Dick Van Dyke, 90, famous for his glorious career of leaving audiences in stitches, has decided he wants to have the last laugh, endorsing Bernie Sanders for president and calling him, “the last voice we ever hear.”
Van Dyke released a short, 27-second video in which he asserted, “I want to say something. You know, in Bernie Sanders I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes, while everyone around him’s saying, they insist they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone here the alarm he’s sounding now. It may be the last voice we ever hear.”
Van Dyke was only doubling down from last October, when he told Tavis Smiley on the eponymous show on PBS, “I think — I said that Bernie Sanders is sounding an alarm that’s been around for 100 years. Woodrow Wilson said in 1913 the United States government is being run by an invisible force which — insurance companies and banks — that was in 1913. And the stranglehold has just caught on now, I don’ t think we can get out of it. Bernie I don’t think can be elected, but thank God he is at least telling us — he is the man saying that the emperor has no clothes.”
Van Dyke continued that calling Sanders a socialist was a problem, insisting, “Labels are so incendiary. They use ‘communist’ and ‘socialist’ — the one percent that have the money are calling him a ‘socialist.’ And we’re a fairly socialist government already. I’m hoping somebody listens to him. We need it. “
A week and a half before his interview with Smiley, Van Dyke was interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC. Van Dyke intoned his mantra again: “I thought Bernie sounded an alarm that’s been around — a problem that’s been around for about 100 years. He warned us about becoming an oligarchy, and I’m afraid he’s perhaps too late.”
“It may be the last voice we ever hear.”
A frightening thought from Dick Van Dyke
Van Dyke is reportedly worth $30 million, so he likely can afford the tax hikes Sanders would institute.
As Laura Petrie would say, “Oh, Rob!”