C-Span broadcast the press conference that Bernie Sanders held.

To appreciate this candidacy, you have to hear Bernie Sanders in his own words.

If Bernie Sanders’ message is going to reach the audience that needs to hear it, then we in the grassroots are going to have to take responsibility for making it happen.

It is becoming clear that the media wants to pretend this never happened. The Google News page hardly even mentions this event at the time I am writing this blog post. Their top article was something about football. The only mention of the Sanders’ candidacy was a reference to an entirely bogus opinion piece in The New York Times, Today in Politics: Sanders Offers Clinton Both a Potential Foil and a Pitfall.

This kind of press coverage by Google and The New York Times is the kind of coverage that Bernie Sanders specifically asked the media to rise above. In the video of the conference you can hear him tell a news person that his question is the wrong kind of question, and then he told him what the right question would be.

Not only is Bernie Sanders the Koch brothers worst nightmare (see the Politicus USA story, On Day One Of His Presidential Campaign, Bernie Sanders Is The Kochs Worst Nightmare), but the press is going to find that he is their nightmare too. When the public finally sees a clear demonstration of how little the media want to give them the information they need, they will rise up in rebellion against that media. The internet is not the newspapers’ biggest threat. Their biggest threat is the lack of quality of the product they want us to buy.

Bernie Sanders announced on his Facebook page that he is running for President of the United States.

I am running for President of the United States because America needs a political revolution. We need a government which represents all of us, and not just a handful of billionaires. In this campaign we won’t have the support of the big-money interests, Wall Street or the military-industrial complex. That’s why I need you to join me in an unprecedented grass-roots effort. Sign up at my new website – BernieSanders.com

I take this campaign very seriously. It is not a campaign to move some other candidate in a desired direction, It is a for real campaign to become President and finally put the course of this nation back on the right track.

When we campaigned for Barack Obama in his first campaign, we knew that the nation was in serious trouble. It wasn’t really obvious how serious the trouble was until after Barack Obama actually won the election. By the time he was sworn in, it wasn’t even obvious that the world economy would avoid its destruction.

Now that we know the history of the period and the aftermath, we can appreciate that the change Obama promised was not enough. We can no longer afford to have a President who fails to see just how crucial it is to rein in the power of the oligarchs. A President who refuses to prosecute criminal behavior on Wall Street, and one who thinks we are wrong to oppose an even more devastating trade pact than we have ever had before is not the kind of President we can afford to elect for the foreseeable future.

If anybody who is politically to the right of Bernie Sanders were to get elected President, the prospects for this country would be very dim indeed. If you think that more bipartisanship and splitting the differences between the two opposing sides is what we need, then you just don’t appreciate how far our country has deteriorated. If you were born after 1980, then I can understand why you have no personal knowledge of what this country once stood for. As I believe Bernie Sanders has said, we won’t have too many more chances to save this country.

The Daily Kos has the article Jon Stewart on Baltimore and the police brutality lottery.

Here is the video that is the subject of the article.

This is the commentary we have needed to hear that I have not found at any other source yet. Why is it that only a comedian who, among all the people in the media, seems able to see the forest for the trees? I am sure the people who live the situation in Baltimore have little trouble seeing that forest.

The Daily Kos has the article Washington Post, citing anonymous Baltimore PD document, says Freddie Gray severed his own spine. The article discusses The Washignton Post article Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was ‘trying to injure himself,’ document says.

The Daily Kos article also provides the video clip below.

None of the written matter in either The Daily Kos article nor The Washington Post article shows you the depth of the disinformation that is being spread about this case the way the video clip exposes it. The Daily Kos article just fails to give you the most damaging information. The Washington Post article, by contrast, seems to be deliberately trying to hide things by mis-characterizing what they say.