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BobbyDrake

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2. I would tend to disagree. The same bias that made the media inflate Sanders' chances will treat him
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 03:34 PM
Jun 2016

with kid gloves after this is all over. He will not be asked any more about his tax returns, or Jane's destruction of Burlington College, or the Pope Debacle, or anything that even remotely resembles the vetting he should have received but never did. They're going to give him a bunch of fawning press coverage, and continue to make out like he's going to the convention with all this "momentum" and "influence" when really he's not, because the media believes it will create a "challenge" for the Democratic Party to deal with. After all, Trump's candidacy is already flailing and failing, and so the General Election is shaping up to be "What handful of states will Trump manage to keep red on his way to a landslide loss of historic proportion?"

The media needs its narrative, after all, and as the very existence of the Bernie Sanders campaign proved, if they can't find one, they'll create one.

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