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merrily

(45,251 posts)
1. And this passes for journalism and "reporting."
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:24 AM
Apr 2016

I don't know a lot about Snow, but I admire Joy Reid. I don't believe she would do this kind of thing if it were not marching orders from her employer. And I don't fault her for wanting to keep her job.

That said, this is shameful, as has been so much of MSNBC.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
5. Yes. I still think it is top down and she is trying to keep her job. She had a show taken from her,
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:33 AM
Apr 2016

even though she was light years smarter than others who had a show.

If I am wrong, I am wrong and it doesn't much matter. I will continue to watch MSNBC until election day, then I will never turn it on again. But that doesn't much matter either.

BTW, she is on air now, doing the same kind of thing. The man said he was voting for Hillary because she was going to be the nominee and he didn't want to waste his vote, but he wants Hillary to incorporate Bernie's ideas.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
8. The very definition of wasting your vote is voting for something you believe will happen anyway.
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:01 AM
Apr 2016

Many people do like to vote for winners, though. It makes them feel vindicated in their choice. That is one of the reasons Hillary as been described as inevitable since forever.

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
2. I see what you are saying
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:26 AM
Apr 2016

However, I think the first man's account is what will stick with most people.

Here's a guy who wants to vote for Trump (gag!) who said that he will "absolutely, absolutely" vote for Sanders if given the choice. And he talks about how Clinton and her husband are untrustworthy.

That was powerful.

Joy also said that there are a lot of Trump Democrats who will vote for Bernie.

In the end, I think this was a win for Bernie.

It certainly wasn't a win for Clinton, that's for sure!

 

Silver_Witch

(1,820 posts)
3. They are Trump supporters not Bernie supporters
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:27 AM
Apr 2016

So if anything the simply won't vote in the primary. I don't what the OP saw sorry!

Jack Bone

(2,023 posts)
7. not just not voting for Bernie...NOT VOTING
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:00 AM
Apr 2016

that hurts our candidates down ticket!!

somebody oughta file charges, or a complaint!

Chet Huntley's rolling over in his grave....Newton Minnow was right!

 

Silver_Witch

(1,820 posts)
14. Sorry don't see it! Just two
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 10:47 AM
Apr 2016

Conservative haters eating breakfast and angry they can't vote for Trump!

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
9. msnbc has become despicable
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:11 AM
Apr 2016

Don't watch!

alternative media on YouTube
'Democracy Spring', and 'Bernie 2016 TV', and 'The Young Turks' - none of these is 24 hours so you have to play with it a little.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
10. Message was clear - Dems here are conservative, want Trump. ..
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:20 AM
Apr 2016

... but since it's a closed primary they shouldn't bother to vote.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)
11. I can't get my head around a Democrat for Trump
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 02:57 PM
Apr 2016

Its funny that one of these voters would chose Bernie over Hillary. Clinton and Trump are much closer in positions (outside of social policies) than Clinton and Sanders.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
12. It's not that there exists such a constituency, but that the media should create one ...
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 03:25 PM
Apr 2016
“The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of a press, but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957

British writer, essayist, playwright and translator.

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