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If you think of the MFM as Democrats with bylines, you won't go far wrong.

Go ahead and ask her about her platform. It's early in the election. The candidate has not had a chance to poll the voters yet to find out what she believes and where she stands.

All candidates' platforms are vague and generic at this point. Once the voters tell them what to believe and where to stand, they'll know.

So far, all 200 of the Democratic Party candidates have only one plank on their platforms - they're anti-Trump.

She's a politician. She's believes whatever the polls tell her to believe.

Dave Barry summed it up nicely in Tricky Business when he noted that local news did not exist to inform its viewers, but to terrify them.

The book's worth a gander if you need an amusing summer beach read.

3 Beto so I take it that mean that Beto is who the media/Dem elite has chosen as the Democratic candidate.

3 Beto so I take it that mean that Beto is who the media/Dem elite has chosen as the Democratic candidate.

Joe J at March 15, 2019 11:32 AM

Well that media coronation thing didn’t work out for John Edwards,

Still think it is going to be Kamala.

3 about Beto O'Rourke

...I take it that mean that Beto is who the media/Dem elite has chosen as the Democratic candidate. ~ Joe J at March 15, 2019 11:32 AM

The Democrats seem determined this election cycle to run the least experienced candidate they can find.

The Dems always seem to be playing catch up to the last Republican that won.

When George W. Bush looked unbeatable in 2004 with the Gulf War as a backdrop, the Democrats ran John Kerry. Kerry opened the convention by "reporting for duty" and made his military experience the central focus of his campaign - stumbling when discrepancies between Kerry's version of his military record and that of others who served with him arose.

In the last cycle, 2016, Trump won by being an outsider with no Washington experience. So, this time, the Dems are gonna run Beto who has almost no executive experience at all - save for running a small public service group in El Paso, Texas. He's never been a governor or a mayor and, thus, has no executive record on which to be challenged. He did run for the US Senate, losing to one of the least likable people then in the US Senate, Ted Cruz.

"The Democrats seem determined this election cycle to run the least experienced candidate they can find"

Conan the Grammarian

I also think I see a strategy from the State of Union,
Good news about African Americans: Dems sit on hands
Good news about Hispanics: Dems sit on hands
Good news about wages (unions/poor): Dems sit on hands
Good news about women: Dems party and claim credit.
Every positive platitude I've heard about him was from women,
this generations Kennedy or Tredaeu. Young, rich, spoiled level of confidence

I also think I see a strategy from the State of Union.... ~ Joe j at March 15, 2019 7:24 PM

Joe, I"m not anti-Democrat. I am anti-socialist; actually, anti-collectivist (fascism, socialism, whatever brand of collectivism you've got).

That the Democratic Party is rushing pell-mell into advocating socialism (with whatever pretty label they want to put on it) is concerning.

That a rank amateur like AOC has assumed such importance in the party is concerning. That level of naiveté arising in a mature political party is concerning.

That someone with absolutely no executive experience and with no national experience beyond a few years in the House and a failed statewide Senate run is a welcome presidential contender in the party is concerning.

That the Democrats in Congress vote in lock-step with each other is concerning.

The Republicans may be a bunch of nuts, probably are if Ted Cruz is any indication, but the individual members are at least allowed to vote their consciences (if they have any). Witness how many voted against Trump's declaration of emergency. And they're opposed to socialism; at least, until they figure out hw they'll profit from it.

Make no mistake, no politician will protect you from government over-reach or abuse of authority. Politicians work for you, so when they advocate a controlling government, we the voters need to shut them down; and we are failing. When actual socialism comes to the US, it will have been voted in.

"I guess we all sometimes slip and think TV news stations are actually in the business of putting out the news, and not what I call the "'newstertainment'."

Umm. Not any more.

It's not likely the people you watch know what part they are playing, but when you are presented such a tiny amount of reality, you have to SELL PRODUCT.