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In reply to the discussion: Poll: Clinton hasn't answered a Press question in 20 days [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)You made it about Bernie, but the veiled message here is that politicians should avoid the media and don't have a responsibility to take clear and public policy positions that all voters can hear and respond to. That's a convenient talking point that has been attempted all day long to try to excuse Hillary's outrageous refusal to answer questions and define her policy agenda clearly and honestly to voters. Now it appears that the talking point dispensers for corporate politicians have determined that this shameless defense of silence in the media might sell a little better if they encouraged BERNIE not to talk to the media instead.
What manipulative garbage. Bernie is working very hard to make his positions known to voters despite a corrupt media that is trying its best to marginalize him. He would lambaste a dishonest talking point suggesting that politicians have a justification for hiding their agendas rather than communicating with voters in what is supposed to be a democratic, representative process of election.
This sort of manipulation is how corporate politicians and their mouthpieces sell the faux democracy of oligarchy. It's how they try to justify the unconscionable: their use of slick and vapid advertising to avoid the responsibility that REAL democracy would ask of them: to set out a clear and detailed policy agenda that allows citizens to select the candidate who will best represent their interests in government.
Shame on them.
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