Message memo for Bernie: Attack fossil fuels, not "automobiles" in general.

[True Blue Door]

7. Don't shoot the messenger.

What you see isn't necessarily what's heard.
What Bernie says isn't necessarily what's heard.
A political campaign can't complain after the fact "But I didn't mean that!" if something is misinterpreted.

Reality doesn't care how you feel.
It doesn't care what's going through your mind when you say what you say.
It doesn't even care what you actually, literally say.
It only cares what happens on the other end of what you say, as it enters (or doesn't enter, or only partly enters) the ears of others.