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Stinky The Clown

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Wed Jul 27, 2016, 09:11 AM Jul 2016

We're being played [View all]

There was a truth in the convention hall that was magnified to such a degree that it simply became fiction.

"The angry Sanders supporters who were booing and disrupting"

There were probably a few. Let's stipulate there were.

Maybe a few hundred? Maybe less? Scattered here and there, but also a few small pockets,

So if you're a CabalNooz outlet, you want the horserace, the drama, the realityshow of it all, what do you do? Maybe you send a floor reporter, or even just a sound guy, over to where the few booers are booing. You get the sound live, and you mix it in with the feed from the speaker. (The feed from the speaker being distributed by the event, not the CabalNooz outlet). Done right, this gives the appearance of an army of angry conventioneers.

Yes, there was some real booing on day one, mainly during the rules thing and around DWS. It happened and it was real. But it was pretty much over after that.

All you needed to do was get off your favorite CabalNooz outlet and watch CSPAN (or, I am told, PBS) to get a real look at what was going on. The booing disappeared. If you listened REAL closely for it, there was a lonely boo here and a quick, short boo there.

But that didn't fit the CabalNooz script. So they dispatched their young floor reporters to mine the crowd for "angrypeople". They also went outside where they found a few more angrypeople. All these angrypeople
interviews got cut into the broadcast, usually during the best part of a speaker's speech. When they knew YOU were paying attention.

On CSPAN there was none of this. Their coverage was their usual boring fare, which is to say unfiltered and unmoderated. Stationary cameras. What you see is what there was. Leaving you free to decide what it was you saw and heard with your own eyes and ears. No RachelShawnWolfBrianChuckJohn to tell you what they wanted you to see.

CabalNooz has created a storyline for this election. They're not reporting it. They're trying to cause a favored outcome.

You think Russian hackers are bad? You think some Australian Rapist in hiding is bad?

How about the home town media? THEY are a BIG part of the problem. And this year, more than any time ever, they are on full display.

CabalNooz is hurting democracy. STOPPING democracy. Period. Ratfuckers is what they are.

Neither TeamHillary nor TeamBernie were helped by any of this. Surely TeamDemocrat was hurt.

They are playing us.

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We're being played [View all] Stinky The Clown Jul 2016 OP
Wish they would stand up to the media for a change. RandiFan1290 Jul 2016 #1
That was enormously powerful Stinky The Clown Jul 2016 #2
So true... sarae Jul 2016 #3
It's been happening and it keeps happening Saviolo Jul 2016 #4
+1 eom LittleGirl Jul 2016 #5
The networks more than "need" it, the owners of the networks and their affiliated companies, Dustlawyer Jul 2016 #22
Old news, really. The "Not Hillary" Party relies on it. baldguy Jul 2016 #6
I have come to believe this is true... dawnie51 Jul 2016 #7
They would kill us all Wednesdays Jul 2016 #24
Yep, and it leaked in here. demmiblue Jul 2016 #8
I watched MSNBC group of "reporters" including Andrea Mitchell Loki Jul 2016 #9
Marta? Photographer Jul 2016 #10
I really noticed that greymattermom Jul 2016 #11
Sensationalism over "Just the Facts, Ma'am" JaneQPublic Jul 2016 #12
I thought exactly the same thing about the volume of the booing. Bonhomme Richard Jul 2016 #13
I Hate The Media More Than I Hate Republicans Yallow Jul 2016 #14
"Liberal Media" is a big fucking lie Stainless Jul 2016 #15
Cable news MUST make drama out of nothing. That IS its business model. nt 63splitwindow Jul 2016 #16
Agenda driven corporate propaganda 90-percent Jul 2016 #17
The media managed to get Trump installed as Republican nominee Vinca Jul 2016 #18
K&R... i don't know how democracy exists with a for profit media. spanone Jul 2016 #19
well, back when having a free press didn't require billions of dollars in capital, it worked fine Bucky Jul 2016 #20
Except many of the speakers on that first night explicitly mentioned the booing Marcia Fudge, Dream Girl Jul 2016 #21
Even the most casual of observers....... Scruffy1 Jul 2016 #23
They've been playing us for a long time. Avalux Jul 2016 #25
They should review old tapes of the '68 Convention. Even '64. mild stuff, now. Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #26
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