Bernie Sanders had his own TV show. We found the archives
, or reality TV, and even longer before we grew accustomed to learning on Twitter and Facebook what our friends and our celebrities ate for breakfast, Sanders basically made a lo-fi, analog attempt at livestreaming his day job.
The series is not just a nostalgia trip to a time before Sanders was famous. It’s an early, somewhat personal picture of a candidate who these days is so relentlessly on-message that it’s hard to imagine he didn’t emerge fully formed as a political superstar. On the shows, it’s possible to detect a young—well, young compared to 2019—Sanders crafting his democratic socialist message, refining the populist parts, shaving off the more extreme elements and figuring out how to sell it to the masses.
It started with a realization: An outsider mayor who had won by only 10 votes, and whose socialist politics made him the butt of national jokes before he even took office, couldn’t rely on normal press coverage.in Episode 50 of “Bernie Speaks with the Community,” “I said to some of my colleagues, ‘We can’t survive. We’re going to have to develop our own media.’”. Even before Sanders became mayor, Burlington had had a long-running show, “The Mayor Speaks,” on a local station.
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