#HillaryMen: How Pundits Spin Hillary Winning As Hillary Losing (HILLARY GROUP)
Only in the magical wonderland of American media can a candidate running ahead of a pack of 20 still be described as losing....
At Daily Kos, an analysis of polls reveals what Hillary's detractors can't face:
It's been inescapable for weeks: Beltway hacks have been braying about Hillary Clinton's "falling poll numbers," eager to fan the flames of Democratic discord and generate column-inches about intra-party conflict where none exists. What's most pathetic about this latest anti-Clinton drumbeat, though, is how it's directly contradicted by, well, the polls.
She was winning half a year ago, and she's still winning now. Could that change by next year? Of course. But the point is that despite efforts to foment panic in certain quarters, nothing's changed in the last six months. If Clinton's margins were to remain the same going forward (and she were to secure the Democratic nomination), she'd win as big a victory as Barack Obama did in 2008. If anyone should be worried, it ought to be the Republicans.
If you‘re wondering how desperately some pundits and operatives want Hillary to lose, consider this exchange on Morning Joe, a shameful repository of Clinton-bashing.
“You want me to indict and damn Hillary Clinton and I’m not going to do it.” This was an exasperated NYT reporter Jeremy Peters on the set of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday as Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski tried to chip away at him and push him to personally declare that Clinton did something horribly wrong. The topic was Clinton’s infamous email server, which, in recent weeks, has absolutely outraged Brzezinski.
Summer is winding down and the election is heating up. We’re reaching a point where media personalities are badgering each other to ratchet up the attacks on Hillary. If it’s humanly possible, Hillary will be subjected to even more vitriolic attacks from those whose lives are dedicated to attacking her. Another #HillaryMen friend, Heather ‘Digby’ Parton, explains how the process works, invoking what is known in progressive circles as Cokie’s Law:
Cokie’s Law is the axiom that says the press can pass judgement about anything once it’s “out there” regardless of whether or not what’s “out there” is true. This allows them to skip doing boring rebuttals of the facts at hand and instead hold forth at length about how it bears on the subject’s “judgement” and the “appearance” of wrongdoing without ever proving that what they did was wrong....
We’re so far down the rabbit hole with coverage of Hillary that up is down, black is white, and winning is losing. Thank goodness for voters who see through this topsy-turvy spin and continue to stand with Hillary.
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With 24/7 Cable News the Primary/Election is a drug they love doing. If they can't get hard news they will twist and fabricate something to make it 'hard news'. Sadly, the electorate isn't collectively intelligent or cynical. They need someone to explain things to them.
ones spinning themselves into dizziness!
"We’re so far down the rabbit hole with coverage of Hillary that up is down, black is white, and winning is losing. Thank goodness for voters who see through this topsy-turvy spin and continue to stand with Hillary."
".. so far the rabbit hole.." Good Description, DMM~
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