That’s the big question isn’t it? What has really disturbed me for a long time is how many Democrats get bamboozled by the games the mainstream media plays. Sure they know Fox News can’t be trusted it they are not skeptical enough when it comes to the supposedly liberal mainstream media. I spent a lot of time in 2000 convincing Democrats…
That’s the big question isn’t it? What has really disturbed me for a long time is how many Democrats get bamboozled by the games the mainstream media plays. Sure they know Fox News can’t be trusted it they are not skeptical enough when it comes to the supposedly liberal mainstream media. I spent a lot of time in 2000 convincing Democrats I knew that Al Gore had never claimed to have invented the internet, that he had actually played an influential role in its creation by working relentlessly to get his colleagues in Congress to fund it. The media knew these facts and knew this was just a typical Rove smear but they played along anyway because the found Bush “more fun to have a beer with”.
I am still hearing Democrats say that we should never have run a candidate as disliked as Hillary. They have no idea that when she started running she had very high approval ratings. That changed after dishonest right wing attacks that were aided and abetted by the mainstream media. Steve Bannon and his henchman Peter Schweitzer pushed dishonest smears about the Clinton Foundation that both the Times and WaPo echoed. The email issue reporting was deeply misleading, wildly overblown and often factually wrong. Any Democrat who gets that kind of treatment is going to become very unpopular if people are gullible enough to get sucked into the smears because the mainstream media backs up the right wing accusations.
Hopefully sites like this one will wake up enough Democrats that the MSM stops playing these games but I won’t hold my breath.
That’s the big question isn’t it? What has really disturbed me for a long time is how many Democrats get bamboozled by the games the mainstream media plays. Sure they know Fox News can’t be trusted it they are not skeptical enough when it comes to the supposedly liberal mainstream media. I spent a lot of time in 2000 convincing Democrats I knew that Al Gore had never claimed to have invented the internet, that he had actually played an influential role in its creation by working relentlessly to get his colleagues in Congress to fund it. The media knew these facts and knew this was just a typical Rove smear but they played along anyway because the found Bush “more fun to have a beer with”.
I am still hearing Democrats say that we should never have run a candidate as disliked as Hillary. They have no idea that when she started running she had very high approval ratings. That changed after dishonest right wing attacks that were aided and abetted by the mainstream media. Steve Bannon and his henchman Peter Schweitzer pushed dishonest smears about the Clinton Foundation that both the Times and WaPo echoed. The email issue reporting was deeply misleading, wildly overblown and often factually wrong. Any Democrat who gets that kind of treatment is going to become very unpopular if people are gullible enough to get sucked into the smears because the mainstream media backs up the right wing accusations.
Hopefully sites like this one will wake up enough Democrats that the MSM stops playing these games but I won’t hold my breath.