Bernie Sanders Schools Chuck Todd On Why Inflation Is Not Biden's Fault

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/10/16/bernie-sanders-chuck-todd-meet-the-press.html

Posted on Sun, Oct 16th, 2022 by Jason Easley
Bernie Sanders Schools Chuck Todd On Why Inflation Is Not Biden’s Fault
On Meet The Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) explained to Chuck Todd why Republicans blaming Biden for inflation is bogus.


Chuck Todd asked Sen. Sanders, “Do you think the American Rescue Plan in 2021 contributed to inflation issue we’re dealing with right now?”

Sanders answered:

No, I don’t. Inflation I’m sure you know, Chuck, is an international problem. In Germany, it is 10%, U.K. It is 10%, Canada it is 7% inflation globally is caused by the pandemic and the break in supply chains. It is caused by in my view the war in Ukraine, obviously.

And it is also caused by incredible corporate greed, and I hope everybody understands that when you go to the gas station you fill up your car today, the oil companies are making huge profits. The food companies are making huge profits, prescription drugs are high, the pharmaceutical industry is making huge profits. We’ve got to deal with that issue and Republicans won’t.

Chuck Todd presented a Republican lie as a debatable position. If Republicans started claiming that oxygen was a scam and people don’t need it, so they should stop breathing, the question to be asked isn’t “Senator, do you agree with Republicans that people don’t need oxygen?”

The question that should be asked is why are Republicans saying something that is demonstrably false, and why is our media elevating it?

However, asking the both sides do it media to use critical thinking is probably too big of a dream to dream. At least Bernie Sanders was on Meet The Press to speak the truth.

[hlthe2b]

1. For the umpteenth time, I detest Chuck Todd and thought MTP was getting rid of him?

He belongs on the now defunct OAN--not even Fox.

[GreenWave]

2. Down goes Frazier, er, Chuck Todd!

My guess is he cut to commercials.

[gratuitous]

3. You can school a chucktodd, but you can't make him think

However, keep noting that inflation is a world-wide problem, not confined to the United States. And, when people are complaining about high pump prices, direct them to the record profits the oil companies have been posting this year. Ask the complainers if they think those profits (in the billions each quarter) might have anything to do with $5 a gallon gas, and all the other prices for consumer goods that depend on motor vehicles to get to market?

[FakeNoose]

4. Bernie Sanders was actually good on Meet the Press yesterday

He did a fine job explaining sticky economic issues, and a lot of Repukes watch that show.
So maybe they learned something?

[chriscan64]

5. Just came up with a show idea for MSNBC.

"Chuck Todd's Unasked Follow Up Questions"

Airs from 1am to 5am for as many years as it takes to get to them all.

[brooklynite]

6. "Inflation I'm sure you know, Chuck, is an international problem."

I seem to recall plenty of folks here claiming that it WASN'T an international problem, it was exclusively corporate greed here in the US.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Corporations are not international now?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. upChuck Toadie should move to the Fascist Oligarch eXtremists network.

[Emile]

9. Chuck Todd thinks Biden is a predatory capitalist, lol.