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(3,300 posts) Mon Apr 4, 2016, 04:02 AM Apr 2016

Bernie Sanders supporters protest outside CNN building in Los Angeles for no apparent reason

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-supporters-protest-outside-cnn-tower-in-los-angeles-for-no-apparent-reason/24348/

After the mainstream media spent the first six months of the Bernie Sanders campaign overstating his chances in the election while consistently treating him with kid gloves, at least some of those major news outlets have finally begun admitting that Sanders is unlikely to win; he’s fallen behind by millions of votes, with the majority of the nation having already voted. As such, those “Feeling the Bern” staged a mass protest outside the CNN tower in Los Angeles for no identifiable reason.

Even as supporters of Bernie Sanders posted photos and videos of the event on Twitter and social media, it was still unclear just what they were protesting against. Some of the picket signs generically claimed that the media is showing bias against Sanders, a bizarre sentiment considering the extent to which they’ve gone to try to pretend he was “close” or had the “momentum” even as he was getting blown out in the polls and voting. Others claimed Sanders has been the victim of a “media blackout” – an ironic assertion considering just how much (nearly always positive) airtime Sanders has received on CNN and other television networks.

As has become custom for the loudest supporters of Bernie Sanders, at least some of the protesters insisted (without evidence) that cable news outlets are secretly in the tank for Hillary Clinton. But these claims ring more absurd than ever, particularly considering that CNN and others are continuing to give significant airtime to Sanders despite the fact that he’s fallen so far behind in the popular voting and delegate count, he’s effectively been eliminated from the race.

Still, now that cable news networks are finally beginning to admit that Sanders isn’t going to win, as they try to find a way to gently let down the false hopes they raised for his supporters after they spent many months falsely reporting that he was competitive, his dejected supporters have literally taken to the streets to protest the fact that CNN has begun accurately reporting on the election. Basic math says this was over a long time ago. The number of people assembled on Sunset Boulevard right now, captured on video, suggests that Bernie Sanders supporters either can’t do election math or don’t care about the facts. photo credit

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