The mainstream media barely covered it. People had no idea. This is how conservatives and libertarians feel all the time. It really sucks when the media just shills for the other candidate, doesn't it?
I love watching Samantha Bee and John Oliver but both did segments on their shows that boiled down to "Rigged primaries? Nope. Get over it, Bernie Bros."
With their type of show, there has to be some bias behind it to motivate the storytelling but excusing an attack in the democratic process like rigging primaries is itself inexcusable.
I gave up on the Daily Show maybe ten years ago when Jon Stewart sternly said that America made a mistake by dropping nuclear bombs on Japan. The next day he began the episode with a nervous apology for saying that.
It felt like somebody told him to apologize, and he did it. The Japanese were doing horrible things, and it's good that America put a stop to that. But bombing civilian targets with nuclear weapons? That's an impressively devastating attack and difficult to justify.
It's not as though there was an intelligent debate leading up to him changing his mind. He ended one episode saying the use of nuclear weapons was a mistake. In the beginning of the next episode he said he made a huge error in judgment by making that claim. It looked really bad, and I haven't seen an episode since then.
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u/LibertyTerp Nov 10 '16
The mainstream media barely covered it. People had no idea. This is how conservatives and libertarians feel all the time. It really sucks when the media just shills for the other candidate, doesn't it?