Press Deception
The corporate media is at it again, awarding delegates to establishment candidates before one voter goes to the polls
By Yvonne C. Claes
As a member of Team Bernie, the media’s treatment of the Vermont senator during his 2016 primary run against Hillary Clinton left me angry, frustrated and downright disillusioned.
Back then Sanders drew tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters to his numerous rallies across the country, yet nary a word was said by the national press.
Even worse, the cable news networks and establishment newspapers gave Clinton a false and inflated lead in the delegate count, which I wrote about in March of that year. The media’s aim was to suppress voter enthusiasm for Bernie and make it appear as though Clinton was a shoo-in.
They did this by counting super-delegates, Democratic Party elites who were not slated to vote until the party’s national convention in July 2016, in the pledged delegate totals. It’s worth noting that 2,383 total delegates are needed to win the nomination.
Three years ago the establishment media followed a not-so-subtle playbook: Make Clinton look inevitable, so these pesky Berners will shut up and “get in line” behind the corporate-chosen candidate.
