WE WANT HILLARY CLINTON TO MEET WITH THE NY DAILY NEWS!
The Issue
As you've probably heard, Bernie Sanders met with the New York Daily News editorial board on April 1st where he was aggressively interrogated by editor Arthur Browne on issues such as breaking up the big banks and the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
You can read the full transcript here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/transcript-bernie-sanders-meets-news-editorial-board-article-1.2588306
Browne pressed Sanders on specifics about the legislative mechanisms by which the big banks could be broken up and how Sanders would convince Israel to withdraw from illegal settlements in the West Bank. Because he didn't have exact answers to these complicated questions of procedure (which would require careful planning with an administration that hasn't been assembled yet), the corporate media (spearheaded largely by The Washington Post, the propaganda arm of the political establishment) are ripping him to shreds and loving every second of it, declaring the interview a disaster and citing it as further proof that Sanders doesn't know what he's talking about.
Naturally though, the Clinton campaign have jumped on the band wagon along with their preferred television news network of choice, CNN (owned by Time Warner, one of Clinton's biggest campaign contributors.)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/05/politics/bernie-sanders-interview-new-york-daily-news/
Even the Panama Papers and the revelation that Bernie warned about it five years ago hasn't convinced the media establishment to take him seriously. Actually, it's precisely because of the Panama Papers and the revelation that Bernie warned about it five years ago why the media establishment won't take him seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0mAwRAFC2U
Daily News contributor and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González was at the Daily News meeting and gives a very different account of what went down:
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/6/juan_gonzalez_was_at_bernie_sanders
But the general corporate media backlash doesn't come as a surprise considering that during the interview, Sanders makes some provocative points that can rightfully be seen as a direct threat to the economic and political establishment of the United States.
Let's take a look at some of the highlights:
As Browne implicitly tries to defend the culture of Corporate America, Bernie responds with one of the best lines of the interview:
"You go to Flint, Michigan, today. And everyone looks at Flint, Michigan today because they're seeing children being poisoned by the water systems. What people forget is that in the 1960s, Flint, Michigan was one of the wealthiest cities in America. Very prosperous city, because you had GM manufacturing plants there. That city is a disaster right now. And that is not just Flint, Michigan. It is cities all over this country have lost their tax base. They've lost their decent-paying jobs because of disastrous trade policies.
...I do believe in trade. But it has to be based on principles that are fair. So if you are in Vietnam, where the minimum wage is 65¢ an hour, or you're in Malaysia, where many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions, no, I'm not going to have American workers "competing" against you under those conditions. So you have to have standards. And what fair trade means to say that it is fair. It is roughly equivalent to the wages and environmental standards in the United States."
With regards to the idea of breaking up the big banks, the relevant question at this point in the debate isn't HOW to break them up but whether they SHOULD be broken up. That's the issue Sanders is trying to raise with his campaign and a position that many of America's economists agree with him on. The HOW is a matter of procedure that can be devised once there's a qualified consensus and a team of experts assembled to draft up the appropriate legislation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIr45gRr-k
But as Browne tries to drag Sanders into a quagmire of pedantic legal-speak, Bernie make his position on the subject crystal clear:
"We bailed out Wall Street because the banks are too big to fail, correct? It turns out, that three out of the four largest banks are bigger today than they were when we bailed them out, when they were too-big-to-fail.
...You would determine is that, if a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. And then you have the secretary of treasury and some people who know a lot about this, making that determination. If the determination is that Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan Chase is too big to fail, yes, they will be broken up."
When pressed on the Israeli-Palestine issue, Sanders offers the most progressive view of any candidate in this election, proving that not all Jews necessarily side with the policies of the internationally condemned, right wing Netanyahu administration and their devout supporters like Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump:
"Here's the main point that I want to make. I lived in Israel. I have family in Israel. I believe 100% not only in Israel's right to exist, a right to exist in peace and security without having to face terrorist attacks. But from the United States' point of view, I think, long-term, we cannot ignore the reality that you have large numbers of Palestinians who are suffering now, poverty rate off the charts, unemployment off the charts, Gaza remaining a destroyed area. And I think that for long-term peace in that region, and God knows nobody has been successful in that for 60 years, but there are good people on both sides, and Israel is not, cannot, just simply expand when it wants to expand with new settlements. So I think the United States has got to help work with the Palestinian people as well. I think that is the path toward peace."
Anyway, despite the heavy barrage of questions, it's a fascinating interview that yielded a lot of powerful talking points, many of which you won't see expounded upon in the Corporate Media.
But it does beg the question: How would Hillary Clinton withstand an interrogation like this?
Well, let's find out, shall we? Sign the petition, share it with your friends and let's see if we can convince Hillary Clinton to meet with the Daily News editorial board before the New York Primary on April 19th!
The Issue
As you've probably heard, Bernie Sanders met with the New York Daily News editorial board on April 1st where he was aggressively interrogated by editor Arthur Browne on issues such as breaking up the big banks and the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
You can read the full transcript here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/transcript-bernie-sanders-meets-news-editorial-board-article-1.2588306
Browne pressed Sanders on specifics about the legislative mechanisms by which the big banks could be broken up and how Sanders would convince Israel to withdraw from illegal settlements in the West Bank. Because he didn't have exact answers to these complicated questions of procedure (which would require careful planning with an administration that hasn't been assembled yet), the corporate media (spearheaded largely by The Washington Post, the propaganda arm of the political establishment) are ripping him to shreds and loving every second of it, declaring the interview a disaster and citing it as further proof that Sanders doesn't know what he's talking about.
Naturally though, the Clinton campaign have jumped on the band wagon along with their preferred television news network of choice, CNN (owned by Time Warner, one of Clinton's biggest campaign contributors.)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/05/politics/bernie-sanders-interview-new-york-daily-news/
Even the Panama Papers and the revelation that Bernie warned about it five years ago hasn't convinced the media establishment to take him seriously. Actually, it's precisely because of the Panama Papers and the revelation that Bernie warned about it five years ago why the media establishment won't take him seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0mAwRAFC2U
Daily News contributor and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González was at the Daily News meeting and gives a very different account of what went down:
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/6/juan_gonzalez_was_at_bernie_sanders
But the general corporate media backlash doesn't come as a surprise considering that during the interview, Sanders makes some provocative points that can rightfully be seen as a direct threat to the economic and political establishment of the United States.
Let's take a look at some of the highlights:
As Browne implicitly tries to defend the culture of Corporate America, Bernie responds with one of the best lines of the interview:
"You go to Flint, Michigan, today. And everyone looks at Flint, Michigan today because they're seeing children being poisoned by the water systems. What people forget is that in the 1960s, Flint, Michigan was one of the wealthiest cities in America. Very prosperous city, because you had GM manufacturing plants there. That city is a disaster right now. And that is not just Flint, Michigan. It is cities all over this country have lost their tax base. They've lost their decent-paying jobs because of disastrous trade policies.
...I do believe in trade. But it has to be based on principles that are fair. So if you are in Vietnam, where the minimum wage is 65¢ an hour, or you're in Malaysia, where many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions, no, I'm not going to have American workers "competing" against you under those conditions. So you have to have standards. And what fair trade means to say that it is fair. It is roughly equivalent to the wages and environmental standards in the United States."
With regards to the idea of breaking up the big banks, the relevant question at this point in the debate isn't HOW to break them up but whether they SHOULD be broken up. That's the issue Sanders is trying to raise with his campaign and a position that many of America's economists agree with him on. The HOW is a matter of procedure that can be devised once there's a qualified consensus and a team of experts assembled to draft up the appropriate legislation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIr45gRr-k
But as Browne tries to drag Sanders into a quagmire of pedantic legal-speak, Bernie make his position on the subject crystal clear:
"We bailed out Wall Street because the banks are too big to fail, correct? It turns out, that three out of the four largest banks are bigger today than they were when we bailed them out, when they were too-big-to-fail.
...You would determine is that, if a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. And then you have the secretary of treasury and some people who know a lot about this, making that determination. If the determination is that Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan Chase is too big to fail, yes, they will be broken up."
When pressed on the Israeli-Palestine issue, Sanders offers the most progressive view of any candidate in this election, proving that not all Jews necessarily side with the policies of the internationally condemned, right wing Netanyahu administration and their devout supporters like Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump:
"Here's the main point that I want to make. I lived in Israel. I have family in Israel. I believe 100% not only in Israel's right to exist, a right to exist in peace and security without having to face terrorist attacks. But from the United States' point of view, I think, long-term, we cannot ignore the reality that you have large numbers of Palestinians who are suffering now, poverty rate off the charts, unemployment off the charts, Gaza remaining a destroyed area. And I think that for long-term peace in that region, and God knows nobody has been successful in that for 60 years, but there are good people on both sides, and Israel is not, cannot, just simply expand when it wants to expand with new settlements. So I think the United States has got to help work with the Palestinian people as well. I think that is the path toward peace."
Anyway, despite the heavy barrage of questions, it's a fascinating interview that yielded a lot of powerful talking points, many of which you won't see expounded upon in the Corporate Media.
But it does beg the question: How would Hillary Clinton withstand an interrogation like this?
Well, let's find out, shall we? Sign the petition, share it with your friends and let's see if we can convince Hillary Clinton to meet with the Daily News editorial board before the New York Primary on April 19th!
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