Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders Asked to Address Book to ‘Capitalism’ at Signing
- Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:26am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Jason Mattera, editor at Human Events, is well known for his ambush interviews of liberals. And he’s struck again, this time confronting self-admitted socialist Senator Bernie Sanders.
In his new video, Mattera decides to confront Sanders about whether or not Sanders is profiting from his new book, The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class. It’s a printing of his eight and a half hour filibuster speech in December decrying the president’s tax deal with Republicans.
In the “Acknowledgements” section of the book, Sanders says his “authorial proceeds” will be donated to a children’s charity. But Mattera wanted to make sure that was true, so he showed up at a recent book signing to ask about it. And while he does ask Sanders about the proceeds, he also asks a very interesting question: will Sanders sign Mattera’s copy of the book to “capitalism, the greatest economic system on earth?”
The answer? No, and then yes — sort of. See below:
To be fair, Sanders conveys the same message to Mattera as he does in the book’s acknowledgements — the money will go to charity. That’s commendable. But in his write-up of the story, Mattera makes an interesting point:
Meanwhile, if Sanders follows through on his pledge, there’s no word on whether or not the Senate’s only (admitted) socialist will use the “donations” to lower his taxable income for 2012.
(H/T: Weasel Zippers)
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Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:41amI love it when they get caught off guard and have no idea how to respond to anything. Its great.
Report Post »MikeinIdaho
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:39amGod love ya Bernie, you’re dumber than a room full of marxists!
Report Post »flsnipe
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:29amThat’s awesome!
Report Post »thecrow
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:19amCheck Sanders’ portfolio for Raytheon stock.
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/profits-and-losses/
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 1:32pmI’ll tell you what.. The people that make the technology that keeps us safe and saves lives in the process deserve all the profit they can get.. You can always become a socialist, communist, or a subject of a tyrant- But you can almost never get your freedom back.. It would be a whole lot less expensive both in dollars And American lives to just carpet bomb our enemies – Which is exactly what people who want the tax dollars in the entitlement check advocate! Won’t be any entitlement checks for long without our military! Coveting is the worst kind of greed!
Report Post »thecrow
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:16amThat’s not capitalism. This is capitalism:
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/circle-ix/
Report Post »Zer0
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:51amPlease, leave this country while you still can. Join the Pakistani Taliban and catch a JDAM with your teeth, you 9/11 truther, traitor, Marxist, whacko. You hate America sooooooo much, why not move to Cuba or Venezuela? Just another weak-kneed Leftist without a clue….could survive two days in Caracas, you probably don’t even know Spanish (I do). You know what the Taliban, Chavez, Castro, and China does to their homosexuals don’t you? What a hypocrite fool you are. Eating and drinking your Capitalism, while railing against it. You’re a traitor and a moron. Grow a spine and move to N.Korea or China, and try out your Marxism for a year, then come back let us know how great an experience it was. Have you ever tried to buy bread or milk in Venezuela since Chavez took power? I have, and it sucks. What about the rolling brownouts in Cuba? Don’t lecture us until you have tried it, you well-fed coward. Traitorous fool.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:10amHe is so weird and lame. Bernie not Mattera!
Report Post »TopOfTheMuffin2u
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:10amSenator Sanders is a sell-out…some people have small brains!
Report Post »I_Hate_Libs
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:09amAnother Socialist……OWNED!
The horror of the Democrat mind.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:04amCan we make a law that says a sitting US Senator can not seek nor profit from a private enterprise during their term in office. The hypocrisy is so out there they don’t even care anymore they just as they please
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:07amForgot to add they don’t follow the laws they pass anyway nor the Constitution they swear to protect and defend oooooops!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:03amCrazy Bernie in the news again. Listen to this crackpot for a while and you begin to wonder what in the world is wrong with the people who elected him to office. My wife has always wanted to take a trip to Vermont in the fall to see the leafs change. I made her watch Bernie for a while, she asked what state he represented again, and decided she would like to go somewhere else.
Report Post »Marker12
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:00amI hope they follow-up on whether he deducts the “contribution” and while they are at it check all these redistribution morons to see what they have been deducting.
Report Post »SnowWolf
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:59amDid all the Stoners from Woodstock wander over the border into Vermont afterwards? (THEY tried the Brown Acid!)
its the only yhing I can figure
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:56amlike to know who is making big profit on those mercury filled lightbulbs-I remenber how they made us get rid of glass thermonitors because of mercury isn’t it bad for the enviroment oh thats right these lightbulbs help the enviroment lol capitallism
Report Post »MercyMe
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:25amGE lobbied for them. Go figure.
Report Post »raderby
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:51amSanders came from NYC – no? Send him back there and have him try and control the Russian mob’s lifestyle.
Report Post »windycitywoman
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:50amNice!
Report Post »Arc
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:49amWhile all you billiant college professors ( especially in economics ) search for “ Best Ways To Sustain a multimillion dollar factory ” in view of the fact that the administration has taxed that once PRIVATE OWNER so much, the factory fails and the Government takes over, what motivation could be economically feasible to curb the trend of ” small business owners don’t give a damn any more”
Ration everything ?? Are you prepared for a revolution?
Report Post »bill oswald
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:49amYears ago I used to take my family on vacation to Vermont. No More!
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:57amVermin in Vermontvokia
Report Post »begtodiffer
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:44amHow do you vote for that POS?
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:05amWhen you don’t stand for something, you fall for anything……. The liberal mind, what a waste.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:40amCutting edge Senator….his beliefs will soon be FORCED down every Amercan(ski)’s throat wether they like it or not!! Cry and scream all you want Blazers this is an unfortunate truth because they have all the political points with “baby killer” senior citizen starver“ and the best one ever ”racists”! So be happy eating your oatmeal in that blind corner and keep voting RINO’s and buying your children the latest IPOD!!!!
Report Post »SgtBarrett
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:40amThey always use capitalism to fight capitalism. Funny aint it?
Report Post »Slaynfire
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:34amYes they do! Just like my brother law who is a socialist yet works in advertising. His goal, get you to buy products. Pure capitalist job! I always ask him how he can work for the system he despises so much. He just says a job is a job.
Report Post »proudpatriot77
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:39am1st rule of socialism: Socialism for you but not for me.
Report Post »MercyMe
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:24amCorrect. All the non-elite little Socialists think they will be the beneficiaries of Socialism.
Report Post »They don’t comprehend what their personal future would look like.
It’s sad really. And scary.
Dale
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:36amI, for one, was impressed by the very looong line waiting for autographs.
Report Post »dadsrootbeer
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:36amVermont, another progressive marxist state that continues to give us this POS socialist. They must be proud.
Report Post »The Fellduck
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:36amJason Mattera is awesome. Great video, loved it.
Report Post »MonteCristo
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:45amHe’s got a pair the size of beach balls.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:27amPathetic Senator from a pathetic state……
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:30amPathetic senator who is believing in a lost, pathetic system called Socialism done gone away to the dustbin of history.
Report Post »lcam67
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:36amAhhhh Blue England…….. can you say irony !!!!
Report Post »SgtBarrett
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:41amThey always use capitalism to fight against capitalism. Funny aint it? They could never get buy as big shots in a true socialist society… Where would all their money and power come from if not capitalism?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:44amThe Green Mountain State is a beautiful piece of land , inhabited by many Pot growers (California East) as there is nothing else there but Tourism. The VT Gov lives off of NY, NJ, CT , ski home owners, Mud Season is my favorite time of year up there. Speaking of Mud, Bernie is an Idiot. Pull my finger.
Report Post »MonteCristo
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:44amNobody makes me laugh like Mattera! “Would you make it out to Capitalism” HAhahaha
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:49amWhen will people realize that the ones that are in power when socialism or communism is in power, are the ONLY ones that profit from that form of government. Do you really think Mao or Stalin lived like poor people in shanty towns?
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:49amYep, and for every snake you see, there are 10 you don’t. Rattlesnake hunt in 2012!
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:51amSadam and the Ba’ath party in Iraq were “socialist islamic” government. Seeing some of the palaces Sadam lived in, I doubt he really stuck to that whole “equal pay for everyone” priniciple socialism preaches.
Report Post »NYSTREETKID
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:51amthey said at one time in VT,you could find a Dem behind every palm tree. Now you cant find 3 teaparty member standing to together in one town without a lefty screaming hate at them. VT is a lost cause.Just let them become they own little country.sad people
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:52amSounds like the Seinfield episode where George starts the human fund. Maybe that’s where Bernie got the idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci80MAUh6os
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:02amI’ve never seen someone get a new orifice ripped open, in such a quiet setting, the look on his face was priceless. Do as I say, not as I do….. these people are clueless.
Report Post »thecrow
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:14amThat’s not capitalism. $100 million in 102 minutes–now that’s capitalism:
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/ghosts-in-the-machine/
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:17amI’ve been looking up stuff about Vermont and found this on gun laws
The term “Vermont Carry” is widely used by gun rights advocates to refer to allowing citizens to carry a firearm concealed or openly without any sort of permit requirement, however this term is being replaced by the term “Constitutional Carry”. Vermont law does not distinguish between residents and non-residents of the state; both have the same right to carry while in Vermont.
Report Post »DIOS BENDIGA AMERICA ... JESUCRISTO ES EL SEÑOR!
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:25amWhen you build your house on shifing sand it will fall when the winds come.
Take note at just how easy it was to conform Bernard by common sense and respectful discussion. Too bad the young capatilist didn’t throw cut up ticker tap on Bernard, but from a presumably non-gay capatilist that goes against logic.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:36amTo the children? Yeah, right. He meant to INDOCTRINATE the children. Wanna bet that‘s what it’s used for.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:57amJason Mattera 1…Sanders 0
Report Post »Way to go Jason!!
Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:57amthecrow – We have much more worse problems right now than your truther BS, get lost.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 9:57amCapitalism is only bad for them when they aren’t making money from it. Bernie had better be reporting the income he is making from this book. Children of Vermont, pfffft.
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:57amHaving lived in Vermont for 15 years, I watched business after business close up, reduce their workforce or leave the State. The sad part of it is that liberalism is not the ideology of what is commonly referred to there as a “Vermonter.” The only way you can be a Vermonter is if you were born there. The problem is that Vermont was invaded with a-holes like Dean and Sanders (both originally from New York) and a bunch of social engineers from other places like New Jersey, Mass and Rhode Island.
Vermont taxes its residents to death with a heavy income tax and sales tax, while right next door in New Hampshire there is none. Even the now largest employer in the state, Killington Ski Area,at one point jokingly (I think) wanted to become part of NH (they are 40 miles from the border). The once largest employer in Vermont, IBM has about 4,000 less employees then it had at one time. The reason was that Vermont did not want to build a road to help the plant move product. After 10 years of fighting this, IBM gave up and decided that no new investment will be made in Vermont..
So, after paying $7,000 in property tax a year for no services (no police, no full time fire, no water, no sewer, living on a dirt road and watching a school budget go up 7% a year graduating illiterates, I moved.
For those that can afford it, the skiing is great, the pace slower, and the taxes are crushing. But even Bernie didn’t vote to the left as many times as Obama….go figure.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:22amIt’s like they understand that people deserve to get paid for their work.
Report Post »Iswingright
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:24amComplete liar and hypocrite.
Report Post »TexasTBone
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:26amQuestion: If he is a self confessed socialist, does that violate his oath of office?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 19, 2011 at 4:16pmAh yes let’s keep giving attention to the growing number of “critics” in the world who add nothing to society or the human experience. Place Mattera in the same group as Palin, Gingrich, Bachmann, etc. The art critics of our time who are so adept at telling us where someone else is wrong or failing, but say and do nothing that actually adds value. Other than to make money themselves by feeding the angry mob.
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