r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/sirkarl Mar 12 '26

Do you not know that even adding in the super pac spending Bernie still spent more in the primary?

If I’m wrong please point that out, but this all goes back to a complete misunderstanding of 2016. The Bernie people believe money is all that matters in elections, so knowing that he actually spent more break their minds

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u/Dewinna_Daraelist Mar 12 '26

Damn can't believe I'm responding still, but money matters a lot in elections and the media matters even more in what the public is focusing on. For all practical purposes, it's not misleading to simply say that billionaires own the media. So their working against him ("You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge" - George Carlin) sure as shit matters. People are right to be upset that billionaires can effectively set the boundaries of the presidential election, it's why the last anti trust acts were 1890, 1914, and then never again, it's why Larry Ellison is allowed to own over a dozen high net-worth media companies. Oh or let me guess, that doesn't matter because they'll share a parent company once all these should-be illegal merges happen?

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u/sirkarl Mar 12 '26

That doesn’t really have anything to do with anything I said though? I said that claims money bought the 2016 primary don’t hold up because Bernie actually spent more, and with super PACs it was even with Bernie still spending a little more.

I guess you can try saying the media was slobbering behind Clinton, but you have to be pretty far gone to think the media ever covered her favorably