The corporate media’s about-face on Bernie Sanders—a rapid evolution from panning him as a radical, angry, sexist, sore loser to an ascending power broker and player in Biden world—is a marvel for both journalists who covered Sanders’ campaign and supporters who surfed the waves of revolution in 2016 through 2020.
The latest sudden swooning over Sanders was a weekend gem from the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, who dished on her recent breaking of bread with Sanders at a Vermont diner.
Titled “The Ascension of Bernie Sanders,” Dowd paints a portrait of a once lonely, outsider bear now firmly entrenched in the establishment’s animal kingdom.
Sanders, long a wilderness prophet in Washington, a man who wrote a memoir bragging about being an outsider, admits that it is strange to be a key member of The Establishment. As the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, the democratic socialist is now pulling the levers in the control room.
In a more nauseating manufacturing of nonsense, my new spin off the great Noam Chomsky’s infamous media brainwashing manual, Dowd labeled Sanders and Biden as two political peas in a pod, “dismissed for years” by the Democratic Party but now
"teaming up to transform the country.”
Or as she likened it: “It’s the Bernie and Joe show.”
If you think this scribe of alternate reality is isolated, think again. From CNN’s recent ode to "Bernie the Biden influencer”; the Washington Post’s explainer of the muting of Bernie’s mouth; to the LA Times’ depiction of Bernie the “power breaker,” a mainstream media full of Bernie bashers have collective morphed into the new Sandernistas.
Of course, a lot of these stories are fed to the corporate media by a trio of the Biden administration, Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
This sudden Bernie love-fest yields two blinking red lights. Let’s break down both:
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