Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) fired back at the Washington Post editorial board on Thursday morning, after it published a scathing editorial charging that his presidential campaign was selling “fiction” to progressives.
Speaking at a Bloomberg Politics breakfast, Sanders said the Post’s argument was not novel, according to the Washington Post.
“That’s not a new argument,” Sanders told reporters, as quoted by the Post. “We’ve been hearing that months and months (sic), and that’s in a sense what this campaign is about. People are telling us, whether it’s the Washington Post editorial board or anybody else, our ideas are too ambitious—can’t happen. Too bold, really?”
Sanders referred back to the editorial repeatedly during the breakfast. When asked about foreign policy, he brought up that the newspaper’s editorial board supported the invasion of Iraq.
“I know the Washington Post may think I’m radical, but I’m not,” he added.
That’s not a heckuva cogent response. “No I’m not!”
He gave it four Pinocchi-Berns.
WAPO offered nothing cogent with which to argue.
Given that a large part of his appeal is as the anti-establishment candidate, I’m not sure that getting dumped on by establishment media doesn’t end up helping him more than it hurts. He should just borrow a line from FDR and say that he knows the establishment hates him, and that he “welcomes their hatred.”
Of course its fiction secretly they do not have national health care in the other great industrialized nations. After all if you pay $500 a month to insurance company for health care that is great if your taxes go up $500 month and you get free health care oh my god the end of the world, tax and spend tax and spend.