Change my mind - somehow, in this hellscape, Fox News... fucking Fox News... gave Bernie Sanders a prime-time segment where they didn't even appear to stack the crowd, talk over him, or anything like that.
I'll shit a brick if MSNBC does anything like that. What the hell is going on??
Posted Apr 16, 2019, 12:56 AM UTC
Fox speaks to the same people Bernie does. DNC abandoned the white working class.
Interesting point, but also Fox has a vested interest in not exposing these folks to Bernie's ideas. That's why this is so baffling to me. I can only chalk it up to a huge mistake by management that they're probably getting chewed out over as we speak.
Like....holy shit.
Exactly what I'm saying. It's a crazy world we live in where Fox News can be counted on to give Bernie a fair shake before "liberal" media can. Fuck my god damned life.
Fox wants Bernie to be the nominee because he makes the other Democrats look bad and they think Trump will beat him
FOX knows the Dems will not allow Bernie to be the nominee. If they can pump him up as the obvious front-runner, then the DNC cheating him out of the nomination will have to be over-the-top, which will drive fair-minded working class people away from the D party. And either into the arms of the GOP or out of politics/voting altogether, both of which are a win for the Rs.
Hard to say I'd disagree.
Centrist libs have been becoming more and more transparently slimy. At least most conservative chuds, even the most shittiest ones, will acknowledge the fame and popular ideas Bernie has, despite disagreeing with him. Libs, on the other hand, will discredit any success Bernie and his movement have made and just call them pie in the sky. And think that neolib Dems are the only way going forward and that will totally defeat Trump and the corporate fash. Conservatives while, many maybe seemingly scared of Bernie, will be half honest and owe up to the fact that Bernies ideas could possibly happen.
Even the crowd in that Town Hall was basically unanimously for him, that shows you right there, that his popularity and reach is widespread.
yeah it was surprisingly... good, and why they didn't seem to stack the crowd is beyond me
still feels strange to realize that there are people out there that need convincing that they dont have to live their entire lives in poverty
literally the first dude was a tpusa shill
yea true but it got better after that. also in the context of fox, i don't actually think it's such a bad thing to have people ask those boilerplate propaganda questions and actually hear bernie respond
I was amazed the whole time. I mean, the hosts were shitheads as expected but honestly I felt that their ineptitude only made Bernie look more intelligent and prepared.
i love too how the new Bernie is at least 200% more cutthroat than the 2016 Bernie, telling the hosts off, interrupting when necessary, i have a good feeling about all of this
Me too. The cheers from the crowd that Fox Fucking News chose are heartening to me.
They probably figured “working class white Pennsylvanians are maga folks. No need to vet them!” Boy did that backfire on FNC.