Bernie Sanders' Eye-Popping West Coast Swing: 3 Days, 70,000 Cheering Supporters
Source: Bloomberg
Some 27,000 people descended Monday night on the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, which has hosted acts such as Madonna and Pink Floyd, to hear from a raspy-voiced 73-year-old who has become the 2016 political season's breakout star.
For Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Democrat and self-proclaimed socialist, it was the third staggeringly large crowd in three nights that capped a west coast swing that put his political rivals on notice. From fellow white-haired activists to youth wielding signs depicting him as "Bernie Man," his head grafted onto a stick figure representing the counterculture Burning Man festival in Nevada, his fans turned out in numbers that other candidates might only dream of at this early stage in the race.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-11/bernie-sanders-eye-popping-west-coast-swing-3-days-70-000-cheering-supporters
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)The upper 1% want him to go away! He is a threat!
Loves me some Bernie!
markmyword
(180 posts)Chicago would love to have Bernie speak! I hope he plans to come here.
MSM won't give him the coverage the Donald is getting .
MSM has already chosen our two candidates Jeb/Clinton.
Doesn't matter how many crowds Bernie gets they'll focus on HIllary and make out Jeb has some brilliant ideas for our country!
MSM doesn't bother with anyone other than the ones that they put on a platter for us to choose from.
I wanted Dennis Kucinich, but they dismissed him, he didn't have the John Edwards looks!
I'm hoping that THE PEOPLE choose BERNIE and the MSM has no choice but to go with him.
The BERNIE tidal wave maybe getting under way.
If we want our country and Democracy back, then Bernie has to win!
markmyword
(180 posts)Chicago would love to have Bernie speak! I hope he plans to come here.
MSM won't give him the coverage the Donald is getting .
MSM has already chosen our two candidates Jeb/Clinton.
Doesn't matter how many crowds Bernie gets they'll focus on HIllary and make out Jeb has some brilliant ideas for our country!
MSM doesn't bother with anyone other than the ones that they put on a platter for us to choose from.
I wanted Dennis Kucinich, but they dismissed him, he didn't have the John Edwards looks!
I'm hoping that THE PEOPLE choose BERNIE and the MSM has no choice but to go with him.
The BERNIE tidal wave maybe getting under way.
If we want our country and Democracy back, then Bernie has to win!
ladjf
(17,320 posts)but as a watcher of many previous campaigns, something very different is happening. People of all ages are flocking to hear him speak. There is a bare minimum of news coverage, next to no advertising. Yet, the people keep coming. What ever it is, I hope that this "ground swell" will continue to pick up momentum. If it carries Bernie into the Presidency, Global politics will be revolutionized.
Please someone who is a better writer and political expert than I, expand on my points. What's going on? What is driving this?
daleanime
(17,796 posts)everybody knows this. Some are desperate to pretend that's not true, but you can hear the fear and tension in their voice, see it in their eyes.
Time, and our chances, are running out.
disaster is right around the corner
the solution is to give everyone on the planet a fair stake in the future - it can start in the good ol USA if we want it
daleanime
(17,796 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)We can't wait to address the realities, it's now or never....Bernie is critical!
Feel the Bern, make em feel the Bern....the haters have to go!
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Probably just a matter of time after Portlandia starts again this coming season before we see a skit there where Fred Armisen once again plays Bernie on his trip through Portland!
haikugal
(6,476 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)not slick. He is not slicing and dicing weasel words. He is speaking plainly from his heart and his life shows people he's means what he is saying.
And his principles are liberal, which, contrary to everything both major parties have been trying to sell us since Nixon, is where Americans are. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12777036
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Nobody is flocking to him because he's an old white guy with goofy hair.
It's because he is talking about kitchen table issues to a nation that has no job security, has decreased purchasing power, has decreased wealth, and sees money flowing into the pockets of millionaires and billionaires when they are slipping ever more into poverty.
Bernie's not a rock star, he's just the person folks come closest to 'trusting' that he actually might do something to try and reverse the trend of America turning into a nation of peasants and a tiny gentry that owns almost everything.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)Well said!!
roody
(10,849 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Mentioned at all on huffington post or daily kos?
Not on msnbc cnn or foxnews mobile sites either. What's up?
aintitfunny
(1,421 posts)If you use Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fight-The-Bernie-Sanders-Blackout/859218657486319?pnref=lhc
A Facebook page to fight the media blackout.
merrily
(45,251 posts)She sets media targets for the group.
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)Shame on MSN, and the DNC for the debates we should have had by now and coming up this fall.
GO BERNIE! SUMMER OFSANDERS!
~ BERNIE VIDEO with MUSIC, "It's a Beautiful Day" by U2~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=13&v=-Pyf3EtE7IA
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)know, one of us can post it if you can't. Thanks again!
aintitfunny
(1,421 posts)I am not really certain as to accomplishing the request, so help is appreciated. I have been a DU member since 2004, and don't post much, as you can probably see .
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)And have a wonderful day!
Here's a short Bernie Video with music by U2 "It's a Beautiful Day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=15&v=-Pyf3EtE7IA
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)What about posting on Bernie's FB page in a message?
I would think that the post would stay, as there has been some negative stuff in messages.
And those in the Twitter universe...tweets?!?
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)disrupt at the Seattle Social Security Rally has been covered some but w/o much depth. On top of this the DNC has set up only 6 debates unlike 26 in 2008, so Bernie's not receiving any real M$M media coverage like he should. It's wall to wall Trump, all still talking about the GOP clown event from last Thursday.
A few mins. ago a caller to Stephanie Millers' show on Free Speech TV brought up all this and said the DNC Chair, Debbie W-S needs to be confronted as others here have stated. After the caller Steph, who is a Clinton supporter made some comments and then went back to Trump's sexist remark to Megan Kelly at Fox last week.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Haven't listened to Stephanie Miller in a long time. (Her show was taken off the radio and replaced with right wing nonsense which just means the car radio is now never even turned on anymore.) Disappointed that she would blow that off to discuss Trump.
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)With Bernie comes hope for the future...
merrily
(45,251 posts)appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)I was very surprised yesterday when I tuned into 'sexy liberal' Steph Miller show on FSTV, and she was still chatting about Trump at the GOP debate last week. I thought it was a repeat show cuz she often does that. But a caller to her this morning brought all this up which I noted. If needed, I can do an OP in the BSG Re Facebook Protest BS Media blackout, but not for GD-P.
merrily
(45,251 posts)I think I am going there now.
azmom
(5,208 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)explain that?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)randr
(12,418 posts)A short discussion of how significant the LA event was. Large cities do not turn out large crowds, especially LA.
The numbers Bernie is drawing will soon have an impact on reporting.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Feel the Bern!
merrily
(45,251 posts)Great headline and overall, the story makes me want to do a jig. I think it's the best I've seen so far. I am going to give some phrases a smiley test.
"a raspy-voiced 73-year-old" 3 events in 3 days. Does anyone remember what Bubba, one of the youngest Presidents, sounded like when he was campaigning?
"who has become the 2016 political season's breakout star."
"self-proclaimed socialist"
"the third staggeringly large crowd in three nights"
numbers that other candidates might only dream of at this early stage in the race.
The crowd packed the Los Angeles arena and spilled into an overflow area outside, where people cheered under the palm trees
(Waaah. I wanna cheer under palm trees.)
"a bigger grassroots thing than Howard Dean," said Allen Peters, a 73-year-old doctor"
"Bernie Sanders is in a better place than Howard Dean was at this time."
"We always have to worry that Hillary and her bank buddies will knock him down."
"his speech, which drew sustained and rapturous applause and cheers when he voiced support for universal health care, legal rights for undocumented immigrants, and higher minimum wages.
There's more good stuff, but this story clearly passes the smiley test! merrily happy.
And it's from bloomberg, no less.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)We need massive voter turnout in next year's election to KICK THE GRAZED RADICAL REPUBLICANS out of Congress and keep the White House.
Vinca
(50,326 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)and may spark a number of people to check out a guy that is attracting thousands and going after billionaires but is being marginalized by the powers that be.
frylock
(34,825 posts)kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)The mainstream media needs to start covering Bernie!