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Originally Posted by erimir
I'm still on board with her, and this story is stupid.
But anyway, I guess this proves the point that the reason Hillary lost is just that she was a shitty awful neoliberal candidate, and it wasn't the medias fault for reporting on her emails because it was a big story (and it was a big story because they were reporting on it, see) and the media totally would never do the same thing to a progressive that cares about people and has no clouds of corruption* hanging over them.
This is why we must push back on any criticism of the media's coverage of 2016, because that would undermine the point that Hillary was uniquely awful. When the media totally starts pulling the same shit with other minor scandals of little relevance to governing on candidates that True Progressives™ do like, davidm will probably just conclude that it's the DNC trying to sink them.
*Like that time Clinton Foundation people asked her for diplomatic passports, and then didn't get them.
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It’s amazing that you can’t grasp the role of the news media in a free society. If the FBI is investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails, then the news media is
obviously going to report that. Failure to do so would be a derliction of professional responsibility.
If the FBI investigation of Clinton was bogus, blame the FBI instead of shooting the messenger. How hard is that to get?
You are no different than people like Richard Nixon and Donald Trump. You believe the news media should, like Fox News, be a propaganda arm of candidates and policies that you like, and should hide or censor any negative news about those candidates or their policies.
As for Elizabeth Warren, if she was truly that dishonest and stupid as to call herself a Native American when clearly she is not even close to that, then that is her fault, not the fault of the Washington Post, which had not just the right but the
duty to report her transparent lie. If it sinks her candidacy, too bad for her. She will have only herself to blame.