MSNBC Cuts Away From Bernie Sanders as He Condemns Trans-Pacific Partnership

[nationalize the fed]

The Intercept 2/22/2016 Zaid Jilani

MSNBC cut away from a live Bernie Sanders press conference this afternoon as the Democratic presidential candidate was talking about his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Watch the cutaway:

http://vimeo.com/156330769

“You’ve been listening to Bernie Sanders, less of a press conference, more of a speech. I want to turn back to the Republican side of things,” said Kate Snow, as she pivoted to news of Ted Cruz firing a press spokesperson.

MSNBC owner Comcast has lobbied for the TPP. Last year, it fired host Ed Schultz, an outspoken opponent of the agreement.

A Media Matters study found that outside of Schultz’s show, the TPP was mentioned only twice on MSNBC during an 18-month period. Last year, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough admitted to The Intercept that his network was “guilty” of ignoring the TPP.
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/msnbc-cuts-away-from-bernie-sanders-as-he-condemns-trans-pacific-partnership/

This is outrageous. A "free" press? What other things are they ignoring?

[GoneFishin]

1. They are such fucking assholes.

[desmiller]

4. That's greed exploiting itself

[Akamai]

40. I disagree -- asshole are necessary and these greedy bastids ain't!!

Go Bernie!!! But really, have these people no shame at all? No shame at all?

[nationalize the fed]

55. +1

But really, have these people no shame at all? No shame at all?

Many Americans are no longer capable of feeling shame. It's a shame.

[RKP5637]

78. +1, n/t

[desmiller]

2. Mike Papantonio said not too long ago that MSNBC

is now a complete joke.

[840high]

56. It's become no different than

the rest.

[desmiller]

58. And that's absolutely tragic.

I started to hate them when they gave Martin Bashir the boot. But when Ed Shultz got dismissed, I was breathing fire that nearly burnt my flat screen.

[PyaarRevolution]

89. Please call him his proper name.

He's "The Great One" like Sean Hannity calls Mark Levin except Mike isn't full of shit.

[desmiller]

90. Never was. When Pap discusses issues, he pull no punches

He's abducted to the Lawyers hall of fame.

He truly is America's Lawyer.

[still_one]

3. What was the breaking news story?

[nationalize the fed]

5. I have no idea because this channel is

banned from my house

[still_one]

8. I don't watch the MSM either, but my point is, was it a real breaking news story or not.

[litlbilly]

19. No, he mentioned TPP and they just cut away. Ed Shultz was fired for going after the TPP. MSNBC

is now owned by Comcast. that should tell you all you need to know

[desmiller]

10. Ever since Ed Shultz got canned for metioning TPP,

I watch mostly internet shows. The only cable network I watch is MeTV.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It wasn't really

It was a press conference from Cruz.

I saw that went business as usual, why media is a joke.

[still_one]

9. ok, thanks

[Snarkoleptic]

7. Prolly a Kardashian or Trump nugget.

Look...squirrel!

[desmiller]

17. ^^^^^ That is one badass cat

[Grassy Knoll]

18. Ha..

Maybe
Squirrels
Need
Better
Coverage

[JohnnyRingo]

51. It turned into a stump speech

If they aired it much longer they'd have to give equal time to other candidates in fairness. Then MSNBC would be "in the tank for Hillary".

In Bernie's defense, it's a common campaign stunt to call a press conference to make an important announcement, then say nothing new. It's a way of getting free face time on TV. Bernie's views on TPP aren't exactly a stop the presses event

[nc4bo]

62. They already give HRH decent coverage because she's a corpodem.

Sanders doesn't carry that water so they've done everything they could to stifle and smother his anti-corp message.

Good on Bernie for getting it out there!

[stevenleser]

87. Cruz firing a senior press person from his campaign for an unfounded attack on Rubio

It was a pretty big news story at the time.

[still_one]

92. Yes, that was a big story, thanks

[Jefferson23]

11. They admit they don't cover the TPP story..gee I wonder why not. ugh

[jillan]

12. Msnbc has Breaking News Banner on Bottom - Trump Speaks in Nevada

Can we just have one cable news station - puleeeeeeeeze!!

[Impedimentus]

13. MSNBC has turned into FOX News-Lite

I really miss Jon Stewart.

[backscatter712]

14. This is why I cut the cord.

I no longer watch cable news, or have cable TV, because of shit like this.

The cable news channels have become total garbage.

[litlbilly]

20. I dumped direct tv 1 year ago and I couldnt be happier. Have my 50" connected to my laptopo and

just love it.

[kenfrequed]

69. Yup

This is one of the reasons the under 45 crowd is going to Sanders in a big way. Most of them are in the process of cutting the cord and giving up on cable TV completely. More and more are getting their information from internet news websites or internet shows like TYT.

[Art_from_Ark]

21. Cable news is definitely a wasteland

I only watch cable news maybe 2 or 3 times a year (usually at an airport), and it seems to just be getting worse and worse. Junk shows, as predicted by that prescient '80s TV series Max Headroom.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, nationalize the fed.

[yawnmaster]

16. What was Sander's press conference about? eom

[Stand and Fight]

22. I'm certainly not surprised by this.

It's utterly disgusting, but it isn't unexpected for the station owned by G.E.

[Nyan]

26. They're now owned by Comcast.

And somehow even more disgusting than when they were owned by GE.

[NurseJackie]

23. Oh yeah. Definitely done on purpose. Oligarchy conspiracy! "M-dollar-sign-M" and all that!

[nationalize the fed]

52. It's a big circus

And we're all in it

Some of us are in the bleachers, and some are on the stage.
It's The World's Biggest Big Top Circus!

[think]

53. Are you at all familar with media consolidation?

Concentration of media ownership

Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation or media convergence) is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media.[1] Contemporary research demonstrates increasing levels of consolidation, with many media industries already highly concentrated and dominated by a very small number of firms.[2][3]

Globally, large media conglomerates include Viacom, CBS Corporation, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox and News Corp (the former News Corporation, split in 2013), Bertelsmann AG, Sony, Comcast, Vivendi, Televisa, The Walt Disney Company, Hearst Corporation, Organizações Globo and Lagardère Group.[4][5][6]

As of 2012, The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the US, with News Corporation, Time Warner and Viacom ranking second, third and fourth respectively.[7]

In nations described as authoritarian by most international think-tanks and NGOs, media ownership is generally something very close to the complete state control over information in direct or indirect ways.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership

[R B Garr]

24. He says the same thing over and over, so it's hard to take him seriously.

Why would the networks be any different.

[Lordquinton]

33. Cut him off, then claim he doesn't say anything different?

It's hard to take Clinton followers seriously, the reaching is good for the joints tho.

[R B Garr]

36. It's well known he's a broken record and he clings

to his rote talking points.

What's also well known is that Sanders supporters immediately make things personal to attack just like you did because they can't handle anything outside unquestioned adoration and groveling for BS. That's also well known.

[dchill]

37. "It's well known he's a broken record..."

Projection much?

[R B Garr]

39. This thread is about poor poor Bernie and the

bad bad mediaZ out to victimize him! Conspiracy!

This thread is not about me, although you just made my point again about Sanders supporters and their desperate personal attacks. LOL, like clockwork (or "clickwork" as my typo showed), and it's universal, not just here.

[dchill]

41. I repeat...

Projection much?

Seriously. Ad hominem is the Hillaroid model.

[R B Garr]

44. LOL at you doing just what I said in post 36 and 39!

The only reasons for your posts were to attack me. That's hilarious you are trying to do it again. You have said nothing else. This is a well known tactic that is universally used by BS supporters. It's national news now. Truly hilarious!

[dchill]

47. What makes you think I can count to 36, let alone 39?

You give me too much credit. After all, I'm just a person who supports truth, and the guy who stays on message - a message that he has not co-opted or lied about. True, he doesn't have the foreign policy experience of surviving non-existent sniper fire, or advocating for 1% trade policies, but he's honest, a quirk I happen to fetishize. Sue me.

[R B Garr]

49. EDIT: dchill said that he "smells" my fear, and I answered "now you smell" which was in

Last edited Tue Feb 23, 2016, 08:14 PM - Edit history (2)

response to him declaring that I am afraid and he smells it, and there is a 4-3 hide for this nonsense. This should be a warning to all posters of the desperation to get posts hidden here to silence Hillary supporters. I have to laugh at the pettiness, though.

My comments still stand: My only comment in this thread was that Bernie is repetitive to his detriment and everything else posted to me has been just to attack me personally just hoping to get a post hidden. So GLAD this will be over soon and people are on to this silencing attempt by Bernie supporters EVERYWHERE.

[dchill]

50. By "situational awareness" you mean that HLC/DLC are gonna get him...

by hook or by crook, so to speak. Right? I smell your fear and regret your cognitive dissonance.

[workinclasszero]

81. Its a C-O-N-S-P-I-R-A-C-Y

pass it on citizen...

[R B Garr]

84. lol, so true. Even the most common of occurrences that every candidate before

has managed to endure turns into a conspiracy against Bernie. And if you don't believe the conspiracies, you are attacked! It actually reminds me of the Fox News tactic of creating an alternate universe, and then calling everyone unpatriotic if you question them. Quite the "strategery" they have there.

[workinclasszero]

85. Yes we don't fit into their alternate universe LOL

Pity

[Lordquinton]

59. "Rote talking points" aka The Issues

Which Clinton avoids at all costs. Maybe if Clinton followers talked about the issues half as much as they talked about how much they hate Sanders there could be a dialogue, so it comes down to this.

Got some content? Or more Sanders bashing? Issues? Real solutions to actual problems? Or just more "Sanders offers Unicorns and his followers are idiots"? (I overheard that one at dinner the other night, was glad the person was blue, but I had to focus very hard on my meal after that).

[R B Garr]

63. Hating billionaires isn't an "issue". When asked in a debate about foreign policy after the

Paris attacks and he immediately starts in with "billionaires", that's a rote talking point. He doesn't answer questions, he just gives his hating billionaires spiel. Over and over and over. That's laughable. And who cares what you overheard at your "dinner". All one has to do is watch him being interviewed and hear what his default lines are. All aimed at getting applause. He gives the same spiel over and over when interviewed. It's well known by now what he says to rile gullible people like you up. That's what passes as "issues".

So phony.

[nc4bo]

65. Candidate Obama didn't know jackshit about foreign policy either, so said HRC.

and Obama has done well enough that Hillary is hugging him closer than Michelle......or a barnacle clinging to a ship.

Last I heard, Hill's real good at reciting names and pronouncing the places on a map but her record in the FP Dept. has been found lacking, down right dangerous or serves as a money funnel to the MIC and the Clinton Foundation.

Sanders is not a warmongering self-serving, 1%ing, profit before people machine.

So what's this critique about Sanders' FP creditials again?

[R B Garr]

66. Absolutely LAUGHABLE that you would compare Sanders campaigning style with Obamas!

Oh, and lol with the repetitive little buzzwords. "Money funnel"... . These repetitive buzzwords just sound silly after awhile. And look at the "1%" little buzzword, although he obviously has no problem with 1%ers, so long as they are rich actresses who attack for him. Spare me the repetitive bullshit. So phony.

[nc4bo]

67. No one is laughing but you. It's not the campaign style I'm referring to.

Obama also found it difficult to win in certain primaries. He never stopped plugging away or letting those losses dissuade.

The point being, Sanders' doesn't listen to Eeyores. The fight has just begun!

[kenfrequed]

72. Feh...

If anything is a rote talking point it is obsessing about terrorists.

I seriously wonder which party I am in these days when we allow a few crazy people to redefine what is important for two weeks every time they get lucky enough to kill a few people or blow something up.

Bernie Sanders has a long list of policy initiatives that are centered around the idea that inequality is a real thing in America. Obviously, that doesn't matter as much to you as freaking out over whatever news crawl about the murder of the week.

[R B Garr]

73. The only "freaking out" are the Bernie supporters who freak out if anyone

dares to question Bernie. LOL.

It's not freaking out to observe that he says the same thing over and over to rile up gullible people.

[kenfrequed]

95. Garbage response

So... actually addressing directly one of the most important issues of the day is gullible.

Bull. But thanks for calling us gullible. Maybe Hillary can just cite 9-11 next time someone asks about her cozy relationship with Wall Street again.

[Lordquinton]

74. If you're going to call others out for ad hominens

then you need to not use them yourself.

It's clear you have your mind made up and are attacking anyone who brings up anything to challenge your view. Have fun!

[Lordquinton]

82. No, you have your fair share

Or do you claim to not have made any?

And No one has attacked Civil Rights Icons. There have been several who have fallen on their swords for Hillary by lieing for her campaign, and they get called out for it. Or do you think that their status gives them cover to mislead?

[R B Garr]

83. No, the attacks are all yours. I've just noted the well-worn tactic by

Bernie supporters, which is to attack people in any way they can for daring to not worship BS. It's obviously more gratifying here because you can get posts hidden, so there's a direct motivation for attacking people so maybe they'll defend themselves and you can alert on their posts.

But its happening everywhere. Facebook, Twitter and in real life at endorsement events. People are attacked. Even iconic civil rights leaders are attacked. They are not being "called out", they are being attacked.

[Lordquinton]

86. Yes, Clinton followers have framed things well

Bernie is a civil rights leader, and he gets attacked regularly.

The icons you mentioned have been put in the position to draw fire, either by mischaraterising, or out right lieing. That happens when you align yourself with the Clinton's.

Now please stop with the personal attacks, and broad-brushing Sanders supporters, it's a low tactic and one that Clinton followers often speak out against.

[R B Garr]

91. My comment was about Bernie's repetitiveness and you've been angry about it

since my post which was going on 24 hours ago now. The attacks are all yours. You haven't contributed anything except to frame your comments as an attack on me personally.

But I'm in good company, since the Bernie supporters tactics are now well-known nationally after the same lowbrow attacks on iconic civil rights leaders and the numerous attacks on Twitter and Facebook on any media figure who dares to question BS. Iconic civil rights leaders have been maligned simply for endorsing Hillary and for participating in events which promote her. It's an ugly tactic by BS supporters, but it is now well known and widely reported.

[Lordquinton]

93. I haven't been angry, but that's another Clinton line

that Sanders is "too angry"

All I have done is point out that you're repeating the attacks that have been going on for months. Sanders stays on message, and talks about the issues. He doesn't attack his opponent, and I wish that were mutual.

It's a shame that Clinton's tactics involve hiding behind Icons and they get caught up in the fray. If they lie, or get mis-characterized in her name, then it's on their heads, they are adults, and everything has been brought out into the air now, and Clinton's tactics are open for everyone, thanks to the Internet.

Please stop attacking Sander's supporters, it's dragging down the whole dialogue, and tarnishing the party's chances in the General.

[Logical]

70. Lol, well know by you maybe. Quit whining. Nt

[R B Garr]

75. Quit whining yourself. LOL.

Thanks for proving my point yet again that your only input here was to attack me. That's another sure thing about Bernie supporters as I've already noted starting in post 36. Bernie's repetition and Bernie supporter's personal attacks are a broken record.

[wouldsman]

25. I wondered if Bernie had gone quiet about TPP,

turns out the media is just censoring that topic.

[nationalize the fed]

57. The American people wouldn't tolerate the censoring of a topic...would they?

[PatrickforO]

27. Fucking comcast.

[AzDar]

29. ONE candidate has never... and WILL never support the TPP. Just. One.

[cascadiance]

30. MSNBC now stands for "More Shit 'n Bull from Comcast"!

[Lordquinton]

32. So this is why I was hearing about his "Press Conference" earlier.

Is the new meme is cutting him off then saying he doesn't talk about anything different?

[PatrynXX]

34. thats why I don't watch the MSNBCFAUX channel anymore n/t

[TIME TO PANIC]

35. K & R!

CUT THE CORD!

[jfern]

38. And they were the most liberal of the 5 networks

It's unbelievable how right-wing the media in this country is.

[G_j]

42. Says it all

ALL

[marlakay]

43. I caught a few min of ABC news tonight

It was like a ad for Hillary went on and on and on about her all flowery and how wonderful she was doing, then showed Bernie for a few seconds then cut him off.

Its beyond rigged, last few days I am thinking for the first time Trump might really win. That has me freaked out.

[SoapBox]

45. ...blatant bias.

Fuck MSNBC.

[elljay]

46. Not a News Channel

We sometimes forget that (myself included).

It is hard to break the habit of watching the "news" on tv in the evening. I grew up watching Walter Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley, Howard K. Smith and the other giants of network news. Back then, everyone had basically the same set of facts, even with different opinions. Now, we don't even remotely share the same "facts."

MSNBC has tried to take the place of the old school Evening News. However, it is just an opinion and entertainment channel, like Fox News. The opinions are based on more factual material than Fox, but they are still opinions. Now that Comcast is the owner, they drive the agenda and we hear their opinions.

[FairWinds]

48. The Fact That the MSM suppresses it . .

tells you that it is important.

TPP/trade issues are where the left and right can agree.

Bernie needs to be all over the TPP . .

And the TTIP as well.

And I mean jumping up and down yelling and screaming all over it.

I wanna see the arteries throb !!

[JohnnyRingo]

54. This was a stump speech

Press conferences are to make important campaign announcements, not to hear him reiterate his views on issues. If MSNBC continued they'd have to grant equal time to others, then they'd be "in the tank for Hillary".

In Bernie's defense, it's a common campaign stunt to call a press conference to make an important announcement, then say nothing new. It's a way of getting free face time on TV and I'm sure Cliinton will try it too eventually. Trump thrives on this low budget tactic, but he always says something fresh and provocative. Unfortunately.

Bernie's well known views on TPP aren't exactly a stop the presses event.

[NurseJackie]

79. Thank you! (nt)

[BeanMusical]

60. Kick and R

[earthshine]

61. Obama is still trying to pass the TPP. It must be stopped.

He doesn't care at all that the will of the people is NO TPP!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141356262

This is what third-way democrats do.

[kgnu_fan]

64. K&R

People really need to know and think about consequence of TPP

[Teamster Jeff]

68. Kick rec

[raouldukelives]

71. Another day in the most reality shareholders will allow. nt

[RKP5637]

77. MSNBC is just another MSM propaganda outlet, not to be trusted as a source. n/t

[Go Vols]

88. Quit MSNBC when Ed left.

Sky news plays all day now.

[colsohlibgal]

94. MSNBC Is Now A Joke

We need a real legitimate progressive cable station, one that does not can people for discussing the dreadful TPP.....or quickly cut away from a speech dare any opposition to the TPP go out on the airwaves.