Rachel Maddow just gave a tutorial about how the super delegates are going

[skylucy]

to put Hillary over the top and make her the presumptive nominee. She did a nice job explaining it, but she sure wants to play it straight down the middle and not do any rah-rah for Hillary. Hopefully after June 7, she will come out in strong support of Hillary. She knows right now Hillary is the nominee...She just doesn't want to tick off Bernie and his bots.

[LiberalFighter]

1. A good reporter should not have a bias.

State the facts and let them speak for themselves.

[Walk away]

5. Yes but she is not a reporter, she is a pundit.

But she is also a liberal and any sane person who doesn't want to live in a world where Donald in POTUS and the GOP rules the world, will get over their problems with her and get behind Hillary Clinton like she's their long lost sister!

[BobbyDrake]

7. She takes her reporting seriously, though.

If I recall, it was allegations by the Sanders campaign that they hadn't tried to compete at all in those Southern states, after Maddow and her show reported on the Sanders campaign efforts in all of those states, that became one of the first signs of Maddow's inevitably change of heart over not-so-subtly backing Bernie Sanders. Rachel was PISSED that the Sanders campaign made her look foolish by claiming that what she reported was not true.

[Walk away]

8. But there is a difference. I have friends in the business who do not talk about....

their political preferences in public at all. But pundits are supposed to have opinions and express them It like the difference between the "news" section of the new paper and the editorial section. They both may lean one way or the other but the news is supposed to be impartial.
Rachel isn't impelled to one side or the other because of any "newsman's code". She says what she does because of personal preference, her view of the facts, her stations preferences or ratings.

[riversedge]

2. I caught it about halfway thru I think. I am glad she spoke down the middle.

[puffy socks]

3. She knows right now Hillary is the nominee...She just doesn't want to tick off the Bernie bots...

The poor sensitive dears.

[LannyDeVaney]

4. I have no problem with her report.

This scenario is new to the media. Clinton vs Obama was closer, but you would never know it now.

I donated to the Clinton campaign tonight as a reminder to myself to *calm down* and think of what's best for the county moving forward, because if I don't, I will have an anger-driven heart attack short term.

[DemonGoddess]

6. I liked that she explained it the way she did n/t

[Cha]

9. Somehow she already did..

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