Salon magazine has the article Bernie Sanders wants to lead “a political revolution” to make America more Scandinavian.

The article has a video of Sanders being interviewed bu George Stephanopolous. Salon chose to quote these words from Bernie Sanders in part of the interview.

“In countries like Denmark, Norway, Sweden — very democratic countries — voter turnout is a lot higher than it is in the United States,” he said.

“In those countries, health care is the right of all people,” Sanders added. “College education and graduate school is free. Retirement benefits [and] child care are stronger than the United States of America. In those countries, by and large, government works for ordinary people and the middle class, rather than, as is the case right now in our country, for the billionaire class.”

ABC News also has an article, Sen. Bernie Sanders Says America Needs ‘Political Revolution’ in 2016, about this interview. There is something about what the ABC News article decided to talk about that strikes me as a little less substantive and a bit more about political soap opera. And that gives you a hint as to why George Stephanopolous needed to be tamed.

Sturbridge for Bernie Sanders also mentioned this article.

The article contains a video interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC television. You could label this interview as Bernie Sanders stands up to George Stephanopolous and wins. He was very civil and emphasized the positive reasons for wanting to run. By trying to stay positive, he diverted leading questions that were meant to elicit negative comments about his political rivals.

If nothing else, we finally have a candidate that resists being dragged into the mud by the media pundits, and he does it in a very civil way.