Even Morning Joe has noticed (finally) Bernie Sanders and his campaign!

[CTyankee]

They played clips from his speech in Burlington yesterday before an enthusiastic group of supporters. The excitement of the crowd was palpable -- these were energized folks and Bernie was on fire. The real deal.

Chuck Todd was there and Joe asked if the audience was paid to come. Chuck told the panel that no, they were genuinely excited by Bernie (as only Chuck could know, of course, being so wise).

I thought to myself "well, this is progress. Even Joe Scar is waking up and smelling the coffee..."

He later interviewed Rand Paul who had all the enthusiasm of a limp rag. What a difference!

This was a good morning to be a progressive Democrat, when even MSNBC has to recognize reality...poor Joe was reduced to yadda yadda about Hillary's server.

I always said that Occupy Wall Street would have a strong impact on politics in this country, back when the media was characterizing it as a flash in the pan and would fade away. Nope. OWS lit a fire.

[ladjf]

1. I saw the video from that event. It was a huge crowd,

many thousands. It was absurd of Joe to ask if the crowd was paid. Way too many people for that.

[CTyankee]

2. Joe always says moronic things. I just expect it from him.

I also think Joe was a bit shaken by what was so apparent: Bernie excites people. Bernie has touched a nerve in the public that loves what he is saying, who have been waiting for someone to say it and is fired up.

[Jester Messiah]

3. That's the other thing I would love about Bernie grabbing the nomination...

All the ammo that the media and the repubs have been storing up against Hillary: effectively useless. They'd be caught with their pants down AGAIN, just like in '08. It would be beautiful.

[CTyankee]

4. Bernie will need to get a woman for his VP candidate. I think women who are so fired

up for a woman president would have to have a place. I have posited the name of Kirsten Gillibrand. She is new to lots of people, an attractive and smart person and importantly from a state with lots of electoral votes (New York). Of course, we don't know how similar her thinking is to Bernie's so that's a question...

[fredamae]

7. I like Donna Edwards. n/t

[CTyankee]

8. I'm going to check her out...

[Jamaal510]

5. So Bernie

is getting more attention from the news, but the GOP still doesn't seem to take him seriously and continues to concentrate their attacks on Hillary. I'm thinking if his poll numbers go up enough to make the Dem race close, they might stop ignoring him and go on offense against him, too. There's no telling what type of attack ads they'd run against Bernie. I have the utmost respect for him, though, to be committed to not running any negative ads or engaging in the mudslinging that so many pundits and online ratfuckers want. That indicates to me that winning is not all that matters to him.

[CTyankee]

6. judging by how badly the GOP is managing so far, unless something changes the GOP will

resort to babbling about "socialism." They will do it in such a generalized fashion that it will make no sense to the average voter. When such voters hear Bernie's message it will strike a sympathetic nerve in them. The GOP can only talk to their base. It always backfires badly when they try it in the general election. But let's not tell them...let 'em go right down that road...and lose the next 8 years...

[brooklynite]

9. "MSNBC has to recognize reality"?

MSNBC showed Bernie's speech live and every evening show discussed the race. There's been no sign that they've been ignoring him.

[CTyankee]

11. I don't usually watch at night and only briefly on MJ in the morning...depending on

how bad Joe gets. Lately he's often been seeing the handwriting on the wall but then he goes into one of his RW tics...

[yuiyoshida]

10. K&R