Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders attended another (yes, another) CNN town hall, which wasn’t a genuine town hall in the sense that guests were pre-invited and vetted. Presumably, all questions were arranged in advance, as well, but the Bern took a few moments to address the upcoming weekend’s episode of SNL. As many are aware, Larry David will host the episode to great fanfare; and though the promos don’t reveal much, there’s no way that David won’t bust out his Sanders impression several times. For sure, we’ll see a clever interpretation of the Iowa caucus coin tosses heard ’round the internet. Perhaps there will be a Sarah Palin rejoinder courtesy of Tina Fey.
Host Anderson Cooper had a little fun (and so did Bern) with the Larry David bit. Sanders chided Coop for not realizing the truth after a lengthy journalism career: “It’s true. I am Larry David. And you didn’t get it.”
Bernie Sanders: "I am Larry David." #DemTownHall pic.twitter.com/NINZNg2p2L
— NTA by Mic (@NavigatingTrump) February 4, 2016
Bern showed a wicked sense of humor throughout the evening. He addressed the possibility of running against Donald Trump by, well, mercilessly making fun of Trump:
“Trump is, as you know, a well-known scientist—brilliant scientist. And he has concluded after years of studying the issue that climate change is a hoax brought to us by the Chinese. Now, that shocked me, Anderson, because I thought that he would have thought it was a hoax brought to us by the Mexicans or the Muslims — Chinese I didn’t quite get … So I think — and I would love the opportunity, frankly, I’m prejudiced — I want Trump to win the Republican nomination. And I would love the opportunity to run against him. I think we would win by a lot.”
A “brilliant scientist?” Bern is having too much fun. Here’s that “climate change is a hoax” statement as delivered by an aged Trump tweet:
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012
Not bad. Trump makes fun of everyone else, so he could use a little ribbing. However, Trump didn’t seem to notice that he’s not a “brilliant scientist.” In response, Trump simply tweeted that Sanders would be “so easy to beat.”
Sanders says he wants to run against me because he doesn't want to run against me. He would be so easy to beat!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2016
(Via CNN)