AOC and Bernie Sanders MELT DOWN on CNN After She’s Asked About Schumer Primary, w/ The Fifth Column

AOC and Bernie Sanders MELT DOWN on CNN After She’s Asked About Schumer Primary, w/ The Fifth Column

I wanted to do one more sound bite from the AOC Bernie interview before we completely move on from that because it was kind of interesting and maybe potentially telling and it was on the subject of whether she’s going to challenge Chuck Schumer um in, you know, his next senatorial bid. Here it is. But are you saying that Senator Schumer should not be worried about a primary challenge from you? I mean, all right. No, let me jump in on this one. Let me This is See, this is what we’re talking about. That’s exactly what we’re talking We have a country that is falling apart. We had a house housing crisis, a healthcare crisis, an education crisis, massive income and wealth inequality, a corrupt campaign finance system, and the media says, “Oh, you going to run? What are you going to run for?” Nobody cares. Should run. Nobody cares there. It’s the House Speaker and President Trump and the vice president saying it. All right. Pardon? Well, of course, they’re saying it to deflect attention away from the real issues. Exactly. And here, let me tell you what the real issue is. Let’s see if CNN talks about it. And you’ll just have to wonder because we cut the sound bite too early. Um, okay. The billionaire the why it was about healthcare. But why why such a why why such an adverse reaction to the subject of whether she’s going to challenge Chuck Schumer in a primary bid. She kind of had that blush, didn’t she? That the first thing before she started just siculating wildly. There’s again listen back to I think I thought she said no at the beginning and then spun that into something else. She did say no but she might have been saying no that’s not what I’m saying. So when you when you say this when you do this well this is what the media does. This is the problem. It’s not it’s actually that is the problem with politicians. It’s a totally sensible question. It’s it’s a question that New Yorkers want to know that people in that are interested in politics want to know that America would like to know about. It’s a totally reasonable question. And the deflection is here to say, well, there’s other things happening in the world that are bad. Can you not walk and chew gum? We do not have two questions we can talk about. And they do talk about cuz I watch that damn thing. They do talk about healthcare. They do talk about all these other things. Is it what is wrong with asking that question? It is that is a complete ridiculous. You know, what about the safest politics in America is being mad at the media? Um because Americans hate the media more than they hate even their own lives or actually they love their own lives. They hate the media. Democrats don’t hate the media. Democrats hate the media too. The populist side, right? Populism. There’s a reason why Bernie and Trump both kind of rose up at the same time. And that part of the Democratic party um has always been had something against the media. I covered the Ralph Nater campaign in 2000 when he got 2.7% of the vote. He was against the oligarchs in the media and the corporate media this and the corporate media that every single day he wouldn’t stop talking about it and it’s popular because people do feel alienated from the media. I think their analysis of the media uh has been absolutely wrong for a really long time and they will say with a straight face that the media is run by Republicans and and corporate lobbies. The and and they’ve been saying that for 30 years. They’re wrong but it’s a popular message. You can always blame it. I was once moderating a Libertarian party debate. God help me. like uh uh presidential de I know back in like 2016 or something and one of the candidates um just decided and he’s a guy I know um and am friendly with uh but he decided to take a perfectly normal question like you know would you abolish uh everything um and uh and then that’s the problem with the media and then afterwards he’s just sort of like sheepishly like I got to do that problem with the media they don’t pay I give an example of this on the on the kind of left version of this is um John Oliver, who’s a apparently a comedian, but he has a show on HBO and he did a whole piece on uh my friend Barry Weiss the other day and in the lead it was so dishonest. Keep going. Oh, horrible. But in 10 minutes, he’s like he’s like, you know, the corporate media and he he talks about Jeff Bezos and the guy who owns who owns the uh um LA Times now, Patrick uh whatever his name. Yeah, Sunun. And he’s been on your show. He’s a bit maha uh Jeff Bezos who’s nobody’s idea of a conservative but he’s been you know say let’s make the editorial page of the Wall Street the the Washington Post free minds and free markets like reason so now he’s in the the the you know the sites of people like this but it’s like I I was thinking watching this have you never heard of Carlos Slim have you never heard of any of these other billionaires who have taken over media corporations and the reason now that they’re re-pinning this is that well they’re becoming a little bit disaffected and you have people bringing Barry Weiss in to bring to shake it up CBS the third place in the ABC CBS NBC rating sweep stakes for news and that terrifies them. So now they’re turning all the guns on the media because the owners in their I think this is a completely demented worldview are people that are nominally of the right. This is our territory. we get to own the media, not you guys when we do. And that’s, you know, and Bernie Sanders, one obvious thing that is so damn obvious that you don’t even notice it. And he’s like, “Is CNN going to talk about this?” And it’s like, “You’re on. Why is you’re very good at imitations?” Yeah, we’ve noticed this before, but you’re very talented at that. Here’s here’s what’s really bothering them. Okay. So, it first of all, all you saw for the listening audience was extreme physical discomfort. Like, she got the hands above the midline immediately. He jumped in to save her. Clearly, they both knew that she did not want to talk about primary Chuck Schumer and that if that were to come up, he was going to run in to save her. He was a little asleep at the switch, so she got really uncomfortable. She doesn’t want to talk about it, which suggests she’s going to do it. Um, either that or a presidential run. I don’t know. But for whatever reason, she really didn’t want to talk about it and wasn’t able to deafly handle it like any politician can when they get asked a question that they don’t want to answer. That’s, you know, a day ending and why that it should be. Um, but on the subject of like why they’re getting so upset about these media buys, maybe this has something to do with it. Um, I’m trying to find our pal Harry Anton. He’s on my very long s list someplace. I’m searching you. There we go. Okay. Saw three. I started on the wrong page. Yeah, top three. Maybe this has something to do with it. You go back to April, Kate Baldwin, what were we looking at? Well, we were looking at the Democrats with a very clear shot of taking control of the US House of Representatives, according to the Couchy Prediction Market odds. We saw him in an 83% chance, but those odds have gone plummeting down. Now, we’re talking about just a 63% chance, while the GOP’s chances up like a rocket, up like gold, up from 17% to now a 37% chance. back to April. Look at the generic congressional ballot. What you see? You see plus three Democrats in 2025 in April. You see plus three Democrats back in April of 2017. Now jump over to this side of the screen. What happens? Well, the Democrats are no longer keeping pace with the pace that they were setting back in 2017 2018. You look back in 2017, you saw that the Democrats had leaped up to an 8-point advantage. I think a lot of folks like myself are looking at this. We’re seeing, hey, wait a minute. Those national polls are Democrats are not gaining the way that we expected. Then you add in the fact that the state legislators are adding potentially more GOP seats like they’ve already done down in Texas, like they’ve done in Missouri. And then you add in the potential gutting of the VRA and all of a sudden it becomes much more difficult for Democrats to gain. So that’s a long way of saying they would like to blame the media for their newfound electoral problems. It’s got to be the evil media getting bought up by all these Republicans as opposed to us in our own messages that are tonedeaf and off point and driving people away and have rendered the Democratic party the worst thing one can be which is totally uncool. It’s amazing to um be in the position that they’re in right now and not having a huge structural advantages, right? Like the president always loses ground in the midterms. It just that’s it’s unless you’re Bill Clinton and it’s uh you’re in the middle of an impeachment process in your second term which sort of creates a boomerang effect. It’s and the averages are staggeringly high. Donald Trump um is a divisive polarizing politician um who uh you know his his numbers never go too low but they never go too high either. Um and he’s been around for a long time and there can be people who like him and they’re just have Trump fatigue enough already with all the craziness. Um it’s an incredibly uh favorable uh uh atmosphere for which them to run and they’re doing this not greatly. Um it’s uh I think it’s incredibly damning of where Democrats are right now. You got Trump fatigue, but you’ve also got resistance fatigue. I think a lot of people are exhausted by the hyperbolic rhetoric about fascism is coming even while you’re seeing these somewhat controversial policies where the National Guard gets deployed in Illinois and you’ve got this no King’s Day response and there’s scenes of tear gas. There are these scenes of people being uh grabbed up in in um uh court courouses and various other places, but it’s it’s charged. You would actually expect it to have more repercussions perhaps to show up in the polling a little bit more. The Democrats people are in favor of it. They’re not doing anything and they are still losing rounds. It’s very to make a point. People are in favor of it and in you know the the kind of those momentary scenes come and go. I think one of the things you can’t um underestimate is that we saw a lot of polling about how Democrats and how Republicans particularly young Democrats and Republicans were moving away from uh Israel on when it came to foreign policy. Well, it that ultimately doesn’t matter when you see what happens with the hostages being released, Donald Trump speaking in front of the Knesset, world leaders uh praising him, everybody in Israel pra the man by the way who is, you know, uh he has dinner with Nick Fuentes as an anti-semite and there’s a big image of him on the beach of Tel Aviv that he can see flying in on Air Force One. I mean, God, these these Jews in Israel have really misunderstood this anti-semite that they’re cheering America hats. But I kind of trust them, you know. I just He’s such a bad anti-semite. Trump sucks at anti-semitizing. Oh my god, he’s the worst anti-semite of all time in the way that he’s not good at it. Don’t take that out of context, people. But the thing about you see, he’s the worst anti-semite. Good lord. Put that there. Flip it there. Um, but no, the the amazing thing to me is you have somebody on TV, and this pains me to say this, but you have AOC and Bernie Sanders, and Bernie is the guy that could do it. AOC is the one who can’t because the first clip we saw of AOC is exactly why she going to run for president, et. And the reason she can’t is the thing that pains me to say is Americans, unfortunately for us libertarian types, they love economic populism. They love this stuff. when and Marjorie Taylor Green is talking about how we’re kicking people off of health care and she’s you know drifting away from even further away from that former version of like Reaganite conservatism which was free market etc. But the problem is they’re saddled by this cultural policy, right? AOC cannot get away. You see the Zoran Mandani doing like a run for Gaza, you know, on like October 8th or something and saying that, oh, I don’t want this is not I’m the mayor of New York. It’s like you’re running for Gaza. Like what? You care about these issues? These are issues that are not popular amongst like a broad swamp of people because they’re too extreme. I mean, when she’s talking about men and the toxicity and blah blah blah, you can’t be president by if you just did the Bernie thing. That is how Democrats could gain ground. Harry would be showing different numbers. Yeah. And then this this plays up also to Virginia, right? I mean, you have a guminatorial race there that is now getting saddled with AOC like uh culture war issues that it it absolutely does not need to be complet. It’s a complete cell phone. It’s not hard to say no, I’m against this. Um, you know, you shouldn’t like fantasize about the death of people and we shouldn’t have um in uh high schools or junior high schools people who were born male in a female locker room. That’s not a hard straightforward Did you guys see that setup that um the Dems tried to do on Winom Sears yesterday and it completely backfired on them? So, the Democratic Party of Virginia tweeted out um at Winome Earl Sears uh saying Sears must call on these young Republicans implicated in the racist tech scandal to step down from their positions. And Winston Sears retweeted it with a response that read, “Easy. They absolutely must step down. Now it’s your turn, Abigail.” I mean just such a burn good note that win some yelling that because winsome is Jamaican like Camille. 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Megyn Kelly is joined by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, hosts of “The Fifth Column,” to discuss AOC and Bernie Sanders’ meltdown on CNN after being pressed about whether AOC would primary Sen. Schumer, how out of touch they are with the current state of the culture, and more.

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