Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Drop Out Of Presidential Race, But News Nets Drop Speech Mid-Way Through

[bravenak]

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With all the primaries over and Hillary Clinton having wrapped up the Democratic nomination, Sen Bernie Sanders is still not going quietly into the political night. However, once it became clear The Vermont Senator wasn’t going to concede to Clinton, MSNBC and other cable news networks cut away from Sander’s speech, which started at 5:30 PM Pacific, after about 15 minutes, though the Senator continued to speak online.

http://deadline.com/2016/06/bernie-sanders-democratic-presidential-primary-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-politics-1201774341/

[riversedge]

1. Sanders free air time will showly fade.

[bravenak]

9. No more time for him

[workinclasszero]

55. Same old stump speech heard a million times from the loser of the democratic primary

is not news.

Sanders doing the right thing and conceding the race to present a united front against Trump and the republicans would have been big news.

As soon as the media saw where his speech was going, they cut out.

[demmayhem]

2. The media, particularly MSNBC, have been terrible...

... they built up Donald Trump, were effectively part of his campaign, dismissed Sanders from the first time he announced his candidacy, and handled Hillary with kid gloves. Not serving us well at all.

[bigwillq]

34. Hello

Welcome to DU!

[uponit7771]

3. +1, he just cited his stump speech and said nothing really different other than wait and pay ...

... attention to me later.

come on man

[bravenak]

10. Like Snowden

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Wow that speech really pissed you off!

Social justice. Economic justice. Focus on defeating Trump and electing Democrats up and down the ballot in all 50 states.

Fuck that shit, right?

[bravenak]

5. The ransom demands

[mcar]

6. Lots of other stuff going on

Sanders doesn't seem to realize that the primary is over and Trump is the enemy. Sad, really.

[RobertEarl]

16. Not true, mcar

Even CNN has been covering Bernie saying that Trump has to not be president.

It's been all over DU, too.

So, a delete of your false post is in order?

[NurseJackie]

7. SSDD

Ho hum.

[SpareribSP]

8. Good thing the young people he was addressing don't get their news from the MSM!

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Not just millenials.

Tv news, all of it, is dreadful. I stopped watching any of it a very long time ago.

[randome]

12. Right. Because the 'young' are too busy voting for him, right?

This bullshit about those under 45 being the future of our country...we are all the future of our country!

[Autumn]

33. Most young people aren't democrats and for very good reasons.

You are right, a lot of them didn't vote and a lot of them couldn't vote. Your party should be proud.

[LoverOfLiberty]

38. The couldn't vote

because they didn't bother registering or selecting a party or following the state rules of voting.

You don't win by whining about the rules, you win by playing by the rules and then changing them if necessary.

[Autumn]

42. You missed the part where I said Most young people aren't democrats and for very good reasons.

If the rules are wrong and just fucking stupid you change the rules and reach out to those young people. But you democrats seem to prefer to keep them out of your tent and fucking whine when people comes along and tries to change the rules. Just as well though, people can't get around in your tent without stepping on elephant shit.

[LoverOfLiberty]

43. You Democrats?

bye.

[Autumn]

45. Bye bye

[intheozone]

49. do you have any Stats to back up your assertion about most young people?

If so, please post them. What evidence do you have that Dems won't let independents in their tent. Are they not being allowed to register as Dems??

[Lord Magus]

50. No, they really DON'T have good reasons for not being Democrats.

If you support the ideals of the left, there's no reason at all not to be a Democrat. It's utterly ridiculous to refuse to register as a Democrat on the basis that the party isn't "pure" enough for you.

[Autumn]

53. if the party doesn't reach out and support their needs they have no reason to be a democrat.

It's not a matter of a party being pure, it's about a party not reaching out and giving a fuck about their needs. Your yellow dogs are a dying breed .

[randome]

41. No matter what one thinks about open vs. closed primaries...

...surely you can appreciate the point that some make that only Democrats should have a say in electing a Democratic nominee. I mean it's a valid point whether you agree with it or not, right?

[Autumn]

44. Surely you understand that dems need Independents in the GE so telling them to

stay the fuck out of your party until you need them or want their votes doesn't inspire people to join with you.

Most people have the class to not go where they aren't wanted, and people using you only when they want something from you is an abusive low life tactic.

[intheozone]

51. You mean like Bernie becoming a Democrat

only when he wanted to run for President so he could use the party's structure and influence to advance his candidacy? Yea, it is an abusive low life tactic.

Bernie lost soundly and fairly. It time for him to admit it and either endorse the Democratic nominee or admit that he won't.

[Autumn]

54. I mean like Bernie caucusing and supporting democrats all of his career. I hope he doesn't endorse.

An endorsement would be against almost everything he ran on

[intheozone]

57. Supporting Democrats all his career? Are you

not aware of all the times Bernie criticized the Democratic party over the years? If not, you should educate yourself on Bernie's actions during his 35 years in Congress.

[Autumn]

58. You should educate yourself on Bernie's actions during his 35 years in Congress.

And educate yourself on Hillary's actions as SOS and Senator while your at it.

[Txbluedog]

13. Young people have the attention span of gnats

Do you really think they listened to great grandpa Droning on for as long as he did?

[SpareribSP]

14. Yes

[tonyt53]

52. I was young once. Not a chance many watched him. Besides they can take the word of others anyway.

[RobertEarl]

17. Hahaha

He fooled the fools! They foolishly imagined he was gonna drop out. And when they were exposed for fools they cut away! Hahahahaha.

[bravenak]

18. Jesus

[yesphan]

40. This ^^^^

Yes, once they realized that he wasn't going to bow down, they cut him loose.......... Back to trump...........

[Hekate]

19. I was annoyed at his being cut off. He was going great guns & it would have been courteous...

...of the networks to let him finish. Of course, maybe they started to think he would go on for an entire hour and that he had already made the network-newsworthy points.

Still, he was laying out some practical plans (ie telling folks to run for office) for the future that I think were worth hearing.

[bravenak]

20. He drew this thing out too long

The media will only pay attention to hot news. Nothing will come from anything he said anytime soon, it would take years. If he gets something interesting going I think they will listen.

[geek tragedy]

24. they were covering it to see if he was making news.

he didn't

at this point there's only 3 things he can do that are newsworthy:

1) admit Clinton won
2) suspend his campaign
3) endorse Clinton

if he doesn't do any of those things, the larger universe simply doesn't care about Bernie Sanders anymore.

[Hekate]

46. Geek, Brave, and Squirrel -- you are right.

If you listen to Barney Frank, his great failing in Congress from the very beginning was his self-righteousness and inability to concede that anyone else could be right or even have a point.

In terms of the soaring reputation he built during this campaign, if he continues this way he will become irrelevant to the majority of America, not just the media, and his final followers will end up feeling bitter at everybody else.

[geek tragedy]

48. the unions and members of Congress who supported him are all bailing on him

they signed up for a campaign, not a charge at windmills

all he has left is Susan Sarandon and Cornel West and some guy carrying a "Hillary for Prison 2016" sign

[Hekate]

61. Very well put: "They signed up for a campaign, not a charge at windmills."

[Cha]

21. This was going on today which is vastly more Important than what BS had to say..

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer holds up a “Orlando United” t-shirt while greeting President Barack Obama

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https://theobamadiary.com/2016/06/16/the-president-and-vice-presidents-day-in-orlando/

And, this is what our Dems were doing last night while BS was nowhere in sight..

Chris Murphy
✔ ?@ChrisMurphyCT
I am proud to announce that after 14+ hours on the floor, we will have a vote on closing the terror gap & universal background checks
7:53 PM - 15 Jun 2016
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107167306

to Senator Chris Murphy, President Obama, & VP Biden~ Thank you, Brave~

[NCTraveler]

22. +1 nt

[JTFrog]

64. +1 n/t

[demmayhem]

23. What media and HRC supporters can't wrap their heads around...

... is a campaign about more than just getting a guy into an office... its about changing our political culture... part of the reason we have such depressingly bad candidates is that most people, even those who consider themselves politically "active", regard the whole political process as one big spectator sport... all to the detriment of the rest of us.

And, BTW, the rules allow contested conventions, we have two FBI investigations hovering over the "presumed" nominee's head, who also has record high negatives. But the banks, the defense contractors, the multinationals and Comcast backs her so... we'll have to sort this out at the convention.
But we can push for a bottom up conversion of the Dem party starting with good people running for local office.

[TSIAS]

25. Yay for the MSM

I guess you'd rather they show an empty podium at Trump Tower for an hour.

[Agnosticsherbet]

26. His speech was not news.

Covering the speech in it's entirety, would have been an attempt to make it news.

[redstateblues]

27. His relatively small audience for the live streamed speech is a signal

to Hillary's campaign that Bernie's support is shrinking. His leverage took a big hit last night

[CorkySt.Clair]

31. The delays in releasing their May fundraising numbers is another clue

I bet they were utterly dismal.

[lunamagica]

60. Right. They bragged about 200,000 people watching...that's WAY less that the "millions upon

millions" he's always talking about.

[HumanityExperiment]

28. funny... lots of energy spent by HRC supporters as it pertains to 'loser' Bernie...

Folks should just press these HRC supporters OPs and ask why they are unable to let it go, if Bernie isn't really a factor any longer why are you dedicating so much time and effort towards him?

[Autumn]

29. You are like a little tiny dog with a bone aren't you.

I hope it continues

[bravenak]

62. It will

Until he learns that he lost, and moves on

[Autumn]

63. How exciting. bravenak on DU teaching a lesson to a Senator.

You go girl

[CorkySt.Clair]

30. It was right about the time he started to read his list of demands.

[eastwestdem]

35. He needs to learn from Donald...to get media coverage, he has to make news.

Time to start saying outrageous things.

[brooklynite]

37. I watched it all...same speech he usually gives. Nothing newsworthy.

[AgingAmerican]

47. They have been doing this for an entire year

Nothing new here

[snot]

56. Of course they do.

[Orsino]

59. Same as it ever was. n/t