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In reply to the discussion: The Atlantic Accused David Sirota of Secretly Working For Bernie Sanders. But Where's the Evidence? [View all]dalton99a
(81,426 posts)10. Similarities to the current White House are eerie
For instance, anything they don't like is fake news
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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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