2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhich of the Following is the Lamest Attack on Sanders so Far?
1. Photogate - changing the caption on a 52-yr-old photo while thinking there were no other photos of the event or that the photographer would play along.
2. Claiming Jane Sanders has been a secret supporter of Sheriff Arpaio and therefore had us all fooled with her lifetime of progressive politics.
3. Accusing Sanders' campaign of "artful smears" for pointing out the influence of Wall Street and the amount of money the Clintons have made selling access.
4. Claiming Sanders interrupted Clinton when he was interrupting her interruption of him. She actually had nothing to say when she interrupted him, just said "You know..." and then paused.
5. Asking "where was Senator Sanders" during the 1993 fight for better healthcare policy.
6. the 16 negative articles in 16 hours that the Washington Post ran that ended with Clinton losing Michigan where she had been up by as many as 45 points.
7. "Bernie has not been vetted" meme despite all of the preceding, plus the prior 11 elections and 34 years in office.
8. Other -- please list
LWolf
(46,179 posts)JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)It's all about being part of the right club for the right number of years !!
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)Bernie's more leftist than the entire DNC put together.
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)Vattel
(9,289 posts)For example, suggesting that Sanders called immigrants silly and tribal and economically illiterate.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)Q. Where was Bernie when the lights went out?
A. In the dark.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)dogman
(6,073 posts)Has to be the worst.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Vattel
(9,289 posts)The lies and distortion concerning Sanders record on immigration, though, represented the biggest coordinated pile of bullshit in the campaign (IMHO).
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)I asked WTH that means and got no answer other than to say they didn't want to risk a "hide" to explain it.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)Where was Bernie on healthcare in 1993 was my favorite because (a) Bernie's rapid response guy refuted it so quickly that 99% of the world saw the response along with the attempted smear and (b) it reminded people of how Hillary botched healthcare reform in 1993.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)If I had to choose just one however it would have to be the smear that claimed he believed having more orgasms can prevent cervical cancer. What makes this smear especially stupid is that it is based on a citation from a peer-reviewed medical journal that Bernie cited in a paper he wrote way back in the 1960's. While the journal article may now be discredited it would have at the time been considered a reputable source, but for some reason a bunch of morons decided to attack him because a scientific journal he cited 50 years ago turned out to be wrong.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Bernie has been called an "old crusty jew", "Israel's #1 shill", a "pro-Israel Marxist", who belonged to a "Soviet-sympathizing kibbutz" and accused of being funded by Israel.
Anti-Semitism directed at Bernie is no different than the birther-based racism directed at Obama.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The supporters- real or imaginary- arent on the ballot.