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🗓️ 12 April 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the US presidential race. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss what went wrong in his campaign, from being unwilling to take on the Democratic Party, treating right-wing war criminal Joe Biden like a friend, refusing to attack a cartoonishly hostile corporate media, recruiting milquetoast Washington, DC foreign-policy advisors, and attracting a slew of careerists and opportunists in "left media."
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(Recorded April 11, 2020)
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0:00.0 | Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the presidential campaign. |
0:07.2 | Today, Max and I are going to talk about the end of Bernie Sanders campaign for president, |
0:14.2 | what it means and why it ultimately failed. |
0:17.6 | We've been talking a lot about Bernie Sanders in the past several months. We talked about |
0:23.0 | his weaknesses in foreign policy. And of course, it goes without saying that the entire media |
0:29.0 | establishment and the DNC rigged the entire game against Bernie Sanders from the beginning. |
0:34.6 | It's further exposed how the U.S. is not in any way of functioning democracy. |
0:39.6 | You know, we can talk about all of that, but today we also want to talk about the problems |
0:43.3 | inside the Bernie campaign itself, the problems with Bernie himself, who refused to attack |
0:49.2 | the Democratic Party even while it was continuously stabbing him in the back again and again and |
0:54.1 | again. |
0:54.9 | He refused to speak out against the media, even though the corporate media made it clear from |
0:59.8 | the very beginning that it was not going to give him any fair coverage when it wasn't ignoring |
1:05.0 | him. |
1:05.4 | It was smearing him and attacking him. |
1:07.7 | So it's true, of course, that everything was rigged against Bernie, but it's also true that he and the campaign made a lot of errors. So today, Max and I are going to go into that. And specifically, we're going to talk about how the so-called media left that kind of coalesced around Bernie that tried to turn the Bernie Sanders campaign into its own |
1:29.3 | kind of opportunistic moment to help, you know, project their own images on the international |
1:35.7 | stage. A lot of these so-called leftist media outlets also played a role in sabotaging this |
1:43.4 | movement and in doing a lot of damage ultimately in the long |
1:47.0 | term to the left. So I'll cut to Max here and we'll begin. I mean, there's so much to cover. But |
1:52.6 | Max, what are your thoughts on Bernie dropping out? Well, I would just say at the gray zone that we |
1:58.0 | played, I think we played a role and may never get acknowledged, |
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