How is asking to explain your positions "Gotcha" questions?

[lunamagica]

When Sanders and his camp asked for more media coverage, were they expecting a platform where he would just pontificate without being questioned?

Is that it?

I don't get it.

[cosmicone]

1. Sanders is Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha and Dalai Lama combined

He should be bowed down to and not asked any questions other than "how's the weather?" or "What did you eat for breakfast?"
(Although the latter might be construed as a gotcha question)

[CalvinballPro]

5. I got my 5th hide today for calling him "addled."

Maybe I just picked a bad time to join DU, because the jury system is starting to make me reconsider posting here. It's a bullshit bully process, and I'm getting a little sick of my posts being judged by partisan fans of Bernie Sanders, people who are basically the opposite of democracy.

[cosmicone]

6. No criticism of Bernie is allowed here or they will hide your posts.

I have some 12 hides in the last 3 months when in my entire time on DU from 2004 till 2015 March I had only two hides.

[CalvinballPro]

10. Well at least I can consider myself in good company then!

Thanks for the perspective. After all, it's not like DU planned to be hijacked by libertarians for 6 months.

[shenmue]

2. Yes, that's what they want

[Fla Dem]

3. Sanders has never been under the hot glare of media scrutiny.

What did he think, he could just say he was giving away rainbows and unicorns and no one would ask him how he was going to be able to do that? He has spent 35 years in congress and has accomplished nothing.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. He has also never been the focus of the rw hatemongers for 40 years so we haven't heard the constant

stream of negative attacks that have plagued Hillary for so long.

I don't think his supporters have any idea what the media would do to Bernie if he were to get the nomination. They aren't as much concerned with reporting the truth as they are sensationalizing a story to attract viewers/readers.

[brush]

11. Welcome to New York City, Bernie. There are actual journalists there . . .

not just TV talking heads.

You have to be ready. They say if you can make it in New York you can make it anywhere.

But if you're not ready . . . tsk, tsk, tsk.

Just talking points don't go unchallenged.

Print journalists actual ask for details on how you plan to get your policies enacted.

And they ask follow-up question, and follow-ups to follow-ups.

[GusBob]

4. He's a demagogue

they only know how to criticize.

Critical thinking beyond "there's a problem" is beyond their purveyance. I call it crowbar thinking. You can tear apart but there is no other tool you know how to use

[BlueMTexpat]

7. +1! eom

[Koinos]

8. Buddha called for extinction of anger and detachment from self.

A number of Sanders' supporters are angry narcissists.

[kjones]

12. "You had one job...ONE JOB Bernie!"

You could have fit the "answers" on the palm of your hand Palin style.
It's like you didn't even try.


Oh man! Do you guys think Bernie is throwing it? Like, maybe he does
actually see that his most fervent supporters are off the rails and all
he can do is to tank to get out of a bad situation?

lol

[UtahLib]

13. If it causes BS to sputter, it's a gotcha question. eom

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. They only want to talk about "his crowds" & "billionaires". n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. They don't like the Bernster in a bad light

It destroys their fantasy not unlike when they found out that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy weren't real.

[Coolest Ranger]

16. I'm glad he's getting the heat now

I know on black progressive radio they don't like the crap he's selling. I heard more than one caller yesterday begging him to stop promoting he's going to give you free crap. Even heard a couple of Bernie supporters saying that too

[liberal N proud]

17. They created the perception that the media wasn't covering them

BS had to know that press isn't always positive. But the BSers needed something to keep the fire Bern'ing so they hyped the perceived lack of media coverage.

Sanders was on the Sunday talk shows nearly every week, if not one or more of them each week. I don't have time to search all the dates he was on, but I recall pointing out to my wife on several occasions that Sunday morning had become the Trump - Sanders hour.