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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been searching for high-profile newspaper endorsements in the New Hampshire primary.
His main rival, Hillary Clinton, has been officially backed by the Concord Monitor, Portsmouth Herald, Keene Sentinel and the Boston Globe.
But a campaign ad titled "Endorsed," might have given people a different impression.
The ad, which was first posted online Wednesday Feb. 3, touts endorsements from unions, an environmental group and The Nation magazine.
"From postal workers to nurses, hes been endorsed for real change," a narrator says in the ad.
The narrator goes on to quote editorials from two New Hampshire newspapers, The Telegraph, of Nashua, and the Valley News, which covers both Vermont and New Hampshire from West Lebanon, N.H.
Up to that point in the 30-second ad, every logo for an organization or publication has been accompanied by the words "endorsed by." Those words disappear when the Telegraphs logo appears, along with the quote: "Hes not beholden to Wall Street Money."
The words "endorsed by" then reappear next to the logo of the Valley News, which appears along with the quote: "Sanders has been genuinely outraged about the treatment of ordinary Americans for as long as we can remember."
So did the Valley News or the Telegraph endorse Sanders?
According to their editors, no.
http://www.politifact.com/new-hampshire/statements/2016/feb/04/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-ad-claims-endorsements-valley-news-/
Roger Carroll @Telegraph_Rog
For the record, despite @BernieSanders deceptive ad to the contrary, @NashuaTelegraph has not endorsed any Dem prez candidate #nhpolitics
3:43 PM - 3 Feb 2016
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(297,305 posts)Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)He's so honest and all!
Hey, he did get the endorsement of the Conway Middle School student paper.
"Because we believe that Senator Sanders is so cool, and he will give us all free college, we endorse him for president. Oh, and it's kinda neat that he reminds us of Bucky Simpson's grandpa from Dover. Bucky's grandpa brought the 7th grade class mini snickers the day he came to tell us about World War II."
72DejaVu
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Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)Perfect!
OhZone
(3,212 posts)How could you expect him to really try to get his agenda done? He must know that Congress won't work for him. I'm beginning to question his real agenda. :/
Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)There was a good Atlantic article I posted yesterday that said the same. Democrats don't trust him and won't work with with him.
72DejaVu
(1,545 posts)Earlier, they were claiming that the lack of endorsements proved Bernie's integrity.
Now they are lying about him getting endorsements he never really got.
Get it straight, BernBorg!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)go to berniesanders.com!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)What kind of campaign needs to do something like that? (I guess the only logical answer to that is "a campaign that's desperate and feels it has nothing to lose".)
pandr32
(11,588 posts)He has always been ambitious but his "rise" has been rather slow--considering others have not found him to be as wonderful as he finds himself...until now.
It seems he has tapped into a naive group of naturally rebellious youth and young adults. Most of them appear to have no idea how government works and believe they are now part of a "revolution"--a very alluring prospect for young socio-political muscle en masse.
They are feeding off the group now--social contagion. Sanders could not be more delighted and seems to actually believe he will finally be the leader of a revolution. He continually calls out to them (references this revolution over and over)--makes me think he has a few screws loose.
Treant
(1,968 posts)I guess the question is if this will actually have any impact--in one direction or the other--in NH and, following that, NV.
While not technically a lie, it's certainly implied. This weaselly lie by implication stuff is just greasy.
Gothmog
(145,320 posts)Gothmog
(145,320 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....they masquerade as union members to trespass in employee-only lunch rooms in Nevada, they use photographs of American Legion members to claim they support Sanders.
It just never stops, does it?
Treant
(1,968 posts)No...but that's a good thing. It turns off a few voters every time something like this leaks, and that's been, what? Twice a week since before Iowa?
Clinton is Teflon to any Republican accusations at this point, and extends that shield over Sanders to some extent (who on our side listens to Repub accusations any longer?)
But organizations refuting endorsements and exposing dirty tricks, no. Neither candidate has any immunity to that.