An OPEN LETTER to … U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders

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Sen. Sanders:

We are willing to bet that you tired Friday of seeing all of the memes of you on social media, but not because you sort of look asleep in the photo or because you didn’t love the attention (because we know you love attention). Instead, we suspect you disliked it based on the fact you didn’t think of it first during one of your failed campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Let’s be honest. You’ve never received so much attention in a single day from members of all political parties, and many of the memes had you with swimsuit models and people’s puppies, in big-league dugouts, on the Moon, in weed fields, on mountain trails, and slouched on a couch with the Golden Girls.

Living large.

If your campaign would have launched something similar the day before one of the primaries you lost, the results just might have been different. Who knows? You could be the new president right this very moment!

But hey, we may have loved our Bernie meme; straight-out socialism, though? Not so much.

Sincerely,

#DistractedButNotDeranged

Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney has been a professional journalist for 33 years, working in print for weekly, daily, and bi-weekly publications, writing for a number of regional and national magazines, host baseball-related talks shows on Pittsburgh’s ESPN, and as a daily, all-topics talk show host in the Wheeling and Steubenville markets since 2004. Novotney is the co-owner, editor, and co-publisher of LEDE News, and is the host of “Novotney Now,” a daily program that airs Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m. on River Talk 100.1 & 100.9 FM.

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