NBC Hails Bernie Sanders as ‘Not Your Typical Blow-Dried Politician’; ABC, CBS Drop Socialist Label

Curtis Houck | April 30, 2015
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All six of the major English and Spanish broadcast networks covered the news on Thursday night that independent Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, but only NBC Nightly News chose to label him a “socialist” after ABC and CBS had previously done so on Thursday morning.

While correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell characterized Sanders as a “socialist,” Mitchell offered some fawning words for him when she declared that he was “not your typical blow-dried politician.” 

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