Democracy Now! Discusses Biden's Record w/ Andrew Cockburn

[liberalnarb]

[WeekiWater]

1. Most all of our candidates have made some bad moves.

I take issue with any presentation that gives the appearance of being comprehensive while omitting major positive accomplishments.

[George II]

2. Will the be making a similar video for all the other candidates?

[WeekiWater]

3. Democracy Now has put out a number of hit pieces on Biden in the last month.

They completely ignore his positive accomplishments. That is why I can rightfully define them as hit pieces.

[NYMinute]

25. You are absolutely right nt

[Cha]

28. ..

Pushers of stein and assange?

Link to tweet

[George II]

31. Is that the same Assange that's in jail now, probably for life?

[MineralMan]

4. Are we going to see more hit jobs on Biden now?

I hope not.

[highplainsdem]

6. Probably. Especially from Sanders supporters.

Twitter is littered with them. They're sniping at Biden even more than Trump supporters are.

[MineralMan]

7. Same old same old...

Boring.

Who is "Democracy Now?"

[highplainsdem]

8. Don't know exactly who they are, but they loooove Assange and WikiLeaks.

[Cha]

27. Yeah and jill stein pushers.. so

they have no cred in my view.

Link to tweet

[Uncle Joe]

9. "Who is Democracy Now?"

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman, who also acts as the show's executive producer, and Juan González.[1] The show, which airs live each weekday at 08:00 ET, is broadcast on the internet and by over 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.[2]

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Democracy Now Productions, the independent nonprofit organization which produces Democracy Now!, is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations such as the Ford Foundation,[not in citation given] Lannan Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund,[4][5][6][unreliable source?] and does not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting or government funding.[7]

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Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television;[24] the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of two Nigerian villagers protesting an oil spill;[25] and Goodman with Allan Nairn won Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's First Prize in International Radio for their 1993 report, Massacre: The Story of East Timor which involved first-hand coverage of genocide during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.[26]

On October 1, 2008, Goodman was named as a recipient of the 2008 Right Livelihood Award,[27] in connection with her years of work establishing Democracy Now! and in 2009, she, like her frequent guest Glenn Greenwald, was awarded the first annual Izzy Award (named after journalist I. F. "Izzy" Stone) for "special achievement in independent media."[28] Her co-host Juan Gonzalez was inducted into the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' Hall of Fame on November 19, 2015.[29][30]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Now!

[MineralMan]

10. Thanks. I actually looked that up right after asking.

But I appreciate your posting the link. I see the link between it and Glenn Greenwald, too. How interesting. Are you a fan of Glenn Greenwald?

[Uncle Joe]

11. ..

Peace to you MineralMan.

[liberalnarb]

13. "Link"? No, but they have interviewed him many times in the past.

He's an award winning investigative journalist after all.

[emmaverybo]

12. Will get truly ugly

Disinformation and smear campaign going to ramp way up. Expect more YouTube mashups, more insistence that Biden exercises a touching fetish onstage with women and children, posters accusing him of “unforgivable acts towards children” in front of their families, filmed for posterity, and I do not put it past conservatives to do a false-flag whereby they infiltrate or front a progressive group and put up a compelling “story” about “creepy Uncle Joe” to jive with the misogynistic molesting Biden meme already in play.

[PatSeg]

32. Unfortunately

it has only just begun, but fortunately, Joe has been through it before, so he is undoubtedly prepared. However, as a long time Biden supporter, I have a bad habit of taking it personally on his behalf. I am determined to tune it out this time, it is emotionally exhausting!

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread liberalnarb.

[liberalnarb]

14. ...

[Demsrule86]

16. It won't help...the more you all and your friends attack the more determined I am.

Sanders has a record too. Did you know he voted for the crime bill and against Russian sanctions ( or wasn't there for the vote) numerous times. He also voted against the immigration bill and don't get me started on his mixed record on LGBTQ. Maybe we should hang out in this decade and century.

[liberalnarb]

17. Thanks for the laugh. nt

[Demsrule86]

18. Every word I wrote is true. Check it out.

[liberalnarb]

21. Complete bunk.

[Demsrule86]

23. Here is the crime bill.

The rest are all true but honestly you could Google them if you were interested

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/10/1513401/-Sanders-Touted-his-1994-Crime-Bill-Vote-in-2006-Re-Election-bid-in-Vermont-Should-he-Apologize

[liberalnarb]

24. It's odd you focus on bad crime bills...

[PatSeg]

33. Definitely agree

It would be best if we hung out in "this decade and century". The longer someone has been politics, the more baggage he/she accumulates. There is always a bigger story behind every vote.

Joe brings a wealth of valuable experience with him, it is inevitable that there would be some baggage mixed in as well.

[Demsrule86]

15. I was a supporter of this group but blocked them because of their behavior during the

Midterms.

[BlueFlorida]

20. They are too extreme. nt

[BlueFlorida]

19. Some candidates have written shocking essays,

remained unemployed for long stretches and not voted in elections.

[ucrdem]

22. This is the show that used ex-Bush military guys to rip the Obama administration.

They LOVED Glenn Greenwald and his hater pals, like uber-nitwit Jeremy Scahil, who used to get on every day to "report" that Barack Obama was a bigger menace to the world than Bush-Cheney because drones.



They also loved Edward Snowden, Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky and every other righteous nutjob.

[liberalnarb]

29. Chomsky and Hedges are nutjobs?

Yeah, okay. Your comment reveals more about you than anyone else.

[liberalnarb]

30. Also, who are these "ex-Bush military guys"?

I'm be interested in looking into it.

[BlueFlorida]

26. All the extremist left wingers are panicking

and churning out hit piece after hit piece. I see David Sirota's hand in this.

It won't do any good.

[BannonsLiver]

34. What a surprise, people in the tank for Bernie hate Biden.

Such objective, thoughtful and reality based analysis.