JB: All good questions, David. Many voters are having a hard time getting beyond the Clinton campaign's relentless sabotaging of Bernie's candidacy. Was the full court press any dirtier than in previous races or was it just political SOP [Standard Operating Procedure]? If the latter, are we unfairly subjecting Hillary to a double standard because of her gender?
DS: That's good news that you think many people are bothered by a stolen election. I'm glad to hear it. We saw Bush steal elections with hardly a yawn even from Democrats, so I shouldn't have been shocked to see less than that when the DNC stole a primary. But if you think many people are outraged, I'm glad to hear it. I don't understand the gender thing at all. Can you explain? Was Bush a woman? Is Jill Stein a man? Is stealing an election a gendered crime?
JB: Hillary and her spokespeople have claimed she has been consistently treated unfairly by the press. This is probably the last time we'll get a chance to speak before the election. What would you like to tell our readers before we wrap this up?
DS: Hillary and her spokespeople make very clear in their emails that they conspired with the press against Bernie Sanders. She and the so-called Justice Department and the FBI conspired against fair application of the rule of law in her case. She was not treated the way Chelsea Manning and Jeffrey Sterling were treated. The vast majority of the corporate U.S. media has sought to hand her a nomination and the presidency. She's been carefully let off the hook for her crimes against Iraq, Libya, and other nations. She's spent decades crusading against single-payer healthcare which she privately admits is the solution that would work, and the media is uninterested.
Imagine if Trump had said it was time to sit back and watch while Syrians kill each other. Hillary Clinton and her husband ruined the media and banking and welfare and international trade and the notion of having one of the two big parties represent popular interests. The media mostly loves her for it. So, yes Donald Trump should certainly, as President Obama says, stop his whining. But Hillary and her crew of sexism-shouters should pipe down too. And when Katha Pollitt writes in the Nation magazine that Hillary will reduce military spending, simply because Pollitt thinks that'd be nice, even though Hillary Clinton has never said that, even though Hillary Clinton's own website says she wants to lift the sequester limits in order to spend more, people should not consider it sexist to point out that this is propaganda, not journalism.
JB: Thanks for talking with me again, David. We certainly live in interesting times, full of fear-mongering, hate and polarization. I'm afraid to think what the next several years are going to look like, whoever prevails in a few weeks.
DS: Now is the time to get active. On the issue of war come join us at http://WorldBeyondWar.org Thanks, Joan.
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