Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made his second cease on the gauntlet of CBS exhibits on Monday’s CBS Mornings after a cease on Sunday’s Face the Nation (and forward of Monday’s The Late Present with Stephen Colbert) selling his guide It’s Okay to Be Indignant About Capitalism. Whereas Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan pressed Sanders on his newest act of hypocrisy with expensive tickets on Ticketmaster for guide occasions, CBS Mornings was far friendlier.

Co-host Nate Burleson and socialist co-host Tony Dokoupil have been open-ended of their teases with Burleson saying “[w]e have questions” and “[h]e has solutions” and Dokoupil proclaiming he be “ask[ed]…about” the “message” of his guide.

Given the breaking information of President Biden making a shock cease in Ukraine, Dokoupil requested Sanders for his ideas: “I need to ask in regards to the scenario in Ukraine. We’re sending some huge cash there in the intervening time, cash generated by our capitalist system, so there’s a connection I suppose. What must occur going ahead with U.S. coverage towards Ukraine?”

Pivoting to the guide, Dokoupil lobbed a softball: “Why did you suppose now was the time to time for this message? And why okay? It looks like you — you are feeling that there’s a level of resistance to any thought of criticism of the golden goose?”

Co-host Jericka Duncan gushed to Sanders from the far-left:

You discuss in regards to the points, you lay them out very effectively right here within the guide, and also you say issues that we had heard from you on the marketing campaign path a few years in the past. However I feel what the American folks battle with is how do you alter a system that seems to be damaged in so some ways? 

Duncan adopted up with extra curiosity: “So, you take a look at taxing billionaires, for instance, however what different options are you — are you providing?”

Burleson jumped in as effectively, gushing that Sanders’s “saying that the system is working the best way it’s meant to work” by screwing over working folks earlier than touting a brand new proposal to broaden a quickly bankrupting entitlement system:

Now, you launched a invoice final week with Senator Warren that may not solely prolong Social Safety however improve advantages. Now, do you imagine that by taxing wealthier People that you would get some bipartisan help on this invoice? 

Dokoupil supplied the one kind of pushback, mentioning that even those that have been struggling would possibly argue Sanders was attacking “this method we have now has created extra wealth than any nation has ever had within the historical past of the world” by way of “super innovation…and now you’re speaking about altering that?”

The interview ended with an open-ended request for Sanders to share his reflections on ailing former President Jimmy Carter, however not earlier than seeing if Sanders could be keen to alter the truth that “it’s present tax coverage on this nation that if firms purchase an AI system, it’s a capital funding. Even when it lays off employees, they get a tax profit.”

Again on November 1, 2022, CBS Mornings didn’t afford the identical foot message-like remedy to Sanders’s Senate colleague, Tom Cotton (AR) when the Republican got here to advertise his personal guide. As an alternative of softballs, he was routinely pressured accountable his occasion and fellow conservatives for the assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul by a Inexperienced Get together-backing nudist from Berkeley.

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CBS Mornings
February 20, 2023
7:52 a.m. Jap [TEASE]

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Sen. Bernie Sanders]

NATE BURLESON: Forward, Senator Bernie Sanders shall be right here becoming a member of us in only a bit. We have now questions. He has solutions.

(….)

8:00 a.m. Jap [TEASE]

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Sen. Bernie Sanders Live]

TONY DOKOUPIL: Bernie Sanders on his new guide, It’s Okay to Be Indignant About Capitalism. Is it? We’ll ask him about that message.

(….)

8:02 a.m. Jap

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Sen. Bernie Sanders Live; Senator on President Biden’s Unannounced Trip to Ukraine]

DOKOUPIL: We’re going to start this hour with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Senator — to start with, welcome. Second of all, your go to comes on a day we’ve acquired some breaking information, some real breaking information from Kyiv the place president Biden met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy this morning. It was Mr. Biden’s first go to to Ukraine for the reason that Russian invasion almost a 12 months in the past. And this week, additionally, Senator Sanders is out with a brand new guide. It’s referred to as It’s Okay to Be Indignant About Capitalism. Senator, good morning to you. Due to the Ukrainian information, earlier than we get to the guide, I need to ask in regards to the scenario in Ukraine. We’re sending some huge cash there in the intervening time, cash generated by our capitalism system, so there’s a connection I suppose. What must occur going ahead with U.S. coverage towards Ukraine?

(….)

8:03 a.m. Jap

DOKOUPIL: You help what the President is doing. Alright, let’s discuss in regards to the guide, It’s Okay to Be Indignant About Capitalism. Why did you suppose now was the time to time for this message? And why okay? It looks like you — you are feeling that there’s a level of resistance to any thought of criticism of the golden goose?

(….)

8:04 a.m. Jap

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Sen. Bernie Sanders Live; Senator on New Book, Social Security and the Future of Jobs]

JERICKA DUNCAN: You discuss in regards to the points, you lay them out very effectively right here within the guide, and also you say issues that we had heard from you on the marketing campaign path a few years in the past. However I feel what the American folks battle with is how do you alter a system that seems to be damaged in so some ways?

(….)

8:05 a.m. Jap

DUNCAN: So, you take a look at taxing billionaires, for instance, however what different options are you — are you providing?

(….)

8:05 a.m. Jap

BURLESON: You’re saying that the system is working the best way it’s meant to work.

SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT): Precisely. It’s working nice for the billionaire class.

BURLESON: Little doubt about it. Now, you launched a invoice final week with Senator Warren that may not solely prolong Social Safety however improve advantages.

SANDERS: Proper.

BURLESON: Now, do you imagine that by taxing wealthier People that you would get some bipartisan help on this invoice?

(….)

8:06 a.m. Jap

DOKOUPIL: One in all your proposals is definitely to rewrite components of the Structure to make modifications. However I — you understand, the man at dwelling proper now, even the man who’s not doing effectively sitting at dwelling, may be saying, yeah, you’re acknowledging that this method we have now has created extra wealth than any nation has ever had within the historical past of the world. Large innovation, stuff you acknowledge within the guide. And now you’re speaking about altering that? I — once more — or — you understand, tweaking it.

(….)

8:07 a.m. Jap

DOKOUPIL: I need to ask about Jimmy Carter right here. However you understand, on AI, it’s present tax coverage on this nation —

BURLESON: Yeah.

DOKOUPIL: — that if firms purchase an AI system it’s a capital funding. Even when it lays off employees, they get a tax profit.

SANDERS: You’re proper.

DOKOUPIL: It’s inspired by the system. I think about you’ll need to change that.

SANDERS: We’d.

BURLESON: You’re saying tax robots?

SANDERS: That’s proper.

(….)

8:07 a.m. Jap

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Sen. Bernie Sanders Live; Senator on Fmr. President Jimmy Carter]

DOKOUPIL: Jimmy Carter, only a core of decency and modesty. Didn’t serve on company boards, went again to his hometown. Didn’t go to stay in some big mansion, didn’t give high-powered speeches value some huge cash. Common man. Not a “regular” man, appeared like a daily man in life. Your most memorable encounter with him, if you happen to might, sir.

(….)

8:09 a.m. Jap

DOKOUPIL: Alright, Senator Sanders, I see your spouse Jane over there. Did you give her a textual content or something on Valentine’s Day simply to —

SANDERS: I’ve no touch upon that really. It’s categorised.

DOKOUPIL: — making an attempt to catch Jane’s eye over there. We’ll discuss that in the course of the break. Senator Sanders, thanks very a lot. Recognize you being right here. The guide is It’s Okay to Be Indignant About Capitalism. And it goes on sale tomorrow. And you may see extra of Senator Sanders tonight on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert. That shall be an excellent dialog.

DOKOUPIL: Oh, that’s going to be good. I’m going to tune in for that.