Guns and Race. Bernie Sanders' Narrative.....

[msanthrope]

WEDNESDAY, APR 6, 2016 11:18 AM EDT

Bernie’s giant misfire on guns: His tone-deaf position on Sandy Hook lawsuit should open Democrats’ eyes.

AMANDA MARCOTTE  

The New York Daily News published a lengthy interview with Bernie Sanders on Monday and, needless to say, it was not a good day for the Sanders campaign, which is heading into a major primary in the state of New York in two weeks. The tabloid (headline on website front page as I’m writing this: “I’M NOT ‘EVIL,’ SEX TEACHER SAYS”) showed up more reputable news organizations by actually asking hard questions about how Sanders plans to enact his bold economic and foreign policy agenda. His vague and often amateurish answers on issues like Wall Street, foreign policy, and even government process are causing alarm across the political media.Clinton’s campaign has started to heavily fundraise off it.

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But the issue runs deeper than just a difference of opinion between most New York Democrats and Sanders on gun control. One of the biggest problems facing the Sanders campaign is the perception that he’s the white guy candidate who may have all the correct opinions on issues around race, but who doesn’t, at the end of the day, really take those issues as seriously as the pressing need to get some bankers behind bars. Sanders does better in states that are racially homogenous, something his campaign has admitted.

On top of that, there’s been a number of concerns about Sanders and racial insensitivity, from his poorly phrased “ghetto” remark during a debate to a recent misstep when Tim Robbins, campaigning for Sanders, suggested that Clinton winning the black voter-dominated primary in South Carolina “is about as significant as winning Guam”.

Sanders’s gun control positions tend to feed this narrative. “Let me add to that, I think that urban America has got to respect what rural America is about, where 99 percent of the people in my state who hunt are law abiding people,” Sanders told NPR back in July when pressed on this issue.

The problem is, as I laid out in November, the tragic tale of law-abiding rural white people being deprived their gun rights because the people in those racially diverse cities can’t behave themselves is, to put it gently, a racially loaded narrative. Or, less gently, that’s a talking point crafted by unsubtle bigots like Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. And while the white voters of Midwestern college towns that love Sanders might not hear the implications, the ease with which Sanders, intentionally or not, contrasts supposedly law-abiding rural whites with the rest of us miscreants might not go over as well in New York.

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More at link...

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/06/bernies_giant_misfire_on_guns_his_tone_deaf_position_on_sandy_hook_lawsuit_should_open_democrats_eyes/

[msanthrope]

1. Sanders' npr interview on guns.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/24/417180805/bernie-sanders-walks-a-fine-line-on-gun-control

[4Q2u2]

2. You mean this Marcotte

After your interpretation of the real story was debunk on this blog many times.
You got yourself a independent view of the article that was debunked.

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/01/why_im_supporting_clinton_over_sanders_liberals_dont_need_a_savior_but_someone_who_can_actually_get_things_done_in_washington/


Real independent journalistic source you have there.

[msanthrope]

3. What was debunked? Sanders did actually say those remarks to the Daily News and to NPR. nt

[4Q2u2]

4. I get it

Your a New Yorker, She's a New Yorker and you are all looking out for her.
Seeing dollar signs that will pour into NYC when she is President.
Hey that is how things are done in the Big Apple.

Really though just come out and say it. It is OK.

[msanthrope]

5. Oh jeez....nt

[msanthrope]

6. It's not about money...is about saving SCOTUS for a generation. nt