#1341 Bernie and the Billionaires (Democratic Primary Election)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 3/3/2020
Today we take a look at the election through the lens of billionaire politics, from the candidates in both parties to the heads of media organizations to the way a pro-billionaire mentality trickles down to the establishment class on the media and Democratic Party. And what has all of this money been able to buy in terms of opposition research and narrative building against Bernie Sanders? Red-baiting at its most naked and pathetic.
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SHOW NOTES
Seth takes a closer look at some pundits and members of the Democratic establishment panicking after Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucus in a landslide.
The embarrassing journalistic choices by the mainstream media in their coverage of the primary elections.
Ch. 3: Michael Bloomberg Is Buying the Election - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 2-19-20
Intercepted investigates the multitude of problematic and harmful aspects of Michael Bloomberg.
Ch. 4: The Billionaire Election with Anand Giridharadas - Democracy Now - Air Date 2-26-20
Anand Giridharadas discusses Bloomberg buying his way to the Democratic nomination
A debate on Bernie Sanders and democratic socialism featuring two well-known economists, Paul Krugman and Richard Wolff.
Jeremy discusses the establishment's resistance to Bernie.
Ch. 7: The state of the race - The Bugle - Air Date 2-29-20
A comprehensive explanation of the state of the Democratic Primary race
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 8: Get a message going! - Jeff from Charlotte, NC
Ch. 9: What do we do if Bernie gets screwed over again? - Anonymous
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on navigating the post-primary election landscape
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | learn about the election through the lens of billionaire politics. |
| 0:11.8 | From the billionaire candidates in both parties, the candidates who have gotten to where they |
| 0:15.8 | are, explicitly by opposing billionaires, the billionaire heads of media organizations, |
| 0:21.8 | and billionaire friendly policies of establishment party members who are left with nothing but |
| 0:27.1 | naked, red-baiting in an attempt to stop Bernie Sanders. |
| 0:31.1 | Clips today come from late night with Seth Meyers, Counter-Spin, Intercepted Democracy Now, |
| 0:37.5 | and The Bugle. |
| 0:41.4 | Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucus in a landslide on Saturday, and now some pundits in the |
| 0:49.2 | Democratic establishment are panicking about the possibility that he might be the Democratic |
| 0:54.0 | nominee for more of this. |
| 0:55.1 | His time for a closer look. |
| 1:01.1 | Bernie has now won the popular vote in the first three primary contests, making the clear |
| 1:05.4 | frontrunner and now Politico is reporting that Bernie Sanders has sent the Democratic |
| 1:09.5 | establishment into panic mode. |
| 1:11.4 | And you can tell because the general tenor of the coverage on cable news has gone something |
| 1:15.7 | like this. |
| 1:16.7 | NBC News projects Bernie Sanders, the winner in Nevada, |
| 1:20.6 | what the f**k is going on? |
| 1:25.6 | Condents across cable news have been freaking out about Bernie's rise. |
| 1:29.7 | For example, you might remember that after Bernie won the popular vote in Iowa, and again |
| 1:33.5 | in New Hampshire, the story wasn't that he was winning, but that if he used pundit math, |
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