Bernie Sanders Storms CNBC and Slams The Sick Greed Of Wall Street

[babylonsister]

WILD !!

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/26/bernie-sanders-storms-cnbc-slams-sick-greed-wall-street.html

Bernie Sanders Storms CNBC and Slams The Sick Greed Of Wall Street
By: Jason Easley
Tuesday, May, 26th, 2015, 10:07 am


Bernie Sanders did something that no other politician does. The Democratic presidential candidate went on CNBC and criticized the sick greed of Wall Street.

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In an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood, Sen. Sanders responded to Wall Street’s comparison of regulations to Hitler hunting down the Jews.

Sanders said, “I think it’s sick, and I think these people are so greedy. They’re so out of touch with reality, and they think they own the world, and the idea that me or anybody else are challenging them and saying maybe, just maybe, there’s something wrong with 99% of all new income going to the top 1%. Oh, this is Hitlerism to suggest that? What a disgusting remark. If you’ve seen a massive transfer of wealth from the middle-class to the top one ten of one percent, in our view, you ought to transfer that back. When radical socialist Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, I think the highest marginal tax rate was ninety percent or something like that.”

Harwood asked if Sen. Sanders thought that ninety percent was too high. The Democratic presidential candidate answered, “No. What I think is obscene, and what frightens me is again when you have the top one-tenth of one percent owning as much as the bottom ninety. Does anyone think that this is the kind of economy that this country should have? Do they think it’s moral? We got people working one job, two jobs, three jobs. People scared to death about what happens tomorrow. Half the people in America have less than ten thousand dollars in savings.”

This interview perfectly captured why so many Americans support Bernie Sanders. Sen. Sanders is real. He gives real answers. Bernie Sanders delivered what he viewed as the truth without the burden of calculating to constituencies.

It is unheard of for any political figure to go on CNBC and bluntly criticize the greed of Wall Street. If one spends any time watching the business news networks, criticism of Wall Street beyond stock performance is blasphemy.

Bernie Sanders went into the belly of the beast and spoke the truth about the unchecked greed of Wall Street.

Sen. Sanders isn’t afraid of Wall Street, but Wall Street is terrified of the movement building around Bernie Sanders.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. I'm liking this guy more and more and more

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He ain't no "moderate '80s Republican", that's for sure.

More like an RFK Democrat

[calimary]

37. Yeah, me too, Art_from_Ark.

I hope his message reverberates. The more broadly it spreads, the more it's likely to start sinking in.

[madokie]

77. I'm saying he's our next POTUS

he is fearless

[BeyondGeography]

2. The sentiment is real

And the failure of any other candidate to fully tap into it is the best thing Bernie has going for him.

[drm604]

3. It's surprising that they even interviewed him.

I don't watch CNBC and I don't know anything about the interviewer, John Harwood, so maybe it's not unusual for them to interview someone like Sanders.

In any case, it's good to see him getting to speak to a more fiscally conservative audience. Maybe he'll even cause a few of them to rethink some things.

[daleanime]

4. K&R.....

Hope someone put that up on Youtube, needs to be shared around.

[handmade34]

12. ...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102694355

[daleanime]

24. Thank you....

[valerief]

27. I love that he ate throughout it!

[Plucketeer]

33. If someone thinks this fella doesn't have a chance...

They need to practice that old Rick Perry professment: OOPS!

[merrily]

76. Problem was, that was the most on target thing Rick Perry said during the entire primary.

[rurallib]

81. Harwood tried to get Sanders to bad mouth Clinton

Every MSM "journalist" really wants to hang that scalp on their wall. Sanders ain't going to do it!

[Martin Eden]

5. Class Warfare!

"Class Warfare!" is what RWers scream when someone points out that wealth has been redistributed upwards and this needs to be reversed.

Class Warfare has been waged and won by the One Percent over the last several decades.

[jwirr]

17. The answer to that should be easy. What class are you in? It is kind of like Woodie Guthries song

What side are you on? Same implications.

I am glad he is going right to the point when he is given the chance. And yes, he is touching the hearts and fears of the 99% like no one else is.

[Martin Eden]

43. Yes, but in this war the One Percent has been the aggressor

Yet they are trying to characterize the victims of their war as the ones who are instigating it.

[appalachiablue]

45. Warren Buffett, 2006

:large

[merrily]

75. The 90% finally groked that class warfare has been around as long as humans have.

[staggerleem]

84. The Class War is over ...

... because only one side can afford weapons & ammo!

[kimbutgar]

6. I worked in an office that used to have CNBC on all the time

The greedy wall street attitude comments got so bad my boss put the tv on mute with close captioning.

[AzDar]

7. Bernie!!

[neverforget]

8. Give'em hell Bernie!

[WillyT]

9. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[raouldukelives]

10. Beyond sick. It is evil. Ignoring death & misery because it makes you money is sick.

Causing them because it makes you money is evil.

[brooklynite]

11. Ah, more non-coverage by the MSM...

[frylock]

16. Ah, shitting on another Bernie Sanders thread.

[brooklynite]

18. I've said nothing negative about Bernie...

[pangaia]

41. You absolutely did and you know it.

[Paka]

71. Thank you for calling that out.

I got banned from the Hillary group for far less than that.

[madokie]

80. Sure he/she did

I love it the way the denials come so easy for some. Makes me question their motives
Let there be debates and let the spoils fall where they may.
Bernie Sanders is our next POTUS

[LanternWaste]

49. I'd hide behind implication and rationalize it as such too...

" I've said nothing negative about Bernie..."

After painting myself into a rhetorical corner, I'd hide behind implication and rationalize it as such too.

[staggerleem]

85. OK, can ANYONE explain ...

... why Brooklynite's statement about "more non-coverage by the MSM" is taken by some as a slap at Senator Sanders? What am I missing here??

[daleanime]

26. Think of it as fertilizer....

it helps things grow.

[L0oniX]

19. Yeah ...too bad it wasn't on Fox.

[WilliamPitt]

21. What does that even mean?

?

[brooklynite]

30. We're endlessly told that Bernie Sanders is being "marginalized" and "ignored" by the media...

...even when he shows up as frequently as any other candidate on MTP, CNN, CNBC etc.

[LanternWaste]

50. You'll of course, cite objective sources to support your creative allegation yes?

"...even when he shows up as frequently as any other candidate"

You'll of course, cite objective sources to support your rather creative allegation yes?

[Hiraeth]

31. Just look at it as a non-comment, I did.

[eloydude]

56. And you wondered why I called you out

Bernie is hot. Bernie will nail Clinton on all issues and you havent stated why you want Clinton over Bernie on issues.

[brooklynite]

57. Indeed I have...

I posted several items about Clinton positions I support. I've also said there are no Sanders positions I oppose. Doesn't mean I'm willing to risk losing to the Republicans (and I've posted several items about why I think Clinton can win and Sanders can't). The fact that you choose to ignore my posts is your issue.

And in any event, this post had nothing critical to say about Sanders, just an observation about some of his supporters.

[staggerleem]

87. I've gotta believe ...

... that ANYONE who's bothered to read this OP, and the comments down this far, would GLADLY vote for either Hillary or Bernie over ANY Republican. So WTF are we fighting about???

When a Marco Rubio or a Ted Cruz says something on CNBC that does NOT make any real waves in terms of how that network thinks, you are very likely to hear something about it on your local network news that night. Bernie Sanders went on CNBC and hit the interviewer upside the head on their corporate BS (that alone sounds like news to ME!) and what did we hear from the corporate networks? CRICKETS! (aka, NON-COVERAGE!!)

That is how I interpreted your reply, brooklynite. I wish I knew what these other dudes were talking about! Maybe, as a 60-year-old engineer, I'm just too freakin' dense to "get it".

[brooklynite]

88. I would dispute your assertion that Rubio or Cruz would get significantly more coverage...

...You and I are talking on a political blog. We watch political programming on MSNBC. The average person has no particular interest in the election at this point, and as a consequence, the non-cable networks (and especially the local stations) aren't going to cover any of the candidates unless (network) they've just announced or (local) the candidate has just visited the local area.

[staggerleem]

91. It seems you think "the news" is about what viewers are interested in.

I believe it's about what the network execs want their viewers to be interested in. So if they like Rubio, you'll hear about him - wherever he is and whenever they feel like pushing him at us. And if they don't like Bernie, they'll either ignore him, or seek negative stories to run about him.

[brooklynite]

93. The Media is by and large not "red" (exception: Fox) or "blue" (exception: MSNBC); it's "green"

News media will broadly include whatever stories bring in an audience for it's advertising. That's why they focus on horserace, mudfights and scandals, rather than thoughtful policy pieces.

[staggerleem]

95. How can you POSSIBLY believe that?

Advertisers DICTATE what stories will NOT be covered. How much REAL TPP coverage do you see in the media? Precious little, because they don't want you to know about it. Why does McDonnel Douglas buy TV advertizing? Are you, or any of your neighbors, interested in a fighter jet?

Do you really believe that those pharmaceutical ads that tell you you could DIE from the side effects of toenail fungus treatments really SELL drugs? No, brooklyn - they BUY media influence!

BTW - I was born in Crown Heights & raised in East Flatbush!

[brooklynite]

96. Of course ADVERTISERS attempt to influence decision-making

News editors, not so much. Why don't networks do endless stories about TPP? Because the AVERAGE voter who DOESN'T spend his/her day on a political blog ISN'T that interested in it as a story. They probably SHOULD be, but they're not.

I stand by my assertion, and observe that the conservatives make exactly the same complaint; that news coverage is slanted (strangely enough, in the other direction).

[libdem4life]

13. Awesome! I can't think of one interview that didn't include Hillary at least twice. Soon, I hope

a pre-requisite for the interview is that he answers no questions about Hillary. They use it to taunt him into "going political" on her, and also mentions her name, yet again, reinforcing her image as front-runner on his media time. Time to stop that crap.

[Cosmocat]

14. He is on his game

for sure, and I am settling in behind him.

That said, we are a long, LONG way from wall street or the powers to be being "terrified" of him.

Maybe he can become a threat, but he isn't close to one yet.

[jwirr]

20. It is not just him Wall Street is worried about. It is those of us who are lining up behind him. As

social media starts to support him more and more and his polls go up they are realizing that there are a lot of us who are not exactly happy with the direction of things. The hand writing on the Wall.

[Cosmocat]

62. Eh ... It isn't about Bernie, it is about "us"

I don't get that tone at all at this point.

I like Bernie a good bit, and my skepticism about his candidacy is not about him.

It is about the people of this country.

What I am sensing is he has some people a bit intrigued, but we are a LONG way from any kind of critical mass.

The stupid runs D E E P in this country.

[jwirr]

63. I actually see the stupid as good at this point. The longer they think he is not a threat the longer

we run without interference.

[arcane1]

66. Sanders is also trying to rile up the 60% of non-voters and get them to the polls.

THAT is freakin' terrifying for the 1%!

[jwirr]

67. Oh, yes. Did you see Lawrence O? He did not sound all that negative. We have hope.

[Duppers]

15. Recommended

& kicked.

[fasttense]

22. This is good, this is very good.

Senator Sanders going into the belly of the beast and telling it like it is, over and over and over again. He is going to be doing this the entire campaign season. It will eventually sink into the thoughts of the voters and they will respond. Maybe not this election, but you just watch. The Senator repeating the truth for everyone to hear will have an impact.

[myrna minx]

23. K&R. I'm sure that popped some monicles.

[grasswire]

25. smart framing

"radical socialist Dwight D. Eisenhower"

I love it.

[CountAllVotes]

28. Kicking the ass of this thread UP!

BERNIE SANDERS 2016!!!!!!

& recommend!!!!

[AZ Progressive]

29. It's time we fight back! They've been waging war against the people for 40 years!

[appalachiablue]

35. Defense can't work for long, you just get crushed, slower but ultimately-

[SoapBox]

32. K & R

[Moostache]

34. I have loved Bernie Sanders' politics for a long time...

I hope that his message is heard by the DLC/Third Way crowd loud and clear - we are not going to support you just because you carry a "D" instead of an "R" on the ballot. You better be fighting FOR us and not AGAINST us or we will fight against you. The facts and statistics that Sanders cites regarding distribution of income through the last 40 years is stunning and something that Americans should be in the streets protesting en masse - urban, rural, suburban, and all places in-between!

It's an outrage that our population is as ill informed and deluded as it is. If nothing else, Bernie Sanders speaks plainly and truthfully in the face of egregious efforts to marginalize him. I have loved his politics for a long time, I am falling in love with his campaign style more and more by the day!

Sanders has my support for the nomination and unless HRC incorporates a large percentage of his policy ideas, she will lose my support if she is the nominee in 2016. We can no longer afford to take the lesser of two evils. We have to demand a candidate without fear of reprisals from Wall Street. Money cannot be all that we hold sacred or we may as well not exist. There is nothing more sure than this - when each of us die, the only thing of import that remains are the lives we touch and improve in even miniscule ways; but our "wealth" and our "money" and our "power" are all on lease and they are foreclosed immediately upon death.

Sanders for ALL Americans!

[AZ Progressive]

38. The DLC/Third Way loves the Republicans because they are used as the boogeyman to get liberals to...

accept them and vote for them, no matter how much they stink. That's why they can get away with pulling this country to the right all the time, because to them, liberals have no choice, and Obama suggested that by his disrespect of liberals.

[Populist_Prole]

39. Awesome!

I couldn't have said it better.

I've always thought the political process needs a shake-up to nudge ( wallop really ) so many out of superficial apathy. He is Mr shake-up in the flesh. He's covering issues in a way the MSM doesn't want to touch with a ten foot pole...and he ain't going away.

[merrily]

78. I have, too. I never dared hope he would run for POTUS, though.

[Myrina]

36. Really, why aren't 100% of Democrats standing with Bernie?

He is the only one who gets it & is truly not afraid to rip the band aid off.

[BrotherIvan]

44. Identity politics

They figured out that it works as well for both sides and they thought they could just slide on in with it. They still might. But Bernie being a whole different breed of politician is putting a wrench in the works.

[PatrynXX]

40. certainly isn't capitalism thats for sure

Monopoly's don't exist in such a system they do now..

[kenfrequed]

42. Hell yes!

I love that he spoke out against Wall Street's greed and excess on a channel that practically cheerleads for them on a regular basis.

Though I wonder if putting him on is a way for CNBC to scare their regular viewers into throwing more money at Bernie's primary opposition or the Republican party?

[99Forever]

46. Oh Hell yes!

[Dems to Win]

47. Feel The Bern

[cui bono]

74. LOL. Love that!

Did you make that up?

FEEL THE BERN!!!

[Dems to Win]

89. I wish I was that clever

It was a trending hashtag on Twitter yesterday -- #FeelTheBern was sent out thousands of times. WooHoo!

[joanbarnes]

48. He's already on fire, and he's just warming up. Power to Bernie!

[MoreGOPoop]

51. K & R

It seems the Propaganda Machine just threw a rod. Go, Bernie!

[sabrina 1]

52. Give'm Hell, Bernie!

[FlatBaroque]

55. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell

I'm paraphrasing

[Pharaoh]

53. Would love to see Hillary do that.....

[johnnyreb]

54. WOW!

[pansypoo53219]

58. bonfire of the vanities.

i have been blogging my 1891 encyclopedia britannica entry fro florence italy and hit the tail end of 1400's and the 'frake'. bernie is the frake! tho jesse frake did end up burned at the stake.

[hifiguy]

59. Greed is the most powerful, pernicious and dangerous addiction

on the face of the planet. And it is killing both the planet and the human race.

[silenttigersong]

60. truth to power

[Enthusiast]

61. K&R! This should have hundreds of recommendations!

[merrily]

79. 241 and counting.

[Ruby the Liberal]

64. Preach it, Bernie!!

[Jefferson23]

65. This wonderful man speaks for me on so many levels. K&R

[Thespian2]

68. K & R !!!!

From what I read, Bernie scares the shit out of the silk-stocking elite of America...Good for him!

[rhett o rick]

69. Sen Sanders speaks for the people. He is on the peoples side in this class war. nm

[Paka]

70. He's fearless.

And that's one of the many things we love him for.

[TheKentuckian]

72. Ahh...Truth! It almost comes as a relief like silence after too much noise.

[kickysnana]

73. Saw him on the local TV snooze, all conservative here, so he is trending.

[LWolf]

82. K & R

[ladjf]

83. I'm wondering how long will it be until he is invited back on CNBC. nt

[HughBeaumont]

86. Geeez, is Argumentum ad Hitlerum now a synched talking point among conservatives?

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_Hitlerum

How it works

“It's like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler!"

—Lewis Black

Godwin’s Law does not dispute the validity or otherwise of references or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis. As such a comparison or reference may sometimes be appropriate in a discussion, Godwin has argued that overuse of the Nazi comparison should be avoided as it waters down the impact of any valid usage. In its purest sense, the rule has more to do with completely losing one's sense of proportion rather than just mentioning Nazis specifically.[2][3] The law was initiated as a counter-meme to flippant comparisons to the Nazis, rather than to invoke a complete ban on comparisons. As Mike Godwin wrote himself in 2008:[4]

“When I saw the photographs from Abu Ghraib, for example, I understood instantly the connection between the humiliations inflicted there and the ones the Nazis imposed upon death camp inmates—but I am the one person in the world least able to draw attention to that valid comparison."

With the increase in the number of media for online discussion, Godwin's Law is now applied to any online discussion — be they mailing lists, message boards, forums, chat rooms, blog comment threads, or wiki talk pages.

Traditionally in many Internet discussion forums, it is the rule that once such a comparison is made, the discussion is effectively finished and whoever mentioned Hitler or the Nazis has automatically lost the debate, though it is considered sort-of acceptable if one immediately says "Pardon me for invoking Godwin's Law." The blogosphere has only heightened the prevalence of Godwin's Law with Nazi references being dropped across the political spectrum such as the liberal Daily Kos or right-wing religious strongholds such as Bill Donohue's Catholic League and intelligent design advocates like the Discovery Institute.

Compared to other known blog-based laws, namely Poe's Law, Godwin's Law is quite well known in more mainstream areas.[5] Just to prove it, the law even has its own Wikipedia article.[6] In 2012 it was added to the Oxford Dictionary,[7] which means that in 500 years' time it will be reviewed by completely mystified college arts majors.

So now, even our most "esteemed journalists" are operating at average internet simian level. Classic.

[lonestarnot]

90. !

[sabrina 1]

92. Go Bernie! How refreshing it is to finally see some honesty from a candidate for the WH.

I would love to hear more of our Reps doing this. But then, he is not compromised by their money so has no need to fear getting them upset with him.

[woo me with science]

94. K&R