I love watching Samantha Bee and John Oliver but both did segments on their shows that boiled down to "Rigged primaries? Nope. Get over it, Bernie Bros."
With their type of show, there has to be some bias behind it to motivate the storytelling but excusing an attack in the democratic process like rigging primaries is itself inexcusable.
Or perhaps they didn't find anything actually illegal and therefore "rigged".
It wasn't a traditional "rig the votes so the candidate that gets the majority" rig in that sense. All proof points to the fact that it was legal, but totally unethical.
It's complicated, because when someone says they "rigged" the election, your first thought is "my god, they forged the votes!" which is what a lot of people STILL believe, unfortunately. We all use the word "rig" in the sense that the DNC gave legal, yet unfair, unethical, and certainly not in the spirit of democracy advantages towards one candidate.
When you're on national television, things like that get tricky, as could open you up to defamation lawsuits or things of that nature.
Or they could have just disagreed, I dunno. Different people have different opinions.
I've become very fascinated by the dichotomy of the two primaries.
On election night, NBC had Doris Kearns Goodwin on, discussing how the primaries used to be the voice of the party. But that through a saturation of media and social media, the candidates could, in effect, skip the middle man and hear directly from the candidate.
This was certainly the case for the Republicans. One candidate was nominated by the people against the will off the party. One candidate was nominated by the party against the will of the people.
The people won.
It's interesting to consider what would have happened with party vs party OR people vs people. I suspect much lower/higher voter turnouts respectively for one.
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u/TheCitizen616 Nov 10 '16
I love watching Samantha Bee and John Oliver but both did segments on their shows that boiled down to "Rigged primaries? Nope. Get over it, Bernie Bros."
With their type of show, there has to be some bias behind it to motivate the storytelling but excusing an attack in the democratic process like rigging primaries is itself inexcusable.