[Bernie] Sanders: "Congress Cannot Ignore Corporate Control of the Media"

Sanders Press Release ^ | June 14, 2002 | Bernie Sanders

[tdadams]

Emphasis mine. Sanders is an avowed Marxist. He's about as independent as Mary Francis Berry, the Marxist who sits as the head of the Civil Rights Commission.

The United States has the most unfair distribution of wealth and income in the industrialized world, and the highest rate of childhood poverty

What an incredibly implausible claim. Sanders wants us to believe we have more children in poverty than India, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Mongolia, or dozens of other barren countries? Please!

And from a left perspective [on radio] there is -- well, no one.

And there's a very good reason for that, and it's not what Sanders assumes. As Neal Boortz points out very well... left wingers are very good at writing statist op-eds because it's hit and run. They can put their opinion out there without being challenged in real time. On radio you have to face a barrage of callers and defend your position.

Leftists, who rely on emotion and hysteria more than facts, would have their policy ideas slaughtered by callers confronting them with facts. Hillary Clinton is a prime example of this. She has not and will not enter a situation that is not staged by her handlers and well-controlled to present her nebulous policy ideas in a good light, without dissent.

[mattdono]

[Bernie] Sanders

Stopped reading right there! Wonk, wonk, wonk, wonk...

[AppyPappy]

The United States has the most unfair distribution of wealth and income in the industrialized world, and the highest rate of childhood poverty

Boat leaving everyday, Sanders.

[Notforprophet]

ABC is owned by the Disney Corp., which produces toys and products in developing countries where they provide their workers atrocious wages and working conditions.

CBS is owned by Viacom, another huge media conglomerate that owns, among other entities, MTV, Showtime, Nickelodeon, VH1, TNN, CMT, 39 broadcast television stations, 184 radio stations, Paramount Pictures and Blockbuster Inc.

Note that while he is quite eager to point out that General Electric and Rupert Murdoch are big GOP contributors, he neatly fails to even mention that Disney and Viacom are huge DNC contributors. Seems to me that the political leanings of the major media conglomerates are pretty evenly balanced, Bernie! What a load of horse-pucky this op-ed is. But what should we have expected from Congresses only admitted socialist?

[Lockbox]

The United States has the most unfair distribution of wealth and income in the industrialized world

Yea, we use the old fashion method, we make you earn it !!!!!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The politics of envy.

[isthisnickcool]

Entities with money "control the media"? Wow! I thought that those guys standing on street corners with the signs that say "will work for food" did.

Hi, this is Bob. He is a wino. He is head of Viacom. Really! Oops! Sorry Bob puked on you! C'mon Bob. Time for a board of directors meeting!"

Bernie Sanders is worthless.

[RAT Patrol]

There is nothing even about the political leanings of the networks. ABC gave us Jesus bleeping, Rosie O'Donnel's push for child abuse via gay adoption, George Stephanopoulos as the new anchor of "This Week"....aah..not even worth going through the huge list.

[detsaoT]

What an incredibly implausible claim. Sanders wants us to believe we have more children in poverty than India, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Mongolia, or dozens of other barren countries? Please!

Heck, not only THAT, but I've heard from many foreigners (from places like India) that our "poor" are the wealthiest "poor" in the world. Think about it, do any poor people in Cambodia have television sets? Cars? Heck, do any of them have air-conditioning? A refrigerator?

Marxists deny truth in support of their mythical assumptions and pack of lies. The Soviets/Bolsheviks did it, the Euro-Marxists are doing it, and the American Left does it every day. 90% of the people in our nation still don't believe it for a second.

:) ttt

[RAT Patrol]

This man is insane. I agree that Corporate control of the media is a problem though. Go ahead, Bernie, make my day and mess with the corporate media.

[asformeandformyhouse]

The United States is the only industrialized nation on earth that does not have a national healthcare program.

Thank God for that one. If we did, we'd have people dying while waiting months for their turn for what we know as routine procedures just like Canada.

[tdadams]

LOL! It seems obvious enough, but somehow Sanders sees this as troublesome.

[3AngelaD]

I am not in love with the media, either. But Bernie thinks maybe Congress, and in particular Bernie, could do a better job. I cannot believe those idiots keep relecting this idiot.

[eddie willers]

The United States has the most unfair distribution of wealth and income in the industrialized world,...

Compared to the rest of the world, our classes are Super-Rich, Very-Rich, Rich, Well Off, and Middle Class.
I really don't care if someone has 95% of the pie when I am satiated and content with the amount of pie I have.
I think, with few exceptions, that the desperate poor in this country are that way because they wish it so or are just plain physically or mentally incapable. Even then, charities and welfare will bring them above what would be considered poor in the rest of the world.

....and the highest rate of childhood poverty.

This comment is true.
When I was a child, my father gave me a nickel a day to fetch the morning paper.
Who can live on that! : )

[jpl]

Sanders, like most on the far left, implies that huge corporations are by their nature politically conservative. The truth is that, with some occasional exceptions, the large corporations are by and large politically on the left. Most of them want to stifle true competition and push endlessly for socialism and world government, with the levers of power being manipulated by themselves.

[Bommer]

Notice no mention of Right-Winger news organization CNN with VRW conspirator Ted Turner. Notice that when ABC is mentioned, nothing is said about Eisner or Disney contributing to the Democraps. Notice no mention of Dan (oh did I accidentially attend another DNC fundraiser?) Rather, or Pet-duh (damn this country sucks, but where can a 60 year old Canadian high school drop out get a job that pays this well) Jennings get no mention to their contributions to the DNC!

Can anyone verify what the average IQ is in Vermont to have elected this dimwit?

[KarlInOhio]

The United States has the most unfair distribution of wealth and income in the industrialized world

Even if we did have the most uneven distribution, it wouldn't mean that it was the most unfair distribution.

[gaspar]

Why is this Marxist polemic being distributed by the U.S. State Department?

[lawdude]

"The United States has the most unfair distribution of wealth and income in the industrialized world, and the highest rate of childhood poverty"

Please define "UNFAIR" bernie! And the statement that we enjoy the 'highest rate of childhood poverty...' is a total fabrication and cannot be supported by any data!

[Jimmy Valentine]

Well, I feel that in the interests of fairness, I should point out that no less an authority than Jane Fonda asserted in a speech that children in the north of the state of Georgia were starving..........

Regards,