Rep. James Clyburn Blames the Democrats’ Problems on the Media Not Being Friendly Enough to Them
“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 their television sets and not really give a fair hearing or reporting to what we’re doing”
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina appeared on MSNBC this weekend and claimed that Democrats are having problems because the media isn’t doing enough to carry their message to the people.
Yeah, right. Everyone knows that the media is famously in the tank for the Republican Party. Amazingly, this story is even real.
Newsmax reports:
Rep. Clyburn Blames Media for Democrats’ Dropping Ratings
The media is to blame for the Democratic Party’s dropping approval ratings because reporters won’t share its messaging, according to Rep. James Clyburn.
“I think the message from the Democratic Party is a good one,” the South Carolina Democrat told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, reports The Hill on Saturday. “The problem we’ve got, I’ll say, is that we have to depend on the media to deliver it.”
Clyburn’s comments came after a question from Velshi, host of “The Last Word,” who on Friday told the lawmaker that the perception of a lack of messaging from the party is leading voters to lose faith, particularly after the losses in the 2024 election.
The congressman, said The Washington Post is a good example of the messaging issue, pointing to the relationship between its owner, Jeff Bezos, and President Donald Trump.
“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 their television sets and not really give a fair hearing or reporting to what we’re doing,” Clyburn said.
Polls are showing dropping approval ratings for the Democratic Party.
Ah, yes, the notoriously right-wing Washington Post. Always siding with Republicans. In the clip below, Clyburn goes out of his way to praise MSNBC and host Ali Velshi. He thinks they’re doing a great job. Watch:
🚨Clyburn: Democrats have a great message. The reason they're having problems is because the media isn’t leftwing enough. pic.twitter.com/tsb0cvn4bW
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 20, 2025
The reality of the situation is the exact opposite of everything Clyburn says in that clip. The media has always leaned left, but since 2016, they have become virtually indistinguishable from the Democrat party. They’re like the party’s public relations arm.
FOX News has some pro-Trump voices, and CNN has one in Scott Jennings, while MSNBC and the major networks have none.
For Clyburn to blame the media for his party’s problems is beyond laughable.
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Has he blamed racism yet?
Has he stopped blaming racism yet?
FIFY.
Everything wrong with Clyburn and Company is because of racism, or so they claim.
Funny how racism hasn’t kept him from having a net worth of $3 million.
Funny how racism hasn’t kept him from having a salary over $170,000. That places him in the top 10 percent of salary earners.
Well, he has used over 300 packs of race cards in last two years. One day last year he developed tennis elbow from pulling 250 race cards in one day.
Good one, Jim. A career in Vegas awaits. New comedians are always welcomed.
Yeah, that’s the problem alright! The media is made up of far right Republican reporters who support Trump’s agenda. The same with the federal judges–all right wing Republicans who rule in favor of Trump. Even the pie holes on the View support Trump. The democrats just don’t have a chance.
What a tone deaf ignorant ass. Funny thing is I used to think he might be one of the more reasonable members of the congressional black democrat caucus. Stupid me.
BTW: This is the idiot that saddled us with Kameltoe and KBJ. Thanks for nothing asshole.
The sad thing is that he is one of the more reasonable members of the congressional black democrat caucus.
Either he’s moved more to the left or I’ve moved more to the right or both. My opinion of him has changed no doubt to his king making the last 8 years.
Golly. If only there was some minor federal agency that acted as a money laundry for regime friendly media, sketchy NGOs, and entrenched bureaucracy; give it a cute name like USAID, or something…
Not friendly enough?? I guess because they don’t swallow…
This will be a blow to the galaxy-size egos of the Communist pipsqueaks who make up the media. Clyburn is treating them as lazy, incompetent underlings instead of revolutionary equals. That will leave a mark.
Though they will never admit is, in the eyes of the media they are the real leaders of the Glorious Socialist Revolution (TM), and Communist politicians like Clyburn are their pawns. Clyburn is telling them instead they are mere cannon fodder and of no importance save their willingness to lick his jackboots. It’s a demonic power struggle among genocidal maniacs.
Poor Foghorn Leghorn, it appears his cheese has begun to slip off its cracker. Sad.
Yeah, I don’t think that’s it, James.
Well, Representative Clyburn, tell us what the Dems are doing, beside opposing President Trump.
Just as a for instance, you’re actively trying to prevent him from deporting illegal aliens (some of whom are also actually criminals), but you didn’t do this when Biden was POTUS and claiming that he was deporting more illegals than had been deported by Trump’s first administration. How is it that resisting Trump now is doing good work when you failed to do this same “good work” during the Biden administration?
This has the appearance that what the Dems are doing (in their general resistance to the Trump administration) is purely political, and not necessarily in the best interests of the country or its people. Convince me I’m wrong.
“Well, Representative Clyburn, tell us what the Dems are doing, beside opposing President Trump.”
Before you bitch that the MSM “isn’t delivering your message,” you have to have one.
Maybe you need to hurry back home to South Carolina, I hear the increase in I-95 traffic from New Yorkers moving to Florida is putting your state in danger of capsizing.
James Clyburn, the man who gave us a NON COMPOS MENTIS CORRUPT JOE BIDEN.
affirmative Action racially elected clowns like Clyburn DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY ARE CLOWNS.
They have been selected and never unelected.
What is CLYBURNS skill set in life.
I went to the Univ of SC with the esteemed representative’s daughter Angela, whom had the audacity to try and razz President Reagan’s visit in 84.
Ronnie remarked that her mother growled and barked the night she was born.
Nah, that’s not it, Jimmy.
I think I can lay the blame at some catch-basin clown that injected himself into the 2020 presidential race to rescue another clown who was on his way to ignominious defeat, deliver him the South Carolina primary which resurrected that candidate’s campaign.
That candidate wound up being one of the most corrupt, immoral and stupid men ever to hold that office.
The name of that guy completely escapes me, Jimmy. You know who it might be?
Joe Biden was a mentally incapable life time government potted plant. He talked tough and accomplished NOTHING i 6 terms in the Senate. He lied bullied and grifted.
There is no question that Biden was the worst President in history. NO QUESTION,
A Marxist bitching about the Democrats Propaganda Ministry not pushing Marxism enough.
What a riot
Wow…and I just mean…wow…this level of delusion ought to immediately disqualify him from serving in public office or running a lemonade stand.
Corridor Of Shame, Jim!
If Clyburn is worried about messaging, he’d better get on it quickly. At 84, the Grim Reaper is already tapping him on the shoulder.
MESSAGING?? How about just telling the truth,
How about doing something for the good of the nation, and not for the benefit of gooooooooooooonions, dead beats and border jumpers who were let in on purpose by BIDEN. How about acknowledging that the COMMIES RUNNING THE SHOW FOR BIDEN are EVIL LYING CRIMINALS.
HOW ABOUT BEING HONEST FOR ONCE??
I’m pretty sure this guy is mildly retarded.
Glenn Reynolds was calling them “Democrats with bylines” way back in 2002 or so. With good cause. It’s hard to see how they could help the Democrats more than they were already doing then.
Evan Thomas admitted in 2004 that the news industry was worth 15 points to the Democrats. He later tried to walk it back and say that it was only 5 points, but his point had already been made.
The Democrat-Media Complex is real, but apparently the beating up of the media will continue until media support for Democrats increases, or Democrat polling improves.