Every once in a while they say the quiet out loud. Get ready for another onslaught of hoaxes and witch hunts.
“I think the message coming from the Democratic Party is a good message,” the South Carolina Democrat told “The Last Word” host on Friday night. “The problem we’ve got, I’ll say, is that we have to depend upon the media to deliver it.”
He pointed to The Washington Post and criticism of owner Jeff Bezos’s relationship with Trump as an example.
“If we have The Washington Post, for instance, 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,” he added.”
His comments come as polling shows a downward spike in approval for the party.
A CNN survey released in mid-March found the Democratic Party’s favorability rating hitting a record low. In the poll, 54 percent of respondents said they had an overall unfavorable view of the party, while 29 percent said the opposite. Sixteen percent had no opinion.
A subsequent poll, unveiled late last month by Harvard CAPS/Harris, yielded similar results.
Clyburn shifts blame to media over Democrats’ slipping popularity
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Friday took a page from President Trump’s playbook, casting blame on the media for the Democratic Party’s downward shift in approval ratings. MSNBC’…
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“I think the message coming from the Democratic Party is a good message,” the South Carolina Democrat told “The Last Word” host on Friday night. “The problem we’ve got, I’ll say, is that we have to depend upon the media to deliver it.”
He pointed to The Washington Post and criticism of owner Jeff Bezos’s relationship with Trump as an example.
“If we have The Washington Post, for instance, 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,” he added.”
His comments come as polling shows a downward spike in approval for the party.
A CNN survey released in mid-March found the Democratic Party’s favorability rating hitting a record low. In the poll, 54 percent of respondents said they had an overall unfavorable view of the party, while 29 percent said the opposite. Sixteen percent had no opinion.
A subsequent poll, unveiled late last month by Harvard CAPS/Harris, yielded similar results.
