what is the state of the sanders campaign as you know it? well, the sanders campaign is very frustrated right now with coverage, and they re not alone. democrats, republicans, politicians generally, start to blame the media when they don t like coverage. what is new and what is sort of a trump-like attack line is tying the washington post to amazon with no you know, he has no evidence here. and we saw him tone this down a little bit, but we saw marty barron come back and say this is a conspiracy theory. but the bernie sanders campaign right now, he is pulling in second or third. he s doing a lot better than 21, 22 people in that field. but he s not moving up. he s been sort of stagnant. and so he needs to expand his support and he is frustrated about coverage. that points out that he s not he s number two, joe biden is still certainly in the lead, and he is competing with people like elizabeth warren who has a lot of very similar ideas, but her
what is the state of the sanders campaign as you know it? well, the sanders campaign is very frustrated right now with coverage, and they re not alone. democrats, republicans, politicians generally, start to blame the media when they don t like coverage. what is new and what is sort of a trump-like attack line is tying the washington post to amazon with no you know, he has no evidence here. and we saw him tone this down a little bit, but we saw marty barron come back and say this is a conspiracy theory. but the bernie sanders campaign right now, he is pulling in second or third. he s doing a lot better than 21, 22 people in that field. but he s not moving up. he s been sort of stagnant. and so he needs to expand his support and he is frustrated about coverage. that points out that he s not he s number two, joe biden is still certainly in the lead, and he is competing with people like elizabeth warren who has a lot of very similar ideas, but her polling is going upward.
anybody here know how much amazon paid in taxes last year? zero. i talk about that all of the time, and then i wonder why the washington post, which is owned by jeff bezos, who owns amazon, doesn t write particularly good articles about it. i don t know why. but i guess maybe there s a connection. maybe we help raise the minimum wage at amazon to 15 bucks an hour as well, all right. [ applause ] maybe that s why washington post is not endeared with me, i don t know. so that was vermont senator bernie sanders on monday. it quickly caught the attention of the washington post. the executive editor marty barron issued a statement that read, in part, contrary to the conspiracy theory the senator seems to favor, jeff bezos allows our newsroom to operate with full independence, as our reporters and editors can attest. well, today sanders scaled back his criticism a bit during interview at cnn saying, quote, my criticism of the corporate
so while sanders is stagnant, his campaign is frustrated by coverage that they view is not talking about all of the great things he s doing and all of the support he has, which he certainly does have support. he s got lots of donors, he s got grassroots support. but political campaigns want to talk about the good and not any of the bad. so, robert costa, when general electric owned this building and this network, i was it coincided with the birth of the inter webs. and a lot of conspiracy theorists had us all on a conference call every morning with jack welch so we d have the electric power division, nuclear division, electric trains, all of that. of course, it was never true, and i ask you just to show our homework, when was the last time you met or heard from jeff bezos about your coverage? i ve never heard from mr. bezos about my coverage. marty barron s statement says it all. the washington post is a news organization, a reporting organization.
his campaign is frustrated by coverage that they view is not talking about all of the great things he s doing and all of the support he has, which he certainly does have support. he s got lots of donors, he s got grassroots support. but political campaigns want to talk about the good and not any of the bad. so, robert costa, when general electric owned this building and this network, i was it coincided with the birth of the inter webs. and a lot of conspiracy theorists had us all on a conference call every morning with jack welch so we d have the electric power division, nuclear division, electric trains, all of that. of course, it was never true, and i ask you just to show our homework, when was the last time you met or heard from jeff bezos about your coverage? i ve never heard from mr. bezos about my coverage. marty barron s statement says it all. the washington post is a news organization, a reporting organization. it s also a news organization, a