They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, Bernie. And they did sort of plug the book, so…
Bernie Sanders Made More Than $858k in Book Royalties Last Year, And He’s Keeping the Money
I’m going to rush right out and not buy one of those. 🙂
You ever notice how statists and socialists always seem to find ways to wrangle prominence into personal wealth? Just like the people they bellow against, but often quite a lot more. Why, it’s almost as if what they preach and what they do are not very closely related.
“I’m going to rush right out and not buy one of those.”
Yep. If I think I need to read it, I’ll just wait ’til it hits my local library. Wonderful place, library.
The lousy commie, keeping all the loot for himself,. The nerve!
You’re right Joel, it is funny how die hard socialists, whenever they get the chance, will dive into the capitalist pool if it is for the benefit of themselves.
Didn’t Barack Hussein just pick up $450,000 for giving a speech to some corporate big wigs? Good work if you can get it.
I’m neither a Bernie fan nor his designated apologist, but if it’s his book and people actually buy it, why wouldn’t he be entitled to the royalties? (Note that I wrote “his book”, because he is unlikely to be the actual author).
I’m not saying he isn’t. But this rich dude is the same guy who told us all recently there were too many product choices in hoi polloi stores. The path of consistency would be for him to be an example and give away what he’d be only too delighted to take away from you and me at some cop’s gunpoint.