Sanders takes on Fox -- and emerges triumphant

[Uncle Joe]

BETHLEHEM, Pa — Bernie Sanders entered the Fox's den on Monday night — and he not only survived the hour-long encounter, but often dominated.

Appearing at a Fox-hosted town hall smack dab in the middle of Trump Country, the Democratic presidential front-runner played the part, swatting down tough questions from the hosts about health care, defense spending, and his newfound wealth. At one point, the Vermont senator even led the network’s audience in a call-and-response that found them cheering loudly for his policies.

(snip)

He replied with familiar talking points: “Democratic socialism to me is creating a government and an economy and a society which works for all, rather than just the top 1 percent. It means ending the absurd inequalities that exist today.”

(snip)

Feisty and confident, Sanders ended the engagement by gently ribbing the hosts of the network liberals despise. “Thank you very much," he told Baier and MacCallum, "and I hope I wasn’t too hard on you.”


https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/15/bernie-sanders-millionaire-no-apology-1277009

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Of course Bernie did!! No surprise there...the only surprise would be if some had a few kind words

to say about Bernie's outstanding performance. Would be shocking actually.


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[bahrbearian]

5. That still doesn't explain his $700 coat, expensive house's , and lavish travels around the world.

FDR would never have passed the New Deal if he went around flaunting his wealth in the manner that Sander does.

[appal_jack]

10. Please tell me this is sarcasm.

Do you know how wealthy FDR was?

What mattered were his POLICIES and the WORK that he did on behalf of the American people.

-app

[bahrbearian]

13. .

I thought it was obvious , but with some of the smearing of Bernie here I can see the confusion. $700 Coats the outrage

[appal_jack]

20. Cool!

I've read some posts (not of yours, bahrbearian) here at DU that had me double-checking.



-app

[liberalnarb]

30. Oh man I was about to go off!

Thank God some of the silly stuff around here is just sarcasm.

[BeckyDem]

48. lol +1

I admit I wasn't sure at first.

[billpolonsky]

11. Flaunting?

Stop.

[bahrbearian]

15. I was just echoing some of the things I've heard here.

I like Bernie

[rwsanders]

17. Yeah sorry, saw that afterwards

[bahrbearian]

18. I should have put the Sarcasm emoji up

You read some pretty crazy posts trashing Bernie here. I thought I'd get in on the fun.

[yaesu]

22. and you forgot to mention that expensive haircut, that must have set him back a few bucks

[McKim]

24. Bill Clinton Had $500 Haircuts

Bill Clinton had $500 haircuts. Find another theme here. The Democratic Party has greatly benefitted from the ideas in the Sanders platform. He is valuable for his ideas. End of story.

[yaesu]

27. Hey, I like Bernie & did you even see the sarcasm? nt

[appalachiablue]

26. Betcha he's another (long- time) Breck boy too. hmpf/s

[bahrbearian]

2. I don't know the crowd looks pretty Hostel to his M4ALL plan

Link to tweet

[ehrnst]

49. I would have been surprised if the audience didn't cheer for him...

Link to tweet

[JoeOtterbein]

3. Uncle Joe does it....

...scooped me on my own daughter's article!

Great job too!

[Uncle Joe]

4. ...

I'm sorry JoeOtterbein.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

25. "The Democratic front-runner ventured"

I like the sound of that.

[BlueFlorida]

6. Triumphant?

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Did he get keys to the Fox news studio? Did Fox personalities bow down and say they will never support Trump ever again?

Why the hyperbole?

[bahrbearian]

7. He bombed they hated him.

Link to tweet

[Uncle Joe]

8. 1. You misspelled triumphant and 2. Your post is exhibit A in hyperbole. n/t

[Power 2 the People]

9. Bernie was terrific! I couldn't believe how much the crowd was cheering.

I bet Faux News didn't expect that. Really encouraging for the General Election. I'm glad he walked into the lion's den. He slayed!

[Snotcicles]

12. I think the CNN town halls on the 22nd will be more contentious.

Bernie and Amy drew the short straws. And got Chris Cuomo.

[a kennedy]

16. I posted this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/128770088 I thought he did a fantastic job......

[JohnnyRingo]

19. I hope so

I admire his spirit.

[Fred Sandman]

21. Yes, Politco, liberals despise Fox as much as truth, love and grace.

[bernie59]

28. This is the way to engage! nt

[ehrnst]

47. With an audience full of his supporters, sure is! (nt)

[mountain grammy]

29. K&R

Go Bernie! I knew he would be great!

[certainot]

31. one of these days a dem will say to a rw media blockhead "well, that's what limbaugh says all day

but everyone knows he's a liar and always wrong and might as well be working for putin....."

when obama needed to pass the stimulus package he told some gop senator leaders something like 'we're not going to get anywhere if you keep listening to limbaugh". he said 'limbaugh' and that is talk radio. and that was all it took to put a 'RUSH' tattoo on every con politician forehead in the media. and he won then even tho the left ignored it from then on and

[Doreen]

32. Anybody with half a brain could

take on FOX news and come out triumphant.

[Catch2.2]

33. More Dems...

need to go on Fox News. You're not going to change minds if you don't offer an alternative. There's a lot of people that watch Fox, it's time they start seeing other views etc.

[Uncle Joe]

37. I agree Catch.

[athena]

44. Fox watchers are completely brainwashed.

Do you know any of them personally? They’re full of hate and fear. There is no way any of them will vote for a Democrat. They’re probably giving positive feedback to Bernie because they don’t think he can win against Trump. I remember when some of them said in 2016 that they liked Bernie but couldn’t stand Hillary. They would never have voted for Bernie; they just wanted to appear open-minded.

[Catch2.2]

51. I do know some

Most are brainwashed, but not all. If we don't go on Fox News and offer alternatives, the situation will just get worse. Once we give up, we lose. Remember when Howard Dean introduced his 50 state strategy? He received the same criticism of "Why even bother, they will never vote Democrat." They were wrong.

[Pluvious]

34. I'm glad it went as well as it did...

Maybe Bill Maher has a point, get our message out to the News Corp's victims of psychological conditioning.

What's the downside of trying ?

Even if only 5% gain some enlightenment, or start asking their party the hard questions, it's a win, no ?

[LongtimeAZDem]

35. So, since Sanders looked good, do we now believe that FOX is NOT a right-wing propaganda outlet?

Are we really buying this? Seriously?

[Uncle Joe]

36. No one, including Bernie is selling your premise.

Seriously.

[LongtimeAZDem]

41. You are, whether you want to admit it to yourself or not

Seriously

[Uncle Joe]

42. Find a single post in which I stated that FOX News wasn't a right wing propaganda outlet.

[LongtimeAZDem]

45. You have multiple threads crowing about the FOX production; either you think FOX legitimately

aired a show promoting a socialist democrat, or you don't, and the only way to accept the Sanders town hall as genuine is to conclude that FOX is NOT right wing propaganda outlet.

Word games won't work.

[Uncle Joe]

46. The production was unfiltered Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders

bursting FOX News' bubble, if only for an hour in a state won by Trump, all but dominating the debate with Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum bringing the studio audience into agreement in switching from employer and private based "health" insurance to Medicare for All while speaking live time to 2.5 million Americans (whether you like them or not) Republican, Democrat and Independent with even millions more to viewing it after the event.

There is no doubt of the impact and other Democratic Candidates are following suit.

Words matter, choose them wisely.

[Amimnoch]

40. Of course. He's the magical independent, doncha know?

[SMC22307]

38. We desperately need Pennsylvania's electoral votes...

the Democratic Party muckety-mucks better be listening and learning.

[Amimnoch]

39. I don't know about "triumphant", but certainly useful for Fox and followers. -nt.

[Politicub]

43. It was great

I hate Fox News (of course... had to include this to head off the posts that say, “Ohhhh... so we like Fox News now, do we?” No. Still hate it. But I did throughly enjoy Bernie mopping the floor with the hosts.).

Bernie performed so well that it made me giddy. And I’ve never been giddy for Bernie.

Bernie is in my top four now. I said it.

On edit - Bernie people surly about Pete: please be kind. Mayor Pete is an important cultural happening. Peace out.

[NurseJackie]

50. No he didn't.

Sanders takes on Fox

No he didn't.

Such meaningless hyperbole trying to characterize it as an "American Gladiators" matchup.

Ridiculous.

[Blue_Tires]

52. Like I said in the other thread...

Fox needs Bernie because they want him to play spoiler and split the Dem vote again...