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Bias? (Original Post) BigBearJohn Mar 2016 OP
The media's glaring bias for Trump and open contempt for Sanders is yet another factor Lorien Mar 2016 #1

Lorien

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1. The media's glaring bias for Trump and open contempt for Sanders is yet another factor
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 04:25 AM
Mar 2016

which will keep voters from ever backing Clinton. Anyone who is even slightly astute will notice the hours of fawning free advertising given to Trump, a candidate who seems less serious about his run for President than a frat boy is about hazing new pledges. The media's attempt to crown Hillary as the nominee at every given opportunity has been beyond infuriating. Meanwhile, Bernie's is defying all expectations after starting with lots of experience but little name recognition, and enduring a media blackout that would appear comical in it's obviousness-especially given the MSM's daily bouts of genuflecting to Herr Drumpf -if the consequences weren't so dire. Add to that Trump's long relationship with the Clintons, his contributions to them over the decades, his relatively recent defection from the Democratic party, and the encouragement that he received for his run from Bill, and the whole game becomes damned obvious. We're being taken for suckers by the puppeteers. They're blackmailing us with a reality TV star that they have turned into the ultimate boogyman to frighten liberal progressives into voting booths to elect a repugnant establishment neocon with mountains of baggage...a candidate so weak that even the unknown candidate that they've blacked out of the mainstream media is posing a threat to her candidacy. If Bernie were given half the coverage that Trump has been given we wouldn't even be talking about Hillary right now, and everyone knows it.

We won't get any real traction without addressing the media directly. They should be in our crosshairs right now.

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