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brooklynite

(94,683 posts) Mon Dec 28, 2015, 05:22 PM Dec 2015

DKos: Sanders campaign disavows its own nutty conspiracy theory

Daily Kos:

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Chris Brennan managed to do what no other reporter did after a top Sanders adviser advanced a wacky theory about its former data director being a DNC plant in a Christmas Day Yahoo! News story — he asked the campaign about it:

...snip..

Michael Briggs, a Sanders spokesman, said the campaign "does not believe the theory" explored in the Yahoo.com story.

Did a "top Sanders campaign adviser" really give voice to the conspiracy?

"That's what Yahoo reported," Briggs said. "They didn't talk to me."

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DKos: Sanders campaign disavows its own nutty conspiracy theory (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2015 OP

enquiring minds want to know. PowerToThePeople Dec 2015 #1

Actually if you go to the source catnhatnh Dec 2015 #2

Well that wraps up everything lets go vote for the 1% candidate now. Katashi_itto Dec 2015 #3

LOL! I've lost all faith in Bernie! CoffeeCat Dec 2015 #4

MUST VOTE STATUS QUO! Katashi_itto Dec 2015 #5

plant enid602 Dec 2015 #7

Where is that bus!!!!???? nt msanthrope Dec 2015 #6

It's berning Stuckinthebush Dec 2015 #8

Is there some kind of ointment for that? baldguy Dec 2015 #13

And there is your answer. NCTraveler Dec 2015 #9

How do people get so rich with so little critical thinking skill? GeorgeGist Dec 2015 #10

Seems to me it was lousy reporting lovemydog Dec 2015 #11

I think we need to see all of their emails to track down what happened. baldguy Dec 2015 #12

K&R eom MohRokTah Dec 2015 #14

+1 NurseJackie Dec 2015 #15

PowerToThePeople

(9,610 posts)

1. enquiring minds want to know.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 05:27 PM

Dec 2015

catnhatnh

(8,976 posts)

2. Actually if you go to the source

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 05:48 PM

Dec 2015

the thing they find disgusting is that they feel that this (if true) is something they expected from Clinton:

I was under the impression that Sanders, in his second term in the U.S. Senate from Vermont after spending 16 years in the U.S. House, was presenting himself as an alternative to Clinton, the former first lady, U.S. senator, and secretary of state who is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.

But the Sanders campaign seems so Clintonian.

Sacrifice a staffer for a scandal, then redirect attention to a suitable bad guy like the DNC, and then rough up some reputations on the sly while assuming a "Who, us?" stance in public.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20151228_About_that_DNC_conspiracy_talk____.html#spylIy0hv6wqIO7l.99

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)

3. Well that wraps up everything lets go vote for the 1% candidate now.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 05:51 PM

Dec 2015

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)

4. LOL! I've lost all faith in Bernie!

Reply to Katashi_itto (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 05:59 PM

Dec 2015

This article has made me see the light!

Quick! Which way to the Clinton campaign?

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)

5. MUST VOTE STATUS QUO!

Reply to CoffeeCat (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 06:01 PM

Dec 2015

enid602

(8,642 posts)

7. plant

Reply to CoffeeCat (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 06:03 PM

Dec 2015

Don't give up so fast. How do you knowthst the spokesmsn isn't a plant?

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)

6. Where is that bus!!!!???? nt

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 06:02 PM

Dec 2015

Stuckinthebush

(10,847 posts)

8. It's berning

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 06:50 PM

Dec 2015

baldguy

(36,649 posts)

13. Is there some kind of ointment for that?

Reply to Stuckinthebush (Reply #8)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 10:53 PM

Dec 2015

Perhaps a salve?

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)

9. And there is your answer.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 06:51 PM

Dec 2015

"That's what Yahoo reported," Briggs said. "They didn't talk to me."

GeorgeGist

(25,322 posts)

10. How do people get so rich with so little critical thinking skill?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 10:41 PM

Dec 2015

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)

11. Seems to me it was lousy reporting

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 10:51 PM

Dec 2015

quoting 'an unnamed source.' Then it got blown out of proportion here for a few days by some partisans of the Sanders and Clinton sides.

Thanks for clearing it up.

When I read something that doesn't cite the source I usually figure it's bullshit. Like, they could have gotten the quote from a cab driver or just made it up. That it was written on Yahoo.com doesn't carry much weight for me either.