Progressive journalist: MSNBC doesn't try to hide 'contempt' towards Gabbard

[brooklynite]

The Hill

Progressive journalist Michael Tracey claimed Tuesday that MSNBC is has dropped all pretenses for their “contempt” towards Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii).

The political news contributor said the left-leaning network has treated her fellow 2020 Democratic candidates, including businessman Andrew Yang and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) unfairly, but he argued that with Gabbard it, “crosses a certain threshold.”

“Fundamentally they’re beholden to whatever the market incentives are and right now it’s within their market interests to depict Tulsi as an infiltrator, as a Trojan horse in the Democratic Party and not deal on the substance with what she’s saying which is why over and over again they tar her as a Russian plant essentially,” Tracey told Hill.TV.

“There’s nobody who can really offer any kind countervailing view because it’s just not economically advantageous for them at this point,” he added.

MSNBC didn't immediately return Hill.TV's request for comment.

Always good to have an excuse for failure...seems to work for Trump.

[chillfactor]

1. doesn't bother me....

I have no use for her...…...she continually puts down the Democratic Party and the candidates.

[OKNancy]

2. Tracey is a Progressive?

could have fooled me

[pnwmom]

4. He's a Tulsi-style/TYT/pro-Russia progressive.

One of those.

[OKNancy]

7. yes, that's what I thought

I was kidding a little with my post

[NurseJackie]

13. Oh, GAG me!

[Cha]

16. That's what I was thinking.. if "progressive" means

gaslighting idiot.. then ok.

Link to tweet

[pnwmom]

3. Newsweek says Tracy is a TYT reporter who's known for downplaying Russia election hacking.

"Tracey, an iconoclastic journalist known for an acute interest in downplaying the Russia election-hacking narrative, posted on Twitter his exchange with Representative Maxine M. Waters of California, a liberal Democrat who has vociferously called for the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump."

SNIP

Michael Tracey tweeted Maxine Waters "shoved" him. Here's the video. This is what he is calling a shove.

Link to tweet

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Tracey, who was reporting for The Young Turks, is unlikely to see his employment imperiled. But he did come in for relentless mockery on social media, much of which painted him as the very kind of supremely sensitive "snowflake" the right loves to skewer.

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E871138881739120640&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fmaxine-waters-attacked-journalist-michael-tracey-parallel-universe-maybe-620371

I understand Michael Tracey's issue as Maxine Waters initiated physical contact with me as well

[OnDoutside]

6. Ah yes, I remember that fool now, thanks.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. TYT , of course. And their boss is running for office and has fooled a lot of people

too bad, cuz he AINT who he says he is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I'm not hiding mine, either.

[Me.]

8. Oh Give It A Rest

Nobody but Tulsi answered the questions asked or had the attitude she presented

[durablend]

9. "The Hill". Yawn.

Guess they need to stir shit up 24/7/365

[SCVDem]

10. Pound sand!

[bitterross]

11. Who DOESN'T have contempt for her?

She's earned it.

[beastie boy]

14. I am still hiding my contempt for her. Does it make me more progressive?

[Joinfortmill]

15. Not on my fav list