2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe incident of antisemitism at the Apollo theater was not the first of the campaign
I saw in another thread someone claiming that the Apollo incident was the first of the campaign, that is not so.
Diane Rehm sandbagged Senator Sanders on her radio show by stating that he holds dual citizenship with Israel, a classic antisemitic trope, and then questioning his word when he told her that was not true. ("I have in my hand a list of names" which actually was every Jewish member of Congress)
It turned out that Ms Rehm's information she used to slime Senator Sanders came from a Facebook reply and she had not fact checked it, not exactly professional conduct from a national radio host, particularly a "liberal" one.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I almost swerved off the road into a ditch.
Whatever NPR may or may not have been, it is no longer..
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Even totebaggers aren't all that stupid..
stone space
(6,498 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)And Ms Rehm has a long existing "liberal" radio show.
The mind, it boggles.
stone space
(6,498 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Someone here claimed it was staged As if there is a need to that.