This board is absolutely unreadable and it's not even an election year.

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225. Very Correct

Your post is quite correct. What I have seen is selective outrage based on false reporting then inflated by repetition with each repetition adding additional inflated facts that others read and get outraged from.

The false reporting of that ultrasound bill as mandatory ultrasound is just one of the methods and I am glad you pointed that out. I have also seen and fought for the last day posters who misuse quotations and misread actual quotations to imply that Bernie said things that he didn't that support their outrage.

I think some of the false attacks are intentional but as you have posted some are just caught up in it. They are not creating fake news and fake outrage but are biased against Bernie and Bernie supporters and have a grudge to pick so are inclined to use and disseminate these fake quotes, fake positions and fake interpretations. So their outrage is real but its all based on fake facts and the actual facts and explanations which to those not buying into the outrage makes it very selective outrage.

The Omaha event was really a nothing burger. Bernie's speech was not really directed towards Mello although he mentioned him 3 times and his explanation for supporting Mello was given to NPR and is basically the democratic party position on red state candidates. I heard basically the same explanation from Nancy Pelosi on Meet the Press Sunday on working with Pro-life democrats in the Senate. And yes Kaine and Mello are not identical but factually Kaine supported the Hyde Amendment which also is one of the apex laws supported and used by the Anti Abortion crowd to make it difficult for poor women to abort if they feel they need to. This is not really a bash on Kaine, it is a fact that Kaine stated that he supports the Hyde Amendment when he was made Hillary's running mate and later had to state that he would not act on that position but would accept Hillary's policies. Kaine was mentioned by most posts not to bash him but to point out the selectivity in outrage.

Bernie's quotes on Ossof were also misread and misquoted to contrast with the made up Mello position and ignored later statements of his supporting Ossof as well. Basically the whole outrage was just false reporting and false inflated interpretations by people who had a predilection for hating Bernie.

I am sure most people who posted today had never heard of Mello or Ossof and most of us (other than Nebraska residents) are not really affected by a local race. That race is past the primary so it is not a case where anyone is supporting a Pro-life democrat against a pro-choice democrat.

It would be good and I hope that some of the people whose outrage was poked by the fake news and quotes and positions floating around can walk some of their personal outrage back and realize that the other half of the Democratic Party that supports Bernie and his policies are not their enemy on reproductive freedom.