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(18,998 posts)Wallace tried his best to get him to attack Hillary and it failed...he stayed on message.
nightscanner59
(802 posts)Between that and the hot button "socialist" banner in RED below Senator Sanders...
Fluck you Fox and your continual partisan hacksterism under the banner of "fair and balanced"
I can't even look at 8 minutes of Fox without getting pissed.
underpants
(182,603 posts)He was on O'Reilly earlier this week
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)"Oh noes!!! Don't say THAT!!"
merrily
(45,251 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)ProudProg2u
(133 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)instead of the Republican vs. Republicanish Democratic Party we now enjoy.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)The purpose was solely to trash her. The focus was all about Clinton and not in the least about his views--other than his previous criticisms of Clinton.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)FOX was trying to get Sanders to dis Hillary, to call her a liar, which he gracefully declined to do, but rather stayed with his own views without going for the bait.
Then at 4:50 min (into a 8:45 min. interview) Chris expressly shifted to Sander's views apart from Hillary.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)And, he tried to back track, but did get a couple of hits in. Just what they wanted.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)When bringing up issues that America's facing now and finishing up with TPP, which he was very pointedly and selectively interrupted on when he started to talk on it, that's where he was really making the focus on where the focus needed to be.
By doing that, he's in effect either trying to help himself be viewed as a better candidate than others, or he's trying to open it up for Hillary to at some point express the same viewpoints and logic as he has. He started by acknowledging that her opening campaign speech was "correct" which helps validate his own position, helps validate what should be an eventual democratic party candidate's position, and basically pushing Hillary to even more so follow up with more similar statements, so that at least she has some promises on record that she either chooses to fulfill or to break down the road if she becomes president. Hopefully they are positions that she or someone else who gets selected as the nominee chooses to fulfill rather than to break, because the more these promises are part of the record, when the democratic candidate wins in 2016, they will comprise the mandate that the Democratic Party has to change things in Washington then!
He's doing EXACTLY the job he needs to do if he enters in the primary race, and I really hope he gets in to continue this. We need him there for this reason, even if he doesn't win in the end.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The truth as he sees it. I think he made it very clear that he will not be tricked into some sort of personal duel on a personal level about Hillary.
His doubts about Hillary are policy issues, not personal issues.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)cascadiance
(19,537 posts)That speaks for the sorry corrupt system our government has become in the last few decades.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)by aggressive, uninformed interviewers. Great job, Senator Sanders.