How Corporate Media and Political Establishment Have Tried to Orchestrate the Democratic Primary

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How Corporate Media and Political Establishment Have Tried to Orchestrate the Democratic Primary

Tuesday, 29 March 2016 00:00
By RoseAnn DeMoro, AlterNet | News Analysis


It's not over. Far from it. The economic and political establishment, which includes the Democratic National Committee, its Wall Street and corporate backers and the major media -- most of it now owned by a half dozen big corporations -- have worked feverishly to turn the Democratic primary process into a coronation for Hillary Clinton.

Bottom line: they wanted to declare it over before actual voters could vote, but their carefully crafted strategy began to #FeelTheBern.

Here are 10 ways the establishment has sought to orchestrate the results, and why the race has a long ways to go.

1. Major Media Blackout

When Sanders began his campaign, as he often recounts, he had virtually no national name recognition and trailed Clinton by 60 to 70 points in national polls. The major media barely breathed his name, even when he began drawing crowds of 20,000 or more to summer rallies. This was partly the result of the obsession with Trump, but also because the conglomerates controlling the media hardly wanted to promote such a fierce critic of Wall Street and the 1 percent.

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2. They're Debating When?

Ironically, unlike the Republican National Committee, the DNC manipulated its debate schedule to have the fewest number of debates at the worst times, intended to minimize voter viewing, including setting them on holiday weekends and the Saturday night before Christmas.

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4. Vote Rigging

After Sanders' sweeping win in New Hampshire, the DNC went into hyper drive to break his momentum, starting in the next voting state Nevada.

Concerned Sanders would win Nevada, Sen. Harry Reid, the former Senate Majority Leader and most powerful elected official in Nevada, as it later emerged, arranged a plan with owners of Las Vegas casinos, where many caucuses were being held, and other employers, to ensure Clinton would win. The Nevada caucuses were then rigged with massive voting irregularities such as casino owners orchestrating which workers would be allowed to vote and, in clear intimidation, openly monitoring how they voted. .............(more)

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35424-how-corporate-media-and-political-establishment-have-tried-to-orchestrate-the-democratic-primary

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1. They have put their thumbs on the scale at every opportunity

And If this gets decided by the Superdelegates it will destroy the party for years to come.

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2. Yup, that's why Diane Feinstein summonsed Obama and Clinton to her home in 2008.....

..... Hillary was threatening to use the superdelegates to win, and DiFi knew that if that were to happen, the party would be ripped apart.

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3. It will be ripped apart this time, if it happens.

I will help rip it apart.