feels like part of the longstanding trend of "complain about the media, but never do anything about it other than Hope They're Nice To Us" from democrats is that a lot of 'em find the shittiness of the media convenient when they want to knife somebody else in the party
see: the clinton camp constantly harrumphing about But Her Emails, when 8 years earlier the media being total dogshit who'll snap up anything that looks juicy enough sure seemed like a good avenue for shit like this to start circulating around
as always, the obama '08 campaign is the key thing i point to when people talk about how Unfair the media is.
it was extremely unfair how the GOP, the media, and hillary clinton herself were extremely racist to him.
if his media strategy was 'mope about shit being unfair', probably would've lost.
This is where the split between candidate Obama and President Obama was always so stark. He was pretty active in shaping narratives about his own campaign but would seemingly fold immediately when governing.
in terms of pure slimy "win the election at any costs", obama '08 is the example. sure, i'm radicalized now and am a straight up commie, but if you wanna fucking WIN? there's your model! holy shit, what an incredible job he did!
and keep shit like OFA and ACORN around too!
"but what can we DO everything's so HARD" a BLACK MAN named BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA took on THE CLINTON MACHINE THAT HAD BEEN SETTING A RUNWAY FOR HILLARY FOR YEARS, THE MEDIA, THE GOP, AND WON.
this happened in fucking 2008!!! there are things to learn from his campaign!!!!
instead everybody wants to do hillary in 2016 forever now, a mix of "you don't have any choice so fuck you, get in line" and "i *deserve* this, losers" and just whine about how unfair everybody is and then be surprised this does not help them win.
obama '08 but not squishy on gay rights this time!!
