Mon Aug 17, 2015 at 12:52 PM EDT.
Bernie Calls out the Press, Crowd Loves ItbyChaoslillith
After his rally which 2000 ppl attended in Dubuque, Iowa he took questions from reporters.
The first questions was a typical question asking him to in some way attack Hillary, Bernie's response was priceless and he kept right on calling out the media's willful twisting of perceptions the whole time.
VIDEO: I will transcribe/paraphrase some of it below.
Question: Um in your speech tonight you said you will not criticize or attack Hillary, but you did draw some implicit contrasts when you said you don't take money from Superpacs or didn't vote for the Iraq war..
Bernie interrupts: "What I said was that the corporate media talks about all kinds of issues except the most important issues. Time after time I am asked to criticize Hillary Clinton. That's the sport that you guys like. The reason this campaign is doing well is that we are talking about the issues that impact the American people..." He talked about his platform for a bit from here, stating that he and her have differences of opinions and that he respects her. Here is the part where people started cheering
"The issue that I want to be talking about is the collapse of the middle class. Are you guys going to write about that?" (People cheered!) The need to create millions of jobs, the obscenity of wealth inequality (snip) So I am not going to get into the game of sitting around attacking Hillary Clinton..."
At the end of the interview he discuss the debates again,
"They (us the American people) are tired of the media which wants to have gotcha questions and create conflict between the candidates, rather than talking about the real issues impacting the American people. The American people are saying enough is enough!....(snip)The American people want us to address those issues, they do not want us to be attacking each other, they want us to focus and have a real debate and I intend to give it to them!" Cheers, clapping, "We Love you Bern" shouted out.
There's a lot more in the interview but those were the points that I wanted to address. Bernie is doing well because he calls it like it is, he calls out the Koch brothers, the billionaires and he does it by name. There is no give in his stance and most of us
Bernie supporters love the fact that he is just as pis sed off about the corruption in this country as we are. So the more of this we see and share it on our social media, the more and more people will be attracted to him because he is tapping into that sense of revulsion at the government that we have all felt for years.
This is why his numbers are rising, this is why he pulls huge crowds. He speaks what we have been dying to hear from someone in Washington for years, just like Warren does. Truth, simple, unvarnished truth. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/17/1412816/-Bernie-Calls-out-the-Press-Crowd-Loves-It