Kudos to Bernie for surviving this interview by Andrea Mitchell. [View all]

[madfloridian]

Andrea Mitchell was a pathetic interviewer today. It's getting a little silly and obvious now the way the TV interviewers have kept this up. She should have known better, she made herself look foolish.

There was a great post today about this interview at Daily Kos.

Bernie rolls his eyes.

It was really painful to watch how inept our press is. On MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell today, almost every single question was about Hillary Clinton.

Bernie then composes himself and responds in the best way possible:

Um, well Hillary Clinton will run her campaign and I'll run my campaign...my style has been to do town meetings all over Iowa, all over New Hampshire. We did a huge meeting in Minneapolis. We get out... we talk to people, we take questions...and what we find is that the world outside of the Beltway is very different. People are deeply concerned about the disappearing middle class, wealth and income inequality, the fact that their young kids cant afford to go to college... those are the issues that we are talking about... and the need to take on the Billionaire class... we need to transform our economics and politics so that billionaires can't buy elections. Frankly Andrea, I think those are the ideas that the American people are resonating towards.

Andrea just couldn't leave it alone.

Then of course she brings it back to Clinton:

She said she's on a listening tour and she's talking about getting money out of politics... so what is different between you and Hillary Clinton if you are a Democratic voter?

And Bernie tries again:

Well let me start with one simple difference... I don't have a Super PAC, I'm not going to be getting huge sums of money from Millionaires and billionaires.