2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Read the Tweets from the Media Director of Netroots Nations. He knew this would happen. [View all]NikolaC
(1,276 posts)Yesterday, while driving home from our trip, we turned on SiriusXM Progress and listened to a show that was hosted by someone that I used to listen to regularly in the afternoon. He had a fill in host who claimed that he and his guest during the last hour were going to talk about Hillary's economic plan. They spent a minute talking about it and the rest of the hour was a bash Bernie fest.
The host claimed to have very little knowledge of Bernie, or his stance regarding minorities. His guest claimed to like Bernie and said that he would vote for him, BUT, he was very disturbed about his lack of relationship with minorities or his stance regarding issues of race and that Bernie would have to do better regarding outreach. They had only callers who would back up their viewpoint and, when a confused sounding woman called in claiming the media was ignoring Bernie, the host (who claimed he didn't know much about Bernie earlier) stated that he saw him everywhere MSNBC, CNN, NBC, etc. Yet still claimed ignorance about what Bernie stood for.
For a good part of the hour, the two engaged in very transparent bashing using tactics that were akin to something that Fox would use. It was politics as usual. The whole thing was very disingenuous and went far afield of the topic that was supposed to have been discussed, all for the sake of spending an hour to bash one of the candidates. It was only their echo chamber, very few facts, information about Bernie's actual record, or opposing viewpoints.