The bottom is falling out from the Biden campaign,
and Bernie has a very strong base, and juiced
up by corporate media that are not looking
at the content of what Buttigieg is putting
forward, there’s a tremendous amount of
hype that is catching on, at least in this
state, in terms of the grassroots or some
of the grassroots for Buttigieg.
And I think it’s very important for not
only progressives, but others, wherever you’re
coming from politically, to see that what
Buttigieg is doing
is swinging to the corporate center.
He’s done it all year.
But in the last three days, he’s emerged
as a technocratic spokesperson for austerity.
He’s an austerity technocrat.
And he’s speaking for a back-to-the-future
obsession with deficits, cutting into the
potential for anything like a Green New Deal.
And that is part of the choice that’s in
front of the voters today.
I would boil it down to a five-year corporate
media assault on Bernie Sanders.
There was a notorious one-day period that
FAIR, the media watch group, documented on
the eve of the pivotal Michigan primary in
2016, where the newspaper owned by the richest
person in the world, Jeff Bezos, The Washington
Post, published 16 negative articles about
Bernie Sanders in 16 hours.
And that pattern has continued.
And what we’ve seen in recent weeks, as
Bernie’s strength has risen, is an escalation
of the war on Bernie, not a 100% war on Bernie,
but the vast preponderance of coverage of
Bernie from corporate media.
And people need to remember that if you, for
instance, don’t trust Comcast, why would
you trust a network that is owned by Comcast?
These are class interests being worked out
where the top strata of ownership and investors
hires the CEO, hires the managing editors,
hires the reporters.
And so, what we’re seeing, and not to be
rhetorical about it,
but we really are seeing a class war underway.
And Bernie Sanders is very clear about who
he aligns with.
He aligns with working people.
He aligns with the elderly.
He aligns with children who need neo — and before that,
neonatal care and nutrition, 1 to 5.
He is fighting for people who don’t have
power in the society
and suffer from lack of power.
And he’s fighting against those who have
too much power.
And so, the net effect is, it’s not only
the Democratic National Committee 
that Bernie is up against.
I think, even more significantly, the Bernie
Sanders campaign, which now I think truly
is a movement, or a constellation of movements
— the Bernie Sanders campaign is up against the oligarchy.
And that oligarchy’s biggest and strongest
arm are the corporate media outlets.
