Bernie’s 'Political Revolution' is Actually Happening, Although the Corporate Media Won’t Tell You

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Bernie’s 'Political Revolution' is Actually Happening, Although the Corporate Media Won’t Tell You That
Thom Hartmann
Don't rely on the media to tell you what's going on.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernies-political-revolution-actually-happening-although-corporate-media-wont-tell-you

Bernie Sanders has made voter-turnout history, getting about a third more votes than any other primary candidate in the history of New Hampshire primaries, but much of our media is reporting the opposite; that it’s no big deal what he’s accomplishing.

Rachel Maddow rolled out the latest confused bit of reporting on the evening of Friday, February 12th. Whether this ended up on the air as a Maddow-producer “brilliant idea” or was suggested by the Clinton campaign is unknown, but the entire piece was confounding.

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First, Bernie’s main premise wasn’t that he could get more people to vote for him (although he’s asserted that and is actually doing it, as I’ll get to in a moment). His main premise is that, unlike President Obama, he will ask the American people to be very, very, very involved in the political process. He’s talked over and over about how if, as president, when he’s trying to get meaningful legislation through, he’ll invite millions of people to come to DC to let Congress know what they think.

But more importantly, in this story (played out in other media as well as MSNBC) the numbers were passed along to us from their source in an astonishingly confusing fashion, given their context.


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1. When We Stand Together - Every Citizen Wins - Go Bernie Go

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2. Thanks for posting, it's a good article

I saw it this morning when skimming headlines and kept it in mind to read later. Only I forgot where I saw it and then couldn't find it. And here it is