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An Open Letter to: The MSM, political analysts, pundits, critics - and all and sundry who are more than anxious to demonstrate their incredible hypocrisy in exchange for money and a shot at the TV big time ...
Just stop the bullshit. More to the point, just who the fuck do you think youre fooling?
Since the truly tragic so-called election of Donald Trump, the airwaves and print media have been full of HRC critics who to hear them tell the tale knew all along that her bid for the presidency was doomed from the start.
Heres the truth.
Had Hillary won the 2016 election, the same people who are now talking about what she did wrong would be regaling us with their incredible insight into what she did right.
Had Hillary won, the same people who now cant wait to tell everyone how they knew she would lose would be bragging about how they knew she would win.
Had Hillary won, the same political analysts who are now detailing her campaign mistakes would be citing those very same actions as the brilliant strategy that swept her to victory.
Had Hillary won, the same media bobbleheads who are now tsk-tsking her lackluster campaign would be applauding the incredible vote-winning charisma she demonstrated on the campaign trail.
Had Hillary won, the same self-aggrandizing know-it-alls who are now criticizing her every move would be praising those very same moves as sheer political genius.
Had Hillary won, the same pundits who are now blaming her loss on her inability to connect with the voters would be talking about how her astounding ability to connect with the voters was what made her unbeatable.
Had Hillary conducted her campaign exactly as she did, had she made the same statements she made, had she visited the same states she campaigned in, had she done every single thing she DID do but won in the end she would be lauded for her political savvy by the same people who are now claiming she had it wrong, wrong, WRONG all along.
The winning candidate has many, MANY media friends who never doubted their victory for a minute. The losing candidate has no dearth of critics who are more than anxious to point out how, where and why the losing candidate went so terribly wrong - and how they saw it coming from a mile away.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...every morning with a sense of doom and despair.
musette_sf
(10,200 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)she ran a flawed campaign.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)msongs
(67,405 posts)Aristus
(66,328 posts)K&R!
She's my President.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)You can bet a lot of cash is moving under the table to pay for the media imbalance and control the narrative. This is simple corruption, money, money, money.
musette_sf
(10,200 posts)iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)Bigredhunk
(1,349 posts)OP rocks!
Had HRC won though, the media would also be carrying water for repugs, repeating their talking points and talking about the bullshit investigations repugs wanted to hold. This hating fake shit should be dismissed out of hand and not covered by the MSM. But they do cover it (birth certificate).
If HRC won and had the kind of approval rating numbnuts does, they'd lead with it every day. They'd still be talking about some bullshit thing like e-mails. Numbnuts does/says something dumb every day and it washes out. HRC has something of no consequence like e-mails and they act like it's the Titanic going down.
We love her. The right hates her (and is completely obsessed with her, Bill, & Chelsea). The media carries water for the reich. That's why her approval #'s have fallen so far despite her being the most admired female not all that long ago.
John1956PA
(2,654 posts)Hillary ran a strong, respectable campaign. She was up against a monster of a propaganda machine which still exists. From grocery store check-out-line tabloids which to this very week blare headlines of "Crooked Hillary," to sophisticated social media website algorithms which reinforce the negative-thinking, hostile, predispositions of an appreciable percentage of the electorate, many of whom would never vote for a female in the first place, she had an uphill battle. The MSM failed to challenge her opponent, a bulling lying braggart who, in one of the debates, threw a fetid morsel to "Lock-Her-Up" misogynists by saying that, as president, he would prosecute Hillary. Now, the MSM is occupying the airwaves, and collecting advertising revenue, in "analyzing" how Hillary ran a weak campaign. In fact, what the MSM is now doing is fortifying the myth that her campaign was weak.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)Three million more than the orange shitgibbon. Most Americans wanted HER.
niyad
(113,290 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)decisions and actions. It is not correct to say that he campaign, if it played out the way that it did, was always going to lead to defeat.
Had it not been for Comey's last minute intervention she would have won by a decisive margin. And had it not been for COmey's July intervention she would have won in a landslide, even with all the choices that the media is pretending cost her the election.