CNN Absurdly Compares Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders with Trump Over Media Complaints

[JoeOtterbein]

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By Tommy Christopher Aug 13th, 2019, 10:35 am

CNN has been pushing an offensive comparison between Donald Trump’s treatment of the press and complaints by the Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders camps about the media’s coverage of the Democratic presidential primary campaign, saying that Sanders and Biden are using “Trump’s playbook.”

CNN Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny first made the comparison about Sanders on Monday, tweeting that “In NH today, @BernieSanders sounds a lot like @realDonaldTrump as he trashes Amazon: ‘I talk about that all of the time and then I wonder why the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, doesn’t write particularly good articles about me I don’t know why.’”

On Tuesday morning’s edition of New Day, the network cast the net a bit wider. Co-host Erica Hill introduced a package featuring clips of Sanders and senior Biden adviser Symone Sanders by saying “Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign and Senator Bernie Sanders taking a page from the Donald Trump playbook.”

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[thesquanderer]

1. You know who else complains about bad press?

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[JoeOtterbein]

3. +1000 LOLs!

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread JoeOtterbein

[JoeOtterbein]

4. They want both Bernie and Joe to lose.

I hope they don't want Trump again.

[Uncle Joe]

6. I remember them giving Trump precious air time covering this

as if it meant anything to the American People.

Wine, water and (actual) red meat -- it's a Donald Trump press conference

(snip)

"You have to do what's right," Trump said, explaining why he refused to settle pending lawsuits against his defunct for-profit education venture, "and believe it or not, I'm a very highly principled person. If you live by principle, you're going to do very well."

For the friendly guests invited into the Election Night venue: servers walking around with champagne and wine glasses, along with a table stocked with cheese, charcuterie, fruit and cookies.

There was also a "step and repeat," the kind of banner backdrop typically seen behind movie stars on a red carpet. This one, of course, featured Trump branding.

The wine -- including bottles of rosé, Blanc de Blanc, chardonnay and a Meritage red -- is all featured online at the Trump Winery website.


https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/08/politics/donald-trump-steak-wine-water-press-conference/index.html

That's "reality" T.V. not to be mistaken for serious journalism.

[Skya Rhen]

5. They've backed off lumping Joe into this, since earlier today. I now hear them just referring to

Bernie...

[Hortensis]

7. You're smearing Biden by associating him with Sanders and Trump?!

I gotta admit, Otterbein, I thought you were predictable but you did manage to surprise by using this.

[comradebillyboy]

8. It would be wrong to include Biden in that group. He

really doesn't complain too much. He has a much thicker skin than the other two as well.

[LanternWaste]

9. Sanders is the only Democrat blaming his poor poll numbers on the press

Sanders, rather than Biden (or any of the other candidates for that matter), is the only Democratic candidate blaming his poor polling data on the media rather than reflecting on the missteps his own campaign.

[Gothmog]

10. Symone Sanders-"I want to be very clear: this is a press narrative, not a voter narrative."

Link to tweet