The Hill - News media has sought to 'delegitimize' Tulsi Gabbard, says liberal journalist

[disillusioned73]

[link:https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/431157-journalist-says-news-media-has-tried-to-delegitimize-gabbard-amid-her-2020-run|

""The campaign to otherize and delegitimize Tulsi Gabbard is itself really disturbing," Tracey said to Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on Wednesday.

"She's portrayed as a total crank, a weirdo, somebody who's been coddling dictators. She's been accused of being a member of a cult," he continued.

He compared the move to ones he says the media has made in the past to delegitimize other candidates.

"It really harkens back to how the media tried to otherize [former Republican presidential candidate] Ron Paul, [former Democratic candidate] Dennis Kucinich, other candidates in previous electoral cycles who were seen to be inconvenient or be too challenging of foreign policy consensus in particular," he said."

This is what happens when you run a campaign that challenges this countries obsession w/ war and feeding the Military Industrial Complex..

[OnDoutside]

1. Lol

[disillusioned73]

2. Well you convinced me otherwise...

I guess I am wrong..

[still_one]

3. This is Michael Tracey. Remember Michael Tracey? He was the guy who said Maxine Waters was mean to

him, and shoved him:


https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a55459/maxine-waters-michael-tracey/

[disillusioned73]

5. What does that have to do with this story??

[still_one]

6. I am questioning His credibility My own view is that Tulsi Gabbard is her own worst enemy, not

some mythical "liberal" media out to get her.

[msongs]

4. she is fed BY the military industrial complex nt

[Garrett78]

7. She's still in the race?

[DURHAM D]

8. lol Krystal Ball

Thought she had retired.

[disillusioned73]

15. I'll take her over..

Lifelong Republicans like Megan McCain & Anna Navarro..

[OilemFirchen]

9. Absolutely precious!

BTW, fuck Ron Paul.

[CrossingTheRubicon]

10. Tulsi does a fine job all by herself.

[disillusioned73]

13. Be more specific..

what part of her platform do you disagree with??

Oh, lifelong Republicans like Megan McCain & Anna Navarro do not qualify as objective media..

[seaglass]

11. She was raised in a cult and the leader of the cult is her guru. n/t

[Recursion]

12. Tulsi Gabbard has succeeded in delegitimizing Tulsi Gabbard

Anyone who takes money from Narendra Modi has no business being President.

[disillusioned73]

14. Taken $$$$

What nonsense is this??

what part of her platform do you disagree with??

Oh, lifelong Republicans like Megan McCain & Anna Navarro do not qualify as objective media..

[rogue emissary]

16. The hill is one of the worst sites to quote.

They often add opinions by anonymous sources.

To address the article's point. Gabbard starting her presidential campaign with a speech about "new cold war" and Neo liberals, Neo conservatives". She did a fine job of delegitimizing herself.

[crazytown]

17. (As you know) Tulsi met with tЯump at Trump Tower to discuss Syria

before the inauguration. She was in frequent touch with Steve Bannon over the same period. I don’t know who she was representing but it wasn’t the Democratic Party, or the Democrats who voted for her.

[Trenzalore]

18. How many people from the House of Representatives have jumped directly to the White House

Outside of Gerald Ford.

[Adrahil]

19. LOL... the best part...

Is where he tries to defend her by comparing her to Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. Yeah, if you’re trying to convince me she is not a nut, that’s maybe not your best choice.