MSNBC, March 13: "Bernie Bros controversy enters Democratic race"

[Cheese Sandwich]

MSNBC LIVE 3/13/16

MSNBC's Joy Reid and The Washington Post's Janell Ross dissect the phenomenon known as the "Bernie Bros" - typically young white males who've been accused of online trolling, misogyny and outright bigotry. Duration: 5:04

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/bernie-bros-controversy-enters-democratic-race-643481667957



Bernie Bros you say? Never heard of it. Thank goodness for MSNBC keeping us informed of this controversy entering the race.

[Broward]

1. Wait, they went five whole minutes without talking about Trump?

[beedle]

8. lol

They must have been worried it was staring to look obvious.

[Jenny_92808]

2. Shame on MSNBC!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Joy Reid, Joy Reid, where have I heard that name?

Oh right, a giant Hillary supporter. No big surprise she wants to drag that 'story' onto TV and spend time talking it up.

[Beowulf]

4. Janell Ross is a pea from that same pod.

[appalachiablue]

5. Same guys as the ObamaBoyz eight years ago I bet. Such ruffians, ogres!

Poor, delicate Steph Miller, Clinton bud has even been attacked by them I hear. Gasp!

[Joe the Revelator]

6. Meme of the day. nt

[Vattel]

7. With idiots like those two, who needs David Brock?

[Ford_Prefect]

11. Exactly who do you think it was introduced the term in the newsroom?

[SidDithers]

9. They're a myth...

Sid

[Warren DeMontague]

22. No, they're a label somebody made up, thinking they were being clever.

If they were a baseball team, they had uniforms, you know, the "Baltimore Berniebros", then yes, they could be argued to be "real" like a cheesesteak or Mount Rushmore is real.

As it is, they are a sociological generalization created by navel gazers drunk on their own postgrad word salad, and catapulted endlessly by people interested in talking about ridiculous shit instead of actual pertinent political issues that directly affect the lives of the citizens of this country; people who would love to make this primary season about "berniebros" just like they wanted to make 2008 about "obama boys".

http://www.salon.com/2008/04/14/obama_supporters/

[Snotcicles]

10. To think I once thought Joy Reid should have her own show on MSNBC.

Now, she is such a disappointment I'm glad it never happened.

[appalachiablue]

14. Amen.

[AtomicKitten]

12. aka David Brock smear machine

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Read this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511485355

I do not expect Reid to do what media once did. Infotainment and propaganda is a thing,

[FlatBaroque]

15. BernieBros are real

they are the product of David Bock's slime merchants. They are online personas that are owned and controlled by the Clinton camp. They launch incendiary attacks on the targets that Brock paints. Oldest trick in the book. Like everything else she does, it will backfire.

[BernieforPres2016]

18. But this shows that Brock is striking out

Everybody knows David Brock and his team have been digging through every vote Bernie has ever made in 25 years in Congress, in everything he did as mayor of Burlington, ever video and transcript out there, past associations, everything there is to look at. And the best they can do is this BernieBros nonsense that never got any traction the first time?

[BernieforPres2016]

16. Trying to breathe life into BernieBros again?

I thought that one died about 3 weeks ago after a 2 or 3 day attempt to make it an issue by the Hillary campaign, MSNBC, the Washington Post and the Daily Beast.

Clearly David Brock's opposition research has struck out on Bernie if recycling this crap is the best they have.

[jillan]

17. Please change the channel. It's hard but you can do it.

The only way to send them a message is through their ratings.

[hedda_foil]

19. I'd guess the objective is to pin the blame on non-existent BernieBros for the Trump rally brouhaha.

It's got a nice symmetry to it, dontcha think? Watch for HRC to express her dismay that Bernie Bros instigated violence ... which real Democrats would never do.

[dana_b]

20. wow - two months behind

MSNBC isn't doing so well.

[Betty Karlson]

21. No, the controversy that broke into the race was something to do with Nancy Reagan

and her deadpanning of a desperately needed conversation as a result of which the "gay cancer" decimated the gay community; all of which Mrs Clinton "mistook" for - I kid you not - "silent activism".

And then when all Hell broke loose, she tweeted two flimsy lines about "misspeaking".

And then the howl of indignation grew even bigger, so the "elaborated" her apology (we use the word loosely here), and this time said that "the Reagans do not deserve the distinction of having started the national conversation on AIDS."

Which is as tone-deaf and insincere as it gets. And the HRC (the gay group that stupidly endorsed her even though they had given her the LOWEST rating of all Democratic Candidates in the race) has unlisted its number, because apparently their base is not happy about that endorsement after all.

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Did any supposedly hard-working journalist at MSNBC pick up on that controversy, you bunch of bought and paid-for campaign staffers?

[dmosh42]

23. How about talk on "Hillary anti-labor" backers? Instead of making up stuff.

[senz]

24. As a woman, I have not seen anything like "BernieBros" here on DU.

I get the impression that it is a baseless meme created for the purpose of attacking Bernie through his supporters. I do not trust those who use the phrase and in fact consider them malicious.