You may have beaten us back with an assist from the corporate media, but ...,

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81. Live in an alternative universe where the media would actually give equal time to the front runners?

I listen to NPR/VPR as I drive in an out of Montreal on my way to work, trying to keep in touch with what is happening down in the USA. For the last several months I have listened to segment after segment where a panel of talking heads would look at the week in campaign developments. Usually the segment would involve discussing the various GOP candidates still in the race, with the emphasis gradually shifting to Trump, Cruz and Rubio as the others dropped out.

Even as it became more and more apparent that Cruz and Rubio had NO chance of winning there was still intense focus on who was saying what, how the GOP would react to Trump winning, would Cruz and Rubio work together to overcome Trumps lead (THAT lasted about 24 hours, lol!), and other such "analysis" from the professional pollsters.

Then, with about 2 minutes left in the segment, the focus would shift to the Dems. "What will Hillary do about this"? "Here is what Hillary had to say about the latest Trump gaffe...", etc. etc. And very often the segment would end without even a MENTION of Bernie Sanders. This did not happen once. This did not happen twice. I heard this happening over and over again, literally dozens of times. And not just in the last few weeks, when Hillary looked pretty certain to win the nomination, and not just in the first couple of weeks, when Bernie was a relative unknown with little chance of winning delegates. This happened consistently throughout the primaries.

Now keep a couple things in mind: many of the GOP clown car inhabitants never had ANY chance of getting the nomination. And yet they all received their moment in the spotlight. Even towards the end, as it became more and more apparent that Rubio and Cruz were NOT winning delegates, still hours and hours of air time was spent relating their stories to the public.

Another thing to keep in mind: Bernie Sanders ran a HISTORIC campaign, funded entirely from small contributions by individual supporters. Also historic were the energized and exiting rallies he ran all across the country, speaking to tens of thousands of people at a time.

And yet, for some reason, none of this was newsworthy according to the "experts" at NPR, a supposedly "left wing" source of news in America (although we all know better). Now listen; I KNOW Bernie's campaign did receive some attention in the media, and not all of it unfavorable, but I am just saying that I literally lost count of the number of times I sat through a "week in politics" summary of the primary campaign trail, and literally did not even hear Bernie's name come up.

How do you fight against that kind of bias?