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merrily

(45,251 posts)
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 10:39 PM Feb 2016

Rachel Maddow told Hillary that Clinton's supporters are the same as Sanders' Supporters! [View all]

The following has also been posted in the Helping Bernie Sanders Win forum of JackpineRadicals, under the title, Please thank Rachel Maddow for speaking truth literally to power.

The Clinton campaign and supporters of Clinton have, almost from the beginning, been running, not only against Senator Sanders' but against supporters of Senator Sanders. The attacks on supporters of Bernie keep escalating and, now, Bill and Hillary have begun attacking themselves, and not only through surrogates and stories planted with media.

[url]http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1280&pid=104497[/url]

[url]http://jackpineradicals.org/content.php?110-Ignorant-Bernie-Bros-should-END-their-name-calling[/url] (TWM)

AFAIK, running against the supporters of a candidate, especially a candidate of one's own party, is unprecedented in US Presidential politics. (Disclaimer: I have not been following politics closely for very long.)

Tonight, Ms. Rachel Maddow interviewed Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was going on about how the supporters of US Senator Bernie's Sanders are so bad to supporters of Hillary online. Maddow also played a clip in which Bubba was shocked, shocked, by profanity allegedly used by Bernie's supporters.

At the end of the rants of both Clintons about Bernie's supporters, Maddow said calmly that her mail is divided about 50-50 between people who think she it totally in the tank for Hillary and people who think she is totally in the tank for Bernie. Maddow further said that she sees absolutely no difference in the comments she gets from Hillary's supporters and the comments she gets from Bernie's supporters. This happened minutes ago on MSNBC.

Although I have become unenamored of Ms. Maddow since she and her fellow MSNBC anchors crossed a picket line, I really appreciated her saying that. She did not have to, but she did, and right to Hillary's face on national television. So, thank you very much, Ms. Rachel Maddow.

It would be very good, I think, if Bernie's supporters, at least, gave Maddow a shout out for truth telling. Tweet, facebook, email, post, snail mail, whatever.

[url]http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/send-it-rachel[/url]

[url]http://www.msnbc.com/speak-out[/url]

[url]http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show[/url]

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Thanks for the heads up Mufaddal Feb 2016 #1
what was Hillary's reaction? grasswire Feb 2016 #2
She pretty much ignored what Maddow said and went back to attacking Bernie. But, merrily Feb 2016 #19
I am a part of the Sanders supporters. But I have been rude and deserved my hide. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #3
Many of DU's Clinton supporters deserved hides and involuntary vacations as well. merrily Feb 2016 #4
I agree with you and understand your point. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #8
And it's yet another recycled meme from the playbook. Last time it was Obama Boys. cui bono Feb 2016 #21
w4rma correctly schooled me on this issue's being an echo of 2008 merrily Feb 2016 #23
The truth is ugly... TTUBatfan2008 Feb 2016 #7
The truth can reveal the ugliness behind empire. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #9
Heart breaking. merrily Feb 2016 #16
I haven't seen any difference around the net Jarqui Feb 2016 #5
They are escalating, and doing it directly now, that's true. merrily Feb 2016 #11
Yes, if you mean instances for example, where someone points out an Jarqui Feb 2016 #17
And then she let Hillary attack Bernie jillan Feb 2016 #6
Did Hillary bust out the derivatives attack again? TTUBatfan2008 Feb 2016 #10
. merrily Feb 2016 #12
No - after she said we were sooo mean she said Bernie accepts Wall Street $ becuz jillan Feb 2016 #14
Ah, that line of attack... TTUBatfan2008 Feb 2016 #15
Do you mean DSCC - Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee? Another Catch 22 merrily Feb 2016 #18
My view is simply this... TTUBatfan2008 Feb 2016 #22
True, but I do believe in rewarding behavior I like. merrily Feb 2016 #13
IOW, standard operating procedure. merrily Feb 2016 #20
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