Another media attack against a woman in power. Amy Klobuchar is a tough boss. [View all]

[Fla Dem]

I'd hoped we had finally gotten to the point where there would be equal treatment of women in power positions. But to pick on something as stupid as Sen Klobuchar's office management style and to call out times she may have been irritated, stressed, maybe even angry and claim this exemplifies her abusive management style is ridiculous. I have never seen such accusations against men in congress (other than sexual improprieties) I guess because men are allowed to show their irritations and to ask their staff to do some additional duties on occasions.

This is an example of the press taking a nugget of salacious information, a small inconsequential event or comment and exploding it into a major scandal. Exactly what they did to HRC during the 2016 election.

The writer who wrote the piece for Vanity Fair seems to have a pattern of doing this. And yes on the Republican side as well. But look at some of the headlines she's generated just in 3 days, for a segment in VF called "The Hive".

Headlines 2/6 - 2/8
Developing: A Second Woman Has Accused Justin Fairfax of Sexual Assault
Terrified Aides Say Amy Klobuchar Is Just Like Trump
Liberal Billionaire Threatens to Unseat Dems Who Don’t Impeach Trump
Nancy Pelosi Isn’t Rushing to Endorse A.O.C.’s “Green Dream or Whatever They Call it"
Elizabeth Warren’s Native Ancestry Headache May Just Be Beginning
The Entire Democratic Leadership in Virginia Is Imploding

https://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/tina-nguyen

I'm not saying there isn't a nugget of truth to these stories, but they take everyday events and blow them up into scandals, then other media outlets smell red meat and they becomes "bonafide" news story.

We cannot let ourselves be swayed from presenting a unified front during the primaries based on "yellow journalism". I'm not just talking about the candidates, I'm talking about "US" the Democratic Party and all its members as well. If we have serious disagreements on issues fine, let's discuss, but let's leave the mindless accusations on the bathroom floor where they belong.