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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Melissa Harris-Perry and Could it be Time for Democrats to Boycott MSNBC?

Don't get me wrong-Ms. Perry is far from the only offender, but for many Hillary supporters and Democrats in general, her  Hillary bashing yesterday was the last straw.

She pooh-poohed the historical nature of Hillary's candidacy and argued that young women wouldn't take inspiration of Hillary at all because she's 'privileged'-and though Perry didn't quite say this, white.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/for-melissa-harris-perry-race-matters.html

It is shocking for her in 2015 to say that women can't have solidarity between then beyond racial and ethnic lines. Ms. Perry evidently thinks that racism is much more important an issue than sexism.

Yet while she may think that black men are much more oppressed than white women, the history shows that black men got the vote 45 years before white women did.

My point is not that white women are more oppressed than black men just that it's a losing argument to start playing the game of who is the most oppressed.

But it's the whole network.

"Meanwhile. the coverage at MSNBC has been a disaster. I don't care who you want to talk about. Lawrence O'Donnell has been the worst offender and is now apparently trying to out Fox Fox News in moral grandstanding on Hillary's emails."

"I hate to say it as I used to love this guy, but he's become a clown. He's taking the same side as Citizen's United against Hillary-who do you think has put all these bogus FOIA requests in?"

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/lawrence-odonnell-sides-with-citizens.html

"But they all have their own particular anti Hillary dog whistle. Chris Matthews will say Gee, this email thing is ridiculous but let's face it for whatever reason the press haters her and the only way to make the press shut up is to go with Biden. "

"Rachel Maddow will play the same Biden game though she's more in love with Bernie than Mathews is."

"Chris Hayes admits that the DOJ has said she did nothing wrong but then he still says we need to rifle through every email she ever received with a fine tooth comb in search of something though no one can say what."

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/09/doj-exonerates-clintons-handling-email-few

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/my-message-to-fellow-hillary-supporters.html

And then, there's Morning Joe who now is reportedly going to have 4 hours to predict that Hillary is going to jail.

http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/08/comcast-joe-scarborough-gloats-about-msnbc-move-to-the-hard-right/

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/08/25/msnbcs-joe-scarborough-echoes-right-wing-media/205152

I mean four hours of Scarborough?! And it's not because he has great ratings.

http://tktk.gawker.com/why-isnt-morning-joe-in-trouble-for-its-terrible-rating-1690856933

To me, we as MSNBC viewers-a large part of their audience is for Hillary or at least Democrat-have to hold their feet to the fire.

Ok they'll probably say they can't be her cheerleader  like Fox News if for the Republicans but do they have to compete with Fox News for who can bash her the most?

To me, MSNBC can't continue to do this, kick its viewers in the teeth and ignore their concerns. If they do then maybe it's time to boycott MSNBC. See how bad their ratings will be then.

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