Is Hillary Toast?

[rogue06]

Aljazeera America seems to be the only thing remotely close to being mainstream media that are running an article that simply says "Bernie Sanders was the clear winner".

[rogue06]

Okay, actually Chris Matthews on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" on MSNBC was arguing staunchly that Bernie won "too", albeit against a panel of three who were telling him why he was wrong about this and how great Hillary is. And also Rachel Maddow on MSNBC too. Both Chris Matthew and Rachel Maddow on their respect shows called out the rest of the media for ignoring Sanders' success.

The Last Word gushed that the debate "went so well for Hillary Clinton, so perfectly that, at times, it was as if she had planned the whole thing, everything, I mean everything from who would be standing beside her on that stage to who the Republican front-runner would be" while a banner beneath him read "The Perfection of the Hillary Clinton Campaign."

Maybe MSNBC needs a bit more credit than they're often given.

Like when they did the hard hitting segment where they compared each of the Democrat candidates to a sandwich

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[Adam]

In addition to being such a biased reporter/commentator, I find Lawrence O'Donnell generally insufferable. I find him repulsive.
Only months ago I was touting MSNBC as the best news source, and regarding their pre-BLM rantings as just par for the course for all news sources these days. But now that Black Lives Matter is really here and getting reverential bowing and scraping in the Democrat Primary Debate, I have to dismiss MSNBC as the trial balloon years ahead of the curve to test just how far the MSM can push the Black Agenda (is there such a thing--one would have to think there is). Poor Bernie is having to make up for his "gaffe" in not parroting "Black Lives Matter" at the Communist-front convention in Phoenix (Vegas?) a month ago, where O'Malley upstaged him so thoroughly by chanting "Black lives matter" at the same interview where Bernie retained enough dignity, principle, and common sense to say, "All lives matter."

Reminds me, I had my first experience this week-end to be mistaken as a non-White. As I have said, I am the darkest of four siblings and theoretically 1/32 Choctaw Indian (in reality more likely 1/64 Negro and 1/64 Choctaw) and have passed on a Native American appearance to one of my two daughters (because she's a descendent of Pocahantas on her mother's side, probably 1/64 there too). I found myself immediately "defending" myself that all my five nieces are 5' 8" blue-eyed blondes. Why did I reply that way to that poor graduate-student clerk? She's probably Hispanic or Middle Eastern, rather light-skinned herself, but clearly feeling identity with non-Whites and assuming I meant the opposite of what I said when I told her that all my adult life I have been a victim of reverse discrimination. (A White male could not get into the ranks of California State Government accountants in the 1970's and 1980's.) Psychoanalyze me?

[RumTumTugger]

Aljazeera America seems to be the only thing remotely close to being mainstream media that are running an article that simply says "Bernie Sanders was the clear winner".

good grief are you trying to get the record for Screwball nominations?

[Mountain Man]

Dimbulb thinks Obama is a right-leaning moderate and that Rick Santorum is akin to Hitler. Is it any surprise that he's delusional enough to think Aljazeera America is a mainstream news source?

[Kristian Joensen]

Being "even remotely close" to a thing and being that thing is NOT the same.

[Starlight]

I know some of you guys don't know much about the world outside your own state, but Al Jazeera is one of the biggest international news organisations in the entire world.

Sure, within the American market, they could be considered 'outsiders', much like BBC. I have an American friend who only ever watches BBC and Al Jazeera because he's so sick of the US-based media being incompetent and lying about US politics. And that's why I phrased it as I did, describing them as being 'remotely close to being mainstream media'. They're mainstream for much of the world, but not the US.

[Mountain Man]

I have an American friend who only ever watches BBC and Al Jazeera because he's so sick of the US-based media being incompetent and lying about US politics.

Well that's what he gets for watching CNN, MSNBC, and The Daily Show.

[Sam]

What's with the incredulity/hostility towards Al Jazeera? The American branch hasn't revolutionized the market in any sense but it's still a decent news source. The international organization is on par with the rest of the top-tier news organizations.

You've got to wonder how many folks popping their eyes out at the mention of Al Jazeera as a legitimate news source (yes, even mainstream for and in certain regions of the world) actually have read it on a regular basis.

[Starlight]

Well that's what he gets for watching CNN, MSNBC, and The Daily Show.

He also watches The Daily Show.

[rogue06]

What's with the incredulity/hostility towards Al Jazeera?

Perhaps because many of those who left it, some times in mass resignations, acknowledge that it is little more than a propaganda outfit and that it has a well earned reputation of supporting an Islamist perspective as well as promoting the Egyptian Brotherhood.

[Starlight]

acknowledge that it is little more than a propaganda outfit

So what you're saying is that it fits right in with Fox, CNN, and the other mainstream media that are nothing but propaganda outfits?

[Starlight]

Back on the topic of Hillary's competitors...

Jeb Bush's campaign has revealed that it's money-flow problems are beginning to get serious. Apparently many major donors are holding back for the moment, unwilling to pit their own wealth against Trump's, and waiting to see which of the GOP candidates are actually viable. Bush, who has been gradually dropping in polls over the last couple of months, has had to dial down spending as a result.

Rand Paul this week did not appear to understand that "Live Stream"s are live.

Rand Paul:

"The third question, most popular question from google [searches] is: 'Is Rand Paul still running for president?'

I don't know. I wouldn't be doing this dumbass live streaming if I weren't. So yes, I still am running for president, get over it."

...This is not live, we can edit this right?"

No Rand, a live stream is kinda live. Sorry.

Asked by a reporter why he was live-streaming the entire day, Paul said that he wasn't quite sure.

"I wish I knew," he said. "I've been saying, I don't want to do this, I don't want to do this and now we're doing this."

That's authentic presidential material right there.

[Adam]

good grief are you trying to get the record for Screwball nominations?

I applaud you, RTT,
For your righteous indignation against Star's poor grammar.
"that are running"
Should of course have read:
"that IS running"
Thank you for your sharp eyes.

[Adam]

I have an American friend who only ever watches BBC and Al Jazeera because he's so sick of the US-based media being incompetent and lying about US politics. And that's why I phrased it as I did, describing them as being 'remotely close to being mainstream media'. They're mainstream for much of the world, but not the US.

Al Jazeera even went so far towards Establishment credentials that they bought Al Gore's entire network to gain an American audience. Immediately Direct TV and all the others I suppose removed that network from their already "established" schedule. The American Establishment includes (I'm not saying "is totally subservient to") Jewish power-brokers such as the AIP American-Israeli lobby not willing to give up its control over Fox, MSNBC, CNN and the broadcast networks by letting in something from another source than Jewish-filtered information.