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kstewart33

(6,551 posts)
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:40 PM Apr 2016

About Bernie, the NYDN editorial board doesn't mince words.

Ouch.

As would happen with any ideological phenomenon, close inspection of Sanders’ thinking clarifies that trust is misplaced. So it was when he appeared before the Daily News Editorial Board.

Although Sanders has vowed a shock-and-awe bank-busting campaign that would risk global financial chaos, he was at a loss to show how he would execute the assault or to cite legal authority for such sweeping and unprecedented exercise of presidential power.

Although Sanders has repeatedly said, “It is an outrage that not one major Wall Street executive has gone to jail for causing the near collapse of the economy,” he was also at a loss to say what specific criminal statute the execs might have broken.

Similarly at sea on foreign affairs, Sanders asserted that Israel had killed 10,000 civilian Palestinians in a 2014 military operation — more than five times the true number. Still more, he answered: “Actually I haven’t thought about it a whole lot,” when asked where a President Sanders would imprison or interrogate a captured ISIS terrorist.

Finally, Sanders’ ideological purity has found a boundary in political convenience. He roundly and repeatedly denounces corporate America for destroying the fabric of America, yet, representing a Second Amendment-friendly state, he voted to grant the gun industry near total immunity from lawsuits.


http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/vote-hillary-clinton-article-1.2598171
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About Bernie, the NYDN editorial board doesn't mince words. (Original Post) kstewart33 Apr 2016 OP
Trash journalism, what do you expect. At least they're out of the closet. ThePhilosopher04 Apr 2016 #1
$5B Reasons to Come Clean, Hil Bernie renews call for Goldman speeches after mortgage-crisis penalty w4rma Apr 2016 #18
Aw they are peddling their lies again... how quaint. GeorgiaPeanuts Apr 2016 #2
Mort Zuckerman owns the Daily News DefenseLawyer Apr 2016 #3
Bernie did an awful job in that interview. That has nothing to do with who owns the paper. n/t Lucinda Apr 2016 #9
Oh people who are naive and bought into the bullshit think this. Gwhittey Apr 2016 #12
Of course it doesn't. And Hillary has no loyalty to Goldman Sachs either. DefenseLawyer Apr 2016 #21
They set strange standards for credibility sketchy Apr 2016 #4
They're getting their own interview wrong. JackRiddler Apr 2016 #5
And actually fouled up the transcript. pat_k Apr 2016 #11
I read/learn so little on this site Dem2 Apr 2016 #6
He's not ready for prime time redstateblues Apr 2016 #7
In contrast, experts weighing in (NYTimes, WaPo, Roosevelt Institute) pat_k Apr 2016 #8
Should I hold my breath waiting for a Hillary supporter to respond gabeana Apr 2016 #10
+1 dchill Apr 2016 #13
They are a UNION BUSTING NEWS ORG. Hillary can have them. Telling they like her. ViseGrip Apr 2016 #14
Sanders proposals are not realistic and this editorial is correct Gothmog Apr 2016 #15
They used words? Fumesucker Apr 2016 #16
They used.... <.words.> and I hope New Yorkers give them opportunity to eat them all up. nt nc4bo Apr 2016 #20
Aye. If, instead of fraudulenly and knowingly peddling investment products backed by shit mortgages Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #17
Say goodnight, Bernie. The show is over. Exit, stage left. (Curtain. House-lights up.) NurseJackie Apr 2016 #19
"Our choice for America’s future: The Daily News endorses Mitt Romney for president" Bluenorthwest Apr 2016 #22
 

Gwhittey

(1,377 posts)
12. Oh people who are naive and bought into the bullshit think this.
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:52 PM
Apr 2016

The Editorial board asked question that where wrong because they are idiots. And it only works on other idiots to keep spreading the lies. They started talking about the Fed having powers over Big Banks. Which is wrong thing to talk about it should of been Dept. of Treasury. Then they ask untrue questions about Obama's drone policies and expect a answer. If you could not be bothered to read whole interview your are just willfully spreading lies based on your ignorance of the full interview. Don't be such a drone and spit up talking points with out thinking for yourself.

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
21. Of course it doesn't. And Hillary has no loyalty to Goldman Sachs either.
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 11:26 AM
Apr 2016

I apologize for being so cynical. I'll go back to sleep now.

sketchy

(458 posts)
4. They set strange standards for credibility
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:49 PM
Apr 2016

from the article quoted in the OP:

"Although Sanders has repeatedly said, “It is an outrage that not one major Wall Street executive has gone to jail for causing the near collapse of the economy,” he was also at a loss to say what specific criminal statute the execs might have broken."


As though knowing what specific criminal statute might have been broken matters at all in the world most people live in. What they did was wrong, and no one went to jail.

 

JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
5. They're getting their own interview wrong.
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:52 PM
Apr 2016

Sanders correctly knew the process would involve legislation, they diverted mistakenly to the Fed as if he could just direct the Fed to do it on its own. He rightly doubted this was possible. They, and your talking points crew, blew that up into a slander.

In any case, several hundred thousand people a day see the Daily News front page - which today was excoriating Clinton and De Blasio for their stupid skit ("SKIT FOR BRAINS&quot . In 2016, several thousand might read and take seriously a Daily News editorial. And it's mostly your Clintonista talking points crew!

Dem2

(8,168 posts)
6. I read/learn so little on this site
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 10:53 PM
Apr 2016

Rancid attack journalism posted from both "sides" in this primary battle isn't worth wasting my time on.

pat_k

(9,313 posts)
8. In contrast, experts weighing in (NYTimes, WaPo, Roosevelt Institute)
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:12 PM
Apr 2016

Plus a very problematic error in their transcript (last link)

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Let’s Dispel Once and for All With This Fiction That Sanders Doesn’t Know How to Break Up Banks
04.05.16
Mike Konczal is a Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute

http://rooseveltinstitute.org/sanders-ending-tbtf/

==================================

Why Bernie Sanders knows more about big banks than his critics are saying
By Max Ehrenfreund
April 7 at 1:50 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/07/bernie-sanders-has-a-plan-to-break-up-the-big-banks/

================================

Yes, Bernie Sanders Knows Something About Breaking Up Banks
By Peter Eavis
New York Times
APRIL 5, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/upshot/yes-bernie-sanders-knows-something-about-breaking-up-banks.html

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In addition, transcript error puts word in Bernie's mouth

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511676187

gabeana

(3,166 posts)
10. Should I hold my breath waiting for a Hillary supporter to respond
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:39 PM
Apr 2016

they seem to just throw out talking points but when confronted with evidence all they do is move the goal post

Gothmog

(145,321 posts)
15. Sanders proposals are not realistic and this editorial is correct
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 05:14 AM
Apr 2016

Clinton is by far the most qualified candidate

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
16. They used words?
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 05:22 AM
Apr 2016

That's unusual for the NYDN... Their readership (for lack of a better word) prefers pictures.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
17. Aye. If, instead of fraudulenly and knowingly peddling investment products backed by shit mortgages
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 05:45 AM
Apr 2016

Without disclosing the same to the investment consumers, while SIMULTANEOUSLY making extremely profitable bets for themselves against the very same economic indicators dependent upon the craptastic house of cards they were peddling to "the little people"----

If those execs had done something truly egregious - like, say, smoke a joint in the privacy of their own home to ease some chemo nausea - then, you know, we could put them in prison, because unlike crashing the economy and raiding peoples retirement savings for fun and profit, smoking pot is a menace to the societal fabric AND AN ACTUAL CRIME.

And gosh darnit, the DNC is determined to keep it that way!

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
22. "Our choice for America’s future: The Daily News endorses Mitt Romney for president"
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 11:43 AM
Apr 2016

Offering a rosy vision of a country already on the rise, Obama argues that he would lead a resurgence by staying the course. He posits that spending in areas such as education and clean energy would be beneficial, and he sees raising taxes on high-income earners as key to “balanced” deficit reduction. Each on its own is attractive, but the whole comes up short.

The presidential imperative of the times is to energize the economy and get deficits under control to empower the working and middle classes to again enjoy the fruits of an ascendant America.

So The News is compelled to stand with Romney.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/choice-america-future-mitt-romney-article-1.1196299


Just for perspective. Were they right about Mitt?

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