Bernie did an amazing interview on NPR this morning. He dodged their horrible questions and made some amazing points.
http://www.npr.org/...
Basically the question was "Aren't you just ruining Hillary's chances?"
The BERN responds with the ultimate take down:
"Is your point that people should not contest elections, that we should simply have the establishment bringing forth a candidate? So the implication is that somebody should decide who the lead candidate is, and we'll go to sleep. That's a good idea, that's what democracy is about, right?"
The interviewer seemed obsessed that Bernie wouldn't at first use the phrase "Black Lives Matter".... and then Bernie derided all the phraseology... like a politician using a phrase will change anything.
And because NPR seems to have not posted the transcript yet... I'm going to let these brilliant comments on the page speak for themselves:
I also love how he TOTALLY schooled David Green several times! At one point, especially, Green was interested only in getting Bernie to diss Hillary Clinton for her "ALL lives matter" statement, but Bernie didn't just dodge the question; he showed Green how stupid, meaningless, and insulting to voters the question was.
It's the best interview of a politician I think I've ever heard in my life. Not because the interviewer has any interviewing skills, but because the politician actually questions the premise of each question.
Yeah I was dumbfounded by how unprofessional David Green was in this interview. "It sounds like you are not ready to say that phrase [Black lives matter]." Why focus on this irrelevant minutia?
Bernie wanted to talk about the real issues behind this divide and David Green was baiting him to say some inflammatory phrase the media has blown up over.
I had a hearty laugh when Bernie scoffed and derided "Phraseology"
If Bernie Sanders gets elected, it will change EVERYTHING.
Career politicians will have to face the fact that the public will vote for honest people with a consistent message. They will have to realize that a candidate who refuses huge campaign donations and refuses PACs can win. They will discover that being a hardcore toe the line Party member isn't what Americans want. They will be forced to realize that the monopoly that the two big parties have is no longer a concrete immutable fact. They will see that the American public is completely done with politics as usual.
BOTH sides will get a great big slap in the face.
As soon as the transcript gets posted I'll update.
2:15 PM PT: UPDATE... Bloomberg actually gets it. They actually asked him to comment on the issues in regards to McCaskill's slight.
Bernie then said:
“To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that a colleague has attacked me,” said Sanders, a Vermont socialist who joined the presidential race about two months ago, in an interview with Bloomberg Politics' Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. “You'll have to ask Senator McCaskill why.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/...