2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Trumpets Iowa Paper’s Praise. Unsaid? It Endorsed Hillary Clinton
Seems dishonesty and deceptions are what the Sanders camp is up to this last week.
12:54 pm ET By Nick Corasaniti
Bernie Sanders Trumpets Iowa Papers Praise. Unsaid? It Endorsed Hillary Clinton
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/29/bernie-sanders-trumpets-iowa-papers-praise-unsaid-it-endorsed-hillary-clinton/?_r=0
The Des Moines Register has not endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders, but a new ad from his campaign that started running on Thursday in Iowa may lead viewers to think that it did.
The ad trumpets the endorsements Mr. Sanders has received: From postal workers to nurses, hes been endorsed for real change, a female narrator says.
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But sandwiched between The Nations endorsement and one from the The Daily Nonpareil, the local newspaper in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is a quotation from the states largest newspaper. The Des Moines Register calls him a man of courage and principle, the narrator says.
That praise did not come in an endorsement of Mr. Sanders, however. It came in The Registers editorial endorsing Mr. Sanderss rival, Hillary Clinton.
The editorial did shower Mr. Sanders with praise, but it came down in favor of Mrs. Clintons candidacy which even careful viewers would have no way of knowing.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Is the implication that "man of courage and principle" was a lie?
Presumably, not all readers of every editorial will agree with every bit of its content.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)Even though Sanders was the better candidate, they endorsed Hillary. It happens. I'm glad we can clear it up.
--imm
Nanjeanne
(4,981 posts)between:
Des Moines Register ENDORSES "blah blah blah"
and
Des Moines Register calls him "a man of courage and principle".
The Register shouldn't have praised him if they don't want him to repeat what they said.
Or is he not allowed to repeat anything nice anyone says about him unless he also repeats everything nice that is said about Hillary?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Well ... more accurately, words that are safe enough to remain unhidden fail me. Some rather choice ones do immediately come to mind, however. You'll have to use your imagination for what I'm actually thinking.
Note to Jury: This post does not contain any actual words that attack or criticize any candidate or candidate's supporters. Whatever reason that has been given for alerting on this post is only in the imagination of the alerter. Although I invite the reader to use their imagination, I cannot be held responsible for what someone else imagines is in my mind.