"Sanders, a socialist running ona platform that should send shivers up the spines of most Americans"

[Scuba]

'Cause most Americans are afraid of keeping their Social Security and Medicare. Yeah, that's it.

Hit piece in the Milwaukee Urinal/Sentinel, equating Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump. This is what we're up against.


http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/the-don-vs-the-bern-b99531327z1-311598351.html

Stranger things have happened in American politics, but the sudden surge of Democratic/Populist Bernie Sanders and Republican/Pompulist Donald Trump puts one in mind of alternate universes. And I don't mean Miss Universes. Both men are holding second place in some polls behind Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, respectively. And both are steadily ascending in the polls at a greater pace than anyone could have predicted — or imagined.

Sanders, a socialist running on a platform that should send shivers up the spines of most Americans, drew the largest crowd of the season — nearly 10,000 — in Madison, Wis., Wednesday night. The anti-establishment candidate, who wants to break up big banks and redistribute wealth, makes President Barack Obama (and Clinton) look like robber barons by comparison.

Although Madison is a liberal college town and Sanders' record crowd could be rationalized accordingly, poll after poll shows him closing the gap with Clinton. A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday morning put him within 19 points of Clinton among likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa. Quinnipiac surveyed 761 likely Iowa Democratic caucus participants, with humans calling cell and land phones, and with a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.

...

At the same time Sanders is on the zoom rail, mysterious things are happening around the candidacy of the Trumpster. Some of you may recognize him as the cartoon character eternally lost in a game of Monopoly, sort of the way Beetlejuice was confined to miniature quarters in the movie of the same name. (No matter what happens, do not say "Trump!" thrice in a row.)

[JackInGreen]

1. Holy shit

Fangs out and rampant. That's a lot of venom.

[PSPS]

2. Kathleen Parker is a well-known conservative syndicated columnist.

This piece also appeared in the Washington Post lasr Friday. She's like George Will, only female.

[daleanime]

21. Oh, you mean talks real pretty....

says nothing?

[think]

3. It's disgusting. That Kathleen Parker hit piece against Bernie is running on many news sites:

Kathleen Parker: The Don vs. The Bern:

http://www.fayobserver.com/opinion/national_columns/kathleen-parker-the-don-vs-the-bern/article_c18e400f-c37f-557c-b79b-d66520ac0d31.html


Parker: Stranger than political fiction:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20150706/COLUMNIST/150709922/2127?Title=Parker-Stranger-than-political-fiction


The unexpected rise of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-socialist-and-the-donald/2015/07/03/da2063e4-2114-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html


The strange appeal of Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump: Kathleen Parker:

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/07/the_appeal_of_bernie_sanders_d.html


Kathleen Parker: Sanders, Trump entertaining, but appeal won’t last:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jul/05/kathleen-parker-sanders-trump-entertaining-but/


Sit Back And Enjoy The Show:

http://thesheridanpress.com/?p=37907

[riversedge]

6. yes, saw it in WPost earlier. Parker is a

syndicated columnist. It is upsetting that she would link a good progressive with crazy racist teabagger!

[daleanime]

22. All the better....

to be little.

And let's face it, being compered against tRump is never going to make anyone look good. It why we're kind of happy he's in the republican field.

[still_one]

4. The opinion piece is garbage, and obviously highlights the ignorance of the author not even being

aware of what Bernie believes and stands for.

I didn't see the "social security" quote in the article, but regardless, setting up an equivalency between trump and Bernie is the real alternate universe of the idiot author of this opinion.

[think]

5. Unfortunately she knew damn well what she was doing. It's a factious hit piece well honed for impact

Kathleen Parker even has a Pulitzer award for political commentary

which I guess means she's gifted in writing heavily slanted fact free commentary in order to shape and color the political discussion....

[still_one]

9. The only thing I can say is obviously Pulitzer isn't what it used to be, because this is so

off base and inaccurate, she should be fired for inept comments.

This won't have any negative on Bernie, in fact I would welcome the MSM to ask Bernie a response to this hit job so he not only sets the record straight, but minimizes parker to the hack she is

[think]

10. Hopefully Bernie will get an opportunity to rebut this Pulitzer prize winning "journalist".

hopefully....

[bvf]

15. Oh, good goddamn...! n/t.

[bvf]

7. A level of argument worthy of any small-town shopping

news rag's Op/Ed page.

[mopinko]

8. kathleen parker, doing what she gets paid to do. sow fud.

you should read some of her pieces on abortion if you want to have a good cry.

this, of course, is the line that will be thrown up over and over. it's all they've got.

[TBF]

11. Someone posted a small-town hit piece yesterday as well -

we all know this is what they say. And they say it because the mainstream press is owned and managed by and for billionaires.

The silver lining is that if they are this worried early on we know it is because Bernie is effective. He's scaring them. Ramp it up!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

12. Be scared, be very scared!

Someone wants to redistribute wealth AWAY from the 1% and TO the 99%!!!!!

Sooooo scary, woooooo, wooooooooo!

The only reason most people might be 'scared' is that they simply have no clue how wealth is ACTUALLY distributed in America. Almost everyone should be clamouring for 'wealth redistribution'.

[Scuba]

13. +1

[marym625]

18. We should call it what it really is

Government sanctioned thievery

[bvf]

23. Class warfare!!

a.k.a. "fighting back."

[truebluegreen]

14. I'm shivering in a good way. nt

[Le Taz Hot]

16. Well, this explains all the

"Bernie Sanders is just like Donald Trump" threads in GD and GD-P. Apparently, the clarion call has gone out.

"Fly, my pretties, fly!"

[marym625]

17. omg! so we're going back to the red scare!

Dear lord! Not the commies again! Worse yet, those long haired, hippie type, pinkos!

It's not really stealing from the rich or redistribution when they stole it from the poor in the first place. More like stopping the thievery.



#Bernie2016 you betcha!

[SoapBox]

19. Yes!

The "Reds Under the Beds" BOO tactics.

And so very early for such slime...somebody must be scared of Bernie.

[marym625]

20. shaking in their fucking boots!

Ha! Gonna just have to bounce it off.



Red under the bed BOO!

[Enthusiast]

24. Awful.