WaPo: “It is past time for Mr. Sanders to be honest with his supporters"

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Allan Brauer ?@allanbrauer 4h4 hours ago
WaPo Edit Board Roasts Sanders: Stop Lying To Your Supporters! @TPM http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-washington-post-editorial-nevada …


After a tense state Democratic convention in Nevada escalated to reported violence over the weekend, the Washington Post’s editorial board slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for his response after the state party chair received death threats.

In an editorial published online Wednesday evening, the board said Sanders responded to the Nevada upheaval “with self-righteousness and hypocrisy” by releasing a statement that did not accept responsibility for the chaos but highlighted procedural issues with the convention.

“Mr. Sanders’s irresponsibility is sadly unsurprising,” the editorial board wrote. “He has indulged and encouraged hyperbolic feelings that the country is badly adrift, that most of the nation agrees with a left-wing agenda but is trapped in a corrupt system, and that nothing but a political revolution will do.”

“Mr. Sanders denies reality when he tells supporters he still has a plausible pathway to the Democratic presidential nomination,” the editorial continued. “It is past time for Mr. Sanders to be honest with his supporters, before they take the campaign’s irresponsible ethos to greater extremes and thereby help ensure the election of Donald Trump.”

The editorial also suggested Sanders has fostered a “toxic mix of unreason, revolutionary fervor, and perceived grievance” by questioning the legitimacy of the electoral process while lagging behind Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in votes...


read: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-washington-post-editorial-nevada

[bettyellen]

1. kick.

[NurseJackie]

2. Direct and to-the-point.

[ThePhilosopher04]

3. Boy they are really scared now. LOL

That's how you know Bernie is winning

[Zen Democrat]

4. WTF does the WaPo know about honesty?

[upaloopa]

5. What's the best Bernie can hope for? To effect the platform, to give a speech at the convention?

What I think he should be doing is to stop attacking Hillary and Dems. He needs to ease into the post primary world. He needs to attack Trump and the right.

He has between now and the convention to land his campaign in a positive way or crash and burn it.

If he is to remain a Democrat in the Senate he needs to begin to build bridges. He can help himself by helping to elect Hillary as President and to help win back the Senate and hopefully the House.

His revolution does not have to end. His drive for single payer and free education does not have to end. But you get more support with honey than you do with vinegar.

[Number23]

6. Add this to the astonishingly long list of publications handing Sanders his behind this week

He's had easily the worst week in politics I've seen in years.

What is particularly galling about the Sanders camp’s complaints of disenfranchisement is that Mr. Sanders has benefited or tried to benefit from a variety of sketchy quirks of the nominating process. He has claimed support for his cause in caucuses, which are quite exclusive, but he complains about closed primary elections, which are more inclusive. In Nevada, his supporters were trying to game the rules to get more delegates and got upset when they did not succeed. As veteran Nevada politics reporter Jon Ralston put it, “Despite their social media frothing and self-righteous screeds, the facts reveal that the Sanders folks disregarded rules, then when shown the truth, attacked organizers and party officials as tools of a conspiracy to defraud the senator of what was never rightfully his in the first place.”

Kicked and rec'd

[msanthrope]

9. the entitlement is breathtaking. nt

[Eric J in MN]

18. They quote Jon Ralston who gave us the lie about chair throwing. NT

NT

[bigtree]

20. slim thread

...and an obvious deflection from the Sanders attempt to steal Clinton pledged delegates by manipulating and disrupting the convention.

[msanthrope]

7. kick and rec... for truth. nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

8. The Capehart Daily Liar Gazette says what?

[Voice for Peace]

10. Wow wow wow

The clinton tentacles are nearly ubiquitous, and mighty!

[bigtree]

11. or

...not everyone sees things Bernie's way.

The simplest explanation.

[Voice for Peace]

14. There are facts, and evidence. That's Bernie's way.

The other way is Workers United for the God of Fear, Lies, Cheat & Deceit. Like another final great battle -- between the forces of conscience and the forces of voter manipulation.

[bigtree]

15. it's like arguing with a parishioner

...with delusions of virtue.

Blocking.

[Voice for Peace]

16. Gosh

Not sure if i should take this as a compliment?

[SidDithers]

12. DU rec...nt

Sid

[Bread and Circus]

13. Escalated to "reported" violence. LMAO. And you post this shit?

Good grief.

[Eric J in MN]

17. A different standard for Sanders than any other candidate.

The WaPo didn't demand of HRC in 2008 that she tell her supporters she couldn't win when she was trailing by more Pledged Delegates than there were remaining Pledged Delegates.

This year, tbey didn't demand that Ted Cruz and John Kasich announce they couldn't win near the end of their runs.

[bigtree]

19. I don't know about the WaPo

...but Sanders is getting a fraction of the outrage cast against Hillary in 2008 for daring to stay in the race.

Talk about a different standard, if her campaign had behaved as Sanders' has in the last month, there would have been calls for her arrest from Obama supporters.

You're misrepresenting the widespread opposition and outcry in response to her continued campaign, and neglecting to note her gracious and supportive concession 4 days after suspending her campaign in June.

Contrast that with Sanders' insistence that there will be a 'contested convention.'

[Starry Messenger]

21. k&r

[Samantha]

22. Here is some info on the new owner of the Washington Post

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-politics-of-new-i-washington-post-i-owner-jeff-bezos/278385/

But Bezos could potentially use the Post's editorial page to push his political views Indeed, it's hard to imagine what would induce a fabulously wealthy businessman like Bezos, who's not in the newspaper business, to jump in besides vanity and the chance to influence debate. As Hiatt explained several years ago, "In a sense we speak for the publisher, for the owner--but they don't review most editorials. Instead, they hire someone (me) who they think generally will share their world view."

It is not the outstanding paper it was at one time.

Sam