Bernie is actually far more hostile to the media than the media is to Bernie (I quoted his campaign chair going hard at Nate Silver for reasonable analysis earlier). I understood his strategy in 2016, he was a massive underdog so it made sense to go after the media even though it was a lie just to raise his floor and develop a base that trusts the candidate way more than less biased sources. But now he actually has a shot of winning and needs to try to be a candidate for the whole party. The same
2016 aggressive stance towards the media is now lowering his ceiling rather than lifting his floor.
Iâm not sure this is even true but maybe the fawning Bernie stories were already written last year and Warren is getting more than her share of good coverage now just because itâs more interesting than copy/paste from last cycle.
Itâs not really corrupt because the VP had pretty much 0 power to help this energy company even if he wanted to. Hunter Biden was hired so they could brag about having a famous politicianâs kid on their board. Itâs much closer to Meghan McCain being on the View than the legit corruption with Kushner and Jr/Eric funneling Saudi/Russian money into private businesses for beneficial treatment from the current president.
Bernie seems to be in good health otherwise, so a stent shouldnât be too disruptive. my dad was in terrible health when he had one put in 15 years ago, and heâs still alive. Get well soon, Bernie, we still need your voice.
depends on how much the MSM harps on it. Theyâre pretty busy right now with Trumpâs batshit craziness, so it might actually fly under the radar enough for it to not be fatal.
HRC got lightheaded once in September 2016, the rightwing made a huge deal of it, and it worked. In that word cloud with the giant âemailsâ, the word âhealthâ is tied for second place.
Fuck your lawbro friend. The only people I hate more than lobbyists are the lawyers. They have this professional tendency to equate legal with moral and ethical⌠which is very convenient since way north of 50% of legal bills are incurred either fucking people or defending people from getting fucked. Iâd guess itâs close to 90% actually⌠but remember every monstrous rich person is entitled to the best legal defense/offense that money can buy.
Uh, a study from 2016? His coverage was largely positive in 2016, I wouldnât claim otherwise. Things have changed. In part the positive coverage in 2016 was because nobody thought he would win. Underdogs get âcheck out this plucky upstart candidateâ coverage because thatâs an interesting story to tell.
The same study, by the way, says that Trumpâs coverage was largely positive. Again, things have changed.
Iâm grunching and donât really care, but the problems with the media coverage of Bernie were especially from WaPo and somewhat NYT. And newspaper coverage is dwarfed by cable news coverage anyway - did it measure both? And what the cable news did was ignore Bernie, like when they showed an empty podium waiting for Trump for 30 minutes while Bernie was doing a town hall or something.
You said the establishment media is hostile to Sanders. Based on what? I donât think too many Bernie supporters thought the coverage was fair in 2016 and certainly not the campaign chairs from their public statements. Iâd be surprised if any data shows his coverage is any more negative this time around.
it doesnât. It says Trump got the greatest share of negative coverage on issues besides Clinton.