Sanders Clarifies: I Don’t Think Jeff Bezos Tells WaPo Editors What To Do

on January 16, 2015 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 16: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) answers questions during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol January 16, 2014 in Washington, DC. Sanders spoke on "Republican efforts to cut Social Security... WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 16: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) answers questions during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol January 16, 2014 in Washington, DC. Sanders spoke on "Republican efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare and other programs of great importance to working families" during his remarks. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) cleaned up his previous remarks about the Washington Post’s coverage of his campaign on Tuesday.

“Do I think Jeff Bezos is on the phone, telling the editor of The Washington Post what to do? Absolutely not,” Sanders told CNN reporter Annie Grayer. “It doesn’t work that way.”

The Vermont senator said there was a “framework” under which mainstream news outlets like Washington Post and CNN operate that keeps reporters from asking hard questions about wealth inequality.

“But by not asking that question, does that make the media unfair?” Grayer asked.

“It does, in a way,” Sanders responded. “It does, in a way.”

“It doesn’t mean it’s unfair to me personally,” he continued. “But if those are the issues that I’m campaigning on, and those are the issues I cannot talk about, then what I’m trying to do does not get out to the American people.”

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  1. As I posted earlier:

  2. Sanders is a thin skinned old grifter who can’t take even the mildest criticism without blowing a gasket. God save us from these narcissistic populists.

  3. “Do I think Jeff Bezos is on the phone, telling the editor of The Washington Post what to do? Absolutely not,” Sanders told CNN reporter Annie Grayer. “It doesn’t work that way.”

    The Vermont senator said there was a “framework” under which mainstream news outlets like Washington Post and CNN operate that keeps reporters from asking hard questions about wealth inequality.

    “But by not asking that question, does that make the media unfair?” Grayer asked.

    “It does, in a way,” Sanders responded. “It does, in a way.”

    “It doesn’t mean it’s unfair to me personally,” he continued. “But if those are the issues that I’m campaigning on, and those are the issues I cannot talk about, then what I’m trying to do does not get out to the American people.”

    Well, he’s right of course. Of course Jeff Bezos is not on the phone dictating content. But everyone there is aware that he’s a fantastically wealthy rapacious rat-bastard who makes his money in part in paying craptastic wages; where’s the percentage, career-wise, in rubbing his face in it? And beyond that, the reporters and editorial staff are all upper middle class folk who don’t have a big gripe with the way things are. That’s why WaPo, and NYT, are always putting the finger on the scale toward those candidates are not going to fuck with the status quo.

    If you think otherwise, you’re fooling yourself.

  4. Amazon has announced plans to raise the company’s minimum wage in the US to $15, following sustained pressure from Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders. (BI, Oct 2018)

    I don’t understand Bernie’s brain fart here. He did a solid, forced Bezos to institute a non-federally recognized “livable” wage (twice the federal wage), and then attacks Bezos for Amazon paying no taxes (like many many big corps) and Bezos non-influence on the independent WaPo.

    Then Bernie does the mea culpa, kinda, after a day or two.
    Biden does word flubs, and usually corrects them immediately.
    Trump lies 12,000x and makes up shit on the fly.

    Which old guy to vote for?

  5. Why go after Bezos because of his ownership of WaPo? The paper is doing excellent work going after the Trump administration.

    Is Bernie not allowed to finally get some criticism for his criticism?

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