Reports: Sanders Aide Throws 'A Fit' After Revised Debate Focus On Paris

[RandySF]

An aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) got into a heated argument with CBS representatives on a Saturday morning conference call after the network decided to alter the focus of the debate in light of the Friday terrorist attacks in Paris, according to reports from Yahoo News and CNN.

Sanders strategist Mark Longabaugh began arguing with officials from CBS when they began to discuss a new focus on national security and foreign policy, an aide with a rival Democratic campaign told Yahoo News.

"It was a little bit of a bizarre scene. The Sanders representative, you know, really laid into CBS and basically … kind of threw, like, a little bit of a fit and said, ‘You are trying to turn this into a foreign policy debate. That’s not what any of us agreed to. How can you change the terms of the debate, you know, on the day of the debate. That’s not right,'" the staffer told Yahoo.

The staffer with the rival Democratic campaign told Yahoo News that CBS executives on the call assured Longabaugh that the debate would not entirely focus on the Paris attacks.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-cbs-debate-changes

[TheBlackAdder]

1. First shift started early? 4 Posts in less than 10 minutes, with a 6-hour break. :-) nt

[Skidmore]

2. Unbelievably stupid.

For some time, the johnny-one-note quality of Sanders' campaign has been the elephant in the room. He has blind spots, in spite of protestations otherwise. This has been one of my concerns, and I do not believe that he can pivot quickly because of the singularity of his focus.

[CJCRANE]

3. All the blood and treasure poured into the sand for wars and nation building/dismantling

takes money away from citizens and infrastructure at home.

The cost and opportunity cost is enormous.

So, in a way, talking about foreign policy still backs up the message of economic realism.

[upaloopa]

4. You can't remove foreign policy from our set of issues.

Here is Bernie's main problem as I see it. This election is not about who is the most progressive. It may be that on DU but DU is not the real world.

[RandySF]

9. So you can make the world disappear by not talking about it?

[corkhead]

5. Yeah, I saw this the other dozen times Team Hillary posted this in the last 24 hrs.

One of Hillary's aides farted in an elevator.

[NurseJackie]

6. Very revealing insights into the culture of the campaign staff. (nt)

[FlatBaroque]

7. How'd the debate turn out for Hill?

[Gothmog]

8. She won according to the real polls

[R B Garr]

10. Wow, this narrow view was actually mirrored in

his performance right from the start. When asked about the terror attacks he could only focus on billionaires. He showed the same lack of depth from the beginning when dealing with BLM. His staff apparently reflect his severe limitations.