>> During the democratic debates, Bernie Sanders made a point that is 100% accurate, take a
look.
>> You're quite right, we have a new vision for America.
And at a time when we have three people in this country only more wealth than the bottom
half of America.
Well, 500,000 people are sleeping out on the streets today, we think it is time for change.
>> So the numbers that Bernie Sanders cited in that video got the attention of a Washington
Post fact check or again, Glenn Kessler, who says that, sure, what Bernie is saying is
accurate, but I'm gonna try to fact check him anyway, so let me give you his argument.
Kessler found that while the statement was based on numbers that add up, the comparison
was quote not especially meaningful.
Because quote people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth, as debts cancel out
whatever assets they might have.
>> That's the whole point, you Jackass.
>> No, but are you serious right now?
He's arguing that Bernie Sanders is comparing apples to oranges, but no, he's comparing
apples to no apples.
>> Right, and that's not, by the way, I read that somewhere else.
Someone else tweeted that and I thought it was a perfect way of summarizing it, because,
yeah, consumer debt is out of control right now.
Our entire economy right now is propped up by consumer debt, right?
And then you have Donald Trump talking about like, we gotta lower interest rates even more,
so people can take out more loans to afford things.
No, people are tapped out, people can't take out any more loans.
This is a disaster and the economy is gonna suffer very very soon as a result of that,
but that's a different story.
Anyway, nonetheless, that's worth fact checking?
I mean, you have the Trump administration, you have Donald Trump lying multiple times
on a daily basis and this is what you fact check?
This is what you're getting paid for to fact check?
>> No, no, by the way, it's all good to fact check it, and then say, it's 100% correct.
It's not okay to say it's a 100% correct, but I'm gonna slander it anyway, he literary
said the numbers that add up, right?
And then he even outlined, yes, its actually Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, and they
have $248 and a half billion.
And the bottom half which is 160 million Americans.
Three people versus a hundred and sixty million have only two hundred and forty five billion.
They have less than the top three, okay, so that's where you should end and go no, Pinocchio's
wonderful.
Bernie Sanders is completely correct, but he says, it's a snappy talking point.
>> No, it's not a talking point, it's the truth, it's what people of America are facing
today.
To refer to the poverty that a giant portion of Americans are facing today as nothing more
than a snappy talking point is so incredibly insulting.
>> So Kessler, look, again, I don't wanna impute bad motives, who don't know their motives.
I do know groupthink, okay?
Although the way he writes it and he thinks he's being so clever and snarky does irritate
people, rationally so.
But the groupthink is so pervasive in Washington that reporters go, well, who can, comparing
this incredible, ridiculous wealth at the top with 160 million Americans.
It's meaningless, because for them it is meaningless, for them, they're like, I don't know any of
those 160 million people.
They're suffering, they have more debts than money, who cares, it's meaningless, because
to them income and equality is a given.
And this system that we have now, that is out of control in corruption, is a given,
and to be celebrated.
So they despise Bernie Sanders at their core.
And even in a fact check where they say, he's completely right, they have to try to attack
him and smash him, why?
Because, God, he's challenging us!
He's trying to change the system!
And change is meaningless!
Poor people and middle class people are meaningless!
One more, Kessler, he did a second one, this one didn't get as much attention.
But, by the way, it's the same exact thing.
Right after that, in the same fact check, he quoted Bernie Sanders as saying 83% of
your tax benefits go to the top 1%, and under Trump's plan, 32 million would be uninsured.
So Kessler fact checks it, and says, yes, by 2027, 83% of the benefits would actually
go to the top 1%, in fact, since the taxes will increase for the lowest, second lowest,
and middle quintile, 60% of the country.
It actually, a 107% of the benefits go to the top 1% and you know what he says, misleading.
But wait a minute, you just said the facts and you said the facts are exactly right.
In fact, Bernie underplayed it, misleading, know why, why, why?
Because you hate him, and then what's amazing to me is that they can't see their own bias.
I got one more for you in that same one, he says, 32 million Americans would be uninsured
under Trump spent.
Kessler says, well, that's correct, but nobody thinks that Trump can pass it, so it's meaningless.
God damn it, he said under Trump's plan and you think that Trump's not gonna do these
things and he keeps doing them.
And you keeps saying, no, no, don't worry about it, don't worry, look away from Trump!
Bernie is wrong for being right about Donald Trump, and then you worry about why progressives
are upset at the mainstream media.
And then they'll turn around and cry and go, my God, you guys are the same as the right
wing.
Now, right-wing calls you enemy of the people and leads at death threats and sometimes pipe
bombs.
We wanna help you do objective journalism, and yes, I am being patronizing Glenn Kessler,
cuz you apparently suck at this, okay?
I'm not putting bad intent on you, I'm just saying you're a crappy reporter, a terrible
one, who says, and two instances.
And equates the monstrous lies of Donald Trump and the Republicans, with a guy, who by your
own admission is a 100% lying on the three topics you covered.
What am I suppose to say?
Congratulations, no, your bias is all absorbing, you're so biased, you can't see how biased
you are.
We are clear, we are homoprogressives, yes, we fight for progressives, yes, we have perspective.
But when the poll comes out, that shows by leading we don't lie about it, we say Biden's
leading.
I just said earlier in the show, Buttigieg apparently, did better in the debates and
I realized according to the polling.
Because we're honest, we give people facts first, and then our perspective.
All you do is perspective bias, bias bias.
>> Right?
>> Cuz you can't stand Bernie Sanders or anyone who would ever change your beloved corrupt
system.