Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks the New York Times has been covering his campaign unfairly since the day he announced he was running for president.
During an appearance Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” the Democratic presidential hopeful was asked about supporters of his who have told the Times they hope the FBI will recommend that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, be indicted over the mishandling of classified information on her private email server.
“Do you tell your supporters not to talk that way?” Chuck Todd asked Sanders, who famously told Clinton during a debate last October that Americans are “sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.”
“I’ll tell you, I have a real problem with the New York Times, which from day one, has been trying to be dismissive of our campaign and be very negative about our campaign,” he said.
Sanders continued, “I want to break up the Wall Street banks. She doesn’t. I want to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. She wants $12 an hour. I voted against the war in Iraq. She voted for the war in Iraq. I believe we should ban fracking. She does not. I believe we should have tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. That is not her position.”
“Those are some of the issues that I am campaigning on that the New York Times goes around, when they talk to a handful of people and do a front-page story, that’s a problem for the New York Times, not for my campaign,” he said.
In late March, the Times came under fire for quietly editing an article about the Vermont senator after publication titled, “Via Legislative Side Doors, Bernie Sanders won Modest Victories.”
The article discussed certain pieces of legislation that Sanders had gotten through the Senate despite obstacles that would have prevented others from doing the same.
Two paragraphs were added later to the article, claiming Sanders has tried to “scale up those kinds of proposals as a national agenda” making “even liberal Democrats skeptical.”
