Bernie Sanders, Seth MacFarlane Team Up for Hollywood Fundraiser
Bernie Sanders, Seth MacFarlane Team Up for Hollywood Fundraiser
By Ted Johnson - OCTOBER 14, 2015 | 06:28PM PT
Sanders focused the early part of his speech on income inequality and what he characterized as a “rigged” economy against the middle and working class.
He also decried the way that politics has been covered, in the media and elsewhere, “like it were a baseball game or a soap opera.”
He said that if he “slipped on a banana peel leaving here, it would be on the front page.”
“If I were standing here tonight making some viscious attack against Hillary Clinton or anybody else, it would be a front-page story,” Sanders said. “But if you talk about why the middle class is disappearing as almost all the income and wealth go to the top 1%, not a big story. So what the political revolution is is forcing a debate, not about trivia, but about real issues.”
MacFarlane said that he was particularly impressed by a response that Sanders gave at Tuesday night’s debate. Asked what was the country’s greatest national security threat, Sanders answered climate change...
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