{"id":21135,"date":"2015-07-02T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21135"},"modified":"2015-07-02T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:14:47","slug":"bernie-sanders-annihilates-scott-walker-at-record-setting-madison-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/07\/02\/bernie-sanders-annihilates-scott-walker-at-record-setting-madison-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Annihilates Scott Walker At Record Setting Madison Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Politicus USA<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2015\/07\/01\/bernie-sanders-annihilates-scott-walker-record-setting-wisconsin-rally.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Politicus USA article\">Bernie Sanders Annihilates Scott Walker At Record Setting Madison Rally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSanders responded to Wisconsin Republicans who called him an extremist, \u201cLet me just say a few words to my friends in the Republican Party about extremism. When you deny the right of workers to come together in collective bargaining that\u2019s extremism. When you tell a woman that she can not control her own body, that\u2019s extremism. When you think a woman is a child and can\u2019t purchase a contraceptive, that is extremism. When you give tax breaks to billionaires and refuse to raise the minimum wage, that\u2019s extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders might have been talking about Republicans in general, but he was specifically detailing the record of Scott Walker.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seeing pictures of the crowd is one thing, but hearing them adds a whole other dimension.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/csWl4MIbZhw?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Even Politicus USA can&#8217;t give up the &#8220;unlikely&#8221; meme, although in a slightly different nuance than NBC news.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf Bernie Sanders is Batman, Scott Walker is the Joker, and the unlikely 73-year-old superhero had all of Gotham behind him tonight in Wisconsin.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The one thing to note is that Bernie Sanders does not shy away from attacks against him.  He uses those attacks, and turns them against the attackers.  Isn&#8217;t it great to see a progressive politician stand up and defend the principles that we progressive voters hold dear?  I feel betrayed by other so-called progressives who fail to make a vigorous defense of what I (and presumably they) believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicus USA has the article Bernie Sanders Annihilates Scott Walker At Record Setting Madison Rally. Sanders responded to Wisconsin Republicans who called him an extremist, \u201cLet me just say a few words to my friends in the Republican Party about extremism. When you deny the right of workers to come together in collective bargaining that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21136,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21135\/revisions\/21136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}