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Attacking Bernie Sanders Over His Visit With The Pope Is Garbage
Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had a big weekend, jetting off to the Vatican to deliver a speech at a conference there, and even getting to meet Pope Francis himself, and to hear Sanders’ opponents tell it, this makes him history’s greatest monster. According to online critics, Sanders flew to Rome on the Marie Antionette Express, murdered the environment, crashed the Vatican like some drunken neighbor peeing in your barbecue pit, stalked the Pope, and claimed he was now an honorary Pope, too. I’m only exaggerating slightly, and as a public service to all you Bernie-haters on Twitter, I’m going to explain why this is all garbage before you make yourselves look stupid.
First of all, Bernie is taking a lot of heat for supposedly jetting off to Rome on a “private jet” that cost “up to $200,000,” and had fancy menus with lobster sliders on them, all on his $27-buck-apiece supporters’ dime. The genesis of this garbage is a combination of this Daily Mail story and this tweet from Sanders beat reporter Yamiche Alcindor:
The facts are that Bernie didn’t take a private jet, he chartered a commercial jet, the cost of which is unknown, but which would be shared by the news organizations covering Sanders, and wow, he’s got letterhead! And an inkjet printer! The fact is he had no choice but to use a private charter flight in order to accommodate his staff, the traveling press, and the Secret Service. Aside from the fact that this attack, along with the tabulating of fuel consumed, puts you in the same intellectual space as PJ Media, or Fox News the time they complained about President Obama‘s “$200,000,000 trip to India,” it’s just ignorant of the way politicians travel. The dude’s running for a job that comes with several private jets.
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Giving a speech at the Vatican on income inequality is a nice thing, and meeting the Pope and getting excited about it is also a nice thing. Even politicians you don’t like can do nice things.
First of all, Bernie is taking a lot of heat for supposedly jetting off to Rome on a “private jet” that cost “up to $200,000,” and had fancy menus with lobster sliders on them, all on his $27-buck-apiece supporters’ dime. The genesis of this garbage is a combination of this Daily Mail story and this tweet from Sanders beat reporter Yamiche Alcindor:
The facts are that Bernie didn’t take a private jet, he chartered a commercial jet, the cost of which is unknown, but which would be shared by the news organizations covering Sanders, and wow, he’s got letterhead! And an inkjet printer! The fact is he had no choice but to use a private charter flight in order to accommodate his staff, the traveling press, and the Secret Service. Aside from the fact that this attack, along with the tabulating of fuel consumed, puts you in the same intellectual space as PJ Media, or Fox News the time they complained about President Obama‘s “$200,000,000 trip to India,” it’s just ignorant of the way politicians travel. The dude’s running for a job that comes with several private jets.
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Giving a speech at the Vatican on income inequality is a nice thing, and meeting the Pope and getting excited about it is also a nice thing. Even politicians you don’t like can do nice things.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/attacking-bernie-sanders-over-his-visit-with-the-pope-is-garbage/
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Aside from the fact that this attack, along with the tabulating of fuel consumed, puts you in the same intellectual space as PJ Media, or Fox News the time they complained about President Obama‘s “$200,000,000 trip to India,” it’s just ignorant of the way politicians travel. The dude’s running for a job that comes with several private jets
