You Rotting Cunts

This is how ABC News, which knows full fucking well the impact of this story, treats Bernie Sanders' run for the Senate seat in Vermont. The headline is just "Socialist Leads Senate Race in Vermont." NOT "Congressman Runs for Senate" or "Bernie Sanders leads Senate Race" but "Socialist leads Senate Race in Vermont."

What is the meaning of this? In These Times magazine here in Chicago thinks a lot of Bernie Sanders, and their write-up of his campaign in this month's issue is not so fucking obsessively focused on his "socialist" leanings. Could ABC "News" article have something to do, maybe just maybe, with that damn ol' liberal press wanting to drum up support for Red Bernie ahead of next year's election?

You don't suppose (gasp!) that it's the other way around, do you? Maybe the media is happy to sling around the word "socialist," knowing full fucking well the hysteria that usually follows it, and then sit back and cluck its tongue at the mayhem it caused. The description of Sanders in the article could have come from any smear pamphlet directed at Eugene Debs--Sanders is frenetic, disheveled, and kooky. Hey, you know, if you don't have a story just create one. That's what counts--not the subject, not the facts, but how much motherfucking DRAMA you, the "impartial" journalist (or maybe I ought to put "journalist" in quotes?) can create.

Fox "News" was happy to pick up the ball and run with it, adding their own take, which was (and I quote verbatim) "Socialist congressman has gone from outcast in Congress to favorite at home"--yeah, douchebag, he was such an "outcast" that he got re-elected seven times and was well-liked and well-respected by Reps from both sides of the aisle! But no, the point is to make him appear as a crazy anomaly on the political landscape, a blazing wildfire of nutty idealism and socialist menace; and like a wildfire sloppy, out-of-control, and unable to sustain momentum.

Fuck you, ABC News. Fox, you don't even rate the effort it takes to raise my middle finger. But both of you just made my list. When Bernie Sanders, our Red Czar of Vengeance, takes over the government from the inside and the revolution is upon us, you two will be the first ones up against the wall.