Sirota: "Everyone accusing me of...working for the Bernie Sanders campaign IS A FILTHY LIAR!"

[NurseJackie]

Link to tweet

𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣 ⚡️ @Patrickesque

David Sirota: “Everyone accusing me of being a political operative and secretly working for the Bernie Sanders campaign is a filthy liar.”

✨three months later✨

David Sirota: “Yes I’ve been secretly working for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign for months”
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5:24 PM - Mar 19, 2019

[Docreed2003]

1. That's rich...

Almost like..."Did you put your feet on his couch??"

"Hell, naw I didn't put my feet on his couch"



Then...





Love ya nasty woman (yeah I saw that bs attack from a few days ago)

[NurseJackie]

8. ...

[DownriverDem]

52. We need to focus

The question we should all be asking is who can win the electoral college? Biden is the one who can beat trump. I am concerned that folks are not analyzing the candidates with this in mind.

[dalton99a]

2. "And they made me an official employee - after I got caught"

[NurseJackie]

6. Not to mention HELPING TRUMP by ratfucking and KNEECAPPING Hillary on ELECTION EVE!!

We're talking WAY past the primary and WAY past the convention... and Sirota was STILL working to "kneecap" Hillary.

The primaries were over the run-up was over, and he was LITERALLY doing everything he could to HELP TRUMP to win.

I think that speaks very clearly about his moral compass and tells us a lot about him (and it's not at all flattering.) I think it's fair for anyone to question the judgement and motivation of anyone who would hire him for ANY job.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

9. All baseless lies - to sabotage Democratic chances - broadcast on Election Eve

Enlargement of above image for members without Twitter or magnifying glass:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=31239

[NurseJackie]

11. By harming Hillary... he hoped to harm the Democratic party. And...

By harming Hillary... he hoped to harm the Democratic party. And... a weakened and divided and demoralized Democratic party is "ripe" to be "destroyed" and "rebuilt". That's their goal. Nobody is shy about saying it. All the attacks on the Democratic party and everything that's done to undermine the party has but ONE goal in mind.

[MH1]

13. I don't give a shit about him helping Trump. It pisses me off that he fucked over this country.

Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

Sirota and his buddies are vectors of the disease.

[NurseJackie]

17. Excellent description.

Sirota and his buddies are vectors of the disease.

Excellent description.

[luvtheGWN]

21. You are known by the company you keep...

.....and the employees you hire.

Who cares about Sirota and that woman who dissed John Lewis? If these are the types Sanders is hiring, then that tells you all you need to know about him. And it ain't good.

Just a Canuck's 2 cents' worth....

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. "WHO" is a filthy liar?

[TwilightZone]

4. The people who complained about David Brock incessantly in 2016 are the same ones...

defending David Sirota now.

[Docreed2003]

10. Truth!!

[msongs]

5. candidates tend to surround themselves with like minded people nt

[NurseJackie]

7. You can tell a lot about someone's moral compass and integrity by the company they keep...

candidates tend to surround themselves with like minded people nt

You can tell a lot about someone's moral compass and integrity (or lack thereof) by the company they keep... I'm convinced of it. Sadly, when I see something like this, it typically doesn't reveal anything "new" to me. Instead, it just confirms what I already knew to be true.

[dalton99a]

12. It's not hard to understand the intent of people who hire poisonous snakes

What do they do with them, seriously?

[Me.]

14. BOOM

or the press secretary they hire

[R B Garr]

16. Exactly. Someone who hires proven liars who then lie

about how they were hired...pure trash. This is only coming from one campaign. What a shame.

[still_one]

15. lol

[louis c]

18. You want to know why I won't ever vote for BS in a Democratic Primary?

It's because of assholes like Sirota who don't give two shits about the Democratic candidate or the General Election. He will do all the dirty work for the Republicans, just like many (not all) BS supporters will.

I will confess that I will donate and work for Bernie if he gets the nomination. But until then, he's my 16th choice.

[NurseJackie]

28. Nobody is doing that.

Whew! The Bernie hate

Nobody is doing that. This isn't about "hate".

[Cha]

81. Yea, it's about BS' stupid 3rd party hires..

Link to tweet

[yaesu]

30. welcome to DU nt

[MrsCoffee]

32. By hate you mean vetting.

Get used to it. Every candidate needs to be thoroughly vetted. That means hearing things you won't like hearing about whoever your candidate may be. As long as there are facts behind it, it's fair game.

[NurseJackie]

91. Oh look! Also gone!

What's going on here? Where is everyone going?

Or... I guess a better question would be "where are they coming from"?

[Hortensis]

36. It's not hate, it's satisfaction of exposure of Sanders to those

who might benefit from a better understanding of him. We all have a serious duty to know all we can about, and honestly evaluate, all the candidates we might consider giving tremendous power to. These aren't the playoffs for some sports league.

[MontanaMama]

20. Well well well...

Looks like the Sanders campaign is only hiring the best people!! Wonder how this will turn out??

[westernlife]

22. This amounts to what? treason? murder?

His life professional and otherwise, unless he broke an actual law and not just some purity standard for your edification. Get real, move on.

[NurseJackie]

23. It reveals much about his "character" and his moral compass.

This amounts to what? treason? murder?

What an absurd defense. (You forgot "collusion".)

His life professional and otherwise, unless he broke an actual law and not just some purity standard for your edification.

Looks like I've touched a nerve.

Get real, move on.

Yep... I definitely have hit a very sensitive nerve.

[SFnomad]

24. Wow ... crying about purity standards ... that's rich

[grantcart]

26. It's part of a long standing pattern

[yaesu]

34. welcome to DU

there is still a lot of bad feelings here over the last election. For me, its a clean slate, going to see what each candidate has to say, make up my own mind & use the full ignore button when members get too carried away bashing candidates, its a great DU option

[WeekiWater]

37. This is the first I have seen anyone reference this to treason or murder.

Sirota employees the same tactic when attacking Democrats.

[charlyvi]

46. David Sirota!

Mr.David I'll answer your question about working for Bernie but first let me delete these 20,000 tweets proving how hard I tried to sabotage Bernie's opponents while denying I worked for Bernie but then I got caught in the lie Sirota. I'll pass.

[ut oh]

40. Is that you

David Sirota?


I think the point many are trying to make, aside from the general vetting of candidates and their staff, is this guy Sirota is already lying about his involvement with Sanders' campaign and he certainly did the Dem party no favors last time. Is that really the kind of person we want working for Bernie?

And no I'm not against BS per se. I just think it's a bad idea to have someone on his team who is willing to lie like this guy has already done. And that certainly does not help BS in the long run.

[kcr]

42. Well, as long as it's not treason or murder. Thanks for making that clear.

The morals and ethics of a Bernie Supporter. What a bar to set.

[comradebillyboy]

51. Illuminating isn't it?

[BannonsLiver]

67. Good luck with that.

This guys got a long twitter trail and lord knows what else he has written. It’s all going to be laid out on the table, as it should be.

[stonecutter357]

76. Cool Story, Bro , !

[Cha]

86. It a apparently amounts to you

getting hyperbolic.

[yaesu]

25. I believe David Sirota worked as a Guardian US columnist & an investigative journalist

in 2018 but not sure if he still does. His last article was in Dec. I'm sure he will take no prisoners when it comes to helping Bernie get elected.

[SFnomad]

27. In other words, no lie will be too great, and twisting facts will be no obstacle, eh?

It will just be Sirota being Sirota.

[yaesu]

29. well, alls fair in love & politics, mud will be slug, some deservedly, some not nt

[Cha]

87. sirota is a lying troll.

[getagrip_already]

31. bs is our trump....

lets not make the same mistake the gop made, or we could end up in the same place......

[Jarqui]

33. This smells bad.

Sanders shouldn't need people like this.

[LiberalLovinLug]

35. OMG! SOMEONE WHO SAID THEY WEREN'T WORKING FOR BS IS WORKING FOR HIM!!!

He should just give it up now.

It looks like it was a trial hire to see if Sanders could work with a speech writer. After three months, Sanders liked the idea and he was officially a part of the team.

Anything but discussing Sanders actual policies. Like his and Kamala's co-sponsored Medicare For All bill. Because none of the haters could win that debate.

Its going to be a long primaries.

[R B Garr]

43. It looks like what was discovered, not your spin.

A relationship was questioned which made them come clean.

[LiberalLovinLug]

48. ...

[ehrnst]

55. ...

[George II]

44. And just hours after the announcement Sirota deleted more than 20,000 tweets for some reason.

Since you're concerned about discussing Sanders' policies, past performances indicate that Sirota did very little of that.

And it wasn't that he was hired after working for Sanders for three months, it's the fact that he denied it in the midst of an anti-Democratic Party tear. I guess that's one of the reasons those tweets have now been deleted.

[LiberalLovinLug]

47. "about discussing Sanders' policies, past performances indicate that Sirota did very little of that"

And neither do you. Which is my point.

How many OPs sprout up every day with some smear or accusation against any of our other candidates? Its becoming embarrassing.
And no, I'm not calling for that. I'll leave that for the deplorable's message boards.

[George II]

50. I don't work for any campaigns. I don't write speeches for any candidates. BIG difference.

[LiberalLovinLug]

57. Yes BIG difference. You are an anonymous poster on a message board

Anyways, I guess if this is the best y'all can find on dirt on one of our candidates, and that is the activity you want to spend your time doing, then whatever. A speech writer for one of our candidates, said he didn't work for them, then said he did. Shocking i tells ya!

[R B Garr]

59. This is truly laughable. Sirota is the one printing dirt

on “one of our candidates”. This is about who Bernie chose to write about our candidates. Only one campaign is doing this, and we know which one it is. You should stop with this phony distraction.

[ehrnst]

61. Sirota would get banned on DU.

And some people (who are anonymous posters on a Pro-Democratic Party message board) are surprised that many here would think that Sirota isn't a good choice to be on a Dem POTUS candidate payroll?

Shocking I tells ya!

[R B Garr]

66. It is certainly yet another laughable distraction to

pretend that Sirota is anything other than what he’s shown us.

And, yes, he would be banned here.

[ehrnst]

69. Logic doesn't support the idea that Sirota is supportive of the Democratic party.

In fact, logic supports the opposite conclusion.

[R B Garr]

71. Exactly, and I hope someone has those 20,000 tweets

he’s deleted.

[ehrnst]

72. I'm sure that there's a TOTALLY ethical explanation

for that.

Sirota's probably really busy, so he hasn't had TIME to explain.

Maybe he's doing his taxes?

[LiberalLovinLug]

62. "phony distraction"

Now that's rich!

[R B Garr]

65. "find dirt on one of our candidates" your words ,

as if this isn’t really the exact opposite of what you are implying.

Sirota is the one attacking our candidates. He deleted 20,000 tweets, what was he trying to hide? You are trying to make it that poor little David is being picked on instead of rightfully being questioned as to his lies about our candidates.

Your distractions are very transparent.

[LiberalLovinLug]

68. "one of our candidates" as in Bernie Sanders

So you are saying that this OP was created to NOT try and smear Sanders, or put him in any kind of bad light ie..guilty by association. It was just some random speech writer who contradicted himself. And that was worth making an OP about.

The hair pulling in here is astounding, about any critiquing on the party, and suggestions for how we could win more, after losing (technically) the election, as well as losing the majority of Governorships, and local races for over a decade. Boggles the mind.

[R B Garr]

70. You were trying to make Bernie "one of our candidates"

as if it was some unfair random thing that was perpetrated on him when it was the exact opposite. BS is the only candidate who is using vicious surrogates to attack Democrats. We know who is doing what and why they are doing it.

Sanders is not being victimized. His tactics are being questioned, and for good reason. The last thing we need now is another Putin-esque war on Democrats. None of the other campaigns are doing this.

[ehrnst]

74. Indeed.

The mental gymnastics on display here are breathtaking.

[R B Garr]

75. Yes, and this is why the constant pushback. The rewriting

of history and the constant phony victimization of one man is just not honest. So tiring and unnecessary,

[ehrnst]

73. ....

[ehrnst]

53. Yes, George isn't working for a Democratic POTUS campaign...

So you may want to re-examine what your point actually is...

[LiberalLovinLug]

60. My point is that at least he supports this Democratic candidate

Whether officially as part of his team, or not.
Any you seemingly do not. Not only that, go out of your way to denigrate him.

[ehrnst]

64. "Supports this Democratic candidate" while trashing the Democratic party...

Got it.



Pointing out that Sirota attacks the party is "denigrating" him?

Yeah, on DU, that's not complimentary. If you disagree, perhaps you may want to rethink why you post here.

[R B Garr]

56. These hires are a new subject matter. Why are you

pretending that OP’s just “sprout”. And what’s laughable is how you are commingling other candidates — only one campaign attacks Democrats, and we know whose campaign it is.

[Cha]

88. How about VETTING BS for the 3rd party hires

he thinks is necessary?

[Cha]

85. Yeah, someone who accused others of

being a "filthy liar". Turns out sirota is the "filthy liar".

[Maru Kitteh]

38. Charming.

Slimy bunch of filthy lying assholes at the helm over there.

And they campaigned for JILL FUCKING STEIN too. Nice job, pinheads.

[Jopin Klobe]

39. Sanders Campaign Hires '16 Clinton Staffer Who Dug Up Oppo Research On Him

Bernie Sanders is preparing for the coming onslaught of attacks by hiring someone who knows the material best. The Vermont senator’s campaign is bringing on a veteran of Hillary Clinton’s research department who helped pull together the former secretary of State’s opposition-research book on Sanders in 2016, according to Democrats familiar with the decision.

Tyson Brody, Clinton’s deputy research director during the last election cycle, will direct Sanders’s research operation, Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir confirmed to Intelligencer on Wednesday. Brody, who worked on Clinton’s self-research as well as the Sanders oppo files last cycle, is the first Democrat to go from Clinton’s camp to Sanders’s 2020 campaign after their bitter primary fight.

“This campaign will comport itself according to the values of Senator Sanders, which means we will not engage in mudslinging or character assassination. That said, one of the reasons we hired Tyson is to prepare this campaign for whatever false accusations and allegations are leveled against us,” Shakir said in a statement. “Most importantly, Tyson’s work on this campaign will help us educate voters about the issues, policies and stances that the Senator has taken over the course of a lifetime fighting for working people.”

LINK:[link:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/bernie-hires-former-hillary-staffer-as-research-chief.html|

... so, it actually appears that some Democrats who worked directly with Hillary and her campaign have absolutely no problems with working for Bernie ...

... and, obviously, he has enough faith in them to depend on them for his success ...

[R B Garr]

41. It sounds like Bernie's already calling all the oppo research

against him lies. “Whatever false accusations and allegations are leveled against us”. Who will he be calling a liar?

[ehrnst]

90. Bingo. (nt)

[Hekate]

45. KnR

[GemDigger]

49. Bit by bit that trust factor I had for him is getting blown up.

Not looking good in my opinion.

[ehrnst]

54. I think that's becoming way more common than many here

would care to acknowledge.

[R B Garr]

58. Absolutely! It's like chronically in-your-face obvious at

this point and really looks unsustainable. Third party voters attacking our Democrats...

[Atticus]

63. Flaunting that kind of talent can only mean one thing: he's trolling for a position

in the Trump *administration. Look out , Kellyanne!

[stonecutter357]

77. K&R

[mcar]

78. K&R

[George II]

79. So Sirota was a political operative and secretly working for the Sanders campaign....

and yet he had the chutzpah to lie about it but call anyone who said he was is a "filthy liar"? Did I read that correctly?

"Everyone accusing me of being a political operative and secretly working for the Bernie Sanders campaign is a filthy liar.”

[Cha]

80. Look in the Fucking Mirror, Bozo!

Link to tweet

Mahalo, Jackie!

[ehrnst]

89. Actually Dave, some of 'those' journos who were trashing HRC wound up being called

'sexual predators.'

I wonder if that tweet got him an interview.

[betsuni]

82. Oh, dear. Doesn't sound like a very moral person.

[NurseJackie]

83. Anyone who would hire him has very low ethical standards.

... clearly he has none.

[betsuni]

84. Yes, people should really vote their conscience.

[Gothmog]

92. What it means that Bernie Sanders is hiring people who think all the non-Bernie democrats are bad

Link to tweet

[Cha]

93. Faiz Shakir..

Link to tweet

[R B Garr]

94. Faiz Shakir confirmed this arrangement went back months.

Looks like they got caught and are now trying to spin a different story. More questionable ethics.

[LongtimeAZDem]

98. It looks like Shakir tried to backtrack from that in the deleted Intercept article

So, the question becomes, does The Atlantic have him on record?

“He was advising beforehand,” Shakir said, explaining that Sirota’s informal work for Sanders goes back months, and was meant to be a trial period to see how the senator, who famously likes to write every word that he says himself, would work with a speechwriter.

[Gothmog]

95. For this thread

Link to tweet

[NurseJackie]

96. "This is just as much unethical for Sanders as it is for Sirota." --- I must agree.

This is just as much unethical for Sanders as it is for Sirota. The fact that Sanders kept this quiet is deceptive.

I must agree with that. It's a serious lapse in ethics and integrity.

[Gothmog]

97. Greenwald's defense of Sirota just vanished

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

99. Some history

Link to tweet

[PeaceFan]

100. This is very misleading

David Sirota: “Yes I’ve been secretly working for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign for months”

I see this making its rounds. But I don't believe he actually said it?

[TwilightZone]

101. As noted in the post, Sanders' staff confirmed that the relationship went back months.

It's not an actual quote; it's sarcasm based on what the staff confirmed.

[PeaceFan]

102. And thus it's very deceptive because...

People see an actual quote next to a fake quote and they assume the fake quote is true.

Call it sarcasm or whatever; it's propaganda.