Video: 'Rock Star' Socialist Bernie Sanders Flees Media Mob After the Debate

Really, you’d have thought Bernie Sanders was a rock star.

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Following the Democratic debate Tuesday at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, the Vermont senator, Socialist and Democratic presidential candidate ended up fleeing the spin room chased by a mob of screaming media, flailing microphones and flashing cameras. At first, Sanders’ quiet entrance into the spin room via a side door went virtually unnoticed. But after a brief on-camera interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Sanders stepped off the stage of news outlet’s press booth into complete insanity. Swarmed by about a hundred reporters and cameramen all scrambling to get in a question, Sanders was quickly swallowed up by a packed crowd of lenses and boom mikes. Some of the more ambitious journalists climbed door frames and stood on trash cans to get a piece of the action, while other less fortunate media just tried not to get trampled. More...

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