The Republican-dominated Sunday morning shows got a
blast of liberalism as Bernie Sanders stormed Fox News Sunday and showed
the conservative Fox viewers what liberalism really looks like.
Host Chris Wallace tried to use Senator Sanders to
attack Clinton, but the Vermont senator turned his question towards a
discussion of the billionaires and Citizens United. Sanders said, “My
point is it’s not just Hillary Clinton….Well, the answer is that I think
that is the fight we have to wage if we are going to save the
middle-class, and I do have doubts about whether Hillary Clinton or any
Republican candidate out there is willing to take on the big money
interest who control so much of our economy, and as a result of Citizens
United, so much of our political process as well.”
Sanders added, “But what we need to do, Chris is to
understand that in America if we’re going to be successful in taking on
the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement,
and what the Secretary will have to convince the American people is in
fact based on her past record and her views today that she is in fact
going to break up the major banks on Wall Street. That she is going to
ask the wealthiest people in this country to start paying their fair
share of taxes. That she’s going to end the abomination of major
corporations making billions of dollars, stashing their money in the
Cayman Islands and not paying a nickel in federal income taxes. That in
fact she is prepared to deal with our disastrous trade policies.”
Host Chris Wallace tried to divide Sanders and
Clinton on the TPP, but Sanders talked about how trade agreements don’t
create jobs and have driven wages down, “I think we don’t need to be
sending more jobs to low-wage countries. I think corporate America has
got to start investing in this country, and create decent paying jobs
here.”
Sanders turned around a question about Vermont
dropping their idea for single payer into a discussion of the
dysfunctional U.S. health care system.
Sensing that some of the common sense ideas of Senator
Sanders might be popular with their audience, Fox News Sunday tried to
poison the well by inaccurately suggesting that Sanders wanted a fifteen
percent cut in military spending. The Vermont senator responded by
highlighting the need to eliminate excess and waste in the budget.
Fox News Sunday viewers got a dose of the real face
of liberalism, which was much different from the bastardized and
demonized version of the left that Roger Ailes markets to his 2 million
or so viewers every day.
Fox
News Sunday hosted Sen. Sanders because they are trying to create
conflict and divide on the left, but they got for their efforts was a
healthy dose of the populism that Republicans despise with a passion.
Bernie Sanders will not be the tip of the media’s spear against Hillary
Clinton, and Fox News Sunday’s plan to create divide and discord was
blown to shreds by Senator Sanders.
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