US Cable News Host Compares Bernie Sanders Winning To The Nazis Taking France
Bernie Sanders has won Nevada’s presidential primary election and pulled further away from his moderate rivals in the race to be the Democrat presidential candidate.
After strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. the 78-year-old self-described ‘democratic socialist’ cemented his position as the frontrunner with support from the state’s large Latino community.
But his ascendency is sitting uncomfortably with some in the media, with US cable news pundits and hosts making as series of controversial comments about the senator from Vermont.
On Saturday, as results rolled in showing that Sanders was winning the Nevada caucuses, there were horrified reactions and doomsday warnings about Sanders getting the nomination.
The most jaw-dropping came from MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who said he was reading about the fall of France to the Nazis in 1940, and it reminded him of what was going on with Sanders appearing more likely to win the nomination.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews likens Sanders victory in Nevada to Nazi Germany overrunning France in 1940: “It’s too late to stop him … it’s over” pic.twitter.com/6GJetLoDkq
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He mentioned he had been reading about the fall of France in 1940 and about a call to British prime minister Winston Churchill relaying that “It’s over” for France.
“And Churchill says, ‘How can it be? You got the greatest army in Europe. How could it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over.’ So I had that suppressed feeling,” Matthews said.
Sanders’ spokesman Mike Casca tweeted after the segment that he “never thought part of my job would be pleading with a national news network to stop likening the campaign of a jewish presidential candidate whose family was wiped out by the nazis to the third reich. but here we are.”
After Sanders’ strong showing in the Iowa caucuses, Matthews also expressed his scepticism of socialists, wondering whether Sanders would like to see people executed in...