POLITICSNevada Reporter Who Falsely Claimed Sanders Supporters Threw Chairs Just Got What He Deserve

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23. I can understand him making the tweet

if he trusted his source, but I cannot understand him sticking to the story that he (Ralston) saw the chair being thrown for two days, well beyond when many people who actually were there were saying it didn't happen.

For the first few hours after his tweet I assumed he was telling the truth and I just hadn't seen it happen, then other delegates started talking and we began to realize that none of us had seen what Ralston alleged had happened.

Once people started questioning it, he could have just said that he had left and was relying on another reporter as a source, I think people would have understood that. Instead he stuck by his story and watched as Bernie supporters were accused of rioting, of throwing bottles, of wreaking havoc by national media, based solely on Ralson's own lie.