2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWaPo: 的t is past time for Mr. Sanders to be honest with his supporters"
Allan Brauer ?@allanbrauer 4h4 hours agoWaPo Edit Board Roasts Sanders: Stop Lying To Your Supporters! @TPM http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-washington-post-editorial-nevada
After a tense state Democratic convention in Nevada escalated to reported violence over the weekend, the Washington Posts editorial board slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for his response after the state party chair received death threats.
In an editorial published online Wednesday evening, the board said Sanders responded to the Nevada upheaval with self-righteousness and hypocrisy by releasing a statement that did not accept responsibility for the chaos but highlighted procedural issues with the convention.
Mr. Sanderss irresponsibility is sadly unsurprising, the editorial board wrote. He has indulged and encouraged hyperbolic feelings that the country is badly adrift, that most of the nation agrees with a left-wing agenda but is trapped in a corrupt system, and that nothing but a political revolution will do.
Mr. Sanders denies reality when he tells supporters he still has a plausible pathway to the Democratic presidential nomination, the editorial continued. It is past time for Mr. Sanders to be honest with his supporters, before they take the campaigns irresponsible ethos to greater extremes and thereby help ensure the election of Donald Trump.
The editorial also suggested Sanders has fostered a toxic mix of unreason, revolutionary fervor, and perceived grievance by questioning the legitimacy of the electoral process while lagging behind Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in votes...
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)That's how you know Bernie is winning
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)What I think he should be doing is to stop attacking Hillary and Dems. He needs to ease into the post primary world. He needs to attack Trump and the right.
He has between now and the convention to land his campaign in a positive way or crash and burn it.
If he is to remain a Democrat in the Senate he needs to begin to build bridges. He can help himself by helping to elect Hillary as President and to help win back the Senate and hopefully the House.
His revolution does not have to end. His drive for single payer and free education does not have to end. But you get more support with honey than you do with vinegar.
Number23
(24,544 posts)He's had easily the worst week in politics I've seen in years.
Kicked and rec'd
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)NT
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...and an obvious deflection from the Sanders attempt to steal Clinton pledged delegates by manipulating and disrupting the convention.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)The clinton tentacles are nearly ubiquitous, and mighty!
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...not everyone sees things Bernie's way.
The simplest explanation.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)The other way is Workers United for the God of Fear, Lies, Cheat & Deceit. Like another final great battle -- between the forces of conscience and the forces of voter manipulation.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...with delusions of virtue.
Blocking.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Not sure if i should take this as a compliment?
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)Good grief.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)The WaPo didn't demand of HRC in 2008 that she tell her supporters she couldn't win when she was trailing by more Pledged Delegates than there were remaining Pledged Delegates.
This year, tbey didn't demand that Ted Cruz and John Kasich announce they couldn't win near the end of their runs.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...but Sanders is getting a fraction of the outrage cast against Hillary in 2008 for daring to stay in the race.
Talk about a different standard, if her campaign had behaved as Sanders' has in the last month, there would have been calls for her arrest from Obama supporters.
You're misrepresenting the widespread opposition and outcry in response to her continued campaign, and neglecting to note her gracious and supportive concession 4 days after suspending her campaign in June.
Contrast that with Sanders' insistence that there will be a 'contested convention.'
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Samantha
(9,314 posts)But Bezos could potentially use the Post's editorial page to push his political views Indeed, it's hard to imagine what would induce a fabulously wealthy businessman like Bezos, who's not in the newspaper business, to jump in besides vanity and the chance to influence debate. As Hiatt explained several years ago, "In a sense we speak for the publisher, for the owner--but they don't review most editorials. Instead, they hire someone (me) who they think generally will share their world view."
It is not the outstanding paper it was at one time.
Sam