Vermont’s senior senator, a key supporter of Maine Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner, Sunday rejected the alleged hypocrisy of flying charters while blasting oil-executive salaries.
“Independent” Bernie Sanders’ use of private jets for his political campaigns and tours has drawn scrutiny from critics who argue it contradicts his advocacy against corporate wealth and environmental issues.
In an interview on Fox News, Sanders pushed back on the apparent contradiction.
“You campaign and you do three or four or five rallies a week,” he told Fox News anchor Bret Baier.
“The only way, the only way, you can get around to talk to 30,000 people.“You think I’m going to be waiting around sitting on a waiting line at United? While 30,000 people are waiting? No apologies for that.
“That’s what campaign travel is about,” Sanders added. “We’ve done it in the past and we will do it in the future.”
Sanders tried to argue that President Trump doesn’t fly commercial while campaigning either, asking Baier, “When’s the last time you saw Donald Trump during a campaign at National Airport?”
“But he’s also not fighting the oligarchy,” Baier replied.
They never practice what they preach. Just another taker, not a maker.
Rules for thee but not for me .
Where have we heard that before ?
Classic, Do you know who I am?
There is a train, the Amtrak Vermonter, that runs from Vermont to DC Union Station, which is walking distance to the Capitol. The train stops in New Haven, Connecticut to switch from diesel to electric locomotives, which they’ve been doing for a century because steam engines were banned from the New York City train tunnels.
He could get off at New Haven and take any number of trains to Boston. He could then get off at the Back Bay Station — one stop before South Station — and take the MBTA’s orange line to North Station where he could then take the Downeaster to Maine.
It would take the better part of two days to do this, but if he truly believed in the bullbleep he spews, he would gladly do this. But he doesn’t.
Even better, he can use AlGore’s Internet — forget speaking to 30,000 people, he could speak to 30 million via the Internet, if he had a message that 30 million people were interested in hearing.
but the schmuck can’t even fly commercial….
Hey Bernie, those private jets are big polluters, causing Global Warming. You should know better. lol
Of course he does, he’s one of the beautiful people
Comrade Sanders has no intention of ever mingling by the smelly peasants!
Biggest hypocrite in Vermont. He’s a Communist sympathizer, a fraud, and a lazy no good slacker that NEVER WORKED IN HIS LIFE.