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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan Bernie handle the media? Past Post: Watch him eat Chuck Toad for Brunch! (Meet the Press)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025534033Go Bernie! Sanders for President for sure! He nailed it. Ate Chuck Todd for brunch!
And Chuck Todd could not even handle him. Bernie did call out the anger on both sides and included the media in the public's displeasure. He ate Chuck Todd for Brunch!
This should be reviewed at this exciting time. This is just a taste of how well he can handle the media, and not take the bait to 'go negative', as Chuck tried in vain, to get him to do!
Go Bernie!!!! YEA!
mucifer
(24,659 posts)or ignore him.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)anything even approaching the grassroots support Obama had, he'll have a great chance.
People need to hear his message.
Go, Bernie!
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)Robbins
(5,066 posts)he went on fox news and fox news sunday and they couldn't handle him.
That can say to some hey he will go to places not friendly towards him.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)nobody can "handle" them. That person will remain consistent and dependable.
The heart doesn't tell campaign LIES just to get elected.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Volaris
(10,540 posts)He can go stand on the tops of the coal-company destroyed mountains in West Virgina (where theres no clean water left to drink) and tell the people who live there, 'Yeah, you actually DON'T have to live this way, there are alternatives that allow a better life for you and your kids."
Those people normally vote GOP, and they do so because they get told that they should be good little capitalist-christians and just accept their suffering, (you know, like White Jesus did) and LATER is when you get to have happiness and vindication.
If we do what Dr Dean SAID we should be doing (and proved works) we can win everywhere. Maybe not everywhere all the time, but the 50-state strategy turns a lot of red places purple=)
bvar22
(39,909 posts)...than just abandoning over 1/2 the country to the Republicans.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Anyone who thinks Bernie cannot handle a national campaign, and the media, is just indulging themselves with wishful thinking.
Chipper Chat
(9,982 posts)Bernie just went "ahnt-aenth Chuckie st0p right thar"
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Volaris
(10,540 posts)if Bernie keeps doing what he's doing (staying positive) eventually, do you think the media will get tired of getting the same responses to the same questions, and then start actually asking real questions about real issues? You would think it would have to happen EVENTUALLY..
"OK, Bernie did really iwell in Iowa, (so we HAVE to have him on) but if we ask him about Hillary again, we KNOW we'll get the same answer we got last time, so what can we ask instead. Shit, I guess we had better get some issue questions ready.."
Agree, or not?
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)and he's too astute to take the bait.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Just sayin. Go BERNIE
Pooka Fey
(3,496 posts)I LOVE how Bernie refuses to be sidetracked from his message! All the journalist wanted to do was talk about Hillary, talk about Obama, talk about Republicans! More 'politics of personality' crap so nothing can be addressed and changed.
BERNIE wants to talk about the disappearing middle class, about threats to our social security and medicare, about stagnating wages.
Bernie is an oasis in the desert.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)appalachiablue
(42,731 posts)He's right, and I look forward to more people hearing and seeing him speak out on the issues-
'America's Senator' is the truth!
-Appa
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)I'm impressed with the straight forward clarity.
I ♡ Bernie.
Duval
(4,280 posts)the numerous baits from Todd to go negative! I like his stance on issues and his clarity in expressing them. He would make a very good President! Wonder if Hillary would accept a VP position, although I'd rather see Bernie Sanders team with Elizabeth Warren.
Thanks for the video, theNutcracker!
emulatorloo
(45,516 posts)bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)energy and good will.....a rare human indeed!
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)this is the first, I will RUN to the polls with BELLS on!!!
Duppers
(28,221 posts)And plan to make make more.
Excellent video!!
❤ Bernie!
raindaddy
(1,370 posts)And it's refreshing as hell!
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olegramps
(8,200 posts)He exposed Chucky Toad as a shallow stupid corporate boot licker. Toad is a prime example of just how derelict the press has become in their duty to provide the citizens with objective non-bias reporting. What is especially appalling is his smugness in that he actually imagines that he is an exceptional being and is unable to grasp that he was chosen for the position expressly because he is inferior example of the human species who can be manipulated at will by his corporate masters.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)If you know what I mean!
zeemike
(18,998 posts)He is so much smarter that Chucky Toad.
But Chucky ended it with "stay safe on the trail"...kind of a chilling remark as if he was warning that some harm may come to him...or is it just me?
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)Chucky Toad being creepy as always. Sanders handled him well. I doubt he'll be invited back any time soon. Americans can't hear the truth.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)He wouldn't have any of the shallow BS "horse race" aspect of news coverage that turns so many people into uninformed dunderheads.
He'll resonate well....and it''' piss them off!
jalan48
(14,286 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,276 posts)There are numerous examples of Obama and Hillary and Bill saying one thing and really doing something different. Lots of smokescreen and shading and some outright falsehoods.
Bernie is the real deal, for the 99% 100% of the time. Exposing the plutocrats in both parties.
You won't see him taking a couple hundred thousand for speeches at Goldman Sachs so he is not beholden to them like some others who we all know.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Thank you TheNutcracker!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(114,266 posts)He didn't fall for any of the traps or gotcha questions Chinless Todd was laying out.
Beartracks
(13,459 posts)It was weird: Chuck Todd was asking the usual ho-hum sorts of MSM questions, yet in response Bernie Sanders was making the kind of direct policy and political philosophy statements you wish other politicians would offer!!
I'm thinking I'd vote for Hillary if I have to, but I'd vote for Bernie because I WANT to.
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fadedrose
(10,044 posts)that TV hosts and anchors love to have on - mostly because he actually answers the questions and doesn't go into a campaign spiel. He goes into what's wrong and how to fix.
I doubt anyone could catch him in a lie because he doesn't need to tell them any.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)I'm looking forward to seeing how this plays out.
NBachers
(18,009 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)speechless when he realized he wasn't going to lead him to where he wanted to take him.
Love that he told him, truthfully, that the people are also mad at the media.
I wonder how much time they will give him.
He acts like an ADULT. No script, no handlers telling him to avoid certain questions, just straight talk.
AND he knows a very inportant fact, 'more people are registering as Independents today than ever before'.
He's exactly right. He's done his homework, and that is a vote I think he can get.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)set the stage for news interviews.
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)66 dmhlt
(1,941 posts)calimary
(83,901 posts)My husband still refers to him as "fuck turd." Still fits. I call him Mr. Lazy Biased "Journalism" Malpractice.
Marr
(20,317 posts)He's not engaging their calcified, old focus group-tested scrimmage lines at all. There's no coded language there, no vapid talking points, and the only 'identity politics' he's addressing is, 'are you a billionaire or do you work for a living?'.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)Calm, unflappable, and spot on.
Huge K&R
grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)Bernie is the real deal, for sure!