It's not really much in the scheme of things, especially being from 1972, more of a historical oddity and goofy. Not as bad as say the Ron Paul Newsletters even if Sanders actually wrote this.
The oddest thing though is that this isn't the only Sanders centered stuff in the conservative/Republican media, they're spending way too much outsized time on painting him as a SOCIALIST...when he openly admits he is.
Example:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418926/bernie-sanderss-dark-age-economics-kevin-d-williamsonBernie Sanders, the Brooklyn socialist who represents Vermont in the Senate, generated a great deal of mirth on Tuesday when he wondered aloud how it is that a society with 23 kinds of deodorant and 18 kinds of sneakers has hungry children. Setting aside the fact that we must have hundreds of kinds of deodorant and thousands of choices of sneakers, Senator Sanders here communicates a double falsehood: The first falsehood is that the proliferation of choices in consumer goods is correlated with poverty, among children or anybody else, which is flatly at odds with practically all modern human experience. The reality is precisely the opposite: Poverty is worst where consumers have the fewest choices, e.g., in North Korea, the old Soviet Union, the socialist paradise that is modern Venezuela, etc. The second falsehood is that choice in consumer goods represents the loss of resources that might have gone to some other end — that if we had only one kind of sneaker, then there would be more food available for hungry children.
Lest you suspect that I am distorting the senator’s words, here they are:
You can’t just continue growth for the sake of growth in a world in which we are struggling with climate change and all kinds of environmental problems. All right? You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country. I don’t think the media appreciates the kind of stress that ordinary Americans are working on.
This is a very old and thoroughly discredited idea, one that dates back to Karl Marx and to the anti-capitalists who preceded him.
From my standard random sampling of Savage/Levin/etc. they all did extended segments on Sanders this week. ("THIS MAN IS ACTUALLY RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT." Savage at least should know of Stewart Alexander.) Rush was Clinton focused in the hour he got from me. Only gave Hannity a few minutes and he was harping on the 90% tax comment.
The 90% tax thing is really amusing considering how his argument (and whoever the guest guy was) was just "things were different back then" instead of pointing out that, you know, nobody actually paid 90% of their income because that tax code looked like swiss cheese. Just like the mega rich don't pay 39% or whatever it is now.
Levin only took a break tonight to defend Dennis Hastert as innocent for some reason.
