What? They didn't get "owned" by their own earlier postings. Sanders keeps saying we spend more than twice ANY other country. That is incorrect. It is true we spend more than twice the OECD average, but that is not what he actually said despite his team saying that's what he's referring to. I, personally, appreciate knowing the actual facts of the matter so I don't accidentally go around repeating false statistics to people.
That is the entire problem, because its nuance trolling to get people like you to say "what's wrong? its not technically incorrect!", because your intentionally missing the point of his statement just to nitpick small details that dont take away whatsoever from his overall sentiment.
The difference between "Most countries per capita spend half of the US on healthcare" and "All other countries without exception spend less than half per capita of the US on healthcare" doesnt fucking matter to the point he's making.
THAT TONS OF COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THE US SPEND LESS THAN HALF PER CAPITA OR LESS IN GENERAL ON HEALTHCARE!
But CNN still tries to make a tweet or a headline about how "Bernie Sanders is wrong", knowing that people arent going to read the actual nuance. They just hear "That Bernie Sanders is lying again and making outrageous claims like i hear all the time on the media!"
That is bias by default to perpetuate a specific narrative. Acknowledge it!
So I had no intention on posting in this thread again, but there have been a few developments that bring more clarity to this situation that haven't been brought up here yet, so I figured, "what the hell, I might as well do it myself", so here you go:
As expected, Bernie clarifies that he was not literally referring to a conspiracy theory:
This is why it's important to try to make arguments in good faith, otherwise, you end up with a lot of strawmen that weren't invited to the discussion in the first place.
I'm pretty sure everyone and their mother knew this to be the case...so i dont really know why he felt he had to come out and clarify it... The people strawmanning his position already knew this. they were just trying to back up the media's false narrative because its a team sport.
The position of the US media and how it is affected by default, its very nature of being a corporate entity designed and owned by wealthy elites is by definition a corrupting influence on how stories and positions and narratives are framed, by the hiring practices and the people who get picked up to write stories. It doesnt have to be Jeff bezos directly telling people what to write, and it was never about that. Even if the media does have instances of that, and we can just look at Fox as a single example.
