Episode 760 | Obama v Bernie | Bloomberg Doesn't Want a Salary | Corporate Media Complicity
The Benjamin Dixon Show
The Benjamin Dixon Show
4.6 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Politico is reporting that former President Barack Obama has made it clear that if Bernie Sanders runs away with the primaries, he would consider intervening to stop him from securing the win. We covered this possibility last week as another outlet discussed this possibility. But let's discuss this from the perspective of how incompetent the establishment is in terms of fighting off fascism.
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Mayor Bloomberg says he won't take donations or a salary. But this is far from impressive for two reasons: 1. salaries for politicians is a progressive concept that allows for non-rich politicians to serve; 2. The presidential salary of $400,000/year is NOTHING compared to the $3.1B that he'd pay if Warren or Sanders wins.
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Finally, billionaires own our media. How can we ever expect corporate media to do the difficult stories of reporting on their bosses?
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| 0:23.9 | Welcome to the Benjamin Dixon show. I am your host Benjamin Dixon. Today is Tuesday, November 26, 2007, 2019. Thanks so much for joining us. Let's go over this article from political |
| 0:26.2 | that just came out today that discusses |
| 0:29.1 | Barack Obama's participation in the 2019 election. I want to read a short passage of it so we can get |
| 0:39.7 | the context. This is what political said, quote, publicly President Obama has been clear that he won't intervene in the primary for or against the candidate unless he believed there was some egregious attack. |
| 0:51.0 | I can't even imagine with this deal how bad it would be for him to say something, said a close advisor. |
| 0:58.0 | Instead, he sees his role as providing guardrails to keep the process from getting too ugly and to unite the party when the |
| 1:05.8 | nominee is clear. There is one potential exception. Back when Sanders seemed like more of a threat than he does now, Obama said privately that if |
| 1:15.7 | Bernie were running away with the nomination, he would speak up to stop him. |
| 1:21.2 | Now in parentheses after that they said, about this a spokesperson for Obama pointed out that Obama recently said he would support and campaign for whoever the Democratic nominee is |
| 1:32.1 | Huffington Post inflamed the situation even more |
| 1:35.0 | stating that one of his advisors |
| 1:39.0 | declared exasperated |
| 1:41.0 | exasperatingly, that Bernie is not a Democrat. |
| 1:47.0 | Now, I went over this last week. |
| 1:49.5 | This is a new article on the same topic of the establishment jumping, pushing Barack Obama into the |
| 1:55.6 | mix to try to fight off Bernie Sanders. And to be quite frank with you, it's not just |
| 2:01.0 | Bernie Sanders, they're trying to fight off. they're also trying to fight off Elizabeth Warren and this is why you see Bloomberg jumping in Devall Patrick jumping in because we have a an establishment class of Democrats who are not equipped to fight. |
| 2:18.1 | It's twofold. |
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