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The Cult of Bernie: How Blind Adoration Has Masked One of America's Most Deceitful Presidential Campaigns

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This election season, many people have wanted to trust Bernie Sanders. They have wanted to trust him because he seems genuine. Like a happy grandfather who would sit in a rocking chair and would bounce a grandchild on his knee... Yet the true Bernie Sanders is proving himself to be one of the most deceitful and dishonest presidential candidates we've ever had.

And the media is to blame. They needed a horse race and to do that they chose not to vet Bernie Sanders to keep up his likeable image. They embraced him when he appeared on Saturday Night Live. They covered his record-breaking rallies, failing to mention that these rallies took place in college towns with thousands of impressionable first-time voters. They brushed off any missteps by the campaign with an aw-shucks mentality. They created narratives that favored the campaign and adjusted the expectations for each primary or caucus accordingly. They hyped up his wins and downplayed his losses. They gave him softball interview questions on the Sunday morning shows. They did all this while ignoring the fact that Hillary Clinton has never trailed in the Democratic primary and that she has built up a lead that has been greater than Barack Obama's ever was during the 2008 primary. The media did all this in an effort to protect Bernie Sanders and to present the illusion that he was a viable candidate for president.

But the truth hurts. Bernie Sanders' campaign has been malicious. Despite promising to run a clean campaign, it has been one of the dirtiest and most deceitful campaigns our country has ever seen. The evidence has been right there all along, but our media has been complacent in pretending that it has not been happening. Just look at where the Sanders campaign is now. Sanders constantly attacks Clinton from Wall Street to big banks to her Goldman Sachs transcripts to her campaign contributions. Not a day goes by where Sanders isn't doing the bidding for Karl Rove. In fact, it's gotten to be such a part of the culture of his campaign that Sanders is now attacking Clinton based on things he thinks might be true. We saw this with his recent claim that Hillary Clinton was "not qualified" to be president, which was based on his errant interpretation of a Washington Post article for which he simply skimmed the headline and nothing more. By this point, practically nothing is off limits.

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For some reason, Bernie Sanders feels entitled to be the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party and feels that everyone should support him. Maybe it's because he's a White male from a rural state. Maybe it's because he feels people should choose him over a woman. If for whatever reason people choose not to support Sanders, they then become part of what Sanders has termed the dreaded "establishment" of Washington, D.C. This has led to Sanders vilifying any group or individual who doesn't endorse him and his zealous supporters have taken it upon themselves to then go and attack those individuals or groups. We've seen online hoards of Bernie Sanders supporters attack anyone from civil rights icons John Lewis and Dolores Huerta to "establishment" organizations such as Planned Parenthood and The Human Rights Campaign to even creating "hit lists" for superdelegates and typical run-of-the-mill Twitter users who just happen to support Hillary Clinton.

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