Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) – In a speech following his virtual tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Monday’s Iowa Caucus, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) said that his showing in Iowa sent a “profound message” to the “establishment” -- and the media.



“As I think about what happened tonight, I think the people of Iowa have sent a very profound message to the political establishment, to the economic establishment, and by the way, to the media establishment,” Sanders said to his supporters in Des Moines.

Later in his remarks he specifically criticized the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal for criticizing his campaign promises.



“Let me repeat what I believe,” Sanders said. “I believe that at a time when every major country on Earth guarantees health care to all people as a right, that I believe that we should do the same in the United States of America.



“For all of my critics out there in the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and in corporate America, wherever you may be, let me tell you straight up, yes, I believe that health care is a right, not a privilege,” Sanders said.

On Wednesday, the Post published an editorial criticizing Sanders for what it called his “fiction-filled campaign.”



In September, in an article entitled “Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion,” a Wall Street Journal reporter stated that Sanders was proposing “an array of new programs that would amount to the largest peacetime expansion of government in modern American history.”



Bernie concluded his remarks by saying, “We will transform this country.”