Maddow's Wednesday night show started off with a long winded story about past Presidential campaigns and conventions leading up to the statement that the democratic party today suffers from acrimony and division because of Senator Sanders supporters protest actions at the Nevada state democratic convention recently and some statements made by Sanders himself.
It was the lead story for a change instead of Trump who the network has had a 10 month love affair with almost every night. Maddow tried to paint her acrimony remark as being the top story. Of course it was not but when air time has to be filled and the host lacks a real story, that is when the fairy tale starts.
MSNBC has a long history of giving Bernie Sanders a lot of air time and treating him like a democrat which he is not. Does Maddow's comment mean that the network will now switch its attention to the democratic candidates and try to promote a "all is not well" in the democratic party? The party will be UNITED with or without Sanders if Clinton is the nominee. A lot will change after the conventions because that is when it will become one on one for the general election.
That is when the voters start paying real attention. Trump is well aware that Clinton will be no push over if she is the democratic nominee and that she can take care of herself. That is why Trump wants to see Sanders become a third party candidate to dilute the democratic vote. Rachel and MSNBC has let that story slip by.
Trump's announcement of the names of a possible VP choice and the names of candidates for the Supreme Court is an attempt to keep the spotlight on himself and to continue the free coverage by the news media. This writer sees the cracks starting to show up in Trump's campaign and the positions he has taken so far and once the general election starts and its one on one Trump will not be such a attractive candidate any longer.
The democratic party and their nominee will put up a UNITED front against Trump and his do nothing party and expose both for what they really are, the party of Corporate America who want to dominate the country's political system with division, lies, ongoing wars, extremism, religious bigotry and third world wages for working Americans.
No matter how you cut it, MSNBC is not the place for politics and neither is Donald Trump.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
