2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton supporters' newest delusion about Bernie Sanders [View all]Uncle Joe
(65,677 posts)for most all of last year.
They just as Schultz did with her cynical manipulations of the debates wanted to protect Hillary's larger national name recognition for as long as they could.
But when Bernie started pulling close in the polls of Iowa and New Hampshire the corporate media conglomerates switched tactics promoting Hillary's "firewall" non-stop and injecting racial or cultural divisions as a means to divide the electorate.
In virtually every speech Bernie that gave, he promoted unison but the corporate media conglomerates couldn't have that, it posed too much of a threat to their own corporate driven/oligarch self-interests, so their coverage continuously focused on divisions real and imagined.
They damn sure didn't want to cover in a substantive way any of the critical issues that Bernie was bringing up in his speeches.