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Bernie Sanders Drops the Hammer on Politico Over Profile Calling Him ‘Cheap’: ‘It’s an Anti-Semitic Article’

By Tommy ChristopherJun 3rd, 2019, 1:52 pm

Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders came down hard on Politico over a profile that described him as “cheap” and featured loaded imagery, telling an interviewer “Call that what it is. It’s an anti-Semitic article.”

This weekend, The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur posted an interview in which he asked Sanders about a recent Politico article that trafficked in a number of anti-Semitic tropes, and which was heavily criticized by several senior Sanders advisers and allies.

“So, when the right wing pushes back against the media, and they pretend that they have a liberal bias, which I think is hilarious,” Uygur said, “the media reaction is to say sorry, and they go out of their way to appease them.”

“When you talk about an establishment bias, or progressives talk about an establishment bias that the New York Times has when they run that article on Central America,” Uygur continued, referring to a story that resulted in a contentious interview with Sanders, “or Politico has when they run the article about your so-called wealth, and…”

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1. He has far more credibility than anybody else who has made that allegation about somebody

He is actually Jewish.

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2. Most Jewish organizations came out

and said that article was NOT anti-semitic.

This is just manufactured outrage aided by Cenk Uygur to get in the news where he has been mostly ignored.

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3. Selective outrage? Like against Illhan Omar?

No.