$32 at amazon.com. One would think an avowed Socialist would prefer a home remedy.
But then, Sanders is a first-class hypocrite.
Posted on 05/14/2022 12:02:19 PM PDT by simpson96
About a quarter of the way through The Fighting Soul, Ari Rabin-Havt’s new book about Bernie Sanders’s most recent run for president, a funny little detail emerges. “After he lost his voice in September 2019,” Rabin-Havt writes, “a friend recommended a specific and hard to find brand of cough drop — Grether’s Blackcurrant Pastilles.”(snip)
“It was September 2019, rally in Colorado: 10,000 people. And he blew out his voice completely,” he said. A week later, we had the debate. And he sounded terrible. It wasn’t getting better.” Sanders had apparently been eating Halls to no avail when the friend, who’d seen the debate and noticed Sanders sounded raspy, called with the Grether’s Pastilles suggestion. “I don’t remember who he was, but he was someone who knew performers,” Rabin-Havt says, “because he said it was the cough drop all the performers used and that it worked really well.”
The forgotten friend was correct on both fronts. According to the “On Everyone’s Lips” page of the Grether’s Pastilles website, Katy Perry, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ariana Grande, and Curt Hansen are all obsessive fans of the Swiss drops made with vitamin C–heavy elderflower and glycerin and specifically meant to soothe strained vocal cords. The pastilles worked so well for Sanders, says Rabin-Havt, that advance staffers made a point of keeping them on hand at all times just in case.(snip)
The best evidence of the pastilles’ effectiveness is perhaps this video of Bernie taken on September 28, 2019 — just a couple weeks after a Washington Examiner article had said Sanders “appeared to croak his way through his opening statement.” He sounds as clear as a bell.
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$32 at amazon.com. One would think an avowed Socialist would prefer a home remedy.
But then, Sanders is a first-class hypocrite.
I love those but I always buy the blueberry ones.
“Sanders appeared to croak”
Too bad he only appeared that way.
32 bones for a can! Nothing but the finest for your socialist leaders!
Doesn’t Bernie the commie have 3 homes?
In his third home, he has a walk-in closet for his lozenges and his ice cream freezer, where he keeps his 12-buck-a-pop Jeni’s ice cream.
Its fine with Bernie as long as he can go home and write more pornography. Those Vermonter are kinky people.
I’m nearing my 80th birthday. My father used to buy those when I was a child. Same packaging - color of the tin, etc.), but they were called Allenbury’s, not Grether’s.
All socialists are hypocrites, thats not it
Sanders is Inner Party, they live like oligarchs
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