Give it up, people, for Bernie Sanders. He's the former socialist mayor of beautiful and painfully progressive Burlington, Vermont, who got elected U.S. Rep. Only in the land of Howard Dean. But now, Sanders is speaking in tongues - and playing footsie with.....Wal-Mart.

Yep, the old Lefty icon is aiding and abetting the insidious, anti-labor, anti-American, anti-Main Street, anti-preservationist, pro-rape-and-pillage corporate hegemon in their efforts to get a store built and running smoothly in St. Albans, Vermont. He's aided efforts to appropriate $1.2 million in federal funds for a Wal-Mart-related road improvement there.

And the Burlington Free Press is good and pissed.

Or would that be, pissy?

Here's what to do, guys. No more Ben and Jerry's Karma Sutra, or Chunky Monkey, for Bad Red Bernie.

Um, wait a minute. Vermont icon B&Js is now owned by a multi-national conglomerate.

So never mind - feed Bernie's face. But would everybody please go buy some lavender soap and boutique honey at the Bennington Farmers Market, soon?

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at June 4, 2004 10:55 PM

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