Bernie Sanders Faces Feisty Democratic Challenger

[Jim Lane]

388. OK, I'll try this one more time.

After this I hope I'll have the strength of will to abandon this thread. This Svitavsky character will have no significant impact on the midterms or on national affairs, and he's already gotten far more attention here than he deserves.

You wrote that Bernie "was one of two 'nay' votes on a bill to impose sanctions on Russia ...." Someone who read only your post and knew nothing else about the matter would reasonably conclude that Bernie was opposed to sanctions on Russia. That conclusion would be false.

Your statement that the bill passed overwhelmingly? Yup, that part was true. That doesn't save the other part from being misleading, though.

There's an analogy here to the standards set by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A corporation that's issuing stock isn't allowed to "make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading...." Rule 10b-5(b). Your post did not make any untrue statement of a material fact but it did omit to state a material fact (the Iran sanctions) that was necessary to make your post not misleading.