Hillary Clinton doesn’t need the media, and it’s driving the media crazy

[woo me with science]

39. More manipulative corporate messaging. *Hillary* is the one who chose to start her campaign now.

See post 37. Hillary has no right to complain that anyone is forcing her to speak too early. *She* chose to declare her candidacy now.

For an honest candidate genuinely interested in representing voters, that would mean that it's time for her to be communicating with voters, laying out a clear agenda, and responding to questions about that agenda.

Instead, we get this manipulative campaign of talking points not only EXCUSING her hiding from voters, but twisting this utter lack of accountability to voters into some Orwellian noble act of circumventing a corrupt media.

What utter horseshit. If she were truly concerned about corrupt media, she would be doing exactly what Bernie is doing: Insisting on reaching voters despite them. Confronting the media publicly on their games and refusing to play them. Rejecting their framing and communicating about her agenda despite their attempts to impose other framing.

She is doing exactly the opposite. She is *using* them as an excuse to do what corporate candidates always do....insulate herself from voters and run a slick, vapid ad campaign instead.

This is why Bernie is such a breath of fresh air. He is reminding American citizens what we have a right to expect from candidates in a representative political process. He is laying out an agenda and making himself available to answer detailed questions about it. He is showing respect for voters and respect for his accountability to them as someone applying to be their representative. Slimy. arrogant games of avoidance like Hillary is playing out right now have become so commonplace in our corporate-corrupted system that people had *almost* forgotten what a real representative process is supposed to look like.

Almost.

But Bernie is reminding us. And by sheer contrast he is showing us how empty of content, how manipulative, and how full of contempt for us the election process has become in the hands of corporate politicians. This is the difference between real representation and corporate election theater.

Thank goodness we have Bernie. What a stunning contrast between democratic representation and the sham representation of oligarchy.