I am going to freaking lose it with this crap from CNN. @briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks First off, the margin of error is 4.7% so where is the ”no clear front runner” tag they used on the New Hampshire poll that had Bernie ahead? Secondly wtf is with the graphic saying
“Iowa Poll: Biden and Buttigieg Within Striking Distance of Warren”
“Iowa Poll: Biden and Buttigieg Within Striking Distance of Warren”
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks And of course they led the show off with this poll, while their own New Hampshire poll from the other day was usually buried late into each program
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks Oh cool, they ran the same graphic at the bottom of the screen during the 2 pm hour on CNN as well
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks But somehow the 3 pm hour of CN’s coverage was far worse. A 4 + minute segment that mentions about 8 different candidates but not Bernie. Just insanity!
im looking for a version that isn’t horrendous but in the meantime you can try this...streamable.com/l1y3i
im looking for a version that isn’t horrendous but in the meantime you can try this...streamable.com/l1y3i
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks And then during the 4 pm hour they tried to hype Mayor Pete like crazy while ignoring Bernie. Political hack @jrpsaki (Jen Psaki) in fact was so dismissive of Bernie that she dared to say that if Warren isn’t the nominee, no one else will run in Medicare4Al, I guess because she
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Refuses to acknowledge Bernie’s candidacy. Btw they added 4 people to their top tier graphic. 
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Credit to Beto O’Rourke for knowing he had no shot and dropping out. Gained some respect from me. Too many candidates are taking up space and shouldn’t be in the race....cough, Klobuchar, Delaney, Bullock..... cough
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Msnbc was pretty terrible during shows not hosted by Ali Velshi, with graphics like this
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki You can’t surge in a poll when its that pollsters first poll and other pollsters have had you doing even better in other Iowa polls
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki And then we had Chuck Todd, who aside from doing Trump/Russia stuff for 3 minutes while the banner said “Breaking News: Beto drops out” managed to have on more dishonest hacks
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki People like NBC Senior Political editor and noted Bernie hater Mark Murray who say crap like this
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki And just for fun even tho it doesn’t really fit with the earlier tweets
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Speaking of idiotic takes, here’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. streamable.com/bnher
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Let’s break it down. First Matthews shows the latest Iowa poll and says it shows Warren pulling away and Bernie staying about the same. Literally one week earlier there was a garbage Suffolk poll that had Bernie at 9% in Iowa and Matthews made a big deal out of how surprised he
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Was that Bernie was doing so badly, (Matthews seems to actually think that all pollsters are the same and that each poll is an update from the last one). So I’m pretty sure Bernie going from 4th to second and from 9% to 19% isn’t really him being stagnant
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki but on to the part of the clip that makes this worth my time clipping is the final 35 seconds where Matthews says Mayor Pete is going to win Iowa and Jason Johnson says Pete has no shot. Johnson than predicts Warren wins Iowa, Bernie wins NH, and Biden wins South Carolina
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Being a total and complete moron, Matthews argues that he and Jason only agree on one of those 3 states even tho as he runs thru it, they actually agree on each state outside of Iowa as Mathews picks Mayor Pete for Iowa, Bernie for NH, and Biden for South Carolina
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki No one on the panel acknowledges Nevada which co Es before South Carolina with one of them even skipping right to Super Tuesday because apparently Nevada doesn’t exist, a phenomenon ive seen occur on cable news almost every time the 2020 race is discussed
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki You thought this thread was over, I don’t think so. Nothing to note after Hardball until we got to Last Word where there was a bad segment that I’m not gonna cover but I’ll just say, I’m pretty sure Neera wasn’t drunk. buzzed? Probably, but she was totally slurring her words
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Also on don Lemon‘s show apparently Bakari was running his mouth claiming Bernie is in single digits with Black voters, which he knows isn’t true. But he’s a hack and hacks are going to be hacks. Also I’m pretty sure his own candidate is in single digits with African Americans
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki 11th hour had Kornacki filling in and he was so close to actually having a good segment, and I was going to actually give him credit as he knew Nevada was before South Carolina but he didn’t show the nEvada poll so he loses credit. here’s him making the case for why Bernie is
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Probably in better shape than any other candidate in the race when you look at the early states. He of course went on and tried to temper it, but just look at the below clip and remember that Bernie is leading in most recent Nevada polls.
streamable.com/9ysw4
streamable.com/9ysw4
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Don Lemon’s entire analysis boils down to what his mother tells him. It’s bizarre. Dude no one cares about your mom, she’s one person
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki And with that I think I’m mercifully done for today. The last thing I’ll say is that it was interesting watching the media give some honest points about Medicare4All while supporting Warren that they never mentioned when it was just Bernie, but even so they mostly killed Warren
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki And I’d say that CNN was much more in the tank for Warren than MSNBC was which is a trend I’ve noticed lately. When it comes to medicsre4all MSNBC doesn’t care if you are Bernie or Warren, they’ll go after you hard. CNN does more concern trolling towards Warren on the issue
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Basically CNN frames it as tho it’s going to hurt Warren if she doesn’t flip flop, while msnbc will start to attack her character and call her a liar while stanning for Mayor Pete, but only on the issue of healthcare. Otherwise they are still in the tank for Warren
@briebriejoy @davidsirota @kthalps @_michaelbrooks @jrpsaki Also Real Clear still hasn’t added the Harvard Harris poll and below is a short thread that was supposed to be used instead of this long unnumbered thread but I got so enraged by the CNN clip that I forgot
