Clyburn Blames Media for Democrats Woes
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) blamed the media for the Democratic Party’s inability to capture voter’s attention after Donald Trump’s victory last November.
Clyburn, appeared on The Last Word on MSNBC with guest host Al Velshi to expound on why the media and not the party is at fault for their current polling lows.
Velshi said that there has been a perceived lack of messaging by the Democrats who not only lost the presidency but the Senate in the 2024 elections and struggled after making a historic presidential candidate change just months before the election. Clyburn pushed back on that notion, instead pointing the blame at the media.
“I think the message coming from the Democratic Party is a good message,” he said, adding that “The problem we’ve got, I’ll say, is that we have to depend upon the media to deliver it.”
Clyburn also unloaded on The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos after the paper decided to pull their endorsement of Kamala Harris and his supposed desire to win the affections of Trump.
“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. “
On the other hand, Clyburn had nothing but praise for the left-leaning MSNBC and Velshi for their reporting.
“I have to rely upon people like yourself,” Clyburn told Velshi. “You do a great job with this. That’s why I like coming on your shows on the weekends, because you do a real good substantive reporting of what the issues are around us.”
“But when you’ve got people who say we’re not going to fact-check, we’re going to worry about whether or not you’re telling the truth. And just let the reports go out there. That’s what’s killing us as Democrats, because we don’t have a stomach for just lying,” Clyburn said.
A CNN poll in March revealed that the Democratic Party’s favorability rating hitting a record low with just 29% of respondents saying that had a favorable view of the party versus 54% that had an unfavorable view
Don Irvine
Donald Irvine is the chairman of of Accuracy in Academia (AIA), a non-profit research group reporting on bias in education. Irvine follows his father’s legacy, Reed Irvine, to critically analyze the liberal media’s bias and brings over thirty years of media analysis experience. He has published countless blog posts and articles on media bias, in context of current events, and he has been interviewed by many news media outlets during his professional career. He currently hosts a livestream weekly show on AIA’s Facebook page which discusses current events.
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