The Facebook defense is not an actual defense

[Kalidurga]

Can you imagine trying that in a college class. Yes, just try it once on a term paper footnoting Facebook. Yeah, it might be funny as a joke to you, but I assure you your professor will not be amused. A real journalist using a Facebook comment would be taking a whole lot of heat for it if they wrote a story based on a false Facebook meme.

Ironically the same people who seemed outraged at the Obama is a secret Muslim meme are so forgiving of this, really forgiving. I have to wonder why they are so forgiving. I wouldn't say Diana Rehm deserves to lose her job, but she does need to do a lot more than offer up the lamest apology I have seen in a long time. Democrats are supposed to be better than this.

[cali]

1. imagine if Rehm had said to Obama. "I understand you were born in Kenya"

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. It has every appearance of having been deliberate with the alibi concocted after it blew-up.

[Aerows]

18. Nailed it.

That was contrived as I've ever seen.

[Starry Messenger]

2. It is both vile and unprofessional.

Even a middle-schooler would know not to use something like that for a story.

[geek tragedy]

3. Her apology wasn't even for raising the issue.

It was for forgetting to phrase it in the form of a question, as if this were an episode of Jeopardy.

She should moderate the Republican primary debate. The clown car needs a driver.

[smokey nj]

9. She actually had the gall to pat herself on the back for "helping to put the rumor to rest."

Worst. Apology. Ever.

[REP]

5. It speaks to her own prejudices

Of course she didn't question it! Those Jews ... who knows what they're up to?

[FSogol]

6. Rehm gave Sander a forum to discuss his run. She treated him with respect and

as a serious candidate. Read the transcript of the show and you'll agree:

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-06-10/the-2016-presidential-race-a-conversation-with-democratic-candidate-and-vermont-senator-bernie-sanders

Trying to crucify her for a poorly prepared question is nonsense. Sanders (like every other candidate) is going to face a lot of crap. He handled it fine and came out on top. Accept her apology and move on, imo.

He said a lot of good things in that interview. Why aren't his supporter trumpeting that? Why focus on the negative?

[cali]

7. it was a rank and ancient anti-Semitic smear.

She should be fired. It was no better than rebuke birtherism

[Kalidurga]

8. The bowl was made from the finest crystal I am sure

and I am sure the punch was lovely. But, that turd didn't belong in it.

[Behind the Aegis]

21. LMAO!

Best response so far!

[m-lekktor]

29. lol!nt

[geek tragedy]

10. Yeah, at least she didn't ask him why he killed Jesus, as she had read in a Facebook comment.

This kind of bush-league "I read this on Facebook" question wouldn't get asked of a Clinton or Bush.

This was more in line with Halperin's Ricky Ricardo questioning of Rubio.

[delrem]

11. I agree.

It was a good solid interview, albeit a bit standard following the US zeitgeist - but how does anyone avoid that?
So Sanders had to answer the same question (basically: how do you deal with republican/corporate power?) put in several different ways.
It goes without saying that he has to deal with the Clinton/corporate questions.

Look, people aren't perfect! Her apology was good enough for me.

(I'm still listening, in the later part where Sanders is answering questions from listeners)

[Coventina]

13. She didn't ask him a question. She stated his "dual citizenship" as fact.

Then, after that, tried to get Bernie to label OTHER members of Congress as dual citizens.

It was a stunt worthy of McCarthy.

[Coventina]

12. Not only that, it is a vile source that is clearly meant to spread hate and mistrust of Jews.

The "source" is only a hateful bigot who provides NO proof of his assertions.

Massive fail.

[beam me up scottie]

14. She should have asked and then cited the anti semitic source of that "info".

Instead she blew a dog whistle.

Just because Bernie is too classy to call her out on it doesn't mean she should get a pass from us.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. I think his response was commendable.

Her apology, however, taking "credit" for "addressing" this rumor...

[gollygee]

15. I assure you an editor would not be amused either

Holy crap. I can't believe she tried to use that to excuse what she did. It just made it worse. She reads some gossip in a Facebook comment and moves forward as if it's real with no research at all?

[Dragonfli]

16. This is just the tip of the iceberg, I am reminded of a candidate running against a PoC

Declaring how she was going to work hard for the White Working people of America, I expect the ant-Semitic equivalent dog whistling to continue apace.

[Kalidurga]

17. Yeah I remember the last time someone was collecting lists

My theater professor knew a lot of people who were thrown out of work because of those lists. What an ugly part of our history and it seems that Ms Diane wants to repeat something like that.

[Behind the Aegis]

19. Actually a few are trying to make it one!

I am not surprised, but I am a bit surprised more than few are taking this seriously and addressing it for the bigotry it is.

[Kalidurga]

22. If the flipped the question any number of ways they would see it.

[Behind the Aegis]

23. Don't count on it.

I have seen some people trying to explain it, using a variety of examples, and it still isn't sinking in for a few.

[Kalidurga]

24. The ironic thing is I have seen some of the people defending this are the same as..

the ones who were all rah rah rah over NYSkip getting banned.

[Behind the Aegis]

27. There's that irony, and then there is the other irony...

...and that's the ones who rail against white/male/straight people telling POC/women/gays how they should or shouldn't feel or why something isn't really offensive have no problem doing it Jews, despite their not being Jewish.

[Kalidurga]

28. Yep there is a lot of irony to go around.

[m-lekktor]

30. exactly. nt

[beam me up scottie]

31. +1000

[beam me up scottie]

25. Diane Rehm: "Senator Obama, you have dual citizenship with Kenya."

You mean like that?

Yeah, I think the response would be very different.

[Kalidurga]

26. Yes BMUP,

exactly like that. Are you now or have you ever been a secret Muslim. It's very much over the top. So much so it made me raise my eyebrows, you have no idea how hard that is.

[DonCoquixote]

32. what does it say

where someone who is SUPPOSED TO BE A CAPITAL "J" PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST uses the facebook defense?

Look, there are people who run dungeons and dragons campaigns on facebook, and the page will look as nice as any factual one. If she was stupid enough to use this, that means she was, at the very least, using lousy judgement.

[DonCoquixote]

33. and for those who wonder why

some of use are still ANGRY about all the dog whistling that happened in the 2008 campaign, here we have an example.

It might be one thing to say "hey, Politics ain't no tea party" , but the fact is when people are attacked and attacked, then the same people will be wondering "Gee, why ain't no one standin up fer me now?" Because, ye who love Hillary's attack machine, when you attack everyone, including the people who want to keep the GOP out of power, then there is no one to stand up for you left, and the GOP will just quote a line from Bob Dylan:

"You say you never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?"

and it does not help that the centrist wing of the party has made so many deals that we might not have anything to hock anymore.. What is worse?, selling your soul, or realizing that you have no soul to sell anymore?

[Kalidurga]

34. I have seen so many people who were angry over the 2008 dog whistles having no problem with this...

I don't get that at all. Every person who is not a straight, white, Christian, 1% male, knows they are othered. Yet, it seems some people are cool with the divisions TPTB, has set up.

[DonCoquixote]

35. because

so many people are invested with the old dream that if only someone like THEM got into power, everything would get fixed.

I will be the first to agree that we need more WOMEN in POSITIONS OF POLITICAL POWER, period. I like seeing Dilma Rouseff in Brazil, and while I despise Angela Merkel, it is because she governs from the right, not because of any gender. However, I have no illusions about how Clinton will govern; she will listen to Bibi Netanyahu when it comes to war, and listen to Lady Rothschild when it comes to domestic policy. which is a nice way of saying if you are not part of the in crowd, shut up. Yes, the GOP is fighting for their in crowd,theirs is just a lot smaller, but thanks to "politics of identity" people feel that someone who looks like them means they have more clout, when really, it is all a puppet show.

and for the record, I am Hispanic, and I will state outright, clearly, that three of the people pimping their Latino credentials, namely Rubio, Cruz, and Bush, should not even be allowed NEAR Washington D.C, period. Habla Espanol all you want to amigos , I know who you serve.

[Kalidurga]

38. I learned a long long time ago that how a person looks means absolutely nothing...

in terms of if they are going to protect vulnerable people or not. I don't do identity politics. I do however recognize some people need more political clout than they currently have, I am willing to fight for that. But, I am not willing to put someone in office just because of a chromosome or because of ethic identity or whatever other superfluous reason is in at the moment.

[Rex]

41. Swiftboating, The Dean Scream, etc..

Now the Evil Jew banker in Congress. It is unbelievable how disgusting the media has fallen over the decades. NPR...sad and pathetic.

Low low low...

[DonCoquixote]

42. and in all of those schemes

when Dean and Kerry were rivals, she was silent as a churchmouse.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. The only place where FB belongs

is during a major wildfire. We have a few local pages that this is all they do. So when they report a major fire, I turn on the scanner and call CAL FIRE...

They are pretty reliable for THAT.

During any disaster social media is used by reporters these days, actually, but the list of caveats are ahem... long.

[Kalidurga]

37. I did not know this...

maybe that is why Diane Rehm acted like her hair was on fire for a moment.

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. Maybe, but the list is long

reality is, some of the folks who run those pages are near where quite a few of the local major incidents have started over the years. They listen to scanners, and they look out their window. More than once you learn about a start from them before you do from any other source including the county. So during fire season, I check on them every hour or so. Them and the CHP.

During the Chariot fire, the first photos were posted by neighbors. We knew it was bad from those photos...

Some residents are also in really back areas of the county where they do what they can to stay in contact. The best way to look at it, would be an old fashioned phone tree for an emergency.

Use good sense, and quite a bit of salt for anything else. But fires, they are quite good. Like twitter, you also learn which poster is good and which one is not.

[Rex]

40. There is no defense against demanding that a Jew be on a list with other Jews!

If she would have taken 5 seconds to look for herself, at least she could have had the chance to form it into a question. She demanded that he tell her what other Jews serve in Congress... Oh woe!

OKAY, if you REALLY wanted to know that why not look before hand? Both she and Sanders have moved on, but guess what? People are still pissed and they have a right to be.

World doesn't just do what two people want it to; maybe next time not slander Jews with a list from a neo-nazi website?

Thanks.