tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post728201126455709708..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: WHEN THE PRESS ACCEPTS A BEATING, LIBERALISM GETS BRUISEDSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-64332522846277069942016-11-12T22:14:44.037-05:002016-11-12T22:14:44.037-05:00If mosts journalists are liberal, as Sullivan clai...If mosts journalists are liberal, as Sullivan claims, why the hell were they so fixated on Hillary's emails? JustRusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17545471808820540459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89599175503736366122016-11-10T16:27:50.002-05:002016-11-10T16:27:50.002-05:00Look, the MSM media basically didn't cover Hil...Look, the MSM media basically didn't cover Hillary Clinton at all except to keep snarking "emails emails emails" while truly failing to expose the Russian connection and all the seething corruption underlying the Trump empire. Seriously, any day he made it through a rally without frothing at the mouth he was 'presidential', while any day she had lint on her collar she was 'frumpy' or 'tired' or 'didn't smile enough' or 'smiled her smirky smile' or other such bullshit.<br /><br />I'm sick and tired of mollycoddling people who insist on voting their fantasies. The coal jobs aren't coming back. The manufacturing jobs aren't coming back. And the GOP is lying when they tell you they care about anyone other than their donor class.<br /><br />The Democrats, Hillary in particular, had policy statements that explained how displaced workers could be helped to find new, productive, sustainable jobs. With living wages and healthcare. And real child support and childcare for working parents.<br /><br />Did we see any of this compare and contrast in the media? No, we did not.<br /><br />The poor whites of Kentucky voted in a governor last year that promised to TAKE AWAY THEIR HEALTHCARE and they thought that was just peachy. And he is doing it. So to put the cherry on the sundae, they voted to flip their House from D to R, thereby insuring there is no check on the destruction of poor people.<br /><br />So spare me the tiny violins for the whites with economic anxiety.GrrlGeek1972https://www.blogger.com/profile/09659244801144649025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-67240717292154420802016-11-10T14:21:57.744-05:002016-11-10T14:21:57.744-05:00What Mr. Rudd said above.What Mr. Rudd said above.CHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15409212720220729669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-47222111033818966472016-11-10T11:36:47.122-05:002016-11-10T11:36:47.122-05:00Trump bullied and insulted his way to the presiden...Trump bullied and insulted his way to the presidency. The GOP kept up a constant stream of hatred against Hillary and a lot of it stuck. She was a vulnerable candidate from the beginning. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12977868106173983411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-78258492531885865092016-11-10T11:23:13.843-05:002016-11-10T11:23:13.843-05:00The polling models that worked in 2008 and 2012 go...The polling models that worked in 2008 and 2012 got Florida, Pennsylvania, and the Great Lakes states wrong. I looked at 538 three times a day for the past eight months. Shame on me for thinking it was as accurate as the oil pressure gauge in my car. So why this result now and not four years ago? Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429309964648275918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-40928413196902370962016-11-10T11:16:59.818-05:002016-11-10T11:16:59.818-05:00Vicki H, on go scrooge with your "hidden"...Vicki H, on go scrooge with your "hidden" voters. What a total bogusity: the idea of "hidden" voters is as bushwas a copout as the Einstein EPR Paradox' "hidden varibles" horse poop.<br /><br />Tony in SD gets it right: "fewer voters". FEWER VOTERS makes what we've got all complacent with accepting as libs lose the midterms, into a presidential year phenomen.<br /><br />It's not JUST "fewer voters", of course, but I expect Tony means the FUSE, the TRIGGER, the BUTTON that sets off the entire democratic smothering contraption. <br /><br />The contraption itself starts with the flawed ragged edges in our Constitution (eg. Wyoming & Delaware get 2 US senators, same as California & Texas - NOTHING's gonna go wrong there, nosirree, sixty million getting the same elected rep power as one million and a spavined mule, no potential for problems there) to an historical acceptance of 'natural' gerrymandering (t some extent unavoidable, but not nearly to the same extent as in the ox wagon era: we got INTERNET, folks, and phones, trains, planes, cars - no more ox wagon travel, no more having to walk a district - but NO UPDATES!), which is then put on a special diet of deliberate partisan-inspired creative district drawing, like a specially bred giant goose with an oversized gullet the better to stuff him to his eyeballs with the thickest-grained growth-hormone-laced mammal meat carved off super doped ungulates held blind captive & mouths permanently stuck in a feed bag.<br /><br />And that STILL won't produce a President Don John the Grifter Dumpster Fire without active programmatic vote suppression of an identifiable dominant group, OR suppression of every voter who is NOT in a slight majority or relatively large minority group. Easy smeasy: white? I'll get in my trek van and spend a day driving out your ballots to deliver it personally to deliver 'em in person special just for you & the missus & kinfolk. NOT white? Prove his theorem by Ramanujan that has defied the best mathematicians on the planet for a century, wait around while we check your proof (sure hope we can find someone free or at all), if he gives in the okay, then, maybe next election, if you're still here and didn't DIE or something, of which moved away or died are our two automatic assumptions for bleaching all the nasty color out of our state voter registration data bases.<br /><br />So: <br />Weapon? Gerrymandering. <br />Check.<br />Ammo? Voter suppression.<br />Check<br />Trigger? Lov turnout. <br />Check<br />Result? PRESIDENT DUMPSTER! <br />Check.<br />Mate.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-83870223804720456912016-11-10T11:10:08.238-05:002016-11-10T11:10:08.238-05:00The trouble with the mainstream media is the same ...The trouble with the mainstream media is the same as the trouble with the leadership of the Democratic Party.<br />It's not liberalism.<br />It's what Thomas Frank has been arguing and it can be summarized in two words: Martha's Vineyard.Jon Ruddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952064205808340381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-18470674558897887532016-11-10T10:23:41.485-05:002016-11-10T10:23:41.485-05:00It is easier than that: the white disaffected vote...It is easier than that: the white disaffected voters have am entirely different media universe. Not just Fox and the Internet. No one reports on the whole religious right news empire. My suspicion is that the hidden Hispanic and black vote came from there too. They would not vote for Romney or McCain, or even Trump without PenceVicki Hartleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700180175783993816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-10226961427287018832016-11-10T10:01:41.105-05:002016-11-10T10:01:41.105-05:00The press did not really understand Trumpers' ...The press did not really understand Trumpers' incoherent rage and made fun of them for their stupidity instead. Only when they attacked the press directly did they highlight the anger, and then mostly blamed trump for making them a target. Joey Blauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00185289301820663520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-27042060608139192032016-11-10T09:41:31.624-05:002016-11-10T09:41:31.624-05:00And yet again, the 18th Century concern for slave-...And yet again, the 18th Century concern for slave-holding states came back and bit us in the ass!<br />Thanks, Electoral College!!!<br /><br />Now, can we get rid of this Electoral College at the same time as t-RUMP is being sued for his "University?"<br />Of course not!<br />THe EC will continue after all, it gave conservatives W and now t-RUMP! - and all law suits againt t-RUMP U will be quashed by AG Guliani<br /><br />I'll 'see you in the GULag!'<br />(That's my moniker on almost all other sites).Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75593231825315774232016-11-10T09:33:53.590-05:002016-11-10T09:33:53.590-05:00Tom Brokaw hasn't met a regular voter since 19...Tom Brokaw hasn't met a regular voter since 1973. Talk about lack of self-awareness. Funny how there was no similar outbreak of mea culpas about coverage of the black community after Obama was elected.AllieGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994768860067988405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-69301986072208127022016-11-10T09:11:41.696-05:002016-11-10T09:11:41.696-05:00I don't know what they are talking about. Ther...I don't know what they are talking about. There were fewer voters this year than previously.tony in san diegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610599999844228511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-90387188225617561062016-11-10T09:05:40.339-05:002016-11-10T09:05:40.339-05:00Part of the issue with good reporting is the decli...Part of the issue with good reporting is the decline of the size of the newsroom. Media outlets don't have the resources to cover areas like they used to.<br />Bill Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07536271926055320479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-994101147678623012016-11-10T09:02:50.958-05:002016-11-10T09:02:50.958-05:00It's not the media's job to understand and...It's not the media's job to understand and empathize with voters. It's their job to inform them. The primary issues the media discussed were not economic, but the economy is NOT the problem. The focus was on sex and emails. The media failed, but the voting population was despicable and shallow.Danphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06368147966029831819noreply@blogger.com