If Sanders Wins Iowa.....

[LongTomH]

From the Observer.com: If Sanders Wins Iowa, All Hell Breaks Loose.

I love the subtitle of this article: "A Sanders win in Iowa will turn the 2016 campaign into a true battle of ideas."

In a must-see interview with Chris Cuomo on CNN on Thursday, December 24, Bernie Sanders launched an all-out attack on the mainstream media in which he charged that the sensational negative political attacks by Donald Trump have become an obsession with major media that dominates their coverage of the campaign, while his substantial and detailed calls for economic justice have by contrast been mostly ignored on political television.

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Far too many columnists and pundits view their job as offering superficial analysis about what they tell each other, or to predict what happened yesterday.

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Granted that most of my colleagues in the mainstream media believe that reporting on income inequality and social justice is less appealing than eating spinach on a hot summer day. But—to use again the most important word in American politics today to imagine the events that will indeed occur if Mr. Sanders stuns the establishment with an Iowa victory and storms into New Hampshire with a head of political steam—they will have no choice.

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Suddenly the media, against its will and despite its elitist inclinations, will be forced to report in ways it refuses to now what Mr. Sanders is saying and doing and proposing to lift the lot of American workers and to lift the lives of America’s poor who are non-persons in our political debates today.

Read the rest here: http://observer.com/2015/12/if-sanders-wins-iowa-all-hell-breaks-loose/

And a very Bernie Christmas to all!

[retrowire]

1. A very Bernie Christmas to you as well! :) nt

[guillaumeb]

2. If Sanders wins Iowa, the media will treat it as a fluke.

If HRC wins in Iowa, the media will call it proof that HRC will be the nominee.

The same will hold true for New Hampshire. The media, and the big corporations, prefer HRC because her corporate vision fits their own vision.

[Helen Borg]

9. it fits their wallet, more than their vision...

They have no vision, just unidimensional $....

[pangaia]

3. Today's News; "In a political fluke,

Senator Bernie squeeked by to barely outscore favorite former Secretary of State and First Lady, and Senator, Hillary Clinton in the Iowa Democratic primary (caucus).

"However, it is highly regarded as doubtful that he will be able to continue with a strong performance in New Hampshire (who cares about New Hampshire, anyway); and winning ANY state in the south is virtual impossible. So everyone who has a finger on the pulse of the Democratic primary battle expects Senator Sanders to say he is bowing out sometime soon, thus guaranteeing Clinton the nomination.. "

[draa]

4. Yep,

and I crapped 8 tiny reindeer along with that little red nosed fucker. I'll be delivering toys tonite because Santa's drunk.

What, it has as much chance of happening as Bernie giving up.

[pangaia]

5. Bernie will never give up. YEA !!!!

[shawn703]

6. They'll just move the goalposts if that happens

Then SC will become the important primary according to the Hillarians.

[jalan48]

7. If Bernie does manage to win Iowa then the media's message will switch to plan B.

"Will Bernie's ideas bankrupt the country?" Or, "Bernie's ideas mean massive tax increases for financially strapped Americans".

[Helen Borg]

8. That is why the DNClinton complex

is so desperate to bury the D debates!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. Hillary came third last time

[Enthusiast]

12. That is the dream, win in Iowa.

If they don't cheat I think we have it! But.

[Scuba]

13. K&R And if you want to help him win Iowa, regardless of where you are ....

Contact Leo Atkinson; Council Bluffs field organizer, 484-767-1559 [e-mail]


All you need is a phone; Leo will provide the rest.

[Proserpina]

14. It's not a Question of IF, it's a question of WHEN