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Autumn

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18. Watson's trick is to use out-of-context chopped quotes and badly photo shopped pictures .

Reply to Celerity (Reply #9)

Thu Mar 21, 2019, 11:55 AM

Mar 2019

Just doing what he does. He's the one who blurred faces on a picture to show Bernie had no POC at a rally and got busted by it in his twitter feed and here. A now banned troll was fond of posting his tweets.

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Pete Buttigieg must be surging, Wonkette exposes dirty twitter troll tricks against him [View all] Celerity Mar 2019 OP

everything on twitter is true dont ya know? nt msongs Mar 2019 #1

Watson didn't lie Talking Tom Mar 2019 #17

Mayor Pete is steadily rising democrank Mar 2019 #2

I finally can pronounce his name (it is Maltese) right too! lol Celerity Mar 2019 #5

Not quite. It's BOOT-edge--edge. marylandblue Mar 2019 #14

They are both basically the same, we listened to a video Celerity Mar 2019 #29

Mine too and lots of others... must be time then to give Mayor Pete the "Bernie treatment"!! InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2019 #33

Best comment in Wonkette thread: betsuni Mar 2019 #3

sounds about par for the course, including many MSM talking heads who now are Celerity Mar 2019 #4

+1 PunkinPi Mar 2019 #28

I have always liked Mayor Pete. murielm99 Mar 2019 #6

Thanks to Celerity for this post, and to Wonkette for the Comments IndianaDave Mar 2019 #7

"I'm with her" was not Hillary's tag. It was our (supporters). STRONGER TOGETHER was HRC's tag. allgood33 Mar 2019 #8

he was talking about the buttons, shirts, etc etc that were ubiquitous and using it as a partially Celerity Mar 2019 #9

Watson's trick is to use out-of-context chopped quotes and badly photo shopped pictures . Autumn Mar 2019 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author betsuni Mar 2019 #10

+1 MrsCoffee Mar 2019 #11

Morning Joe spent the first ten minutes talking about his interview yesterday, all really impressed. OnDoutside Mar 2019 #12

They SHOULD be impressed... VERY impressed!! InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2019 #32

On narrative: "you need our altitude to be both higher and lower. Hortensis Mar 2019 #13

This isn't a dirty trick, he just said something extremely rogue emissary Mar 2019 #15

Notice he said "we," including himself, and he isn't wrong. marylandblue Mar 2019 #20

He's right that we need to express our principals. rogue emissary Mar 2019 #21

I don't think he thinks Clinton didn't champion our values. marylandblue Mar 2019 #22

That's the media failure and not the fault of rogue emissary Mar 2019 #23

I partly disagree about the media, messaging and cultivating the media marylandblue Mar 2019 #24

The standard policies they all have expressed. rogue emissary Mar 2019 #25

That's fine with me, but I understand if you prefer someone stronger on that. marylandblue Mar 2019 #26

Indeed, I also get that it's huge to have him in the race rogue emissary Mar 2019 #27

Buttigieg criticized Hillary Talking Tom Mar 2019 #16

He wasn't complaining about the nominee, he was complaining about the message. marylandblue Mar 2019 #19

Ding! Ding! Ding!... We hava winner!!! InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2019 #31

Mayor Pete was SO 100% right in that Esquire interview... how can people not see this? InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2019 #30