One thing you learn when you try to wrap your head around economics is that framing effects are huge. You can write a journalistic piece on the same event with the same facts-without any glaring factual inaccuracies and yet create a narrative in each diametrically opposed to the other.
What drives the media is not liberal bias as Rush Limbaugh always said but the current Beltway narrative. Now everyone is claiming that Hillary is a bad politician-which is done to demoralize Democrats and make them think they have to run to Joe Biden for help.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/politicos-latest-front-page-biden.html
This narrative now that she's just a bad candidate-some even allow that she'd be a great President but is a bad campaigner-is so striking as it's the diametric opposite of what the media was saying in 2011 before the 2012 election.
Then the media was wringing its hands over what a liability Biden was for the President. He was supposed to be a hopeless gaffe machine that would sink Obama's campaign.
Some pundit even wrote a book falsely claiming that the President was considering dropping Biden.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/remember-when-media-wanted-obama-to.html
Then the media was urging Obama to replace Biden with-you guessed it, Hillary Clinton.
But that was then and this is now. The media narrative has changed. But the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two individuals hasn't.
Every story about Hillary even what is actually good news is spun into more hand wringing that's meant to be self-fulfilling. If Democrats buy into the narrative then maybe there really will be a groundswell for Biden which will further erode numbers which will increase the groundswell, etc.
The media can't allow any good news about her to trickle through. If she's up 20 points then they have to compare it to when she led by 30 points two months ago. They cite the same poll showing Bernie ahead in NH as if it's brand new news every day just about.
Of course, the recent WSJ poll that shows her up just 7 nationally they like so they keep talking about that one even though as polls go its an outlier-a lot of other recent polls showed her up over 20 points.
Now the NEA is endorsing Hillary:
"Top brass of the 3 million-strong National Education Association, the country's largest union, are recommending an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, according to an email obtained by POLITICO -- a move that has many state leaders and rank-and-file members planning to protest the early endorsement."
"The email, sent from the union's campaign office, states that the NEA PAC, the union’s political arm, is planning to hold an upcoming vote “recommending Hillary Clinton for the presidential primary.”
What drives the media is not liberal bias as Rush Limbaugh always said but the current Beltway narrative. Now everyone is claiming that Hillary is a bad politician-which is done to demoralize Democrats and make them think they have to run to Joe Biden for help.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/politicos-latest-front-page-biden.html
This narrative now that she's just a bad candidate-some even allow that she'd be a great President but is a bad campaigner-is so striking as it's the diametric opposite of what the media was saying in 2011 before the 2012 election.
Then the media was wringing its hands over what a liability Biden was for the President. He was supposed to be a hopeless gaffe machine that would sink Obama's campaign.
Some pundit even wrote a book falsely claiming that the President was considering dropping Biden.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/remember-when-media-wanted-obama-to.html
Then the media was urging Obama to replace Biden with-you guessed it, Hillary Clinton.
But that was then and this is now. The media narrative has changed. But the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two individuals hasn't.
Every story about Hillary even what is actually good news is spun into more hand wringing that's meant to be self-fulfilling. If Democrats buy into the narrative then maybe there really will be a groundswell for Biden which will further erode numbers which will increase the groundswell, etc.
The media can't allow any good news about her to trickle through. If she's up 20 points then they have to compare it to when she led by 30 points two months ago. They cite the same poll showing Bernie ahead in NH as if it's brand new news every day just about.
Of course, the recent WSJ poll that shows her up just 7 nationally they like so they keep talking about that one even though as polls go its an outlier-a lot of other recent polls showed her up over 20 points.
Now the NEA is endorsing Hillary:
"Top brass of the 3 million-strong National Education Association, the country's largest union, are recommending an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, according to an email obtained by POLITICO -- a move that has many state leaders and rank-and-file members planning to protest the early endorsement."
"The email, sent from the union's campaign office, states that the NEA PAC, the union’s political arm, is planning to hold an upcoming vote “recommending Hillary Clinton for the presidential primary.”
“After months of interactions with the three candidates who chose to participate in our process [Clinton, Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders], certain things became clear,” the email states. “Clinton is the best positioned candidate to win both the Democratic primary and general election. She has unmatched organizational strength, ground game, and fundraising ability to defeat the candidate of the Koch brothers.”
"The email noted that while Clinton is the candidate the union believes is most likely to win, both Clinton and Sanders received “A” rankings on NEA’s congressional legislative scorecard, and O’Malley was voted NEA’s Governor of the Year. The email says the union hired a Republican consultant to reached out to Republican candidates, but none chose to participate in the endorsement process."
"The email also defends the timing of the early recommendation process as a chance for the union to try and identify a winner early so as to “play a significant role in the next administration’s conversation and decision-making about public education.” (In 2008, the union did not endorse Barack Obama until after he had wrapped up the nomination.)"
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-teachers-union-214190#ixzz3n8Z0x113
"This then is good news. I appreciate that the NEA sees the value of unifying sooner rather than later around Hillary. Yet the headline on this piece is to focus on some teachers in Massachusetts who are hand wringing about the timing of endorsements."
"Clinton endorsement divides teachers union State officials and rank-and-file members plan to protest upcoming vote to endorse Hillary Clinton."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-teachers-union-214190#ixzz3n8YTE5R5
Why should a couple of hand-wringers in Massachusetts be the tail wagging the dog on a story that is good news?
In another Politico piece of Biden hagiography today it brooded over the idea that some of Deval Patrick's network are Biden people.
"More significantly, prominent members of Patrick’s political network have shown little interest in lining up behind Clinton. Some have gravitated, for now, toward former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who’s gained no traction in the race so far. That leaves large untapped pockets of potential support for Biden."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/joe-biden-deval-patrick-2016-massachusetts-214067#ixzz3n8aMsAvL
So that's the big threat to Hillary in Massachusetts? O'Malley supporters?
Politico then would seem to cut it's own anti Hillary screed off at the knees when they reveal that even though Deval Patrick endorsed Obama in 2008, Hillary still trounced him in the state 56-41. But it absurdly claims that Biden would be stronger than Obama!
The knots the Hillary haters are willing to tie themselves up into.
"Patrick also has a long and complicated relationship with the Clintons. President Bill Clinton appointed him as the civil rights chief in his Justice Department in the early 1990s before Patrick went on to hold corporate jobs at Coca-Cola and Texaco. Yet, in 2007, a year after his first election as governor, Patrick shocked Clinton supporters by endorsing Obama, despite the state’s heavily pro-Clinton tilt. (Clinton won the 2008 primary there 56-41.)"
"Biden, however, is a potentially stronger candidate for Massachusetts than Obama; he could draw support from the state's large number of blue-collar Democrats, who went for Clinton in 2008. A Patrick endorsement of Biden could help him attract support among the state's minority voters and high-income liberals."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/joe-biden-deval-patrick-2016-massachusetts-214067#ixzz3n8bShB6X
What makes him stronger? Because he's white?
"The email noted that while Clinton is the candidate the union believes is most likely to win, both Clinton and Sanders received “A” rankings on NEA’s congressional legislative scorecard, and O’Malley was voted NEA’s Governor of the Year. The email says the union hired a Republican consultant to reached out to Republican candidates, but none chose to participate in the endorsement process."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-teachers-union-214190#ixzz3n8Z0x113
"This then is good news. I appreciate that the NEA sees the value of unifying sooner rather than later around Hillary. Yet the headline on this piece is to focus on some teachers in Massachusetts who are hand wringing about the timing of endorsements."
"Clinton endorsement divides teachers union State officials and rank-and-file members plan to protest upcoming vote to endorse Hillary Clinton."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-teachers-union-214190#ixzz3n8YTE5R5
Why should a couple of hand-wringers in Massachusetts be the tail wagging the dog on a story that is good news?
In another Politico piece of Biden hagiography today it brooded over the idea that some of Deval Patrick's network are Biden people.
"More significantly, prominent members of Patrick’s political network have shown little interest in lining up behind Clinton. Some have gravitated, for now, toward former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who’s gained no traction in the race so far. That leaves large untapped pockets of potential support for Biden."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/joe-biden-deval-patrick-2016-massachusetts-214067#ixzz3n8aMsAvL
So that's the big threat to Hillary in Massachusetts? O'Malley supporters?
Politico then would seem to cut it's own anti Hillary screed off at the knees when they reveal that even though Deval Patrick endorsed Obama in 2008, Hillary still trounced him in the state 56-41. But it absurdly claims that Biden would be stronger than Obama!
The knots the Hillary haters are willing to tie themselves up into.
"Patrick also has a long and complicated relationship with the Clintons. President Bill Clinton appointed him as the civil rights chief in his Justice Department in the early 1990s before Patrick went on to hold corporate jobs at Coca-Cola and Texaco. Yet, in 2007, a year after his first election as governor, Patrick shocked Clinton supporters by endorsing Obama, despite the state’s heavily pro-Clinton tilt. (Clinton won the 2008 primary there 56-41.)"
"Biden, however, is a potentially stronger candidate for Massachusetts than Obama; he could draw support from the state's large number of blue-collar Democrats, who went for Clinton in 2008. A Patrick endorsement of Biden could help him attract support among the state's minority voters and high-income liberals."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/joe-biden-deval-patrick-2016-massachusetts-214067#ixzz3n8bShB6X
What makes him stronger? Because he's white?
Honestly, is there more of a false flag than worrying over Massachusetts? No one can claim she won't win Mass in a general election so what's the argument over?
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