Check out reactions from the media after reading the transcript of Senator Bernie Sanders’ editorial board meeting with the New York Daily News.
HEADLINES
Vanity Fair: Bernie Sanders Admits He Isn’t Sure How to Break Up Big Banks
Vox: If you’re poor in another country, this is the scariest thing Bernie Sanders has said
Talking Points Memo: Bernie Sanders Struggles To Explain How He Would Break Up The Banks
TWITTER REACTION
Michael Cohen @speechboy71: The @NYDailyNews interview w/Sander is a revelatory moment. It shows that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about nydailynews.com/opinion/
- Michael Cohen [email protected] : When you read this it feels like Sanders developed his worldview decades ago and never bothered to update or scrutinize it [4/4/16, 10:40 p.m. EDT]
- Michael Cohen [email protected] : What comes across is a man who has a completely unsophisticated understanding of even the issues that are at the heart of his campaign [4/4/16, 10:41 p.m. EDT]
- Michael Cohen [email protected] : It’s also evident that he is not conversant on any issue outside of income inequality & even there he just regurgitates his talking points [4/4/16, 10:43 p.m. EDT]
- Michael Cohen [email protected] : For me reading this interview is shocking. I know Sanders talks in platitudes, but he seems to think in them too. [4/4/16, 10:48 p.m. EDT]
- MORE HERE.
andrew Kaczynski @BuzzFeedAndrew: Trump and Bernie m.nydailynews.com/opinion/
Ben White [email protected] : Sanders on trade and jobs in this Daily News interview is not much better than Trump in his cluelessness. http://nydn.us/1MP7wt1 [4/4/16, 11:20 p.m. EDT]
Dan Pfeiffer [email protected] : The Transcript of Sanders’ meeting with the Daily News Ed Board is almost as damning as Trump’s with the WaPo http://nzzl.us/528exzX [4/5/16, 11:14 p.m. EDT]
Jonathan Capehart [email protected] : Retweeted Michael Cohen
Phew….am reading now and thought I was being overly harsh in thinking the exact same thing! [4/5/16, 8:56 a.m. EDT]
Michael Cohen @speechboy71
What’s most revelatory is that Sanders answers every question by diagnosing the problem & offers practically no policy solution [4/4/16, 11:22 p.m. EDT]
Sahil Kapur [email protected] : This is a recurring area of awkwardness for Sanders: most of his Clinton critique applies to Obama but he doesn’t want to say that. [4/5/16 10:36 a.m. EDT]
Sahil Kapur [email protected] : Sanders is very fluent when speaking in broad moralistic terms. Less so on the nuts and bolts of his policies. [4/5/16, 10:27 a.m. EDT]
Sahil Kapur [email protected] : Sanders says this of ’08 Obama who took millions in Wall Street $, but he’s hitting Clinton as corrupt for doing it. [4/5/16, 10:34 a.m. EDT]
Kate Coyne @KatePeople Massively unrealistic promises with no real plan for how to accomplish them. Nope, not talking about Trump. nydn.us/1q14ibi [4/5/16 10:41 a.m. EDT]
Jason Pontin [email protected] _pontin: I’m not sure Sen Sanders has a very deep understanding of trade or the financial sector (or executive power). http://nydn.us/1q14ibi [4/4/16, 11:33 p.m. EDT]
Brad Mielke [email protected]
: Several items here get either a shrug or an “I don’t know” — including on Sanders’ signature bank issues. http://m.nydailynews.com/
Daniel Knowles [email protected]
: Impossible to read this Bernie Sanders interview and think he is at all a credible politician: http://www.nydailynews.com/
Sam Frizell [email protected] _Frizell: Bernie Sanders has been saying he opposes victim lawsuits v. gunmakers. The latest is in interview with @NYDailyNews [4/5/16, 11:56 a.m. EDT]
Mark Harris [email protected]
: Bernie Sanders’s answers to these crucial questions–“But how?” and “What about Congress?” are an alarming mess. http://www.nydailynews.com/
Amanda Terkel @aterkel:
Daily News: How do you get on the subway today?
Sanders: You get a token and you get in.
Daily News: Wrong.
[4/5/16, 10:04 a.m. EDT]