CNN Town Hall Wonders Why Bernie 'Cares so Fervently?'

Scott Whitlock | February 6, 2020
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[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN on Thursday hosted another series of town halls with Democratic candidates. Anderson Cooper and the assembled questioners mostly tossed softballs to socialist candidate Bernie Sanders. But a few of the eye rolling queries really stood out. Questioner Robin Clark wondered, “I was wondering why do you care so fervently about economic inequities?” Cooper followed this up by encouraging Sanders to speculate on everything he’d accomplished: “What do you think the young Bernie Sanders in Brooklyn in the 1940s would say if he could see where you are now?” Was “How did you get so great,” too obvious a question? 

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