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In reply to the discussion: Nate Silver tweets on which candidates he thinks political journalists favor [View all]Princetonian
(1,501 posts)5. In one case where a candidate is the target of an ugly "smear campaign" this has been insidious.
It just shows, says Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, that launching a smear campaign is the only response to the truth.
Gabbard, 38, burst into headlines after a July 31 Democratic Party presidential debate, when she went after California Senator Kamala Harriss record as Attorney General of the State of California. The smear campaign refers to the bizarre avalanche of negative press that ensued, as reporters seemed to circle wagons around a Harris, a party favorite.
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Having wounded a presumptive frontrunner backed by nearly $25 million in campaign funds, Gabbard instantly became the subject of a slew of negative leaks, tweets, and press reports. Many of these continued the appalling recent Democratic Party tradition of denouncing anything it doesnt like as treasonous aid to foreign enemies.
Harris national press chair Ian Sams tweeted, Yo, you love Assad!, a reference to Gabbards controversial visit with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in 2017. He then tweeted a link to an insidious February 2 NBC News story, which asserted that Gabbards campaign was the beneficiary of Russian bots.
Gabbard, 38, burst into headlines after a July 31 Democratic Party presidential debate, when she went after California Senator Kamala Harriss record as Attorney General of the State of California. The smear campaign refers to the bizarre avalanche of negative press that ensued, as reporters seemed to circle wagons around a Harris, a party favorite.
<snip>
Having wounded a presumptive frontrunner backed by nearly $25 million in campaign funds, Gabbard instantly became the subject of a slew of negative leaks, tweets, and press reports. Many of these continued the appalling recent Democratic Party tradition of denouncing anything it doesnt like as treasonous aid to foreign enemies.
Harris national press chair Ian Sams tweeted, Yo, you love Assad!, a reference to Gabbards controversial visit with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in 2017. He then tweeted a link to an insidious February 2 NBC News story, which asserted that Gabbards campaign was the beneficiary of Russian bots.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/podcast-tulsi-gabbard-kamala-harris-syria-iraq-870003/
To set the record straight:
".... Gabbard agreed to meet with Trump to make her case for a noninterventionist foreign policy. A few months later, she flew to Syria and met with Bashar al-Assad, who is presiding over a brutal civil war; she and he seemed to agree that the United States should not intervene to stop it."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/what-does-tulsi-gabbard-believe
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/what-does-tulsi-gabbard-believe
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Nate Silver tweets on which candidates he thinks political journalists favor [View all]
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
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One the media relishes to frame negatively is Biden, except unlike one of the candidates, he doesn't
still_one
Aug 2019
#3
Yeah, quoting him because horror of horrors he referred to himself as VP when speaking at Parkland
still_one
Aug 2019
#7
Two opinion pieces that weren't anti-Biden, as opposed to how many opinion pieces and articles
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
#10
Their reader's comment section was full of praise for Biden's speech to the nation. Maybe that fact
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#21
Perhaps you should listen to WaPo's Waldman and Capehart, Beyond Geography...
Princetonian
Aug 2019
#12
In one case where a candidate is the target of an ugly "smear campaign" this has been insidious.
Princetonian
Aug 2019
#5
Nothing to recover from. The Comey release of the letter to the Republicans 11 days before the
still_one
Aug 2019
#9
Nonsense...some don't understand the numbers...Trump had a 30 % chance of winning according to
Demsrule86
Aug 2019
#28