2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSky so full of chairs that it blots out the Nevada sun
Just thought I'd throw this out there: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/national-media-retracts-its-claim_b_10132518.html
Y'all got punk'd.
pa28
(6,145 posts)Like Jonathan Capehart at the Washington Post showed us, you invent a story to fit your bias and when it's proven wrong you move on like nothing happened.
vintx
(1,748 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)how many times so far?
pump up a lie.
next!
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)the truth has a chance to put its pants on.
Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)Bernie folks are not violent by nature, and I doubt Boxer's security detail was going to let anyone get close enough to the senator to actually menace her.
Just 3rd Way propaganda that had the required effect on the low-info voter demographic.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)a.k.a. fiction
kiva
(4,373 posts)that the news media would admit it was wrong and based it's entire case on one reporter who wasn't even there at the end of the convention.
SheenaR
(2,052 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)No amount of experimental writing can undo that.
SheenaR
(2,052 posts)Not once have I seen a "horrific" video. The Zapruder film is horrific. Get a grip.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Only by the grace of God did that bizarre melee in Nevada not end in permanent injury or worse.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Yes?
Hello?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I saw shouting and hand-waving.
Do you have video of the melee?
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)I don't think split screening it changes much
Exilednight
(9,359 posts)Worldly Traveler
(34 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)That was hot politics. That was not horrific. My goodness, one might start to think you guys need safe spaces.
vintx
(1,748 posts)This has been a very entertaining day on DU
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Those are videos of shouting and hand-waving.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)in the second one a banner actually drops down over the vid for a second
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I thought it was going to be a video of a melee.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I will say, that twit should've spent the night in jail.
I do believe Bernie did NOT offer to cover his legal fees....
hellofromreddit
(1,182 posts)jack_krass
(1,009 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)A mighty portent from the gods telling us that we must Vote For HER!
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)Somebody needs to say it, or nothing changes.
A lot more somebodies within the media need to say it too.
I definitely recommend reading it. It goes to show, don't piss off someone who really knows how to use the "power of the pen".
stranger81
(2,345 posts)Didn't work out like they'd planned, though.
Just doing their part to catapult the propaganda
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)apnu
(8,756 posts)The chair became the thing to talk about so both Hillary and Bernie people didn't have to talk about the abhorrent behavior in Nevada that day. Both sides made crucial errors leading up to and during that day. But the "chair" became the thing to talk about so everybody can avoid confronting how ugly liberals are to each other and avoid responsibility.
Both sides acted like children and both sides shouted "You started it!" There were no adults in the room that day.
I didn't give a fuck about the chair then, I don't give a fuck about it now.
jillan
(39,451 posts)They went after us for days.
Any apologies?
I haven't heard of any.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)to lie and then retract at some later date.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)malicious gossip.