Bernie Sanders continues to lead Trump. |
"I don't know who the Democratic Party is. I just don't know who they are anymore," Terrance Warthen, co-chair of Our Wisconsin Revolution, (MSNBC), lamented in 2017.
It's worse now.
Progressive candidates — Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang and Bernie Sanders — are alternately maligned and minimized in the corporate coverage though the three lead the field in championing the concerns of a solid majority of Americans.
Combat veteran Tulsi Gabbard v Chickhawk Hillary Clinton |
For example, Rep. Gabbard (D-Hawia), an Army combat veteran and sitting congresswoman, is continually defamed as a Russian agent or foreign dictator's supporter by Hillary Clinton and the corporate media because of Gabbard's opposition to catastrophic wars.
Gabbard has perhaps the most compelling personal story. She enlisted in the Army after 911 and was deployed downrange, (Iraq 2004-05; Kuwait, 2008-09), "serving in a base in the Sunni Triangle at the height of the war[.] Tulsi had the heart-wrenching daily responsibility of going through the list of every injury and casualty in the entire theatre of operations, looking to see if any soldiers in her unit were on the list, so she could ensure they received the care they needed and their families were notified."
The Democratic National Committee and corporate media has become so brazen in their enmity towards progressive candidates that Tusli Gabbard preemptively boycotted the next DNC debate to be held on Dec 19.
Several major candidates have already hit the DNC and its allied news network for their machinations in secretly choosing which polls decide who gets the free national air-time in the debates, and who gets blacked-out in continuing news coverage.For a number of reasons, I have decided not to attend the December 19th "debate" — regardless of whether or not there are qualifying polls. I instead choose to spend that precious time directly meeting with and hearing from the people of New Hampshire and South Carolina.— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) December 10, 2019
The DNC-media campaign against Andrew Yang is equally vicious and petty. See YouTube.
Drop MSNBC
As Andrew Yang has pointed out, the progressive candidates don't need the corporate news networks, if disaffected voters are sufficiently mobilized.
The #YangGang has taken the lead in dropping MSNBC, allied in effect with Tulsi and Bernie supporters.
There are brilliant political news, analyses and commentary available for continuing campaign coverage to replace the evening and prime-time line-up.
A partial list of news shows available on YouTube follows, (pls add more in comments):
- Rising, The Hill with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
- Jimmy Dore Show
- Secular Talk with Kyle Kulinski
- Rational National with David Doel
- The Young Turks
- The Grey Zone with Max Blumenthal
- The Humanist Report
- Joe Rogan Experience
- Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper
- Moderate Rebels
- Graham Elwood
- The Intercept
- Democracy Now
- Rebel HQ
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