Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) made a small error when he tried to explain why the Democrats are so unpopular right now. They”re faced polls with their approval numbers in the 20s.
Clyburn said the quiet part out loud. It wasn’t the Democrats’ lousy message that was the problem, it was the media:
In an interview Friday on MSNBC’s The Last Word, Clyburn claimed the media was distorting political narratives– and that Dems are losing ground not because of the exceedingly leftward tilt of their message – but because the press isn’t properly telling its story.
“I think the message coming from the Democratic Party is a good message,” Clyburn said.
“The problem we’ve got is that we have to depend upon the media to deliver it.”
Wait, what? Did you just confess that the media delivers your message for you? And now you’re mad because you don’t think they’re carrying out their job well enough? I don’t think you were supposed to admit that.
This is also such a dumb argument. Aren’t Democrats responsible for communicating their message? And if they can’t even do that, why should anyone vote for them to run the country?
Even host Ali Velshi wasn’t buying that, saying there were “valid criticisms out there about the fact that there is not a cohesive message coming from the Democratic Party.”
“If we have The Washington Post, for instance,” Clyburn continued to whine, “caving to this wannabe dictator and we’ve got other media entities that seem to rather push a narrative that will bring eyes to their newspapers or to their television sets and not really give a fair hearing or reporting to what we’re doing.”
The Democratic lawmaker said he plans to hold a series of town halls outside his district in an effort to share his party’s message directly with voters. “It’s going to be very coherent,” he said.
Then he really capped it off, saying he likes MSNBC because they offered substance over spin, and that his party unfortunately “[doesn’t] have a stomach for just lying”:
“That’s what’s killing us as Democrats,” he said.
“We don’t have a stomach for just lying.”
Forgive me for a moment while I laugh my head off. The load of lies from both MSNBC and the Democrats could probably build a mountain to the moon. It’s one of the major reasons that the American people no longer trust them.
No, President Donald Trump isn’t Hitler. He didn’t pushing Grandma off the cliff or cutting Social Security, or any of the other multitude of leftist lies.
The real problem for the Democrats is, even though they still have a hold on a lot of the mainstream media, there are too many other avenues of new media that allow the truth through and debunk their falsehoods. They can’t control all the media anymore, there’s too much independent media.
When people see the reality, that’s when they move away from the Democrats and their failed policies.
Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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