Never in the history of the post ABC poll have two major party nominees been viewed as

harshly as Clinton and Trump.

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Counter-spin, lead camp on Redacted Tonight.

Making sense from the Nation magazine, the Majority Report, this Weekend Blackness, and the Young Turks.

Whether it's Fox or MSNBC or CNN, you often can't tell the difference.

You're flipping from one channel to another and they're all Trump all the time.

It's Trumpland.

I see the media as a huge kitchen table that stretches across the globe.

That we all sit around and debate and discuss the most important issues of the day.

War and peace, life and death, and anything less than that is a disservice to a democratic society.

It is critical in an election year to hear how policies affect people on the ground.

Not to get the pundits, but to get the people themselves.

They're bringing you the pundits and this is true on all the networks, the pundits,

who know so little about so much, explaining the world to us and getting it so wrong.

The media manufactures consent for war, for candidates and elections,

by bringing you more, for example, of one person, like Donald Trump.

He is pumped into everyone's home.

He can just stay in a gold-gilded mansion in New York or one of them in Florida.

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