years ago, right along with with DWS and the others. Every time they've mentioned her in the last several years, it's been to say that she'd be President in 2016.
In reality, Andrea dear, Hillary hid out during much of the primary because the more people see and hear her, the more her inevitable poll numbers go down. Also, she hid because she could not draw enough people for a good PTA social, while Bernie was drawing tens of thousands; and the contrast was starkly not in her favor. During the primary, the media could have and should have covered Bernie Sanders, who came almost out of nowhere and was drawing tens of thousands of people at every event. Instead, he got zero coverage or got falsely accused of being a dual citizen of Israel or got portrayed as the curmudgeonly, impractical former socialist Mayor of Burlington with the whacky hairdo who'd done nothing much since he retired from being Mayor.
2. Hillary underestimated third parties.
No, Andrea, dear.
Hillary, all Democratic politicians and you in establishment media were bludgeoning and insulting people who were thinking of voting for a smaller, newer party, instead of figuring out how to win them over. Besides that, newer parties hurt The Donald more than The Hillary. Sadly, parties to Hillary's left barely made a blip and I doubt she lost a single vote to any newer party to her right.
Andrea may also have said something about Americans not being ready for a woman President, but Hillary got the popular vote. So, what card does that leave, really? The electoral college is misogynistic?
These people must think we have mass amnesia all the time!
BTW just heard 7 million more Democrats came out to vote for Obama than for Hillary--and the difference ain't that Democrats are more misogynistic than they are racist. It's the policies, stupid.
Heck with the lawyers.* The first thing we do, Let's kill all the pundits and other media shills.
*http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/17/nyregion/l-kill-the-lawyers-a-line-mis...
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I agree HW
a bunch of fools that still don't fucking get it, They made Trump and enabled hrc in fucking over Bernie.
Today, some on MSNBC said Bernie would have given Trump a
real run for his money. Duh. But you guys ignored him until the Tyndall Report exposed you. Then you started saying at least once every five minutes, and certainly every time you mentioned him, that Hillary would be the nominee. This is on media as much as it on the DNC and Hillary.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/11/abc-world-news-tonight-has-devot...
Stephanie Miller's show said Bernie wudda lost too!
Wow! Queen of denial.
O.k. When is the next meeting for the revolution?
-FuturePassed on Sunday, November 25, 2018 10:22 p.m.
I love people who know exactly what's going on in the
alternative universe of stuff that never happened and never can happen. Good for her!
Of course, they were both anti-establishment, change, populist candidates, Sanders beat Trump in all the head to head polls and Sanders never bragged about grabbing anyone's crotch or did any of the other crazy Trump stuff. However, I'll take Steph's word for it as I don't know how to access the alternative universe.
Ah, Got it. I just heard a pundit splain it all.
Bernie could not have put together the coalition that Hillary put together. (Minorities and older women, I assume). Really? If Bernie had been the Democratic candidate, those people would have voted for Trump? I don't think so.
and
He couldn't beat Hillary; how was he going to beat Trump?
First, Hillary lost to Trump in head to head polls whereas Bernie won. Second, in the general, no one would have been competing with Bernie for the votes of Democratic loyalists and Democratic politicians and the DNC would have been supporting him, rather than undermining him and freezing him out. And, he would also have gotten a ton of change votes, plus votes of the disaffected left.
Jeebus! Either these people should not be be pundits at all or it's in their best interest to be lousy pundits.
It certainly didn't help Hellery
When everyone knew she was a self-serving, 1%er and Trump ran to her left as a populist.
Now, can we let the Clintons go away? Preferrably, far away.
Fighting for democratic principles,... well, since forever
Go away?
But what about poor Chelsea? Surely it's her turn now!
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Sadly (not), Chelsea will
need to win her way to the presidency the old fashioned way - by rising through the ranks - no hand-me-down presidency from mommy.
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.
Chelsea? I'm with [anyone but] her!!
According to MSNBC, her speech signals she will "keep fighting"
for what she believes in.
Cat forbid!
Cat forbid!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
If she keeps fighting, I hope she mimes.
The other day, when I was resigned to a Clinton victory, I was wondering how I would be able to stand to listen to her monotone for four years, especially when she thinks making the monotone louder is the way to drive home a point. If I don't have to listen, maybe she wouldn't be as impossible for me to take.
Hillary made no public appearances at all in August
No campaigning in August. None. Just a bunch of fundraisers. And very little in public after that. Why should she expose herself to the peasants? Of course, very few people were interested when she did.
And all the "experts" kept telling us that Trump was campaigning all wrong. No ground game. No local offices. Ridiculous. Just huge rallies several times a day, almost every day. Oops.
She hid during the primary and
she hid during the general. That was probably the best strategy she had available to her. She cannot draw a crowd. She just can't. Besides, the more people see and hear her, the more her numbers go down.
Just like.....
Just like, um, er, ..... Bernie Sanders!
Of course, the MSM didn't want us knowing about the latter. But it obviously worked like clockwork for The Donald.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I once saw a play so off Broadway I was not even in the state
of New York when I saw it. Its title was I'm not Rappaport.
That was this campaign.
I'm not The Hillary.
I'm not The Donald.
A pox on both your houses. What do you plan to do for Americans?
"Is Andrea Mitchell a bold liar or a huge fool?"
FOOL!
Look at who she's married to.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
Is that George Soros
in the background?