On Sunday’s CBS Face the Nation, moderator Margaret Brennan had a sit-down interview with Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders about his new ebook “It is OK to Be Indignant About Capitalism,” which he paradoxically sells on Amazon for $22.40. On prime of that, tickets to his ebook tour are going from anyplace between $55 and $95 on TicketMaster. It looks like capitalism is treating him fairly effectively, so it begs the query: why does Bernie Sanders hate it? Fortunately Brennan broached the topic in the course of the vast ranging interview. 

Brennan used her final query in her sit-down to confront Sanders on his hypocrisy: “you are occurring tour to advertise this ebook ‘it is okay to be indignant about capitalism.’ And also you’re right here speaking about it. I perceive we’re not the dangerous guys you are describing within the ebook in terms of media, however tickets to your tour apparently are promoting for $95 on TicketMaster.”

She then identified how Sanders utilizing TicketMaster is hypocritical since “a few of your [fellow] Democrats are criticizing them.”

Brennan put the query bluntly to Sanders: “aren’t you benefitting your self from the system that you just’re making an attempt to dismantle?” 

This set Sanders off who sought to disclaim any double commonplace on his half: “these choices are made exclusively by the writer and bookseller. I believe there’s one case the place in a single place right here in Washington, Politics and Prose, an unbiased bookstore charging some tickets.”

He then outright denied he is profiting in any method from the ebook or ticket gross sales which is extremely uncertain: “I do not make a nickel out of this stuff,” Sanders claimed.

The transcript is under. Click on “broaden” to learn: 

CBS’s Face the Nation
2/19/2023
10:52:56 a.m. Jap

MARGARET BRENNAN: However I’ve to ask you, you are occurring tour to advertise this ebook ‘it is okay to be indignant about capitalism.’ And also you’re right here speaking about it. I perceive we’re not the dangerous guys you are describing within the ebook in terms of media, however tickets to your tour apparently are promoting for $95 on TicketMaster. Which is accused of anti-competitive habits. You recognize that. A few of your Democrats are criticizing them. Aren’t you benefitting your self from the system that you just’re making an attempt to dismantle? 

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Initially, these choices are made exclusively by the writer and bookseller. I believe there’s one case the place in a single place right here in Washington, Politics and Prose, an unbiased bookstore charging some tickets. Most of them I believe are $40, $50, and also you get a ebook as effectively. So if you wish to come, you’re gonna should pay $40. I am going to throw within the ebook without cost. We’re doing numerous free occasions. However I do not make a nickel out of this stuff. 

BRENNAN: However you are okay doing enterprise with ticketmaster? 

SANDERS: No not notably, however that’s once more—I’ve nothing to do with that. That’s, in case you wrote a ebook, most likely could be the identical course of. 

BRENNAN: So you must function inside the system? 

SANDERS: I do. I write a ebook, a serious writer and so forth, and so forth…