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Democratic Party Has an ‘MSNBC Problem’
New York Magazine ^ | May 16, 2018 8:35 | By Eric Levitz@EricLevitz

Posted on 05/17/2018 10:43:12 AM PDT by ethom

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But it is definitionally impossible for a cable news channel to feature anchors who belong to the same economic class as such Americans — and financially inadvisable for such a network to cultivate their hatred of the “one percent.”

"Definitionally"? Why? We're not talking about racial similarities, we're talking about economic classes. Is there something written in stone that network anchors must be wealthy celebrities? It's wrong in any case - one doesn't need to be a member of any particular social class to respect those in other ones. The issue is that the network anchors as constituted don't.

The real problem was mentioned clearly in the lede: the Dems can't break through RussiaRussiaRussiaStormyStormyStormy to present a message in a sympathetic venue. That isn't because the proprietors of liberal channels are too sophisticated for the poor, uneducated working class to understand, it means they're too stupid. There's some comfort in that certain Dems are waking up to what we've known all along, more so in that it's likely too late.

21 posted on 05/17/2018 11:03:52 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Col Frank Slade

[The Ed Show.]

Liberals are just completely clueless.


22 posted on 05/17/2018 11:04:29 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Col Frank Slade

The Ed show. Isn’t that special.


23 posted on 05/17/2018 11:05:15 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: Billthedrill

and Avanetti is doubling down with playmate of the year Karen McDougal! Just let them shoot themselves in the foot time and time again


24 posted on 05/17/2018 11:05:23 AM PDT by ethom
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To: Grampa Dave

Wee bee two stoopid to unnerstan sumwon brillyant ann wyse lyke Al Sharpton.


25 posted on 05/17/2018 11:05:43 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ethom
Imagine the fools that tune in daily to Rachel Maddow and breathlessly await her wisdom.

Rachel Maddow and "girlfriend"


26 posted on 05/17/2018 11:08:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

On a brand name....this is a problem for older working-class folks who did vote Democrat in the 1980s and maybe through the 1990s. The brand name today isn’t that appealing and most are shaking their heads because they aren’t buying into the higher taxes, low job emphasis, or gay right theme.

And this 2018 mid-term? It’s mostly all about impeachment. A great brand name theme? No. It doesn’t sell. GOP will end up with near 58 Senator seats and nearly the same number of House seats as before, and then what? Imagine reaching the day after the election and no real thrill as a hyped-up Democrat. And the odds of Trump running in 2020? Well...that would be unsettling for them.


27 posted on 05/17/2018 11:09:37 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SaveFerris
there is no amount of eye bleach to unsee that!
28 posted on 05/17/2018 11:13:06 AM PDT by ethom
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To: ethom
Leftists are so good at group meetings


29 posted on 05/17/2018 11:14:06 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: ethom

IIRC, the hot-looking blonde on the right seduced the dude on the left.

Now there’s some “Eek!” information if there ever was.


30 posted on 05/17/2018 11:15:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ethom

Russia?
Russia!
Russians?
Russians!

Russia, Russia and Russia.

5.56mm


31 posted on 05/17/2018 11:16:35 AM PDT by M Kehoe (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: ethom

No longer pretending MSNBC is a news channel, the DNC wants to control programming. LOL!


32 posted on 05/17/2018 11:21:20 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Spok

those babies are not getting their way!


33 posted on 05/17/2018 11:23:32 AM PDT by ethom
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To: Maceman

You left out impeaching Trump.


And that is such a winning issue for the Democrats /s


34 posted on 05/17/2018 11:34:58 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: ethom

Anyone who is buying advertising from CNN should be fired for wasting that company’s money and possible good will.


35 posted on 05/17/2018 11:36:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: ethom

Wow! Cable news is not in the tank enough for the democrats. That’s news to me!


36 posted on 05/17/2018 11:45:19 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Open borders, higher taxes, abortion on demand, no religion in public square, homosexual rights above all others and so on.

***

And Muslim ‘rights’ over homosexual rights.


37 posted on 05/17/2018 11:46:03 AM PDT by Luircin
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To: jimmygrace

more Stormi, more Russia, more Muller=GOP keeping the House and Senate in 2018


38 posted on 05/17/2018 11:46:36 AM PDT by ethom
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To: SaveFerris
Rachael Madkow and Susan Mikula dating since 1999 but still not in a hurry to get married!


39 posted on 05/17/2018 12:09:42 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: Grampa Dave

A true inspiration to diet by losing one’s appetite.


40 posted on 05/17/2018 12:11:03 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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