Mainstream Media Sacrifices Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Appease Sanders Supporters

[Stellar]

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Corruption runs deep through the veins of the Party, extending far beyond the DNC chair

Calls for DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign are at all-time highs after her recent comments to CNN in which she propagated the false narrative that Bernie Sanders’ supporters acted inappropriately at the Nevada Democratic State Convention.

“Unfortunately, the Senator’s response was anything but acceptable. It certainly did not condemn his supporters for acting violently or engaging in intimidation tactics, and instead added more fuel to the fire” Ms. Wasserman Schultz told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. She went on to compare the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.

Backlash incited by her comments inspired The Washington Post to flag “Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s worst week in Washington,” and MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski to demand the DNC chair’s resignation—possibly the first call to action from a mainstream media pundit. Ms. Wasserman Schultz, who served as Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign co-chair, has been favoring Ms. Clinton throughout the Democratic primaries.

I first spoke out in favor of Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s resignation (or removal) in September 2015. The debate schedule she created was limited and strategically protected Hillary Clinton from potentially damaging exposure. With the pool of presidential candidates swept clean of any Democrat currently in office—with the exception of Mr. Sanders, the longest-serving Independent in the history of Congress—the stage was set for Hillary Clinton’s coronation, and no new ideas were welcome in the Party.

The last thing the Democratic Establishment expected was for Mr. Sanders’ campaign to take off as it did, and as soon as the Senator emerged as a viable threat to Ms. Clinton’s smooth-sailing campaign, Ms. Wasserman Schultz and the rest of the Party fell into a state of panic.

Yet corruption runs deep through the veins of the Party, extending much further beyond the DNC chair. With the growing divide between Sanders and Clinton supporters, the mainstream media’s quickest-fix has been to position Ms. Wasserman Schultz as a scapegoat for the Democrats’ poor treatment of Mr. Sanders throughout the campaign—even though she’s certainly not the only leader to obstruct democracy.

Super delegate endorsements for Hillary Clinton outpaced those vice president Al Gore received in the 2000 Democratic primaries—in which he won every state comfortably. The underlying definition of democracy presupposes people, and not political parties, decide presidential nominations. This has not been the case in 2016. Before a single vote was cast, hundreds of super delegates lined up behind Hillary Clinton, while media outlets spewed reports of each endorsement, serving as unpaid advertisements for Ms. Clinton. Bernie Sanders wasn’t just an outsider challenging a candidate with name recognition and a vast network of corporate and wealthy donors—he was openly unwelcome.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada called in favors to help Hillary Clinton win the state by a few percentage points. Senator Barbara Boxer, whose daughter was married to Ms. Clinton’s brother, stepped in at the Nevada Democratic Party Convention to yell at Bernie Sanders’ supporters for protesting the decision to defy a floor vote and pass rules favoring Ms. Clinton. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, a super delegate for Hillary Clinton, tweeted: “Superdelegates don’t ‘represent people’ I’m not elected by anyone. I’ll do what I think is right for the country.” Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy distorted Bernie Sanders’ stance on gun manufacturer lawsuits prior to the Connecticut primary in a New York Daily News interview—just before the paper, owned by wealthy Clinton donor Mort Zuckerman, formally endorsed Ms. Clinton for president.

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, and several other major newspapers across the country formally endorsed Hillary Clinton leading up to their respective state primaries. Most of the mainstream media coverage on the Democratic Primaries has reflected an overt favoritism for the corrupt former secretary of state while notoriously blacking out her opponent.

The media spent more time sensationalizing false narratives about Bernie Sanders’ supporters than discussing his campaign’s policy proposals, coining the pejorative term ‘Bernie-Bro’ to stereotype all Sanders supporters as sexist white males. The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald wrote in January 2016, “The concoction of the ‘Bernie Bro’ narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic—and a journalistic disgrace.”

More: observer.com

[840high]

1. About time -

[Duval]

5. It sure is!

There's been a media blackout on Bernie for months! Nina Turner is on RT now talking about how even young black women and men are voting for Sanders, commenting that they use the web, not the news on MSM.

[ThinkCritically]

2. This is what really turned me away from Clinton.

“The concoction of the ‘Bernie Bro’ narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic—and a journalistic disgrace.”

I could handle her flip flopping and status quo platform but there is no excuse for implying Sanders supporters are sexist. It truly was a disgrace. And we haven't got an apology from one single person yet. Nor have we got an apology for being painted as violent thugs for what happened in Nevada. That was also a disgrace. And that is why we want DWS out. She didn't call for an investigation or even make an attempt to talk about it. She immediately threw Sanders and his supporters under the bus on national television using false information.

[annavictorious]

9. You want apologies because the press called you out?

My goodness. Aren't we entitled.

The berniebro narrative was concocted by the idiotic berniebros who were stupid enough to openly harass, badmouth, and threaten people.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-joan-walsh-hillary-clinton-223439

[snowy owl]

24. Plitico a centrist-right rag.

[Trajan]

27. There are no such things as Bernie Bros

And your insulting diatribe is simply a huge load of bullshit ...

Outrageous, demeaning, FALSE, and worthy of any good person with an ounce of decency to cast off any relationship they may have with you ...

I don't have friends like you ... No fucking way ...

You are so gone ... Good Luck with that titanic chip on your shoulder ...

Sheesh ... What a load ...

(EDIT: Oh ... And a Brock Puppet as well ... Hah! .. Enjoy your filthy lucre)

[Warren DeMontague]

3. She supports payday lending and putting medical marijuana users in prison.

She is a disaster for our brand.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. This move to remove DWS shouldn't "appease" anyone.

Anyone interested in genuine democracy, that is.

The entire campaign against Bernie Sanders is a study in corruption. It should be condemned by anyone who wants to see our freedom to choose our President protected.

[rhett o rick]

18. That's an excellent point. Appease insinuates that you can live with the resulting

situation and we can't. The Left has known for a long time that the Party has been coopted by the Oligarchy. This primary should be making it obvious. The battle we are fighting is against the authoritarian followers that don't really care about democracy, our freedoms and liberties as long as they have a perceived tough bully to follow. Our founders are spinning in their graves for all the hard work they did to give us a constitutionally run democratic republic. Those that idolize the wealthy are willing to undo everything our founders fought for and turn their backs on those struggling among us. It's time for another American Revolution. We must start with throwing the corporatists out of our Party.

[jeff47]

21. It's all they know how to do.

People aren't happy with the figureheads? Ok, we'll "fire" the figureheads. That'll surely make them happy!!

They don't quite understand that the anger will not be assuaged by a symbolic gesture.

[oberliner]

6. Donald Trump's son-in-law's newspaper is the source of this story

For some reason, some folks seem really keen on posting articles from a newspaper owned and published by the son-in-law of Donald Trump.

[hollysmom]

7. I don;'t think it is a sacrifice to the DNC - she has been one of the "losing"ist heads ever.

how many governorships/house and senate seats has she lost by only backing blue dogs and letting progressives spin in the wind?

[840high]

28. ...!100++++

[annavictorious]

8. Sanders exploited a party he didn't belong to

and ran a very negative campaign. He relied on a few tried and true talking points (like Trump), so he never addressed policy.

The "overt favoritism" on the part of the editorial boards that endorsed Clinton is based on the fact that Sanders didn't know what he was talking about during his endorsement interviews.

And all this entitled whining has damaged Sanders brand beyond any hope of recovery.

[Raster]

11. You are full of shit.

The media has whitewashed Mr. Sanders’ campaign—pushing the hashtag #BernieMadeMeWhite to trend in March 2016—and has been so trigger-happy to disparage Bernie Sanders that they falsely claimed Congressman John Lewis criticized Mr. Sanders and then failed to remove the inaccurate stories after the civil rights icon clarified that his remarks were not criticism.

And where instances have risen for which Democrats and mainstream media outlets should have spoken out, they remained silent—hoping the blemish on Ms. Clinton’s record would be forgotten. When Politico revealed the Hillary Victory Fund—a joint fundraising committee between the DNC and Hillary Clinton‘s campaign—laundered money to the Clinton campaign instead of funding down-ticket Democrats, the violation went largely unreported. The DNC and the Clinton campaign have also stacked committees at the Democratic National Convention with corporate lobbyists, hand-picked by both Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hillary Clinton.

For everything Ms. Wasserman Schultz has done wrong throughout the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton should be faulted as well.

[99Forever]

13. Lies, lies and more lies.

Is Brock still hiring?

[alittlelark]

14. Interesting number$ you have ...

Number of posts: 299
Number of posts, last 90 days: 299
Favorite forum: General Discussion: Primaries, 233 posts in the last 90 days (78% of total posts)
Favorite group: Hillary Clinton, 16 posts in the last 90 days (5% of total posts)

You've been busy.

[Trajan]

29. Another of MANY DavId Brock employees who have graced these halls

For a few months now .... ANY foul mouthed anti-Bernie poster who joined this year after the Brock anti-Bernie strategy was revealed in March is likely to be one of Brock's paid trolls ...

This one is quite obvious ... immediately dump into the nearest refuse can ...

[lmbradford]

10. Im tired of people saying he isn't a Democrat.

He registered with the party and voted and caucused with them for forty years. He is more of a Dem than most. What a load.

[99Forever]

12. Too little, too late.

I'm nowhere near "appeased."

[NorthCarolina]

15. Not good enough.

She'll be gone anyway after the election.

[Vinca]

16. Given the seats we've lost since she's been Chair, she should have been ousted years ago.

[rhett o rick]

19. She is doing the bidding of the Corporate-Oligarchy.

[Red Mountain]

17. She was hired to do a job

Any rational examination of her job performance would suggest she has failed.

Might not be her fault.....but........excuses.

Massive legislative losses all across the country.

Time for fresh blood.

[jeff47]

20. But after her enormous success in 2014, who could possibly think of replacing her?

[ucrdem]

22. So mainstream media = MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski?

Isn't she the co-host of a conservative morning show? Because that's the only griper cited.

This article doesn't seem particularly credible. In fact it seems to be 99% butthurt and 1% baloney.

[snowy owl]

25. DWS should have been fired a long, long time ago. Good read.

She's more like a sorority sister than a public official. And her payday lenders affiliation should have been embarrassment enough to keep her away from DNC leadership position.

[DonCoquixote]

26. If Howard Dean or Tim Kaine

lost two successive midterms
lost several governor's mansions
and mad a habit in her own state of supporting Republicans
the calls for their heads would have been made.

Bernie was just the last straw, a last straw that never should have been reached, as the proverbial Camel's back was already broken.