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Liberal Tears Flow At MSNBC After Bernie Win

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Who saw this coming? Far left MSNBC pundits shed liberal tears after Bernie Sanders took the Nevada caucus. This seems counter-intuitive, I know, but apparently Bernie was not the droid they were looking for.

There has been bad blood between Sanders and MSNBC before, with Sanders accusing the network of unfair coverage. In fact, Bernie supposedly complained about it to network president Phil Griffin. So when Bernie won the caucus and took the top of the Democratic heap, liberal tears flowed copiously on the floors of the station.

Chris Matthews went Godwin Lite and compared Bernie’s victory to the Nazis overrunning the Maginot Line in 1940. Whereupon David Harsanyi of The Federalist offered a more accurate analogy:

". . . a far better analogy is to say Sanders has stormed the Democratic Party like the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace."
Matthews went on to wonder if it would be better for Democrats if Sanders lost the upcoming election.

"I mean, he takes it over, he sets the direction of the future of the party ‐ maybe they’d rather wait four years and put in a Democrat that they like."
Plus, Joy Reid sounded desperate and really shed those liberal tears, because she fears not only losing the Presidency but down ballot races as well.

It’s like the lightbulb went off in her head, and she just discovered that a lot of Democrats don’t like their party elite, either. Just like many disaffected Republican voters in 2016, right?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-24 05:13|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Come on this is just false. MSDNC is not far left. They are corporate Democrats. Sanders is far left. Sigh. Dumb people don't even understand basic facts about politics.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-24 07:23|| 2020-02-24 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 ..yeah, right. We're talking velocity not the end state difference between them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-24 07:36|| 2020-02-24 07:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Dumb people don't even understand basic facts about politics.

Uh huh. Self awareness much?

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-24 07:44|| 2020-02-24 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 (1) Presidents win re-election
(2) After two terms the other party takes the Executive
These are not laws but tend to be true with the exception of Carter getting one term and Reagan getting three.

If they hold true it is much better for the nation if the Socialist wing of the Democrats gets humiliatingly crushed against Trump. If the Dems steal the nomination from Sanders on behalf of Bloomberg and he loses bad to Trump the Socialists will be positioned well for 2024 when the incumbency advantage is gone, Bernie and Warren with all their commie love negatives will be too old, and the horrors of socialism will be that much easier for the young to ignore.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-02-24 08:36|| 2020-02-24 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Seriously? The MSDNC wing of the Democrats aren't socialist. They have more in common with the 1990s Russian oligarchs. Moreover they are globalists and would happily start wars all over the planet.

Sanders is the socialist wing. These are basic facts, people.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-24 08:45|| 2020-02-24 08:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Facts are that the Donks have been slowly turning up the heat on the frog in the pot for decades and now their socialists just want to got full flame on the stove. That is the fact. It's all been about the centralization and concentration of power for them all. Speed is the only difference.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-24 10:51|| 2020-02-24 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 The MSDNC wing of the Democrats aren't socialist. They have more in common with the 1990s Russian oligarchs.

Spot on. Global Grifters and shills for tech oligarchs and Wall Streer barons. Not "socialist" in the slightest.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-24 11:05|| 2020-02-24 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Democrats are three factions:
* Socialists = Sanders
* Corrupt opportunists = Clintons
* Affirmative Actions = Obamas

There is a lot of overlap between some of them but I think the three are currently fighting for control. The US is better off if the Socialists are destroyed and the Earth salted beneath their feet. Same with the Affirmative Action folks but less so, for now.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-24 11:43|| 2020-02-24 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 You're trying to tell us that Baraq Obama is not a socialist? When he advocated redistribution of wealth? What is that if not socialism? And ObamaCare was nothing but a compromise because he knew he couldn't get single payer. Socialism. Communism. P2K has it right. The only difference is how high and how fast they want to turn up the heat on that frog.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-02-24 11:43|| 2020-02-24 11:43|| Front Page Top

#10 More like State Capitalism. Obama has done more to help a tiny handful of powerful banks and powerful health insurance company bloodsuckers to consolidate control of their industries than any president in the modern era.

We see more industry concentration today than at any time since the days of Morgan and Rockefeller.

Finance, Tech, Healthcare... Obama consolidated industry control on behalf of the DNC's moneybags. Not socialist in the slightest.

Faux-socialism in the economic sphere, combined with with identity-politics Kulturkampf policies, lawfare, decrees and DoJ mischief in the socio-cultural sphere.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-24 11:51|| 2020-02-24 11:51|| Front Page Top

#11 More like Mussolini's corporatism. Equal parts oligarchy and incompetence.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-24 11:54|| 2020-02-24 11:54|| Front Page Top

#12 When you are consumed with hate, you are vulnerable. The left was so consumed with their hate for Trump they threw out anyone that wanted to work with him and every moderate that had remotely like values. This left the door wide open for someone like Sanders, and AOC, and.... They are reaping what they have sewn. So long to the democrat party, and welcome in the new Democratic Socialist Party, soon to be the People Communist party.

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-02-24 12:36|| 2020-02-24 12:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Ah, purity test are half the fun. The other half being the gulags and such.

What a lot of these advocates today do not comprehend is that the overlap, that is for them.

One day Joaquin Phoenix is the darling of Capital District, next he is purged for disparaging Native Americans by voicing in Brother Bear, or his performance of Jesus was too likable. It can be avoided by tacking left, and left, and left, but one day his will have completed his transition surgery and wearing his sparkle kilt on the red carpet with xmblt's domestic partner talking about how his now grown cow not only have legal rights, but is the inheritor of his estate, he will discover there is no further left to go.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-24 14:54|| 2020-02-24 14:54|| Front Page Top

#14 rj's got it - Clinton opportunists are the least bad of the Democrat options. Sort of like sleazy Trump is (by far) the least bad of Republican options. How did we get from George Washington to here?

Posted by Glenmore 2020-02-24 16:09|| 2020-02-24 16:09|| Front Page Top

#15 A lot of the DNC and Dem hierarchy don't seem to want Bernie. They must figure he is not controllable. I think an investigation is called for to see if he has Russian links.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-24 17:22|| 2020-02-24 17:22|| Front Page Top

#16 How did we get from George Washington to here?

The average quality of the demos has sharply declined.

Yes, there is also vote fraud and corruption.

But why do they consistently get away with vote fraud and corruption?

We get the leadership the majority ask for, even as we say "But that's not what we wanted!".

Posted by charger 2020-02-24 17:57|| 2020-02-24 17:57|| Front Page Top

#17 Yes, there is also vote fraud and corruption.

There was always fraud and corruption. And as the demos was expanded the portion that had an expensive classical education naturally made up a smaller part of the total.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-24 19:57|| 2020-02-24 19:57|| Front Page Top

#18 On the question of Obama being a socialist or not, I'd say he probably is but is smart enough to know the nation isn't ready yet. He laid groundwork but never pushed it too far that he lost the rubes in his party.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-02-24 20:17|| 2020-02-24 20:17|| Front Page Top

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