Demand Jonathan Capehart and the WaPo retract this lie

[cali]

By Jonathan Capehart February 11 at 5:38 PM

In trying to establish the civil rights bona fides of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), many of his supporters have taken to posting a black-and-white photo of the presidential candidate from 1962. Students can be seen sitting on the floor and standing in the back as the then-dark-haired activist addresses them.


The compelling picture can be found in the senator’s biographical video on his campaign website. “At the University of Chicago,” Sanders says as the photo fades in and out, “I got involved in the civil rights movement. We ended up engaging in a sit-in demonstration.” It’s on the campaign’s Tumblr feed. “As the Civil Rights Movement grew, Bernie led a sit-in to desegregate off-campus housing at the University of Chicago,” reads the timeline under 1962. And Sanders used it in a stirring 2013 video to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. “I remember the day very well and I remember the moment, the period well,” he says as the photo passes by, “because up at the University of Chicago, where I was then going to school, we were working with young people in the South.”


But that’s not Bernie Sanders in the photo. It is Bruce Rappaport.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/11/stop-sending-around-this-photo-of-bernie-sanders/


The photographer who took those photographs, world renowned photographer Danny Lyons says they damn well are Bernie.

SHAME on the WaPo and Capehart.

"In 1962 and the spring of 1963 I was the student photographer at the University of Chicago, making pictures for the yearbook, the Alumni Magazine and the student paper, The Maroon. By the summer of 1962 I had taken my camera into the deep South, and become the first photographer for SNCC.

"That winter at the University of Chicago, there was a sit-in inside the administration building protesting discrimination against blacks in university owned housing. I went to it with a CORE activist and friend. The sit in was in a crowded hallway, blocking the entrance to the office of Dr. George Beadle, the chancellor.

"I took the photograph of Bernie Sanders speaking to his fellow CORE members at that sit-in. Bob McNamara, a close friend and CORE activist, is in the very corner next to me in the picture. Across the room from me is another campus photographer named Wexler, who taught me how to develop film.

"I photographed Bernie a second time after he got a haircut, as he appeared next to the noble laureate and chancellor Dr. George Beadle. Time Magazine is now claiming it is not Bernie in the picture but someone else. It is Bernie, and it is proof of his very early dedication to justice for African Americans. The CORE sit-in that Bernie helped lead was the first civil rights sit-in to take place in the North."

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http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2016/february/02/when-danny-lyon-met-bernie-sanders/


Contact information:

https://m.facebook.com/capehart

http://help.washingtonpost.com/ics/support/ticketnewwizard.asp?style=classic&deptID=15080

The Washington Post's ombudsman's number is 202-334-7582

https://mobile.twitter.com/capehartj

[NCTraveler]

1. Not my job.

Gop.com was used to smear Clinton here this morning. That same op mentioned Vince Foster and Benghazi. If Sanders supporters won't fight back against those smears I don't see a point in demanding help from Clinton supporters with this. Not even confident this is a lie.

[cali]

2. Lol. Hillary

is mired in a web of corruption and her own lies.

Bernie is not.

[NCTraveler]

11. I don't believe that to be accurate but have at it.

I'll continue to fight back against right wingers spinning bullshit against Clinton. I hope you join me in fighting back against the Vince Foster and Benghazi smears and right wingers spreading disinformation from places like gop.com.

That use to be common sense around these parts.

It's like the time when a failed wich hunt by Rep Mike Conaway was used to trash Gutierrez on Du. I'm not kidding, that was done right here on DU.

My point is this.

"Demand Jonathan Capehart and the WaPo retract this lie"

I will guarantee you didn't demand the lies be called out to the person spreading the failed investigation into Gutierrez by Mike Conaway.

[retrowire]

24. Hey. Republicans gonna smear.

A supposedly neutral news source should get their shit straight.

The GOP's aren't going to straighten shit up for anyone. that's a fruitless endeavor you've got going on.

but if you want to actually do something about a corporate media that is lying to you while smiling and telling you that they're to be trusted, then you should.

again, GOP ain't gonna change for nobody. they're indebted to themselves.

corporate media though? they need us to make money.

[intersectionality]

25. I am pretty sure we all know...

that gop.com isn't posing itself as an objective source of truth. We're asking you to help change information in a place that does pose as that. There is a vast right wing conspiracy against the Clintons (I am sure you will be like... damn... sarcasm... this is not sarcasm - I fully believe this to be true), so why would you attempt to sway opinion in a place like that is really beyond me. Holla when WaPo starts posting things about her that claim she didn't take a specific, progressive action that she actually did take.

On edit: whoops - didn't realize the post above me is basically saying the same thing!

[navarth]

28. I didn't see it but I would have called it out.

I am a Bernie supporter but I want this to be done with honesty.

[notadmblnd]

4. Oh who do you think you're fooling. You wouldn't anyway.

And where did Cali demand specifically that Clinton supporters should do anything? Oh, that's right. She didn't.

[cali]

5. Thanks. As Clinton supporters avidly push these lies

they're the last people i'd expect to help.

[notadmblnd]

13. I know, right?

[nashville_brook]

8. what the heck does this even refer to?

who is using the photo journal Phaidon in GOP smears?

[PonyUp]

10. Quelle surprise. n/t

[Hissyspit]

15. I've fought back against plenty of anti-Hillary smears.

And it is too your job.

[NCTraveler]

17. I agree that is my job.

Been fighting the right wing smears against the Clintons for decades. Kudos to you. I wasn't making an absolute comment with respect to Sanders supporters. I simply find it disengenious when someone asks to correct a lie when that same individual spread a really fucked up failed investigation into a democrat by the right as if it were the truth.

[Bluenorthwest]

87. I find it arrogant and presumptuous to assume an OP addressing all of DU is asking something of you

in specific. You responded as if you were ordered to do something when the OP is just information for us all.

Did you defend the Clintons from all that stuff Obama had to say in 08? Or what?

[Dustlawyer]

22. Until recently I would defend Hillary from the spurious attacks by Republicans.

Now, after she has been guilty of numerous spurious attacks against Bernie, I have no sympathy for her. She is guilty of the same tactics as the Republicans so she can deal with it without me!

[frylock]

125. Yep. Sitting at the bar, if someone were to make some stupid false remark about the Clintons..

I always made the effort to set the record straight, however futile it may have been. Now I just quietly take a drink of my IPA and scan the teevees for scores.

[leftofcool]

48. +1

[aintitfunny]

63. GOP.com is not the Washington Post

That is a distinctive and important difference. Not to mention that there are so many Clinton smears that are untrue, I lack sufficient time to challenge them. I do, however, challenge them, when I see them, on a pro-Bernie site/page, etc. I would hope that you would do the same when you see lies about Bernie Sanders in a Hillary supportive site/page, etc.

[peacebird]

3. Will contact them demanding a retraction!

[azurnoir]

6. and of course someone who passed away several years ago was named which makes verification

rather difficult- a red flag for me

[cali]

9. Now that Danny Lyon has clearly stated that he took the pics

And identified the subject as Bernie, that is irrelevant.

Btw, I believe the lie was one of slime merchant's, David Brock

[azurnoir]

12. well it's irrelevant now, that Danny Lyon has spoken up I meant all along for me

it could be David Brock but there seems to be quite a bit of slime merchanting going on with certain campaigns

[Snotcicles]

91. I think David Brock is to Karl Rove, what Chris Gaines is to Garth Brooks. eom

[TwilightGardener]

115. LOL. Yeah.

[cali]

123. ......

[frylock]

127. !

[Fawke Em]

73. And there are apparently, now, other photos from that very day.

And anyone with the sense God gave a goose can see this is Bernie. Just look at the way he holds his mouth. If that's not a "tell," I don't know what is.

[SamKnause]

7. Thanks for posting this cali.

Can you add contact links for the Washington Post and Johnathan Capehart.

I definitely want to demand a retraction.

[cali]

14. Kick

[AzDar]

16. K & R

[WillyT]

18. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[matt819]

19. I understand the mistake, though

You know, all Jews look alike.

[cali]

20. Yikes

[NorthCarolina]

55. I think it's intended as

[libdem4life]

64. Maybe Gallows Humor, as we used to call it.

[cali]

100. I got that. I wouldn't have had the guts to post it though

[matt819]

95. Yes

Thank you, NC. Very much intended as humor. I did wonder whether I neede to add the caveat. Guess so

[jillan]

27. LOL!!!

[jillan]

21. Any petitions started yet? Tweety was also pushing this BS and attacked Tad Devine last nite.

Pathetic.

[Duppers]

23. Someone should start a MoveOn petition for this.

[K Gardner]

103. Matthews & Capehart had ME convinced it was a lie..

they slammed Tad DeVine, who did not have much of a comeback ! Thanks for this.

[mhatrw]

121. The depths of this little episode of ratfuckery are truly unfathomable.

Sally Cook, the retired government lawyer University of Chicago alumni who contacted the University of Chicago archives to get the caption of the photo changed, conceded to Time magazine reporter Sam Frizell that she could not "say for certain the man is not Sanders."

So what made it so important to her that she felt she needed to change the caption in order to identify the individual at a 40+-year-old sit in as some long dead acquaintance rather than as Bernie Sanders?

Who then told Sam Frizell, Time magazine's Clinton pool reporter, about this trifling photo flap? What induced Sam Frizell to devote 1000 words to this complete non-story without making any attempt to contact the original photographer?

What then induced the WaPo's Jonathan Capehart, the live in partner of a rich Clinton campaign staffer, to pick up this complete non-story and spin it into a direct attack of Sanders' integrity without making any attempt to contact the original photographer?

Why did corporate cable news then trot out Capehart on 10 different shows to promulgate this complete non-story?

[Peregrine Took]

152. I love mysteries and this is a good one!

I lay awake in bed last night trying to iron it all our like a detective. Seems a man named Schmitt (U of C alum) was the first to make the observation re: Rappaport not Bernie in a "comment" after Rick Pearlstein's article published in the U of C Alumni magazine about a year ago.
Then some time later Sally Cook approached the U of C archive office to have the record permanently changed because, according to Capehart today, she was a "proud ex-wife" who wanted to get the record "corrected" that is the man in the photo was Bruce Rappaport, not Bernie Sanders.
That part is odd enough but how did Capehart find out about all these goings on in Chicago?

[mhatrw]

153. A Clinton "campaign strategist" saw the Schmitt post on the internet and drove the train from there

https://twitter.com/CapehartJ/status/698513303203667968

[retrowire]

26. thanks, i wrote wapo nt

[Cheese Sandwich]

29. He's doubling down. He just sent this on twitter a half hour ago

Jonathan Capehart
?@CapehartJ
That’s not Bernie Sanders in the photo, y'all keep sending around. It is Bruce Rappaport. http://wapo.st/1ovFjwC

https://twitter.com/CapehartJ/status/698152364134387714

[berningman]

30. And another slimy HRC meme bites the dust nt

[magical thyme]

31. the correction is showing up in the comments now

I haven't been able to get a comment through due to "network issues." I'm hoping it's a slew of corrections, lol! I did send a twitter reply...

[Cheese Sandwich]

32. He doesn't care. I think he knows it is false, but he's taunting us with tweets.

He's not even pretending to care whether it's true or false. He is lying boldly and blatantly.

He just sent this

Jonathan Capehart ?@CapehartJ
Bernie Sanders's questionable photo bomb. http://wapo.st/1ovFjwC

https://twitter.com/CapehartJ/status/698160410961145857

[cali]

34. Toady

[Cheese Sandwich]

37. The Washington Fucking Post is printing blatant lies and laughing in our faces if we complain

such is life

How do I contact Washington Post writers or editors?
Main Phone number: 202.334.6000 or 800.627.1150

http://help.washingtonpost.com/link/portal/15067/15080/ArticleFolder/80/How-to-Contact-the-Newsroom

[questionseverything]

124. use the 800 number...it costs them money

[LiberalArkie]

80. They really don't care. So only .0001% of the voters keep believing the lies, that is still .0001%

they may not have had before. So Fox news puts out lies from 6AM to 11PM, and then puts out an on air retraction at 2AM, does it change any viewers minds? They did after all put out a retraction.

It seems to be only one candidate in all the partys who is not using Roves tactics. Bad is Good, Loosing is Winning, War is Peace, lies are truth.

A lot of people here use the same tactics also.

[JonLeibowitz]

33. Kick. n/t

[bravenak]

35. LOL

A battle a day keeps the black vote away! Or however you say that, I cannot remember the adage

[xocet]

42. You prefer lies? That speaks well of you. BTW, Are you "the black vote"? n/t

[bravenak]

43. Yes. I am.

[xocet]

46. The whole vote? You are legion. n/t

[bravenak]

47. Thank you.

[xocet]

50. You're welcome. n/t

[noiretextatique]

119. i am a black voter, and I find this tactic

disgustingly typical of clintonism. i predict clinton will get the majority of black votes, but at a lower percentage than obama or bill.

[Gore1FL]

56. I am pretty sure black voters don't need to rely on lies.

It's pretty horrific that you said this. But then again. you grave dance, so my expectations aren't high.

[bravenak]

57. LOL, wat?

[Gore1FL]

67. Let me rephrase:

Black voters don't need lies. Your offensiveness of your grave dancing makes it clear you would stoop to implying that they do.

Clear enough?

[marew]

36. I just wrote to WAPO! n/t

[xocet]

38. The Washington Post's ombudsman's number is 202-334-7582 according to their website. n/t

http://help.washingtonpost.com/link/portal/15067/15080/Article/133/How-do-I-submit-a-correction

[Hassin Bin Sober]

83. This ^^ is the person who will act. The ombudsman is the person for these complaints.

[cali]

102. Thank you. I'll add that to the op

[xocet]

116. You're welcome. n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

39. Done! you can also call...

speak with a Customer Service representative, call 202-334-6100 during business hours

Posted on Hardball page too. MSNBC didn't allow the link, but I posted the basic info and article Headline and told him to Google it...and then apologize to Bernie.

I'm sick to death of the Brock/Clinton LIES and hit jobs. They must be countered ASAP.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[mainer]

40. What scares me most? They went in and CHANGED THE RECORD

Last year, Hillary supporters actually got the alumni at University of Chicago to go in and CHANGE THE CAPTION on a news photo that had been identified all these years as Bernie Sanders.

They CHANGED THE RECORD. Think about it. They re-wrote history and thought they got away with it. That speaks volumes about how trustworthy these people are.

[Fast Walker 52]

44. that is truly disgusting

Fascist behavior, for sure.

[juxtaposed]

134. maybe we should be looking into who changed the captions, that seems to be the bigger story

[renate]

145. that's pretty North Korean

And pretty scary, considering that they have since been proven wrong to have done so. I'm glad they got busted.

[TwilightGardener]

41. They'l retract it after South Carolina's done voting.

And not before.

[AlbertCat]

45. This is NOT a pic of Hillary with Kissinger!

It's actually Dame Judith Anderson!

No wait... it's Ida Lupino

Wrong wrong.... really, it's Betty Rubble.... either her or Aeon Flux

[pinebox]

49. He just double downed on it

What an ass.

[pacalo]

144. How unprofessional is that?

[truebluegreen]

51. Just wrote to WaPo

but couldn't see how or where to comment on Capehart's LIE on his Facebook page...

[EndElectoral]

52. Wow..This is Rovian...Whew, ugly.

[Arazi]

53. Done! Thanks cali! Eom

[leftofcool]

54. It looks like Bruce to me. Sorry

[NorthCarolina]

58. You should probably pen a letter to the photographer then

who has publicly confirmed that it is Bernie. He is apparently not remembering correctly and you seem in a perfect position to straighten his ass out.

[libdem4life]

68. This ^^^^^^

[frylock]

130. Yeah.. sorry.

[ucrdem]

59. There are two students in the new pics and they both resemble the student in the disputed photo:

[mainer]

62. But only one is wearing the same dark sweater.

And we know Bernie was wearing that sweater. Unless the two guys decided to switch clothes.

[ucrdem]

69. Since they' re different events I'm not sure the sweater is determinative.

They could be twins but to my eye anyway the student in the disputed photo looks more like the student on the left in the new pics. It's a strange dispute but reminiscent of Sanders' claims about the 1963 Washington march, with his supporters saying he marched with MLK and Bernie quietly saying he was "way way back there" on the mall.

[mainer]

72. Same sweater. And photographer says it's the same man.

I don't know what evidence you'd consider "determinative" unless we had DNA samples.

[ucrdem]

76. The claims are not compelling as the doppelganger situation is what it is. Time will tell. nt

[cui bono]

139. Time has told. You completely ignored "photographer says it's the same man".

You guys are so pathetic, clinging to this when it's already been debunked by the photog himself.

SMH.

.

[brush]

84. Those two do look a lot alike. Are we going overboard on an understandable mis-identification?

[mainer]

90. Changing an archive is truly going overboard.

That's what this fiasco is really all about. Anyone who purposefully re-writes history for political gain is evil.

[brush]

96. Ok, but those two do look a lot alike. Wasn't the change made before there was a confirmation?

This has been discussed months before and even then people weren't sure if a certain photo was Bernie or not.

[mainer]

99. They changed it without even speaking to the photographer!

It doesn't bother you that they changed the record WITHOUT CONFIRMATION? What was the point of going in and changing the record, except to discredit Bernie? There's only one group with the motive to do that, and those are Hillary supporters.

Scary, scary people.

[Fawke Em]

89. You may need to borrow my glasses.

While both young men are wearing the large glasses fashionable of that day, they do NOT look alike.

Bernie is Semitic and has the classic curls that many Semitic people do. When the hair is cut short, the would-be curls create waves of hair across the head. My son is half Arabic (which is also Semitic) and has exactly that type of hair. He also wears it short and it has, you guessed it, waves across his head where the curls are snipped off.

Forget the sweater. I can tell the student on the right is the same person as the student standing up because of the HAIR.

The other student has straighter and finer hair that hangs down and doesn't "kink" up into waves.

[R B Garr]

117. Yes, I think it was the widow of the man in the picture

who identified him. Bruce Rappaport is his name. Other people called the Univ. to let them know that is not Sanders.

This has been covered since the picture came out. Yesterday, Chris Matthews was asking Sanders spokesman, Devine, why they took so long to correct the Sanders ID from their website. This is now well-known who that man is, and it's not Sanders.

[Jim Lane]

128. You simply take it as given that the photographer himself is wrong.

On what basis do you discredit his statement?

[R B Garr]

138. I watched Sanders' spokesperson Tad Devine on

Chris Matthews show. He was not convincing. You should watch it.

There are a couple overlapping issues here, and the photographer isn't exactly clear in his quotes either. Several other people also said it's not him.

[Jim Lane]

146. Wow, a Sanders spokesperson hadn't studied up on all the details of a tempest in a teapot?

You can assess credibility on any basis that seems reasonable to you -- but to me, that one seems ridiculous.

For my part, I did a cursory examination of two photos, the one in question and one that's of Rappaport, and concluded that they were two different people. I confess, though, that I haven't really focused on this "issue" (just as I haven't really focused on the details of the Clinton email server "issue&quot .

I remember that, in 2008, we had the momentous questions of whether one of Clinton's outfits showed too much cleavage, whether Edwards overpaid for a haircut, and whether Obama wrote something incriminating in a kindergarten essay. Matters don't seem to have improved in eight years.

[R B Garr]

148. LOL, so you didn't watch Tad Devine. I figured you

just wanted to assert how superior you are.

You are superior to Sanders own spokesman. You are superior to all the ex-Alums of the University who callled in to say that the picture wasn't Sanders.

Do you even know the other point Capehart brought up about the picture?

OH, and LOL at your finish! Something somethng 2008! !
Of course!

[jillan]

60. Capehart twitter account (he is STILL spreading his lies)

https://twitter.com/CapehartJ

You know what to do

[EndElectoral]

61. This really requires an apology by the Clinton campaign and the WaPo.

[DefenseLawyer]

65. Ambition trumps principle

It's a recurring theme.

[NurseJackie]

66. This won't make a bit of difference one way or the other.

[cali]

81. I get that you have no problem with swiftboating Bernie

[Fawke Em]

93. Maybe Capehart can find a picture of Hillary campaigning for Goldwater. eom

[kristopher]

82. I think it does. It seriously impacts Hillary's GE chances if she gets the nomination.

There are a lot of people who would probably rather vote for Trump's obvious Bullcrap over Hillary's ever-more-in-your-face vile, backstabbing, deceitful method of operation.

[frylock]

131. If nothing more, one of Brock's character assassins has been dispatched..

whatever credibility Capehart thought he enjoyed is now shot to shit.

[cui bono]

141. But he spent all day doing his job. Reporting. Getting the facts.

.

[frylock]

150. I've left him a couple tweets myself.

[cui bono]

151. I may have just read them...

Just posted this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280117748

.

[mainer]

70. The extra photos of Bernie...

show indisputably that it is him in that dark sweater.

And Hillary supporters went in and CHANGED THE ARCHIVES. Think about it. Think about what that behavior means.

The slander that Bernie was not a very early leader for African American civil rights got so outrageous that persons went into the archives of the University of Chicago and changed captions on Danny Lyon’s 1962 photos, claiming it was Bruce Rappaport standing in Bernie’s clothing leading the demonstration in the Ad Building. These newly discovered pictures, including close up photographs of the student activists show us exactly what Bernie was and what he remains.

https://dektol.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/more-bernie-civil-rights-photos-found/

[Senator Tankerbell]

77. This has David Brock's fingerprints all over it.

Really disgusting.

[cali]

85. Yep. And his willing henchmen, the Hill Bros; Peter Daou and Tom Watson

[Cheese Sandwich]

71. Hill's shills at the Post are splintering the Democratic party

People aren't going to forgive this slander so easily.

[historylovr]

74. K & R

[bbgrunt]

75. some pushback needed against Tweety too--he featured Capehart's

allegations on his "debate analysis" right after the debate. Why they would allow him of all people to present opinion after the debate only shows how fugged MSNBC is.

[TwilightGardener]

78. BTW, both Jon Capehart and Marc Ambinder are totally lacking credibility as journalists now--

how many others are going to be exposed as biased shills for the Clinton machine?

[Bluenorthwest]

107. And Matthews, whose show is well staffed and yet did not fact check with the photographer.

He's running a loose ship.

[TwilightGardener]

109. Loose ship is an understatement for Matthews. Sloppy, impulsive, erratic, and unable to hide bias.

[frylock]

132. Hope it was worth it.

[kristopher]

79. Done. Thank you very much. nt

[Merryland]

86. Just wrote to the Washington Post about this outrageous lie.

This is going to be one sickening campaign as the establishment looses all its military-industrial-cushy-berth-don't-change-anything cannons on Bernie Sanders.

[jillan]

88. Done! Do not forget about his twitter account. @CapehartJ

[Bluenorthwest]

92. While his lies demonstrate comtempt for Bernie, the contempt that is the worst is that which is

aimed at those Capehart is lying to. His own readers he lies to.

[cali]

94. I tend to agree with that.

[Bluenorthwest]

105. I just read a bunch of his Twitter feed, I don't use nor really care for Twitter but I was shocked

by his nonstop promoting of this 'story', over and over for hours on end. His smears are also aimed at Lyons, because he's just saying Lyons is lying or that his word does not count as much Capehart's. Capehart was born in 1967, he does not remember any of this. Lyons took the photo.
The photographer should have been the very first person asked by any journalist or pundit who had questions about the photos. The photographer's word should be the final word. The fact that people promoted this story without checking with Lyons is pretty damning.

[cali]

108. Ugh. How can he be so dishonest?

I don't use Twitter either and I don't have the stomach to go read his tweets.

[frylock]

135. He is being shredded on twitter.

[mainer]

97. Capehart has actually done us a favor. He opened my eyes.

Up till now, I was merely "meh" about Hillary. Now I'm incensed about the dirty tricks and the actual changing of an archive.

Out comes the credit card. Another donation to Bernie.

[CharlotteVale]

98. I emailed him (since I don't do Twitter) for all the good it'll probably do.

I c/p'ed the article into my email. My own comments were polite and very brief.

But it wouldn't surprise if he goes after Bernie supporters for daring to correct him in his next column.

[Chezboo]

101. Capehart made the same claim on Hardball yesterday. nt

[K Gardner]

104. Tweety/Capehart also physically mocked Sanders..

A very juvenile, unbecoming display of pettiness, trying to imitate the way he uses his hands
The redheaded "journalist" on the panel called him pathetic
They called Tad DeVine a liar.
It was utterly unbelievable

[cali]

110. Someone just accused me of smearing a prominent black journalist

[K Gardner]

111. LOL. Well, a prominent black journalist just mocked a white Senator

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?! I'm tweeting Capehart as we speak.

[senz]

106. I was surprised at Capehart's lack of professionalism last night.

He seemed very intense and excited in his animosity toward Bernie.

[K Gardner]

112. Don't forget MSNBC is culpable in this also.. they

used their post-debate air time to call Tad DeVine a liar and to mock the Senator. Tweety was absolutely frothing over this with Capehart. I've tweeted Matthews also.

[dreamnightwind]

113. Capehart just now finished more sliming on MSNBC

He was on there makng the same claims. He admitted that the photographer says it's Bernie, but claimed to have better info that is was Rappaport. They also were rolling the John Lewis segment that appears to call out Bernie for not being there in teh civil rights actions. Amazing crap they are throwing at a man who was indisputably there, whether it was Rappaport or Bernie, and we have the photographer's word that it was Bernie.

This is what the rest of the campaign will bring us, more of these establishment attacks.

I'll restate here your info that Capehart's romantic partner is a paid Hillary staffer. Seems quite relevant.

[cali]

118. Screw swiftboating Capehart. He is a disgrace.

[dreamnightwind]

120. Sadly it is the better man, Berniie, who is getting screwed

[islandmkl]

114. there is an old prairie saying: "The best place to hide your shit...

is in a pasture full of cows. Your shit will just mix in with all theirs."

I would say the Clinton Machine has practiced and perfected this strategy for years...and most effectively. By bringing up as much crap, literal crap, as they can manufacture (for their opponent(s) to address) results in their own crap becoming obfuscated.

[libdem4life]

122. Maybe the confusion is that he doesn't have white hair and is bald on top? :)

[Dawson Leery]

126. Capehart is not backing down.

He should not be bullied by Bernie supporters anymore than journalists should not be bullied by Trump supporters.

[Jim Lane]

129. How, exactly, is it bullying to challenge a journalist on a factually inaccurate account?

I'd consider bullying to be something along the lines of "and I know where your children go to school." I see nothing like that here.

People are understandably worked up over the sloppy journalism that's on display, but strong language doesn't turn substantive criticism into bullying.

[cali]

136. Hey Jim

Interesting how this blew up.

[cui bono]

142. Exactly. n/t

[cali]

133. Oh please. How ridiculous.

[jillan]

140. He already has backed down.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1219846

[cui bono]

143. You're right, he should not be bullied. And he is not being bullied.

Or by "bullied" do you mean people who you don't agree with speaking their minds with legitimate criticism of a supposed journalist?

.

[grasswire]

137. you can leave a facebook message on his page.

Please do so. He's still contending it's Rappaport.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

147. Per Capehart's last Tweet: "not cut and dry"

For the first time, I'm going to read the next piece Caphart writes, then I'll go back to forgetting he exists.

[AgingAmerican]

149. It's what Hillary people do

She is running the sleaziest Democratic smear campaign in history.

[Bluenorthwest]

154. I just reread this thread in light of the many lies that have come since, currently it's that Bernie

played anti gay music at his rally. The list of fabricated smears is McCarthy like.

[cali]

155. Yep. That's our politics