Left and Right Freak Over Frontrunner Crazy Bernie

4/17/19
 
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from Rush Limbaugh,
4/17/19:

RUSH: The Bernie Sanders town hall on Fox News has got people on both sides of the political divide agitated. The Fox News fans are livid that Bernie Sanders was given the forum and access to that audience, a larger audience than Bernie can find on any other cable news network out there, which is true. In fact, Bernie created the highest rated town hall yet on any network. It was by no means a record audience, but for town halls it was: 2.6 million people, 50,000 people in the demo 25-54.

… they are livid at Bernie because they think Bernie is single-handedly destroying their effort to destroy Fox by mainstreaming it, by giving it credibility, and they are deathly afraid that Bernie Sanders — and Pete Buttigieg is next, that these liberal Democrats doing town halls is going to further mainstream Fox, which is going to make it more amenable to additional advertisers, which will then further undercut the left’s boycott effort.

As angry as you may be at Fox, trust me, they are livid at Bernie Sanders for this. They are single-handedly running these boycott campaigns. They happen every day. They’re so mainstream media now that they don’t even make the news. But they’re running these advertiser boycott campaigns, and Bernie’s undercutting ’em.

Dan Pfeiffer who was a famous Democrat spokesman, Clintons, Obama, “Fox News will use these Democrat town halls to attract new advertisers, which will help keep Hannity and Tucker on the air, undoing a lot of grassroots pressure on advertisers.” The DailyKoS. “Yeah, this is a great thing for Sanders personally. But he’s undermining everybody’s efforts to destroy Fox’s ability to sell advertising.”

And they’re really mad that Sanders set the record. They’re mad that more people watched Sanders on Fox than have ever watched a Democrat town hall on CNN or MSNBC. They can’t believe it! They’re livid! Bernie is a sellout, he’s selfish. And they’re trying to whip up a bunch of anti-Bernie Sanders pressure.

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