Sanders Calls Out CNN for Airing Pharma Commercials During 2020 Debate

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38. Rising drug costs weren't something that could be used to discredit CNN when Tapper asked a question

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that didn't sit well with Senator Sanders.

It would have been more effective to have countered the substance of what Tapper was saying, and take the opportunity to say, "That's not accurate, and here's why..."

It appeared that Senator Sanders took the question personally, and was more interested in attacking the messenger than correcting the message.

He has been upset lately that the media isn't delivering the message what he wants them to deliver, and fact checks him, like they would any candidate.

He seems frustrated that other than lefty journalists, established media as a whole isn't functioning as stenographers, like Jacobin, YT and The Intercept, who praise and promote him, who instead do things like ask followup questions, or repeat a question when he pivots away from answering it to something that he had planned to talk about instead.