Senator Bernie Sanders Belongs on the Sunday Shows

[Donnachaidh]

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/06/02/senator-bernie-sanders-belongs-on-the-sunday-shows/

“With a $1.6 trillion deficit,” Sen. Bernie Sanders told Jon Stewart recently, “it is insane to think that the only way you’re going to move toward a balanced budget is by slashing college Pell grants, by cutting Medicaid, by converting Medicare into a voucher program, by cutting programs that working class and middle class people desperately need.”

The Senator on social security: “Social Security has a $2.6 trillion surplus. It could pay out every benefit owed for the next 26 years. It is not going bankrupt. It’s not going broke.”

On income inequality: “You have so few who have so much and so many that have so little. Those are themes not usually discussed here in Washington, for kind of obvious reasons.”

Senator Sanders is a bold voice, and one that’s missing every Sunday. He’s a passionate advocate for the middle class and yet his last morning show appearance came late last year.

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[nichomachus]

1. He's not at all appropriate

The corporatist media in the US creates a narrative. You can say anything you want, as long as you stay within the bounds of the narrative. If you step outside of the narrative, you are excluded from the discussion.

[Bigmack]

2. Yup. You said it all. nt

[Festivito]

3. So true! He should be a permanent fixture there, every week.

If the media were at all left wing, he'd already have been there.

It's not. He's not.

This needs to change for our country's sake.