Bernie, There Will Be No Revolution Without Reproductive Rights

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123. I just provided you with direct links to the actual speech

Your post is not saying the Times said Rising Star. Your point is you want to say Bernie said it and use the times as proof that he used the words future star. However, once again, the times did not put those words in quotes because Bernie did not use it and your use of quotes is to imply that Bernie used those words and sentiments.

Further, the Times did not get it right possibly because the reporter may not even have been in Omaha or wanted to also twist the speech to make the reporters point. I don't actually know why the Times got it wrong but I know they did because I have seen an actual video of the speech which you can look at yourself and I have looked at an actual quote of what Bernie said to NPR about Mello (note an actual quote). In both cases, he never calls, states, or implies that Mello is a future star of the Democratic Party. Yet you persist in trying to say he said it despite now being given the source material.

With respect to the use of quotation marks. You are not using them to say that is how the Times characterized Bernies speech (which the video shows was inaccurate) but to imply that "rising star" were two words used by Bernie in the Omaha speech.

More to the point, the source video is dispositive not a NYT article written by a reporter who may or may not have been there and does not put quotes around those words.

Look at the link yourself. Its pretty easy to backtrack from this point and say THAT THE TIMES GOT IT WRONG. Bernie did not say rising star future star or anything close to that. And perhaps next time you will not put quotes around a paraphrase in a news article to imply that a principal said that exact thing.