1) gonna go watch cable news from today. Hopefully the coverage won’t be as bad as yesterday‘s was since about 30 polls came out today and 29 of them were good to very good for Bernie
2) Things started off quite well on CNN with Inside Politics which was uncharacteristically fair to Bernie and covered him a decent amount during the 12 pm hour.
1 pm hour had a worthless mini segment fear mongering about socialism but it was followed up by a good interview
1 pm hour had a worthless mini segment fear mongering about socialism but it was followed up by a good interview
@briebriejoy 6) 2 and 3 pm hours with Brooke Baldwin weren’t as good as she focused more on trump commuting sentences and some crap about Hispanic voters going for the GOP. Her coverage of Bernie and the polls was ok, there just wasn’t much of it As she spent more time talking to Bloomberg
@briebriejoy 7) surrogates/supporters than she did talking about Bernie at all. Bernie was mentioned maybe for 4 minutes out of her 2 hours of programming.
@briebriejoy 8) The lead with Jake tapper was mixed as the coverage was fairly good, tho he pissed me off by running part of the Bloomberg attack ad against Bernie at one point. Pretty decent coverage otherwise tho
@briebriejoy 9) Didn’t watch the first hour of Blitzer, but the second hour had decent coverage that was once again sullied by them running parts of the Bloomberg attack ad against Bernie, tho to be fair it was only about 10 seconds of it
@briebriejoy 10) Burnett was pretty decent tho she tried to get Steyer to take a shot at Bernie tho steyer refused. One of the better shows so far today about clearly stating that Bernie is unquestionably the frontrunner tho
@briebriejoy 11) As for MSNBC, the 1 pm hour immediately started to piss me off as they started off by talking about how great Bloomberg was doing in the Marist poll, as if he’s the story more so than Bernie. CNN didn‘t try to push this crap, but msnbc immediately did
@briebriejoy 12) It was basically a 10 minute segment that was 80% about Bloomberg, 15% Biden, and 4% Klobuchar And 1% Klobuchar. I went back and rewatched the segment and I’m fairly certain that Bernie wasn’t mentioned at any point during a 10 minute segment on a poll where he had huge lead
@briebriejoy 13) I dunno if it got bumped because they had some breaking news towards the end, but MSNBC and Kris Jansing who I gave credit to for her hosting performance yesterday, didn’t mention Bernie once outside of reading the poll results very quickly, not once!
@briebriejoy 14) 2 pm hour started with Trump and quickly turned to Bloomberg again. The first mention of Bernie was reading a smear in a tweet put out by Bloomberg’s campaign.
an absolute joke
an absolute joke
@briebriejoy 15) They finally showed the NPR/Marist poll but once again it was pretty much all about Bloomberg.
it then turned to parody as the next discussion from the poll wasn’t about Bernie’s big lead but rather that Klobuchar had leapfrogged Pete in the poll. Wow.... all the way to 9%
it then turned to parody as the next discussion from the poll wasn’t about Bernie’s big lead but rather that Klobuchar had leapfrogged Pete in the poll. Wow.... all the way to 9%
@briebriejoy 16) A solid 12 minutes in and we finally got a discussion about Bernie... specifically how to stop Bernie. No I’m not kidding and yes this is only 12 minutes into the second hour of coverage. Terrible stuff from Katy Tur
@briebriejoy 17) Apparently MSNBC and Katy Tur decided they had to finally talk about Bernie since they were doing an interview with @briebriejoy , who has now been on both networks today.
interview was pretty sad performance by Katy Tur as she made excuses for Bloomberg
interview was pretty sad performance by Katy Tur as she made excuses for Bloomberg
@briebriejoy 21) And Part 4, (btw in part 3 Katy Tur just randomly started attacking Bernie as a “socialist” seemingly out of nowhere and then talked over Brie to continue smearing him)
@briebriejoy 22) I don’t think I’ve seen someone interview a campaign surrogate, let alone press secretary, and just start reading off of a list positive qualities about one of the opponents. I’m pretty sure MSNBC is trying to punish Bernie for the Vanity Fair article. This is outrageous
@briebriejoy 23) It’s so outrageous that I’m going to hand record the exact part and post it below in fact.
@briebriejoy 24) there was a segment later in the hour about a Nevada union that supports Medicare4All but I don’t care, the damage is done. This was one of the most shameful 40 minutes of msnbc I've ever seen not including Nicolle Wallace, Joy Reid, Brian Williams, Matthews, or Chuck Todd
@briebriejoy 25) And the above tweet says it all. A normal network would punish Katy Tur for acting as a hostile interviewer who seemed to be a Bloomberg surrogate, meanwhile on MSNBC it’s not even that much worse than what 5 of their other hosts do on a daily basis.
@briebriejoy 26) Here’s the article that I‘m strongly suspicious led to the top brass at MSNBC to order the hit on the interview we just saw as well as the terrible poll coverage. vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/f…
@briebriejoy 27) 3 pm hour was better from Jansing than the 1 pm hour with her and a hell of a lot better than whatever the hell Katy Tur did during the 2 pm hour, this time they actually covered the poll as Bloomberg being the lead story but Bernie’s big lead being a close second
@briebriejoy 28) This was followed by a segment where a panelist said Bloomberg was a perfect foil and Jansing literally jumped in again to push back and say the talking point about Billionaires buying elections isn’t one anyone outside of Bernies base cares about. This is some twilight
@briebriejoy 29) zone crap from msnbc where their hosts are now being actively hostile to anyone saying anything even remotely negative about Bloomberg, specifically in Bernie‘s favor. This is some Fox News primetime/Hannity crap where they seem like paid media for Bloomberg
@briebriejoy 30) Rubin was on the panel talking crap as always, but I’m still stunned at how Julia Ioffe, who is far from a Bernie supporter, got jumped by the host. I guess I’m gonna have to clip it again.
@briebriejoy 31) I was able to cover CNN from noon thru 8 pm minus the 5 pm hour in a total of 10 tweets, I’m now only 2 hours and 14 minutes into msnbc and I’ve already had to do over 20 tweets. This is taking my self restraint not to just drop f bombs all thru this thread
@briebriejoy 32) Oh and Jansing ended her hour by saying Trump is afraid of Bloomberg. So now we are 3 hours into msnbc and those 3 hours are supposed to be the better hours vs the next few
@briebriejoy 33) Deadline Whitehouse was guest hosted by the dude from the Circus which is an upgrade over the atrocity that is Nicolle Wallace. We got Bloomberg coverage, a guy saying the 3 big stories out of N.H. were Klobuchar and Pete and Biden doing badly. I guess bernie winning was
@briebriejoy 34) as worthless to msnbc hosts as Bernie dominating the npr poll seems to be today. We then had Palmeiri saying voters in this race either are for Bernie or they want to beat Trump. If Bernie wins Nevada and is frontrunner he appears to be he needs to boycott msnbc afterwards
@briebriejoy 35) finally after 11 minutes, we get some coverage on Bernie which was good at first tho they then talked all about Bernie Bros and smeared Bernie with it.
we then got the same Bloomberg tweet about oppo research in Bernie for the 3rd time today on msnbc
we then got the same Bloomberg tweet about oppo research in Bernie for the 3rd time today on msnbc
@briebriejoy 36) Matthews was then interviewed and smeared bernie for the entire time with every talking point imaginable and even said something incredibly out of line.
this isn’t taken out of context, this is clearly what Matthews thinks And he‘s annoyed other candidates don’t say it.
this isn’t taken out of context, this is clearly what Matthews thinks And he‘s annoyed other candidates don’t say it.
@briebriejoy 37) Matthews then said Bernie would lose 47 states and was McGovern and that no one supports socialism
@briebriejoy 38) Thank God that the NBC poll dropped during the 5 pm hour as Msnbc couldn’t ignore their own poll, even tho they wanted to.
Chuck Todd literally said, “Bernie is the clear leader, let me repeat Bernie is the clear leader“ as if he’s trying to warn his viewers of a disaster
Chuck Todd literally said, “Bernie is the clear leader, let me repeat Bernie is the clear leader“ as if he’s trying to warn his viewers of a disaster
@briebriejoy 39) Todd had a panel with Ralston and Neera where he failed to mention Neera’s connections to Bloomberg.
@briebriejoy 43) good stuff from DeBlasio. Pleasant surprise.
@briebriejoy 44) This is taking forever, so I’m gonna start getting picky, but 6 pm hour was actually pretty good.
@briebriejoy 45) Hardball wasn’t terrible all things considered tho Zerlina was running her mouth about Bernie and Sam Stein called Bernie supporters a cult at about 6:14-6:15
@briebriejoy 46) Joy Reid guest hosted for All In again and was bad as he had Phillipe Reines and Joy smearing Bernie
@briebriejoy 47) she not he *.
anyway Maddow was fine and O’Donnell was good enough tho it was funny that he refused to say warren was down 1 point in a poll he was reading even tho it was on the screen
anyway Maddow was fine and O’Donnell was good enough tho it was funny that he refused to say warren was down 1 point in a poll he was reading even tho it was on the screen
@briebriejoy 48) First half of 11th hour was almost entirely Trump so that saved me from half of the 11th hour. And actually it started out ok as they were the only show to put up the Cali poll from today Where Bernie is up 18.
@briebriejoy 49) there was a panel with Jason Johnson where Jason was being a fool and trying to say Pete is just as much of a frontrunner as Bernie...
@briebriejoy 50) There was 3 separate segments with Jason because David Ploufe couldn’t connect for his segment.. so ya the show just kept getting better.
there was a segment about how young people support Bernie which apparently msnbc just realized.
there was a segment about how young people support Bernie which apparently msnbc just realized.
@briebriejoy 51) I haven’t watched Bernies townhall yet as I got absolutely ambushed by msnbc. This was one of, no Not one, the best day of bernie’s entire campaign with poll after poll of good news and msnbc decided to go Rush Limbaugh all day, not even just fox news.
@briebriejoy 52) I’m tired and despite cnn being fine today, both networks yesterday and especially msnbc today were painful to watch. So I’m telling everyone now that I’m not doing tomorrow pre debate. Other people will need to keep an eye out
