Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: I just can't pile on Biden. Sorry. [View all]Celerity
(43,366 posts)with what happened at the event via a bog standard MSM pool of reporters. It is the same method as any other event (not just political ones) is covered where there is no live, real time video coverage (and even then there is a pool as well). I am sure you could contact NBC, WaPo, AP, the NYT, etc etc etc and suss out who the exact reporters in the pool were, but they are just a draw from the normal ones who make up all the major event MSM pools on a rotational basis. I have contacted individual reporters in the past at the big newspapers and MSM channels/platforms via- email and most all have replied and been very cordial and forthcoming.
It most definitively was not some hidden group of Berners weaving a faux tale to try and sabotage Biden. That is conspiratorial tin-foil territory, and was scuppered instantly by the fact Biden not only straightaway proclaimed he did say the words (and Biden has said the same thing for years in the past, as shown by the link I provided in my previous reply) but then doubled down and demanded Booker apologise to HIM. That was the thing that troubled me the most, as a PoC, about the whole thing, as the optics of a white man demanding a black man, a sitting Senator, apologise for simply saying he had issues with what he saw as racially problematic words. That was not a good look at all.
Sirota doesn't even have a press pass, btw, as he was forced to resign his positions after his hiring by Bernie Inc was exposed by Dovere from the Atlantic (again so ironic as Sirota retweeted the Dovere tweet on the Biden fundraiser, as well as the New York Times article). Sirota is just some rogue ex-journo on Twitter whose tweets get recycled in Bernie land. He certainly was not the Wizard of Oz who invented the whole shitstorm, he is just some tag-along crank.
The entire Berner world (and rats like Greenwald etc) HATES Edward-Isaac Dovere, lolol, over his exposing Sirota.
Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog
David Sirota had been working unofficially for Sanders while savaging the other Democratic candidates on Twitter.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/sanders-promised-civility-hired-twitter-attack-dog/585259/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden