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

[Rilgin]

236. A fair point

Yes, some of it is coming from sloppy reporting in the press and other sites which start the avalanche of misrepresentations and false characterizations of speeches and positions. Yesterday I was referred to a New York Times article which characterized Bernie's Omaha speech. Notably it contained no actual quotes from Bernie from that speech to support the characterization the author made of the speech. It had various reactions to the speeches from various people using actual quotes to support the characterization.

I went to the actual speech listened to it and found nothing close to the characterization of the NY Times reporter who I suspect was not in Omaha but just made it up. Otherwise there would be actual quotes. However, this article was further misinterpreted here on DU and I suspect on other sites as support for attributing actual quotes to Bernie using words that he never used. So yes I think most of the outrage was real and based on other parties manipulation taken without questioning source or factual basis but even there I believe only bias would allow one to believe or interpret a rather minor event with such outrage.

This has happened to all politicians including Hillary but yesterday was a pretty egregious example of inflating an outrage based on fake news and made up quotes.