Carr: CNN does its best to knock Bernie Sanders down
By Howie Carr
CNN put out a contract on U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders last night, and he survived in that sea of white privilege that was the first Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas.
When it was all over, nothing much had changed. But could the plot have been any more transparent? Throw everything at the septuagenarian moonbat’s moonbat from Vermont by way of Brooklyn.
CNN’s motto last night was, “Women and children first, forget the children!”
Sen. Sanders, how dare you vote to sustain the Second Amendment? Sen. Sanders, why didn’t you do anything about the scandal in the VA hospitals? Sen. Sanders, why did you vote against “immigration reform” in 2007?
They even asked him about his honeymoon in Moscow, and supporting the totalitarian Sandinistas in Nicaragua — aren’t those resume-enhancers for Democrats?
And on those rare occasions when one of the four old white men dared to directly confront the old white woman, such as Jim Webb did on the disaster that is Libya, Anderson Cooper couldn’t change the subject fast enough — and put Bernie back on the spot.
He then asked Bernie about the Vietnam era and his draft-dodging, I mean conscientious objections.
But Bernie held his own, and then some. He stayed on message. He used all the Democrat dog whistles. He’s for “working people” (that means non-working people). Everyone deserves their “fair share.” (Which is free stuff.) He said, “We’re creating excitement.” (Which usually happens when you offer free stuff!) He’s for “paid family leave.” (Which most Democrat primary voters already have — it’s called welfare.)
Bernie wants free college tuition, too. Sadly, no one got around to asking the obvious question, “So, senator, who’s going to pay for all this free stuff?”
The answer is obvious. The billionaires, although you have to penalize him for not mentioning the Koch brothers. On the other hand, he was the first of them to mention “common sense” gun laws. In all, a masterful job of pandering.
Sanders even said that the greatest threat to national security is climate change. He mentioned billionaires more times than Jim Webb (whoever he is) complained about his lack of time.
Of course, it helps that Hillary Clinton is … Hillary Clinton. The emails are not her problem, they are a symptom of her problem.
Her problem is that she is a corrupt, hypocritical old woman whose love of money would make Ebenezer Scrooge and Scrooge McDuck blush. She and Bill “worked very hard” — you know, like on the cattle futures, or those two 20-minute speeches to Goldman Sachs for $400,000 as soon as she departed Foggy Bottom. She wants to send Wall Streeters to jail — be careful what you wish for, Hillary.
But no one called her out on it, except on Twitter. Not even when she issued the most memorable line of the evening:
“I never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone.”
I guess it all depends on what the meaning of the word is, is. Or is it Keystone?
See Howie at 3 p.m. Saturday at his book signing at the Market Basket in North Andover.
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