I just watched Bernie's recent interview on Real Time with Bill Maher. Bill Maher is a supporter of Bernie, and thus a sympathetic ear, so I was looking to see if he was going to bring up the Inspector General's Report, whine about a rigged election process, complain about the DNC, slander Hillary Clinton, denigrate the Democratic Party, etc. (I highly recommend that everyone just take a few minutes and watch the video. You know what? He's still the same old Bernie, talking about the same issues).
x YouTube Video You can see for yourself - there were no attacks on Clinton. Maher gives Bernie an opening, by bringing up the email scandal and suggesting that now "that story has moved a little bit, has it not?" Bernie softly agrees, "It has", but then immediately moves on to the issues that Bernie loves to talk about: "But this is what I also think. There is enormous frustration on the part of the American people with the way we do politics in this country. And what most politicians do is say, 'I'm great, you're terrible, vote for me, the other guy is the scum of the earth, blah-blah-blah'. But you know what - people are hurting in this country. You know the middle class is disappearing, we've got a lot of poverty, we don't have healthcare for all people. People want us to talk about their lives and their issues, and not just spend our whole lives attacking our opponents."Bernie defends President Obama for the 8 years of Republican obstruction he has faced. On super delegates, he simply states that over 400 publicly supported Hillary before anyone else was even in the race. And he acknowledges the recent polls showing he is a stronger candidate against Trump.
Bernie then ATTACKS DONALD TRUMP as: "a crazy person" "a pathological liar" "an embarrassment and a real danger to this entire world" "he lies all the time, and changes his mind 14 times a day" "primarily a showman" "a manipulator of the media" "has no ideas on public policy, and the ideas that he has are absurd. Giving hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top 2/10ths of 1 percent, is not particularly good public policy." Bernie then discusses: the greed of Wall Street and corporate America, free public colleges and universities, healthcare for all as a right, and the corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires to buy elections. (You know, the issues that are most important to Bernie and a large percentage of the population). And finally, Bernie ends the interview by saying: "The American people are entitled to know that they're going to have healthcare, education, decent housing - the basic needs of life should be there for all of our people".