CNN host Jake Tapper assured Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Sunday that he never considered him a “fringe candidate.”
Sanders, who won the New Hampshire primary, was touting his popularity with Latino voters on “State of the Union.”
“The truth is that for a campaign that started off as a fringe campaign at 3 percent in the polls, we have enormous momentum,” Sanders said, putting air quotes around “fringe campaign.”
“For the record, sir, as you know, we never considered you a fringe candidate,” Tapper said and Sanders laughed.
Laughing was the appropriate response to that whopper.
Given CNN’s general lack of seriousness, I’d say they and even the truly serious NY Times viewed Sanders as a “novelty candidate”. The “fringe part” just provided a framing for that.
Translation: “For the record, sir, as you know, we never considered you a candidate we could make any money off of.”
…but we do now.
But Bernie…Tapper has his Very Serious Face on, how can you not believe him?? He spends hours in front of a mirror practicing it!
GOP water carrier Tapper saw Sanders merely as a way to damage Hillary, and nothing more.