NewsBusters Podcast: The Media Celebrate the Angry Democrat Fringe
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NewsBusters Podcast: The Media Celebrate the Angry Democrat Fringe

The Democrats are fighting among themselves, and it's the "establishment" versus the fringe. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has upset the red-hot extremists by making primary endorsements, which is controversial no matter which party does it. In their book, the "centrist" Democrats are represented by the Biden forces, as if Team Biden wasn't aggressively progressive in office. But the media can't find an actual extreme on their side, so they just find "outsiders" and endorse the notion that "voters want fighters." What you get is candidates who want to turn up the anti-Trump volume to 11 and impeach everyone they can among Trump and his cabinet members. They want to put Republicans in jail and pack the Supreme Court.  NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and longtime contributing writer Mark Finkelstein join the show to assess the midterm situation.  Since the media's objective seems to be making Democrats as electable as possible, it leads them to make excuses for candidates who have a Nazi tattoo, for example. In Maine, Graham Platner forced Gov. Janet Mills out of the Senate race by dominating her in the polls and in fundraising.  In addition to that, the Supreme Court decision against racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act was portrayed by journalist and Democrat alike as a massive step backward. On MS NOW, contributors and guests suggested the "racist fascist" conservatives were returning America to Jim Crow times, and comparing the justices to those who ruled against blacks being citizens in the Dred Scott decision in 1857. On The View, Whoopi Goldberg pretended nothing has changed since 1965, and blacks are still having dogs sicced on them and they're dragged away from polling places.  In addition, we discussed how the networks mostly refused to notice the federal raids against fraudsters in Minnesota, since that would make Democrats look bad. Only NBC gave it two minutes, while ABC, CBS, and NPR skipped it. Enjoy the show below.