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Hillary Clinton

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spooky3

(37,650 posts)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 06:56 PM Dec 2016

Peter Daou: "2016 boils down to Hillary's public image being unjustly savaged... [View all]

...by right, left, and media. The entire story in three graphics..."

I don't know how to paste the 3 graphics here but they are great, so please click on the link to see them.

For example, the first shows that every major MSM outlet, including the "liberal media", had substantially more negative than positive coverage of HRC (e.g., WaPo 77% negative, NYTimes 61% negative).

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/807034401964040192

I'm not sure everything "boils down" to this--I think there are several key factors supported by evidence as opposed to pure opinions--but definitely agree that the coverage of her work and campaign was horrible and that the report on the widespread use of false equivalencies (by Harvard researchers) supports this as well.

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