Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: I just can't pile on Biden. Sorry. [View all]Celerity
(43,116 posts)ran with it. It came out of the press pool report. It was not spun up out of whole cloth by some clique.
From the NYT (I link below to the article)
Sirota's first mention (he did not tweet any original content) of it was when he re-tweeded Edward-Isaac Dovere of the The Atlantic (who, to add to the irony, is a very anti-Sirota reporter)
Here is Dovere exposing Sirota back months ago
Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog
David Sirota had been working unofficially for Sanders while savaging the other Democratic candidates on Twitter.
EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
MAR 19, 2019
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/sanders-promised-civility-hired-twitter-attack-dog/585259/
then
Minutes later Sirota re-tweeted the NYT's article. Before that he only was talking about Biden having fundraisers with billionaires, he was not pushing the 'Eastland! OMG!' angle
this is the NYT article Sirota re-tweeted (and I excerpted briefly above)
Biden, Recalling Civility in Senate, Invokes Two Segregationist Senators
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/politics/biden-segregationists.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur
here is an article from the Washington Post that pre-dated even the NYT's one, I came out just hours after the event
We got things done: Biden recalls civility with segregationist senators
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/19/joe-biden-james-eastland-herman-talmadge-segregationists-civility/?utm_term=.d3c04b863a13
finally
Here is a really long article from May 1st (so 2 months ago, almost) in the Jackson Free Press (Mississippi) newspapaer that talks about Biden and his relationships with Eastland, et. al. It even goes into the 'he called me son' story that seems to have been a constant part of some of his speeches. The WaPo article uses thsi article in it.
Joe Biden and the Dixiecrats Who Helped His Career
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/may/01/joe-biden-and-dixiecrats-who-helped-his-career/
Sirota is an asshole, a dirty trickster, a wrecker, but he was not the person behind starting this Biden mess. He deffo will latch onto, as he is a ratfucker, but his influence is small (only Berners mostly)
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden