Bernie Sanders was recently asked a question by a reporter that irked him. He was asked if he felt slighted that Hillary's hair receives more attention than his own.
It was ridiculous, of course. But the difference with Bernie Sanders is that he is not willing to entertain nonsense like that, to smile a pretty smile and go along with it.
Instead, he responded like this:
“O.K., Ana, I don’t mean to be rude here. I am running for president of the United States on serious issues, O.K.?” Sanders shot back. “Do you have serious questions?”
She tried to defend it, beginning to explain why she felt it qualified as a "serious" question.
But Bernie Sanders interjected with this instead:
“When the media worries about what Hillary’s hair looks like or what my hair looks like, that’s a real problem,” Sanders cut in. “We have millions of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water, who want to know what candidates can do to improve their lives, and the media will very often spend more time worrying about hair than the fact that we’re the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people.”
Just like that, Sanders cut through the bull, and got the focus on where it needs to be: the state of the country.
No, questions about Hillary's hair receiving more attention than Bernie Sanders gets for his hair is not a serious question. At all.
I have long felt that ridiculous, fluff reporting like this has reached the tipping point, and become part of the problem. Even supposedly "serious" questions are often softball questions at best, with pretend serious questions serving to replace legitimate, "grilling" questions.
That is a sign that the reporter in question is not doing their job. When it becomes the norm, as it has now for many years, than the mainstream media can be called into question for not doing their job. And yes, this has ramifications, such as this reporter apparently thinking that this was a legitimate question. Apparently, in her mind, it was relevant enough to ask. I would be willing to be that she regrets asking it now.
The reporter might have felt like she had her reasons for asking that question. But why ask such a stupid question when, as Sanders so rightly pointed out, there are so many far more serious issues to ask pointed questions about? We do not have enough problems in this country for her to ask a legitimate question that relates to the lives of voters Does Hillary's hair really matter to you or to me in any serious manner?
No, it does not.
Sanders is not afraid to tell it as he sees it, and he shamed this reporter by exposing that simple fact.
Check and mate.
Here is the link to this article:
Bernie Sanders Scolds Reporter for Hair Remark: ‘Do You Have Serious Questions?’ by Alex Griswold, August 17th, 2015
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