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Sen. Sanders on Fox News Sunday (Original Post) cal04 Apr 2015 OP
Good job Senator Sanders. zeemike Apr 2015 #1
Ugh, uh, ahem, sir, ahem... excuse me but your off the narrative slant I lead you into. nightscanner59 Apr 2015 #2
Marking for later viewing. underpants Apr 2015 #3
I smelled panic from Chris as Bernie slammed the rich.... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2015 #4
Me too. He couldn't interrupt him enough at that point. merrily Apr 2015 #11
Sanders was great - Hillary set the bullshit detector off the scale, though. whereisjustice Apr 2015 #5
Wish, "Angels of light and truth" would not validate that evil place.. ProudProg2u Apr 2015 #6
It's free air time. Some candidates desperately need that right now and Bernie is one of them. merrily Apr 2015 #12
btw - this is the REAL difference between a Democrat and Republican whereisjustice Apr 2015 #7
They brought the liberal on Fox News to trash Clinton Evergreen Emerald Apr 2015 #8
Not so much actually 99th_Monkey Apr 2015 #13
He was called on to trash her. Evergreen Emerald Apr 2015 #14
You get legitimate "hits" with discussion of issues and what's needed for them... cascadiance Apr 2015 #16
He didn't "get a couple of hits in." He told the truth. JDPriestly Apr 2015 #19
Bernie, ever the gentleman. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #15
Bernie even tells liars the truth . orpupilofnature57 Apr 2015 #9
Well done, Senator Sanders! KeepItReal Apr 2015 #10
It's ironic that the best and most true Democrat in this country is not a registered Democrat now! cascadiance Apr 2015 #17
Sanders is so cool! He is the one potential candidate who is not ruffled JDPriestly Apr 2015 #18

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
1. Good job Senator Sanders.
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 11:59 AM
Apr 2015

Wallace tried his best to get him to attack Hillary and it failed...he stayed on message.

nightscanner59

(802 posts)
2. Ugh, uh, ahem, sir, ahem... excuse me but your off the narrative slant I lead you into.
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 12:22 PM
Apr 2015

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.

whereisjustice

(2,941 posts)
7. btw - this is the REAL difference between a Democrat and Republican
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 12:32 PM
Apr 2015

instead of the Republican vs. Republicanish Democratic Party we now enjoy.

Evergreen Emerald

(13,069 posts)
8. They brought the liberal on Fox News to trash Clinton
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 12:39 PM
Apr 2015

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)
13. Not so much actually
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 01:13 PM
Apr 2015

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)
14. He was called on to trash her.
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 01:26 PM
Apr 2015

And, he tried to back track, but did get a couple of hits in. Just what they wanted.

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
16. You get legitimate "hits" with discussion of issues and what's needed for them...
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 04:37 PM
Apr 2015

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)
19. He didn't "get a couple of hits in." He told the truth.
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 06:11 PM
Apr 2015

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.

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
17. It's ironic that the best and most true Democrat in this country is not a registered Democrat now!
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 04:41 PM
Apr 2015

That speaks for the sorry corrupt system our government has become in the last few decades.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
18. Sanders is so cool! He is the one potential candidate who is not ruffled
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 06:09 PM
Apr 2015

by aggressive, uninformed interviewers. Great job, Senator Sanders.

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