Another lie about Bernie Sanders; He never used that anti-gay rap song!

[Betty Karlson]

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/05/bernie-sanders-enter-rally-homophobic-dmx-song/

That story is now presented as "a hoax". But I smell a rat called Brock. Shame on anyone who believed this shit-monger, shame on his candidate for employing such a cretin.

[Rex]

1. So the self acclaimed Bernie supporter is a mole?

Better call the Chief.

[reddread]

2. that would be beneath them

[grasswire]

3. every week it's something from Brock

Pope, Bernie civil rights photo, chair, every freaking week he has a new shiny object for the HRC fans to be in a frenzy over.

This week he needs badly to deflect attention away from the personal server scandal.

[bravenak]

4. Calm down

We all know. The kid confessed and said it was a social experiment.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. The exposure of faudulent and exploitative bigoted liars is a public servicce and the OP seems

stone cold rational and fully righteous in condemning this latest hateful lie out of Camp Clinton.

And of course the 'you gays are too emotional, calm down' is an old, nasty trope that has no place in the 21st century nor on DU.

[bravenak]

14. The kid admitted it and he is a Bernie supporter

No conspiracy

[Bluenorthwest]

20. The exposure of faudulent and exploitative bigoted liars is a public servicce and the OP seems

tone cold rational and fully righteous in condemning this latest hateful lie out of Camp Clinton.

And of course the 'you gays are too emotional, calm down' is an old, nasty trope that has no place in the 21st century nor on DU.

[senz]

5. And shame on all who used it to bash Bernie today.

[merrily]

6. Bernie? One of the first politicians to support gays publicly? Riiiiight.

[Demsrule86]

7. If you say so

Kind of sounds like a Bernie supporter fell on his sword to save the Bernie campaign...maybe they did not understand the words?

[ljm2002]

19. The music was never used at Bernie's rally...

...as was shown by several other videos of the event, even before someone came out and "admitted" that he dubbed it.

I put "admitted" in quotes because I trust very little of what we are told during this primary season, especially when there is an apparent dirty trick involved.

But no one is still claiming that the music was used, except for a few DU trol... er, users. Such as yourself.

IOW: shame on you for continuing to try and present this as something that actually happened. You damn well know better, as does everyone on this board. Stop spreading lies and innuendoes.

[Blue_Adept]

8. do you look under your bed in the morning to see if Brock is there?

He's quite the boogeyman that gets a hell of a lot out of that $1 million. He should be in government if he's that effective.

[B Calm]

9. Shame on the poster who posted it yesterday.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. There were many of them. And many who stoked their fires, same old exploitative faces for

Hillary.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. That campaign has shown itself to be happy to lie, smear and gay bait. I despise this tactic

these bigots proudly stand with, homophobic, antisemitic and dishonest beyond measure. If they say it, it is a lie.

And when caught they always, always downplay their actions. They will take the bigoted, homophobic line of attack and tell us we are too emotional and that we need to calm down and such. They are exploitative bait mongers who should every last one be banned from DU and if they'd done this to any other minority group they would be. The double standard is an indictment of this site.

Camp Clinton dishonest gay baiting has to be stopped.

[oberliner]

16. You seriously think "Camp Clinton" orchestrated this?

Even though the explanation provided seems completely logical?

[Bluenorthwest]

17. They took part all over DU, that's all that matters and it can't be denied, long threads and

many of them, full of DUers saying what they had to say. Who made all those OP's? Santa's Elves?

Willfully making use of a rat fuck is the same as organizing a rat fuck. Taking a turd and holding it aloft like the tablets of Sinai and calling it the truth, over and over again. Who did that? People on DU did that. Clinton supporters on DU did that. They did that same thing for the 'Not Bernie in those Photos' lies. For the 'Chairs and bottles were thrown' lies. For the 'Reagan was an AIDS hero' lies/insults. It's been repeatedly done. This is not a one time thing easily brushed off it is a pattern of glaringly malicious behavior.

[oberliner]

23. They got duped

That's different from orchestrated the thing.

People get fooled by stuff online all the time.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. The people who pushed that and all the other lies remain on DU, active and protected

In spite of their malicious, fraudulent gay baiting and other forms of bigotry. They remain because the rules were changed to allow them to do this.

It looks pretty clear to me. Maybe you folks should go back to claiming that's not Bernie in any photo of Bernie. That was a fun lie. Capehart fresh.....Jon's spouse works for Hillary. Of course. DU took that one up and ran with it, even Skinner got on that train.

[gollygee]

12. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Brock

I'm sure it also has nothing to do with Bernie

[oberliner]

15. You smell a rat called Brock?

Are you serious?

The actual explanation seems pretty reasonable. The kid put the song on the video as a joke. Someone posted it on The Source. Other media sources picked up on it. It got passed around a bit on social media. Then the kid fessed up.

[Tarc]

21. The fake audio was created by a Bernie supporter

[Bluenorthwest]

22. Why would I believe you? I looked for reasons to do so but what I found was this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=126519&sub=trans

[Tarc]

24. This will be an enjoyable takedown, on two fronts

#1

Edwin Acuna, who edited the video, reached out to Billboard to issue a statement: "Standing in the crowd waiting for Senator Sanders can lead to daydreaming, and it did just that. It started with thinking how funny it would be if I edited a video to make it seem as if Bernie walked out to DMX, but after waiting a bit longer, I decided I'd turn it into a social experiment."

"Everyone seems to be very easily fooled by anything they see on the Internet. On one end we have a majority of the Twitter community going crazy and some going as far as even saying they're 'switching allegiances' and 'I was never going to vote but this just changed my mind' to some people in the LGBT community saying they knew all along that Bernie Sanders is a 'gay basher' and to be honest, if I wanted that to be the message the song would have started completely different. Instead, what we hear is 'Where the hood at?' At the end of it all, I wanted to show the world that politics are not something to fool around with and to prove it, I faked this video," Acuna continued.

- http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7386018/bernie-sanders-dmx-california-rally

#2

Perhaps you haven't actually read what you link to lately and just have it bookmarked, but as of 5:02pm EST 5/29/16, you have 7 hides, while I have 6.



PS - We'll be tied at 6 when one of yours comes off later today, then I'm down to 5 on June 2nd. Assuming we're both behaved between then and now.