“It turns out even democratic socialist authors can rake in cash,” CNBC gushes.

It’s “hypocrisy,” squeals FoxBusiness, where Cabot Phillips says of Sen. Bernie Sanders, “He’s gone on to rant against the 1 percent, the millionaire, billionaire class — but now he’s firmly planted in that 1 percent.”

All this manufactured indignation stems from Sanders’s release of ten years of tax returns in April, resulting in the revelation that royalties from three books caused his income to spike recently.