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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Atlantic Accused David Sirota of Secretly Working For Bernie Sanders. But Where's the Evidence? [View all]
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/03/the-atlantic-published-an-unfounded-conspiracy-the.html"A cloud of scandal hung over Tuesdays announcement that the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign had hired investigative journalist David Sirota to fill the role of senior adviser and speechwriter. An article in The Atlantic by Edward-Isaac Dovere, titled Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog, made the explosive claim that the veteran journalist had been secretly working for Sanders behind the scenes since December, and using his role as a journalist to attack the Vermont senators potential primary opponents.
Since December, David Sirota has, on Twitter, on his own website, and in columns in The Guardian, been trashing most of Sanderss Democratic opponentsall without disclosing his work with Sandersand has been pushing back on critics by saying that he was criticizing the other Democrats as a journalist, Dovere wrote, moving on to note that thousands of Sirotas tweets had been deleted.
It was a story that seemed tailor-made to go virala political unmasking of a candidate whose brand was integrity while also playing up familiar tropes about his online supporters. In that regard, it did not disappointit was quickly picked up and regurgitated by multiple outlets, including The Washington Post and USA Today.
But there was a problem with Doveres bombshell: It wasnt supported by any real evidence. The story hinged on an unverifiable quote which the speaker claims was misrepresented, along with innuendo stemming from the fact that Sirota deleted thousands of tweets following his employment. Paste spoke to multiple campaign insiders familiar with the matter, all of whom disputed Doveres timeline and narrative. Their accounts lined up with what we found through our own reporting on unrelated matters over the last few months. Other individuals have also come forward to publicly refute the articles claims."
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The Atlantic Accused David Sirota of Secretly Working For Bernie Sanders. But Where's the Evidence? [View all]
CentralMass
Mar 2019
OP
Where's the evidence? How about Sanders' own campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, admitting it?
George II
Mar 2019
#1
Apparently you didn't see his own campaign manager's admission, and this from CNN:
George II
Mar 2019
#4
The arguments in the article are most logical; perhaps you can point something out in it that isn't?
Uncle Joe
Mar 2019
#8
Good luck arguing logic... some just don't want to hear it, though it does make perfect sense.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Mar 2019
#51
Since when does deleting tweets, emails, and/or texts cause for suspicion? Or does that standard
InAbLuEsTaTe
Mar 2019
#53
But Faiz Shakir doesn't dispute the fact that Sirota and the Sanders campaign has been denying....
George II
Mar 2019
#15
You are skating around the fact that Dovere was told by Shakir " at most, it was a month".
Autumn
Mar 2019
#64
Nope, Shakir said on March 11 that Sirota's informal work "goes back months"....
George II
Mar 2019
#68
The section on the left in black references what Sirota did in 2016, not 19 years ago....
George II
Mar 2019
#25
It mentions 2016, so it couldn't be a reference to 19 years, ago, and as I pointed out....
George II
Mar 2019
#27
No. It mentions that Sirota worked for Sanders 19 years ago the mention him doing "something" in
CentralMass
Mar 2019
#36
The bottom line is that he was working for the Sanders campaign (as you admit)....
George II
Mar 2019
#46
He, according the facts as stated in the CNN article, was working fo the Sanders campaign on a trial
CentralMass
Mar 2019
#49
You keep saying that, but whatev'. The fact is he was working as a "journalist" criticizing....
George II
Mar 2019
#52
Funny that yesterday we were assured that CNN was "corporate media conglomerate spin."
betsuni
Mar 2019
#54
I get the feeling that the Sanders campaign is a giant disinformation operation
Renew Deal
Mar 2019
#5
Should he win the nomination (not a snowball's chance in hell, but whatev')...
George II
Mar 2019
#48
I doubt that BS will be able to undo the massive damage he's doing to his own campaign n/t
SFnomad
Mar 2019
#29
Well from the CNN article Sirota started on a trial basis on February 20th 2019 and was formally
CentralMass
Mar 2019
#42
So why the silence from Sanders' campaign? We know he has hired a press secretary.
ehrnst
Mar 2019
#63
Didn't the "observer" also claim to have worked in a newsroom with Maggie Haberman?
lapucelle
Mar 2019
#82
So what? That's one newspaper. Sirota continued to do his dirty work on twitter,
lapucelle
Mar 2019
#87