2016 Postmortem

last1standing

(11,709 posts) Sat Dec 5, 2015, 03:31 PM Dec 2015

It doesn't matter whether you support Hillary, Bernie, or Martin.

Knowingly spreading out of context lies, misdirection, and other propaganda from racist, right wing hate sites doesn't help any of our candidates.

It only harms our Democracy.

/personal opinion rant

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It doesn't matter whether you support Hillary, Bernie, or Martin. (Original Post) last1standing Dec 2015 OP

+ + Thank you!! Laf.La.Dem. Dec 2015 #1

Strong and unreserved agreement from me! Bluenorthwest Dec 2015 #2

I agree. We also have a problem here of some calling a video with a candidate's own words "lies". Scuba Dec 2015 #3

Thank you. beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #4

This shouldn't even have to be said, aka-chmeee Dec 2015 #5

Think we'll see Bernie supporters stop doing it? MaggieD Dec 2015 #6

No, it will be cheered on as long as it bashes Hillary. R B Garr Dec 2015 #7

The stench of hypocrisy is strong MaggieD Dec 2015 #8

There is nothing left wing PowerToThePeople Dec 2015 #9

Agreed. Thanks for posting. emulatorloo Dec 2015 #10

Laf.La.Dem.

(2,943 posts)

1. + + Thank you!!

Reply to last1standing (Original post)

Sat Dec 5, 2015, 03:46 PM

Dec 2015

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

2. Strong and unreserved agreement from me!

Reply to last1standing (Original post)

Sat Dec 5, 2015, 05:29 PM

Dec 2015

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

3. I agree. We also have a problem here of some calling a video with a candidate's own words "lies".

Reply to last1standing (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 07:48 AM

Dec 2015

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)

4. Thank you.

Reply to last1standing (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 08:00 AM

Dec 2015

Driving traffic to those sites puts money in their pockets, and guess what they spend it on?

DUers are sleeping with the enemy when they link to racist right wing websites.

aka-chmeee

(1,132 posts)

5. This shouldn't even have to be said,

Reply to last1standing (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 10:17 AM

Dec 2015

But reading the threads here shows that it does indeed need to be said; but also that saying it probably won't change anything.

MaggieD

(7,393 posts)

6. Think we'll see Bernie supporters stop doing it?

Reply to last1standing (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 10:22 AM

Dec 2015

Or call it out when their fellow supporters do it?

I got a whole big list of them on record as being pissed if right wing sources are used to post something true about him. But I'm skeptical they learned anything from the lesson.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)

7. No, it will be cheered on as long as it bashes Hillary.

Reply to MaggieD (Reply #6)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 11:04 AM

Dec 2015

Just as an example, a few months ago some woo poster (I can't say more than that because of alert police) -- right after Bernie announced, this person started spamming threads with oodles of anti-Hillary links. Actually, I think they spammed that way a lot and got lots of rah rahs from the Occupy Wall Street era, but stepped it up after Bernie announced.

Anyway, I finally clicked on one of the links for kicks. The FIRST link I saw had a Fox News link buried in a Daily Mail link. So Fox News was the actual source. It was an interview with Bill Hemmer (sp?) and Dennis Kucinich where they blasted Hillary with such gems about some people at the Pentagon hating Hillary (who cares!). Ridiculous. When I called them on it, they called me a liar. Even after I linked to their own source, they still refused to apologize.

But that's when it became clear that so-called progressives and independents can malign anyone in the name of anti-establishment rah rah, sources be damned. Except for Bernie, lol. He can never be questioned.

So I always dig down to the original source, and that Progressive website had the original source as the Vermont Guardian. I also posted that as a juxtaposition to a spate of anti-Clinton threads referencing the Starr Report. The dogpile and double standards are funny to watch, although most of it looks like just trying to get posts hidden -- kind of phony.