LTTE. Media trying to give Sanders the Kucinich treatment.

[Fuddnik]

Subject: How did the media miss a historic moment?

How did the Times, along with just about every other mainstream media, manage to miss, or more likely ignore, the biggest political story of the year?

On Wed., July 29th over 100,000 people gathered at approx 3,500 homes and other venues to organize support for a grassroots Bernie Sanders campaign. Several were held in the Bay Area. Sanders has continually drawn the biggest crowds across the nation to hear him speak. Venues have to be changed to accommodate larger audiences, and they still have overflow crowds. Red States, Blue States, it doesn't matter.

We can read all about how Jeb Bush thinks it's a good thing to cut Social Security and Medicare. Or the next dumb thing that pops into Marco Rubios or Donald Trumps head. Hillary is just there with a substance-free campaign, but she draws media attention.

Only one candidate actually talks about raising Social Security, making college affordable, and expanding Medicare for all. He's bypassing the billionaires and mounting a historic grassroots campaign for people who are fed up with the status quo.

And you keep ignoring it.

[LWolf]

1. I didn't expect any different.

I think Sanders has a broader, stronger base of support, and will go further than DK.

[MelungeonWoman]

2. We got a nice write up in the local rag

That devolved into information about Hillary. I will say this: Newspapers and the mainstream media are owned by billionaires and multi-millionaires who aren't particularly interested in being fair to Bernie. The voters we want to target are those who feel disenfranchised, ignored, left out, forgotten. These are people who have already tuned out of the media. It is our job to appeal to those people. Talk to your friends, talk to your neighbors. Don't worry about what the media is doing. You know in the end they are all going to endorse the Republican candidate like they do every time. We have to find our own constituents. We don't need the media. We can do this on our own.