Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) rolled through all of
Bill O’Reilly’s attempts to split the left while knocking down Fox
News’s attempts to use him for propaganda purposes.
Sen. Sanders didn’t bat an eye when Bill O’Reilly
began the interview by trying various techniques to get him to say
something negative about Hillary Clinton. Sanders was aggressive and
seized the interview from O’Reilly. He forced Bill-O to pivot away from
his usual blustering attacks and towards a friendly softer tone. Sanders
even got O’Reilly to admit that the top dog on Fox News agrees with him
on some issues like money in politics.
What really stuck out was Sanders’s ability to shift
O’Reilly and the interview anywhere he wanted it to go. It is rare that
a guest on O’Reilly show is more aggressive than the host, but the
senator from Vermont was aggressive without being combative. The segment
never turned into a scream fest. In fact, Sanders handled Bill O’Reilly
fairly easily by keeping the tone civil and not falling for the loaded
questions that the Fox News host was leading trying to lead him with.
Bernie Sanders was able to successfully take apart
Fox News by weeding through the bias that most of the questions were
based on. Sanders took on the Fox News and showed them what a strong
liberal looks and sounds like. O’Reilly could rely on his gimmick of
being the voice for the “folks,” because he confronted with an authentic
voice that works tirelessly for ordinary Americans.
The lesson for any member of the left who appears on
Fox News is that it is important to be aggressive while not taking the
questions at face value. The political motivation for Sanders to appear
on Fox News is that he is trying to rally grassroots support on all
sides for his potential presidential campaign.
Bernie
Sanders wasn’t going to be used to divide the left ahead of 2016. In
fact, it was O’Reilly who ended up bending to the iron will of the
liberal champion.
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