THE LEFT IS CALLING ON MSNBC TO FIRE CHRIS HAYES FOR RAISING THE ISSUE OF BIDEN’S SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. REALLY?

Is that what the left is doing? According to The Hill in today’s article titled “#FireChris Hayes Trends after MSNBC Host Covers Biden Sexual Assault Allegations,” it’s people on the left who oppose any discussion of the issue and are attacking Hayes for daring to raise it. Why does the establishment and the establishment media conflate the left and the center? Fox News and company began this deceptive manipulation in order to discredit centrists like the Clintons and Obama. In doing so, the right took full advantage of the demonization of the “left” by claiming that Democrats were in the leftist camp, thus discrediting the Clintons, Obama and other adversaries. So this was originally a ploy on the part of the right. But there is a second, more powerful reason why the “center” gets called the “left” (and sometimes the “far left”). The establishment, particularly the Democratic Party leadership, has always attempted to marginalize the left. Look what they did to Dennis Kucinich. That’s why Bill Clinton and Obama refused to campaign for Ned Lamont (at the time he was a true progressive) in Connecticut’s 2006 senatorial election, even though it meant throwing the race to a party renegade, Joe Lieberman. By calling centrists “leftists,” the left gets shunted aside completely. They’re off the charts. And yet can people who avidly support international sanctions against Venezuela, who supported U.S. military intervention in country after country in the Middle East and who said (as Obama did shortly after getting elected) that everything was on the table other than Single Payer, can these people really be considered “leftists”? One more example of corporate media deception.