DURING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR., BERNIE SANDERS GAVE A SPEECH IN JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
AND DURING HIS SPEECH HE SPECIFICALLY TALKED ABOUT THE
ECONOMIC INJUSTICES THAT MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAVE
BEEN COMPLICIT IN AND WHILE HE WAS MENTIONING THAT, HE HAPPENED
TO MENTION OBAMA.
THAT HAS ANGERED SOME CNN CONTRIBUTORS.
ONE SPECIFIC ONE THAT WE WILL GET TO IN JUST A MOMENT BUT
FIRST, I WANTED YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT BERNIE'S SPEECH AND
WE WILL DISCUSS.
THE BUSINESS MODEL IF YOU LIKE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR
THE LAST 15 YEARS OR SO HAS BEEN A FAILURE.
NOW WHAT HAPPENED,
PEOPLE SOMETIMES DON'T SEE THAT BECAUSE THEY SEE CHARISMATIC
INDIVIDUAL, LIKE BARACK OBAMA, WHO WON THE PRESIDENCY IN 2008
AND 2012 AND HE WAS OBVIOUSLY AN EXTRAORDINARY CANDIDATE BUT
BEHIND THAT REALITY, OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, DEMOCRATS HAVE
LOST ABOUT 1000 STATE LEGISLATURES ALL ACROSS THIS
COUNTRY, AND YOU'VE GOT SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF STATES
LIKE MISSISSIPPI WHERE THE GOVERNOR, THE LEGISLATURE, THE
SENATORS ARE ALL REPUBLICANS.
NOW HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN AT A
TIME WHEN THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA IS THE AGENDA OF THE BILLIONAIRE
CLASS AND IS THAT WERE WITH WORKING PEOPLE?
HOW DOES IT HAPPEN THAT A PARTY THAT WANTS TO GIVE TAX BREAKS TO
BILLIONAIRES AND THROW MILLIONS OF PEOPLE OF THEIR HEALTH
INSURANCE, THEY ACTUALLY WIN ELECTIONS?
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE GOT TO DO AS I MENTIONED
EARLIER IS MAKE SURE THAT THE DEMOCRATS, YOU DON'T WIN
ELECTIONS UNLESS YOU SHOW UP.
NOW FOLLOWING THAT SPEECH, THERE WAS ONE COMMENTATOR, A
CONTRIBUTOR ON CNN BY THE NAME BAKARI SELLERS WHO TWEETED IN
RESPONSE TO WHAT BERNIE HAD TO SAY:
I'M CURIOUS TO YOUR TAKE ON THIS.
SHOCKING THAT A CNN PUNDIT WOULD BE PRO ESTABLISHMENT
AGAINST
SANDERS.
MY GUESS IS HE WAS READY TO DECLARE BERNIE
SANDERS CAMPAIGN OVER THE DAY BEFORE AND WOULD'VE DONE IT THE
DAY
AFTER AND WOULD DO IT ON EVERY SINGLE DAY AND THEY LOVE TO
BRING UP RACIAL ISSUES ON BERNIE SANDERS.
WHY?
HAS BERNIE BEEN BAD ON RACIAL ISSUES?
NOT REMOTELY.
NO ONE ARGUES THAT ON SUBSTANCE.
IN FACT,
LET'S GO TO THESE GRAPHICS.
THE REASON PEOPLE LIKE BERNIE
SANDERS IS HE HAS BEEN CONSISTENT ON ISSUES FOR 40
YEARS.
THAT IS
HIM CHAINING HIMSELF TO AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN SAYING
YOU'RE GOING TO EVICT THEM, YOU'RE GOING TO EVICT ME.
HE HAS BEEN
CONSISTENT ON IT FOR HIS ENTIRE LIFETIME AND THEY ARRESTED HIM
BUT NO, WE'RE GOING TO THROW INSULTS AT HIM ANYWAY.
WHY?
BECAUSE HE WOULD BRING CHANGE AND THEY ARE NOT FOR CHANGE
SO I AM SURE THAT SELLERS THINKS THAT HE GOT ON CNN'S BECAUSE HE
IS AWESOME AND HE IS JUST A BRILLIANT PUNDIT AND JUST THE
FACT THAT HE HAPPENS TO BE AGAINST PEOPLE LIKE BERNIE
SANDERS IS A COINCIDENCE.
I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU, IT IS NOT A
COINCIDENCE THAT THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PUNDITS
ON TELEVISION WERE FOR HILLARY CLINTON.
MY GUESS IS VAN
JONES WAS FOR BERNIE SANDERS.
HE IS A REAL PROGRESSIVE, GOOD
GUY.
WHETHER HE WAS OR WAS NOT FOR BERNIE SANDERS, I KNOW
VAN JONES IS THE PROGRESSIVE AND TURNER SOMETIMES GOES ON
CNN BLESS HER HEART.
YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER, CNN WAS THE CABLE NEWS NETWORK THAT
WOULD TURN AWAY FROM ANYTHING BERNIE SANDERS WOULD DO TO SHOW
TRUMP'S EMPTY PODIUM AND IT WAS 24 HOURS, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK
TRUMP COVERAGE.
THEY COVERED TRUMP A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT, A
FITTING
WORD IN THIS CONTEXT, FREE PRESS, FREE ADVERTISING AND
UNFORTUNATELY, THE ATTENTION THAT HE SO DESPERATELY WANTED
AND SO, ENOUGH CNN BASHING.
I WANT TO GET TO THE SUBSTANCE OF
WHAT BERNIE IS SAYING BECAUSE I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT ACTUALLY
DISSECTED AND GET TO THE HEART OF WHAT HE MEANT.
HE DIDN'T SAY
WHAT HE SAID TO DISMISS OBAMA OR TEAR OBAMA APART DURING THIS
EVENT AT ALL.
WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO SAY AND WHAT I WISH
THAT PEOPLE ON THE LEFT WOULD ACCEPT IS THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO
ORIGINALLY OR INITIALLY IDENTIFIED AS PART OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEFT THE PARTY BECAUSE THEY FELT ABANDONED WHEN
IT CAME TO ECONOMIC INJUSTICE IN THE COUNTRY.
DEMOCRATS USED TO
BE THE PARTY THAT DID LOOK OUT FOR THE LITTLE GUY, BUT IT HAS
BECOME SO INCREDIBLY CORPORATIZED AND UNFORTUNATELY,
YOU HAD SOMEONE LIKE OBAMA WHO WAS BRILLIANT AND CHARISMATIC,
WHO DID SAY THE RIGHT THINGS AND CAMPAIGNED ON THE RIGHT THINGS,
BUT EVEN THOUGH HE DID MANAGE TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMY SOMEWHAT, HE
DIDN'T DO ENOUGH FOR A HUGE PORTION OF THE COUNTRY.
WAGES STILL REMAIN STAGNANT, PEOPLE ARE STILL SUFFERING
AND I THINK THAT IT IS IMPORTANT TO REFLECT ON OURSELVES AS
PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS PART OF THE LAST AND THINK ABOUT
WHAT WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE MOVING FORWARD.
I AM NOT DONE WITH SELLERS AND CNN YET.
ON YOUR POINT,
BERNIE DID NOT EVEN SAY THAT.
HE SHOULD, BUT HE DIDN'T.
HE SAID
THE BUSINESS MODEL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF THE LAST 15
YEARS IS BEEN A FAILURE.
HE SAID HE DIDN'T SEE THAT MUCH
THOUGH BECAUSE OBAMA WAS SO BRILLIANT AND CHARISMATIC
COVERED UP THEIR FAILURE.
THAT IS NOT AN INSULT OF OBAMA.
FIRST
OF ALL, HE CALLED HIM BRILLIANT.
IF YOU THINK BRILLIANT IS AN
INSULT, NOT SARCASTIC REMOTELY AT ALL, I CANNOT HELP YOU
BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT ISSUES WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
SECOND OF
ALL, I DO NOT AGREE WITH BERNIE.
I THINK THAT OBAMA IS PART OF THE FAILURE.
CAN I SAY THAT?
SELLERS I'M SAYING THAT RIGHTNOW.
I KNOW WE ARE PASSED IN MLK
50 DAY.
BY THE WAY, YOU DON'T OWN HIM.
I LOVE MARTIN LUTHER
KING.
WE DID SEGMENT AFTER SEGMENT YESTERDAY ABOUT HIM.
WE
DO IT ALL THE TIME BECAUSE HE IS MY HERO AND YOU DO NOT OWN THE
OPINION OF ALL AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
BERNIE IS DEAD, HIS CAREER IS DEAD BECAUSE YOU DECIDED IT,
CNN PUNDIT?
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE VOTED FOR BERNIE SANDERS.
I BELIEVE IN
ONE OF THE POLLS THAT I SAW, I'M GOING TO LOOK IT UP, I KNOW
TELEVISION PUNDITS HAVE A TERRIBLE TIME WITH POLLS, WHEN
THEY SHOWED BERNIE SANDERS WOULD BE BETTER AGAINST
HILLARY CLINTON THEY'RE LIKE I DO NOT BELIEVE MY LYING EYES.
ALL
THE SUDDEN, FAKE NEWS.
YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN POLLS,
RIGHT?
YOU SAID NO, HE CAN'T BE TRUE.
I HATE BERNIE SANDERS,
IT CAN'T BE TRUE THAT HE HAS A 12 POINT LEAD OVER HILLARY
CLINTON
AGAINST DONALD TRUMP.
IT CANNOT BE TRUE THAT EVERY POLL
SHOWS THAT.
SELLERS DECIDED BERNIE 2020 DIED YESTERDAY
BECAUSE HE MISINTERPRETED SOMETHING THAT HE SAID ABOUT
OBAMA ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY, SO YOU SPEAK FOR ALL
AFRICAN-AMERICANS?
YOU SPEAK FOR ALL DEMOCRATS?
I DON'T KNOW WHO ANOINTED YOU TO DO THAT EXCEPT CNN WHO JUST
HAPPENED TO HIRE MAYBE TWO PEOPLE THAT ARE FOR BERNIE
SANDERS AND ABOUT 150 REPORTERS, ANCHORS, PRODUCERS THAT ALL
SUPPORT HILLARY CLINTON.
JUST A COINCIDENCE THOUGH.
JUST A
COINCIDENCE.
IT IS NOT THAT THERE IS A CONSPIRACY.
IT IS
THAT THEY LOOK FOR LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE AND CNN IS PART OF THE
ESTABLISHMENT AND THEY THINK HILLARY IS KIND OF AWESOME
BECAUSE THE STATUS QUO IS WONDERFUL.
WHAT COULD BE WRONG WITH THE STATUS QUO?
WE ARE ALL RICH, RIGHT?
SO THEY HIRE LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE
LIKE SELLERS WHO ALL HAVE ANYTHING BERNIE SANDERS, THE
MINUTE THEY INTERPRET HIS STATEMENTS AS A FAUX PAS, HE IS
DONE.
I LIKE JOE BIDEN, I AM NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM, I'M
GOING TO VOTE FOR BERNIE SANDERS UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES.
I'M
OPEN TO FACTS.
I LIKE BIDEN BUT IF I SAID EVEN THOUGH I AM
PROBABLY GOING TO VOTE AGAINST HIM, THE THING
HE SAID ABOUT THIS, JOE BIDEN CAREER'S DEAD.
THAT IS NOT HOW
IT WORKS.
IT IS PREPOSTEROUS TO SAY THAT BECAUSE I AM
INTERPRETING WHAT HE SAID AS AGAINST OBAMA ON THAT PARTICULAR
DAY, HIS CAREER IS DEAD BECAUSE IT IS NOT ABOUT THAT.
IT IS NOT
LIKE HE GETS TO DECIDE HIS CAREER.
IT IS TO SMEAR HIM AS
RACIST, THAT IS WHY HE SAID IT.
OTHERWISE TELL ME WHY YOU SAID IT.
THAT WAS YOUR IMPLICATION AND IT IS GROSS.
LOOK, YOU DO IT ABOUT
DONALD TRUMP, IT IS VERIFIABLE.
I CAN POINT TO 12 REASONS WHY
DONALD TRUMP IS ABSOLUTELY A RACIST.
CENTRAL PARK FIVE AND
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
WHEN A GUY HAS FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
HIS WHOLE LIFE, TO DO THAT TO HIM ANYWAY BECAUSE YOU WOULD
LIKE TO PROTECT THE ESTABLISHMENT, EVEN IF YOU DO
NOT REALIZE THAT
IS WHY YOU ARE DOING IT, EVEN IF YOU DON'T REALIZE THAT IS WHY
YOU ARE HIRED, IT IS STILL SICK.