We'll Never Know: 20 Legitimate Questions the American Media Refuses to Ask Bernie Sanders

[Iamaartist]

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/31/berning-questions-15-key-concerns-of-the-american-people-that-bernie-sanders-needs-to-address

Aaron Sorkin never thought too highly of our mainstream media.

In fact, leave it to Sorkin to create an entire series that drew in the bulk of its audience from an opening scene in which the main character, a newsman, had the audacity to actually tell the truth. From that momentous point forward in its three-season run, HBO's The Newsroom focused on the trials and tribulations of a news organization actually trying to do the right thing in the face of constant pressure to maintain high ratings. This central struggle always boiled down to one simple question: do you want it done haphazardly for higher ratings or do you want it done right? As the show progressed, this struggle manifested itself in a variety of ways with key power players on the journalistic side constantly butting heads with those on the corporate side. Whereas Sorkin's The West Wing focused on the struggle of an idealistic president in the face of political reality, The Newsroom focused on the struggle of an idealistic news team forced to deal with the pressures of a ratings-driven industry.

One episode in particular of The Newsroom always stuck with me. It involved an episode based on the 2012 Republican presidential primary. At the time, the Republicans vying for the nomination were in the process of saying some outrageous things (stop me if you've heard this one before) and the possibility arose that our heroes working for the fictional cable network of ACN could potentially host a Republican debate. The team was excited for the possibility but they faced a dilemma: should they play it safe, essentially guaranteeing their network gets to host the debate and thus bringing in some much-needed revenue or should the team be honest and really challenge the candidates on their views and positions? After much deliberation, the ACN team decided they wanted to challenge the candidates and when they did a mock debate in front of representatives from the Republican National Committee, their questions were sharp, insightful, and provocative. Of course, the RNC knew that if they agreed to this debate it would destroy their candidates, so naturally they declined the network's debate offer, a disappointing yet expected outcome.

Its long so couldn't put all here... the media leaves out important things...voters should know

such as
On Your Upbringing in Brooklyn
On Your Jewish Heritage
On Your Post-College Years
On Political Protesting
On Your History of Compromise
On the Crash of 2008
On Universal Health Care
On Your Education Proposal
On The Federal Minimum Wage
On Latino RightsOn
#BlackLivesMatter
On Your Views on American Military Intervention
On President Obama
On Your Campaign Philosophy
On Campaign Finance Reform
On Your Running a Clean Campaig
On Your Tax Returns
On Your Supporters' Behavior
On Your Support of Fellow Democrats
On Your Reason(s) for Running

At least, that's how it should be.

[BlueMTexpat]

1. Wouldn't it be loverly to have these

questions asked now?

[BlueMTexpat]

2. One of my personal favorites ...

On the Crash of 2008

However, Senator, in 2000 you voted in favor of the Commodities Futures Modernization Act, a bill which blocked federal agencies from regulating credit default swaps. This bill is now seen as one of the major causes behind the 2008 financial crash. As someone who has frequently voted against comprehensive legislation based upon one section of a bill, why did you vote in favor of this particular bill? Did you not foresee any potential problems down the road? Or did you approve of what the bill was trying to accomplish at the time? In addition, is it fair for the American people to hold you personally accountable for your vote that led to the Great Recession? Or is that somehow different from, say, someone who voted in favor of the Iraq War?

Each of these 20 "questions" is really a series of smaller specific questions. Pretty good, IMO,

[misterhighwasted]

3. That is damning. Gee if only the voters knew who bernie sanders really is..

Never trust an Indy nor a Republican.
You can't count on either when people's lives are at stake.

Example:
Bernie's vote AGAINST the AMBER ALERT
That is disgraceful.

[Iamaartist]

5. Right on !!!

[Iamaartist]

4. Good One!!!

[Her Sister]

6. Kibbutz kibbutz kibbutz (CNN)

How did a socialist kibbutz influence Bernie Sanders?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/09/politics/bernie-sanders-kibbutz-volunteer-israel/

I really would like to know more about BS experience Inside Shaar Ha'amakim kibbutz

Really I would.


HRC GROUP READY!

[Her Sister]

7. Tracing Bernie Sanders' roots in Israel - what did we find?

Tracing Bernie Sanders' roots in Israel - what did we find?
CNN source

[misterhighwasted]

8. He is clearly reliving his past glory days.

This just gets weirder & weirder.
No thanks bernie. Think I'll just take the good old melting pot i live in. The USA is a great place. Madam President Hillary Clinton will make it a whole, proud & functuoning society again. Inclusive of all thise under her big tent.

I don't want to live under the socialist politics of a communal existence.

Thats not even possible much less wanted. It is not our democracy, and to ask to change it goes against our constitution. He doesn't need to ever hold a place of Presidential power that would usurp our great American society
This is the USA. We build from where we are with Hillary as our great American leader.
Thanks anyway bernie. America will never be the commune of your dreams

[Iamaartist]

11. This is America Land Of The Free!!!!

We been to Spain on a trip I know how it is there we stood with people we know...so we know all about Europe we learned the difference being there and the experience l......what our freedom meant
here

[shadowandblossom]

12. I thought the video was charming.

Interesting. Wish I could go visit.

[robbedvoter]

20. "Democratic socialism" is an oxymoron. The two are incompatible.

To have socialism, you need a dictatorship (of the "proletariat" - really a few cadre) who seize the means of production. If there is a private sector is no socialism - like "a little bit pregnant". It's a deception that ignorant kids and colluding media propagate. There is a reason all the countries that tried it threw it away.

[SharonClark]

9. He probably learned what most Jews who live on a kibbutz learn

The history of the Jewish nation, how a small group of people could create a nation by hard work and dedication, how important the state of Israel was after the Holocaust, and how to work together for the common good. That it was 'socialist' has everything to do with survival. I think you should give this line of attack a rest.

[BlueMTexpat]

15. I agree with this.

This is one line of attack that literally has no teeth for me. But it will likely harm him in the eyes of many Americans.

Many young American Jews flocked to the kibbutz experience in the 1960s especially. That Bernie did so does him credit in my eyes. I also believe that Israel in the 1960s was a different nation than it later developed into. Full disclosure: I am not Jewish.

But his doubling-down on lying about Hillary and his recent campaign tactics have really turned me off.

[Her Sister]

16. I think it would be interesting just to see the role it played in his development,

I think it would be interesting just to see the role it played in his development, either for good or for bad.

Personally I am an atheist. What made me curious is him being vague, as in not wanting to bring this up.

In a general election his biography would come out. Why not now!?

[BlueMTexpat]

18. That's fair enough!

I think so too. But implying that it is per se negative is too much, IMO.

[robbedvoter]

21. Because Republicans are trying to pick their opponent.

Vetting would be done after. MSM as always, complies.

[SharonClark]

10. This is a good list for ALL candidates

Many of the issues on the list have been answered repeatedly.

[DavidDvorkin]

13. I don't see the relevance of the first two.

[Her Sister]

14. they are fleshed out in the article

[Iamaartist]

17. I guess you have to ask the writer on that.......

[beachbumbob]

19. Conservative media hoping for a sanders nomination so they can destroy him...

...these are softball questions and issues...

[Cha]

22. K&R!