Bernie Sanders

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts) Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:17 PM Aug 2015

Is anyone else watching Rachel? She opened with Bernie's incredible crowds...

And compared them to Trump and the dumps. MSNBC is saying Trump's enormous football stadium crowd at best got 20,000.

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Is anyone else watching Rachel? She opened with Bernie's incredible crowds... (Original Post) hedda_foil Aug 2015 OP

I wonder how many of Trump's crowd was 'rent a crowd'? Anyhow, Bernie had over 27,000 sabrina 1 Aug 2015 #1

Or just people who think he is funny? jwirr Aug 2015 #5

He IS funny, and he is decimating the Kock Bros purchased candidates. They can hardly get a crowd sabrina 1 Aug 2015 #7

Agreed but not so sure that I want him to be the nominee. jwirr Aug 2015 #10

Unlike Trump, Bernie doesn't have to pay actors to show up Ken Burch Aug 2015 #14

That was no 20,000, not even 18k ChairmanAgnostic Aug 2015 #2

Trump's ego will require him to top this. immoderate Aug 2015 #3

Here's a pic I got from twitter Catherina Aug 2015 #4

Heh. ChairmanAgnostic Aug 2015 #6

Looks pretty sparse in the photo. These could be just celebrity gawkers. GoneFishin Aug 2015 #8

Lol, all those empty seats! Compare that to Bernie's events with thousands of people sabrina 1 Aug 2015 #9

Even Fox had to admit it Catherina Aug 2015 #15

Thanks for the heads up. Watching online now Catherina Aug 2015 #11

Except why did she have to go to Trump at all. Cleita Aug 2015 #12

Exactly. SoapBox Aug 2015 #13

That is the million dollar question. Why. Why are they giving him coverage all of the time. glinda Aug 2015 #16

Yep even our "liberal" media gives him coverage. zeemike Aug 2015 #20

Coverage was on all thee cable stations.....MSNBC, CNN and faux...... a kennedy Aug 2015 #17

Bernie talks policy. rusty quoin Aug 2015 #18

Me too. PatrickforO Aug 2015 #19

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)

1. I wonder how many of Trump's crowd was 'rent a crowd'? Anyhow, Bernie had over 27,000

Reply to hedda_foil (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:21 PM

Aug 2015

at just one event last week. Trump is a Reality TV Star, nothing more. The fact that the media is obsessed with a Reality TV Star, says all that needs to be said about that Dinosaur which has made itself so irrelevant.

The New Media is where things that matter are happening.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

5. Or just people who think he is funny?

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:32 PM

Aug 2015

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)

7. He IS funny, and he is decimating the Kock Bros purchased candidates. They can hardly get a crowd

Reply to jwirr (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:40 PM

Aug 2015

of 100 to go to their boring events. Bush eg, had about 168 people at his event and many of them said they were just there because 'I like Town Hall Meetings'.

Donald Trump is just entertainment. What is shameful is how the media is giving him so much coverage. But then, that is all THEY are, entertainment.

Fortunately few Americans watch them for NEWS anymore. So while they put on a show, people who want news go to the New Media.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

10. Agreed but not so sure that I want him to be the nominee.

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #7)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:44 PM

Aug 2015

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

14. Unlike Trump, Bernie doesn't have to pay actors to show up

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:39 PM

Aug 2015

and pretend to support him.

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

2. That was no 20,000, not even 18k

Reply to hedda_foil (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:23 PM

Aug 2015

I suspect, if that really is a 40,000 stadium, 15k at best.

Now, go to next week, and the Donald will be bragging he had the largest group evah!!!!
Except Bernie's crowd was larger.

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

3. Trump's ego will require him to top this.

Reply to hedda_foil (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:24 PM

Aug 2015

He will go nuts to amass a crowd that rivals Bernie's.

--imm

Catherina

(35,568 posts)

4. Here's a pic I got from twitter

Reply to hedda_foil (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:30 PM

Aug 2015

They were already live so it couldn't have been too long before

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

6. Heh.

Reply to Catherina (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:37 PM

Aug 2015

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)

8. Looks pretty sparse in the photo. These could be just celebrity gawkers.

Reply to Catherina (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:41 PM

Aug 2015

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)

9. Lol, all those empty seats! Compare that to Bernie's events with thousands of people

Reply to Catherina (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:44 PM

Aug 2015

OUTSIDE.

Catherina

(35,568 posts)

15. Even Fox had to admit it

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #9)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:51 PM

Aug 2015

Thousands of Alabama voters came out to hear the New Yorker bring his message to the Deep South. The 40,000-seat Ladd-Peebles Stadium was about half-full when Trump began his speech.

Trump was welcomed by an array of Alabama politicians, including Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, who praised him for the attention he's drawn to immigration issues. And Trump led off his speech with more criticism of immigrants living in the country illegally, drawing loud cheers when he repeated his promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

He reiterated his intention to end "birthright citizenship" for children of immigrants here illegally.

Trump also attacked the Obama administration's deal with Iran to restrict that country's nuclear program, calling it "so sad."

And he promised to "repeal and replace Obamacare" — the health care law that's President Barack Obama's singular domestic achievement.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/21/donald-trump-addresses-largest-crowd-presidential-campaign-yet-while-in-alabama/

Catherina

(35,568 posts)

11. Thanks for the heads up. Watching online now

Reply to hedda_foil (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:44 PM

Aug 2015

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-record-distinguished-by-consistency-504479811515

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

12. Except why did she have to go to Trump at all.

Reply to hedda_foil (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:58 PM

Aug 2015

If Bernie or Hillary had the same showing as Trump in Alabama no mention would have been made of it. She did try to put lipstick on the pig saying he had as big a turnout because of his racist message and Alabaman conservatives seem to like that but. really?

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)

13. Exactly.

Reply to Cleita (Reply #12)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:08 PM

Aug 2015

Earlier, it was all about that stadium holding 42,000.

Sorry the crowd didn't pan out MSNBC...Toady will be crushed that Rump didn't pay enough people.

glinda

(14,807 posts)

16. That is the million dollar question. Why. Why are they giving him coverage all of the time.

Reply to Cleita (Reply #12)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:59 PM

Aug 2015

It has entered the bizarro phase.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)

20. Yep even our "liberal" media gives him coverage.

Reply to Cleita (Reply #12)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 12:00 AM

Aug 2015

But Sanders not so much...that should tell us something.

a kennedy

(29,719 posts)

17. Coverage was on all thee cable stations.....MSNBC, CNN and faux......

Reply to hedda_foil (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:42 PM

Aug 2015

I did watch....he's engaging.....and I then ask myself, for how long. Bernie has been delivering his speech of us getting involved and moving this country to where it should be....well, for all his life as a civil servant. A humble man... The next President of the United States.

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)

18. Bernie talks policy.

Reply to hedda_foil (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:49 PM

Aug 2015

He has numbers and actual plans to repair past wrongs. The right likes Trump because he is full of ego. I hear that Trump has no chance, but he's doing pretty good. I hear that Bernie has no chance because he is socialist and not known...he's doing pretty good.
I have never been a good predictor of elections, and I am also a pessimist. I do feel good this time about the guy who can actually solve problems.

PatrickforO

(14,593 posts)

19. Me too.

Reply to rusty quoin (Reply #18)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:58 PM

Aug 2015

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