2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumYou think you know hypocrisy? Lemme tell ya. You don't know hypocrisy.
Background. Bernie's campaign has recently been exposed as a serial misappropriator of logos, a meastro of feigned endorsments. Right now, in Iowa, Bernie is sending out mailers using logos from AARP and LCV without permission. Meanwhile, his Nevada operation is impersonating culinary union members.
That would be the story. That should be the story...
If not for the fact that he previously hit Wikimedia with a DMCA for using the "Feel the Bern" logo without permission!!
WHOA! Now that's some hypocrisy!
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)At least I think that was him.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)and I'm quite confident they will happen again. Generally in a situation where no one is making money from the misuse, it's just retracted and everyone moves on. I'd say if that's the biggest blunder of the campaign, a logo on a flyer, he can probably sleep pretty well tonight.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Perspective is a wonderful thing to have.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Well, two isolated incidents, right before the Iowa caucus.
Umm, make that three.
Let's settle on three that we know of.
Not like a pattern or anything...
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Best of luck.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)that Bernie will get crushed by the GOP.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)If that gets out no one will show up at his rallies.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)He killed a man for saying he listened to Barry Manilow!
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)Tell anyone! N I shoot u Ina face!
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)So do I, but that's between you, me and my attack wombat.
He knows where you live...
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)Like after reading pablum like this.
ms liberty
(8,580 posts)Bernie had his campaign staff sacrifice puppies and kittens in a elementary school during recess.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)part of the Establishment is going to be "low level stuff".
Meanwhile, please carry on with the Republican's bogus email crap.
O'Malley? Who is he?
synergie
(1,901 posts)is pretty desperate.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Response to DanTex (Original post)
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DanTex
(20,709 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)Or maybe it was brilliant! If he's calculated that none of his supporters care the slightest bit about ethics or honesty, why not?
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)idiots abound
floriduck
(2,262 posts)AARP isn't endorsing anyone. Did the mailer state AARP was backing him? If not, I can't fix stupid either.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)property. I mean, I get the whole "there's no such thing as property, bro" thing, but whats with the DMCA?
floriduck
(2,262 posts)As of 5:45PM, Wikimedia has taken down the notice. Check it out for yourself on the link you just gave us.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I am sorry for your pain.
I hope some day you feel better.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I hate to see them disillusioned and disappointed.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)DSB
DanTex
(20,709 posts)What happened with Bush was enough to wake me up to reality. But, yeah, I see where it's coming from.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)angrychair
(8,702 posts)I mean you must be able to forgive...you appear to have forgiven Clinton voting to continue to use cluster bombs that twist and kill children....and her husband not signing onto the Ottawa Treaty to ban the use of land mines that leave children limbless as they play in a field.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/03/13/cluster-bombs-are-not-good-children-hillary
DanTex
(20,709 posts)I have responded in a couple of threads in regards to these "events".
Their is no conspiracy or crime here. Just as there was not a crime or conspiracy when Clinton's campaign did similar things in 2008. In a fast moving national campaign there are hundreds of moving parts, mistakes will be made. Sorry Dan, as was true for the HRC campaign in 2008, there is nothing there.
Does not take away that forgivness is important. I mean if you can forgive her vote on cluster bombs and her husband refusing to sign onto a treaty to ban the use of land mines, you can forgive this minor mistake.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/03/13/cluster-bombs-are-not-good-children-hillary
angrychair
(8,702 posts)Culinary Union and Sanders campaign say they've resolved their issues
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/politics/bernie-sanders-union-nevada-culinary-union/index.html
No crime. No conspiracy. No hypocrisy.
William769
(55,147 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Wikimedia thing?
What is HAPPENING in that campaign? There's a pattern emerging--and it's not good.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)exposure to me. Maybe they're paranoid or lawsuit-happy or something.