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Uncle Joe

(58,364 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 07:24 PM Feb 2016

This is an interesting article by WAPO re: Rachel Maddow's commentary of Bernie with a video.




After running away with the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, Bernie Sanders in his victory speech made the case for why he can win a general election. Then MSNBC host Rachel Maddow did the same thing — only in a much more compelling way.

To be clear: Maddow, who co-moderated a Democratic debate last Thursday, hasn’t explicitly backed Sanders over Hillary Clinton. And during MSNBC’s primary-night coverage, she didn’t try to tell viewers why they should vote for the Vermont senator.

Instead, she followed Sanders’s address with a personal reflection that was all the more striking in its sincerity after hours of cable news blabbing. Her message was a vivid example of what Sanders had said moments earlier — that an unapologetically liberal candidate can actually turn out voters better than a center-left candidate whose more mainstream positions supposedly make him or her more “electable.”


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/10/rachel-maddow-just-made-a-convincing-case-for-why-bernie-sanders-could-be-president-video/



Rachel's heartfelt comments aside what really struck me about this video was Andrea Mitchell's deer in the headlights look at about the 10:50 mark and then what I thought was enlightened commentary by Andrea beginning at the 13:26 mark regarding Bernie and Trump.

I'm haven't been a major fan of Andrea Mitchell and I don't have MSNBC so I don't know how the rest of the evening went but I thought she did well here.

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