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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders, Seth MacFarlane Team Up for Hollywood Fundraiser
Bernie Sanders, Seth MacFarlane Team Up for Hollywood Fundraiser
By Ted Johnson - OCTOBER 14, 2015 | 06:28PM PT
Sanders focused the early part of his speech on income inequality and what he characterized as a rigged economy against the middle and working class.
He also decried the way that politics has been covered, in the media and elsewhere, like it were a baseball game or a soap opera.
He said that if he slipped on a banana peel leaving here, it would be on the front page.
If I were standing here tonight making some viscious attack against Hillary Clinton or anybody else, it would be a front-page story, Sanders said. But if you talk about why the middle class is disappearing as almost all the income and wealth go to the top 1%, not a big story. So what the political revolution is is forcing a debate, not about trivia, but about real issues.
MacFarlane said that he was particularly impressed by a response that Sanders gave at Tuesday nights debate. Asked what was the countrys greatest national security threat, Sanders answered climate change...
Full article:
http://variety.com/2015/scene/news/bernie-sanders-seth-macfarlane-fundraiser-hollywood-1201618406/
By Ted Johnson - OCTOBER 14, 2015 | 06:28PM PT
Sanders focused the early part of his speech on income inequality and what he characterized as a rigged economy against the middle and working class.
He also decried the way that politics has been covered, in the media and elsewhere, like it were a baseball game or a soap opera.
He said that if he slipped on a banana peel leaving here, it would be on the front page.
If I were standing here tonight making some viscious attack against Hillary Clinton or anybody else, it would be a front-page story, Sanders said. But if you talk about why the middle class is disappearing as almost all the income and wealth go to the top 1%, not a big story. So what the political revolution is is forcing a debate, not about trivia, but about real issues.
MacFarlane said that he was particularly impressed by a response that Sanders gave at Tuesday nights debate. Asked what was the countrys greatest national security threat, Sanders answered climate change...
Full article:
http://variety.com/2015/scene/news/bernie-sanders-seth-macfarlane-fundraiser-hollywood-1201618406/
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Bernie Sanders, Seth MacFarlane Team Up for Hollywood Fundraiser (Original Post)
think
Oct 2015
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I'd like to see McFarlane do a episode about Bernie or a Bernie-like character in American Dad
Joey Joe Joe
Oct 2015
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Joey Joe Joe
(50 posts)1. I'd like to see McFarlane do a episode about Bernie or a Bernie-like character in American Dad
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)2. This is good!
thank you Seth Macfarlane!
SamKnause
(13,043 posts)3. Thank you Bernie.
Thank you Seth.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)4. Looks like a pretty good sized crowd (and diverse, for those who care)
No stars in the background
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)5. maybe they can do a duet of seth's "we saw your boobs"
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)6. Here's the Intro and the Speech: