SANDERS, AND PERHAPS HE SHOULD WITHDRAW FROM ANY IDEA OF
RUNNING IN 2020.
GEE, I WONDER WHO WOULD WANT HIM TO DO THAT.
COULD IT BE THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE ENTIRE
DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT?
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN OUTCOME ALL THE
STORIES ABOUT HOW HIS WIFE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
LET'S TELL
YOU ABOUT THAT AND YOU CAN MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND, WE WILL ASK
YOU AT THE END WHETHER YOU THINK THERE IS A REAL ISSUE OR NOT.
THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE FROM OVER THE WEEKEND --
AGAIN, AT THE END I WANT YOU GUYS TO TELL US IF IT IS
TARNISHED, BECAUSE IT COULD BE.
IF YOU THOUGHT WAIT A MINUTE,
HE'S A HYPOCRITE OR SOMETHING, THEN BELIEVE ME PROGRESSIVES
WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
SO LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THIS IS
ABOUT --
THAT SENTENCE MAKES IT SOUND LIKE IT'S IN QUESTION AS TO
WHETHER IT WAS STARTED BY BRADY TOENSING.
THE COUPLE AND THEIR
SUPPORTERS CLAIM IT'S POLITICALLY MOTIVATED AND WAS
STARTED BY A TRUMP GUY.
SO WAS IT?
YOU DON'T HAVE TO GIVE ME
YOUR THOUGHTS ON A NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER AS TO WHETHER IT
IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED, BUT YES, IT WAS STARTED BY A TRUMP
GUY.
SO IT'S A WEIRD WAY OF WRITING THAT SENTENCE THAT MAKES
YOU THINK, THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE SAYING.
AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, IT
IS TOENSING --
SO THE
TRUMP GUY IS THE GUY WHO THROWS IN THE INCENDIARY
WORD OF FRAUD, REPORTS IT TO THE FBI, THERE IS AN UPDATE ON
THAT THAT IS IMPORTANT AT THE END OF THE STORY, BUT LET'S
FIND OUT WHAT THE STORY IS IN THE FIRST PLACE --
NOW, IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR COLLEGE IN
VERMONT, OKAY, THAT'S FAIR, AND IF YOU WERE A TRUSTEE OR YOU
WENT THERE, THERE ARE 100 REASONS TO BE CONCERNED, AND IF
YOU CHARGE JANE SANDERS WITH MISMANAGEMENT AND THESE FACTS
ARE CORRECT, THEN YOU WOULD SAY IT TURNS OUT THE SENATOR'S WIFE
IS NOT THAT GREAT AT MANAGEMENT.
OOH.
WELL, THAT MIGHT BE A FAIR
CHARGE.
BUT WHEN DID FRAUD COME OUT OF THAT?
SHE ASKED FOR DEBT,
THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY, IT HAD CONSEQUENCES.
OKAY.
WELL --
OKAY.
SO IT TURNS OUT THAT THEY DIDN'T GET AS MUCH
ENROLLMENT AS SHE THOUGHT, OR DONATIONS.
NOBODY AT A BANK
GOES, OH, IF JANE SANDERS OR ANYONE SAYS ENROLLMENT WILL
INCREASE, THEN IT MUST INCREASE, THAT'S A TRUE STATEMENT.
OH, IT
DIDN'T INCREASE?
THAT'S FRAUD.
THAT IS PREPOSTEROUS, THAT WAS
HER BEST ESTIMATE AS TO WHAT WOULD COME IN IN DONATIONS AND
ENROLLMENT.
EVERYONE KNOWS YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY KNOW THAT I HAD
OF TIME.
YOU ARE TAKING YOUR BEST GUESS, AND YOUR JOB AT THE
BANK IS TO FIGURE OUT WHETHER THAT IS A CREDIT WORTHY
ENDEAVOR, AND WHETHER YOU ARE TAKING AN APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF
RISK OR NOT.
I KNOW THERE IS A GUY IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHO
SAYS BANKRUPTCIES ARE AWESOME.
HE IS THE PRESIDENT, HE'S GONE
BANKRUPT SIX TIMES, AND WHEN ASKED ABOUT IT OVER AND OVER ON
THE CAMPAIGN HE SAYS THAT'S THE SMART THING TO DO IN BUSINESS,
YOU JUST GO BANKRUPT AND YOU DON'T PAY ANY OF YOUR DEBTS.
HA-HA.
THE GUY BRAGS ABOUT IT.
SIX DIFFERENT TIMES, SIX
BUSINESSES, BANKRUPT, BANKRUPT.
NO PROBLEM THERE.
JANE SANDERS
THOUGHT ENROLLMENT WOULD INCREASE AT THE COLLEGE, IT
DIDN'T. THAT IS A MISTAKE.
IS THAT INTENTIONALLY TELLING AN
UNTRUTH?
HOW DID SHE KNOW, MAYBE IN ROME IT WOULD INCREASE.
OF
COURSE THAT IS NOT FRAUD.
AND THE UPDATE WILL SHOW YOU NO ONE
THINKS IT IS, THIS IS ALL MADE UP FROM THE TRUMP GUY.
THE FACT
THAT SOME DEMOCRATS, CERTAINLY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND CERTAINLY
LEAKING TO REPORTERS, ARE BACKING THIS CHARGE UP -- WHY?
HE IS THE MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN IN THE COUNTRY AND
HE'S IN YOUR PARTY.
HE'S ON YOUR SIDE, HE CAUCUSES WITH YOU, HE'S
IN DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP NOW.
BUT IF BERNIE WON, IF HIS IDEAS
WIN, THE ESTABLISHMENT DOESN'T, AND THEIR DONORS DON'T WIN.
SO
LET'S DO A SMEAR JOB FROM TRUMP AND BACK IT IN THE PRESS.
AND BY
THE WAY, LET'S SPRINKLE IN ANOTHER SMEAR JOB.
THE NEW YORK
TIMES THROWS IN --
THIS IS WHAT THEY DO TO EVERY PERSON WHO HAS ANY MONEY AT ALL
WHO IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
AL GORE, TRYING TO
SAVE THE PLANET FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE SO WE WON'T ALL HAVE
RISING SEA LEVELS AND DISASTROUS STORMS, ETC., BUT HE HAS MONEY.
GOT HIM.
HE'S GOT A NICE HOME IN NASHVILLE, HE'S GOT THIS, HE'S
GOT THAT.
AND YET HE STILL WANTS TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
WHAT DO
YOU WANT HIM TO DO?
IF YOU ARE RICH BUT A GREEDY PRICK BUT THE
GOOD THING?
I WANT LOWER TAXES.
THE KOCH BROTHERS, YES, SHELDON
ADELSON.
WAIT, YOU ARE RICH AND YOU WANT TO HELP PEOPLE?
HOW
DARE YOU, YOU HYPOCRITE.
BY THE WAY BERNIE SANDERS ISN'T RICH,
HE'S ONE OF THE POOREST SENATORS.
HE'S GOT A VACATION
HOME THOUGH.
EVERYWHERE IS DIFFERENT, IN LOS ANGELES I
DON'T KNOW IF $575,000 GETS YOU AN APARTMENT.
IT'S A BIG AMOUNT
FOR AN AVERAGE AMERICAN, I GET IT.
HE IS ONE OF THE POOREST
SENATORS.
FDR WAS RICH.
RICH AND TRYING TO HELP THE POOR.
THAT'S
NOT A BAD THING, IT'S A GOOD THING.
BUT THEY JUST SPRINKLE
THAT IN AS IF IT'S A WORTHY CHARGE.
THEY JUST MUDDY THE
WATERS AND PEOPLE GO I DON'T KNOW, I HEAR HE'S LOSING HIS
LUSTER WITH PROGRESSIVES.
I HEAR HE'S TARNISHED, SOMEBODY SAID
FBI, I DON'T KNOW.
SO WHO WILL JUMP IN?
ALL THE GUYS WHO ARE
CENTRIST.
STU LOSER, OR LOESER, WHATEVER, HE IS A MEDIA
STRATEGIST, WORKED FOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG -- WHO MADE ALL OF HIS
MONEY OF COURSE IN FINANCE, SAYS ABOUT SANDERS --
HE IS SAYING DEMOCRATS SHOULD
TELL HIM, HEY, HERE IS A GOLD
WATCH, NOW PISS OFF.
HE CONTINUES --
OKAY, STU.
THEN WHY IS HE THE
MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN IN THE
COUNTRY?
RIGHT NOW HILLARY CLINTON IS A 35% APPROVAL,
DONALD TRUMP IS AT 36%.
BERNIE SANDERS, LAST I SAW, WAS THAT
61% APPROVAL.
THE SINGLE MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN OR SENATOR.
SO TELL ME AGAIN ABOUT THE GOLD WATCH SPEECH?
SEE, THESE
DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT BERNIE TO RUN.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH
POLICY, IF THEY CARED ABOUT POLICY THEY WOULD PUT BERNIE ON
A PEDESTAL.
THIS GUY IS SO POPULAR AND HE'S WINNING WITH
WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEMOCRATIC IDEAS.
OH, BUT THE
DONORS WOULD BE UPSET SO LET'S SMEAR HIM INSTEAD.
NOW THE
UPDATE TO THE STORY --
THIS IS THE HILL REPORTING THIS --
THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS.
SO YOU HAVE A LOCAL REPUBLICAN
POLITICIAN SAYING I HEARD IT FROM FRIENDS, I GUESS, AND THEN
HE TELLS TOENSING, THE TRUMP GUY IN VERMONT, AND HE'S LIKE, GOOD
ENOUGH, WHO CARES.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE TRUE, IT JUST HAS TO
WORK AS A SMEAR.
AND HE PROBABLY THOUGHT, ACCURATELY, A LOT OF
DEMOCRATS WILL HELP US.
DO YOU THINK THEY WILL COME TO BERNIE'S
DEFENSE?
YOU SEE DEMOCRATS ON TV SAYING THIS IS AN OUTRAGEOUS
CHARGE, IT'S NOT TRUE -- WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?
I THOUGHT HE WAS
IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERSHIP.
WHEN YOU WANT HIM
OUT FRONT IN A SPEECH SO HE CAN DRAW A CROWD, ALL OF A SUDDEN,
YAY BERNIE.
WHEN YOU WANT CNN RATINGS ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S A
BERNIE SANDERS TOWN HALL EVENT.
BUT WHEN HE NEEDS YOUR HELP ON A
B.S. CHARGE, NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.
FUNNY HOW IT WORKS.
LET'S
GO BACK TO TURNER, THE GUY WHO HEARD FROM FRIENDS THAT THIS
MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED --
IT WAS SO UNRELIABLE THAT THE GUY WHO KIND OF GOT THE
INFORMATION IN THE FIRST PLACE, HE HAS NO DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF
IT, WOULD NOT HAVE TURNED IT INTO OFFICIALS.
THE TRUMP GUY IS
LIKE, WHO CARES?
TRUTH, DOESN'T MATTER.
DON'T WORRY, SOON THE
NEW YORK TIMES WILL DO OUR JOB FOR US, AND THEY WILL SMEAR HIM
ALL OVER THE PLACE, AND THEN WE WILL TURN AROUND AND GO, THE NEW
YORK TIMES SAID IT.
I DIDN'T, THE NEW YORK TIMES DID.
WE WILL
START THE STORY AND THEN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY, AND THE ENTIRETY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL LOOK TO
PUT A HATCHET IN BERNIE'S BACK.
AND SO FAR THAT'S ALMOST EXACTLY
HOW IT'S GONE DOWN.
THAT'S MY OPINION ON IT, BUT YOU GUYS ARE
INCREDIBLY INDEPENDENT, AND SOME OF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME ON THE
RIGHT, SOME OF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME ON THE LEFT, SO LET'S GET
YOUR THOUGHTS ON IT.
YOU'RE A PROGRESSIVE AUDIENCE, DO YOU
THINK HIS IMAGE IS TARNISHED?
THAT IS WHAT WE ARE ASKING.
WILL
THE INQUIRY INTO JANE SANDERS TARNISH BERNIE SANDERS'
PROGRESSIVE REPUTATION?
YOU TELL US, AUDIENCE.
MAYBE THE NEW YORK
TIMES IS RIGHT, MAYBE THIS IS REALLY CONCERNING.
SHE THOUGHT
ENROLLMENT WILL GO UP, AND IT DIDN'T. BECAUSE SHE IS NOT A
FORTUNETELLER.
MAYBE YOU THINK THIS IS A SUPER IMPORTANT FBI
INVESTIGATION AND THIS THIS QUALIFIES BERNIE SANDERS.
ALL
RIGHT, I'M CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT IT, WE WILL
GIVE YOU THE POLL RESULTS WHEN WE HAVE THEM.
THIS IS THE BEST
LINE OF ATTACK THEY HAVE AGAINST BERNIE SANDERS?
IT'S PRETTY
PATHETIC.
FINALLY, ESTABLISHMENT, ARE YOU NERVOUS,
BRO?
ALL OF A SUDDEN, BEFORE IT WAS A JOKE, BERNIE HAS NO CHANCE
AT WINNING, YOU HAD ALL YOUR DUMBASS PUNDITS GO OUT AND TALK
ABOUT HOW HE HAS NO CHANCE, HE'S FROM VERMONT, HE'S A SOCIALIST,
THEN HE CLOSED A 60 POINT LEAD ON HILLARY CLINTON WITH NO NAME
RECOGNITION AND SHE HAD ALL THE NAME RECOGNITION IN THE WORLD.
AND YOU HAD YOUR DUMBASS PUNDITS GO OUT THERE AND GO, HE DIDN'T
WIN, DID HE?
YOU DON'T KNOW THAT NAME RECOGNITION IS AN ENORMOUS
FACTOR?
YOU DON'T MENTION THAT HE CLOSED A 60 POINT LEAD?
YOU
JUST SAY HILLARY IS MORE POPULAR.
DOES SHE LOOK MORE
POPULAR NOW?
BUT NONETHELESS, NOBODY IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
DEFENDING HIM, ALL OF A SUDDEN HE HAS NO FRIENDS, THEY TURN
AROUND AND LOOK AT THIS AND GO, I DON'T KNOW, MAN.
I HEAR FRAUD,
THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING.
YOU KNOW HOW THESE GUYS OPERATE, AND
IT IS GROSS.
BERNIE AT 79, BERNIE AT 109, BUT IT'S
INTERESTING THAT THEY ARE COMING NOW, BECAUSE APPARENTLY THEY ARE
AFRAID OF HIM.
YOU DON'T SMEAR SOMEONE LIKE THIS, WHETHER YOU
ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT OR IN THE MEDIA, UNLESS YOU ARE
SCARED.
SO DON'T WORRY, IN REALITY WHAT THIS STORY TELLS
YOU IS BERNIE HAS GOT THEM ON THE RUN.