April 6th WaPo HEADLINE: "Clinton Questions Whether Sanders Is Qualified To Be President"

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You people better start getting your fucking facts straight. I am so tired of all this bullshit. Here’s the truth. Go a_fucking_head and refute it. I dare you.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Wednesday questioned whether her rival in the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), is qualified to be president.
~ lede written in WaPo on 6 Apr by By Juliet Eilperin and Anne Gearan

In an interview yesterday, Sanders is asked for his reaction to the April 6 WaPo story in which the reporters wrote that Clinton questioned Sanders’ qualifications. That’s what they wrote… that CLINTON QUESTIONED SANDERS qualifications. So Sanders responds, strongly. And he had every right to.

Now, today the lying Washington Post puts this up:

SANDERS’S INCORRECT CLAIM THAT CLINTON CALLED HIM ‘NOT QUALIFIED’ FOR THE PRESIDENCY

Headline writing is an imperfect art. The editor often has to summarize the meaning of a complex and nuanced article in just a few words. Many Washington-based reporters have experienced the frustration of having an accurate article denied by an agency spokesman because of a headline that went a little far off the mark. In this case, however, the Post headline did not quote Clinton as saying Sanders was unqualified, and neither did the article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/07/sanderss-incorrect-claim-that-clinton-called-him-not-qualified-for-the-presidency/

First of all, it is MORE THAN A HEADLINE. The lead paragraph, again:

“Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Wednesday questioned whether her rival in the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), is qualified to be president.”

Let me repeat: The reporters stated actually attributed those words to Clinton: that she questioned Sanders qualifications. The reporters STATED Clinton said this. I’m beginning to think you fools don’t deserve the decency of a Bernie Sanders.

Thursday, Apr 7, 2016 · 6:55:41 PM EDT · pfiore8
from the comments… and here’s the SMOKING GUN. thanks fcvaguy:

fcvaguy

Apr 07 · 10:48:09 PM

CLINTON’S DEPUTY COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR QUOTE: THE CNN REPORT INCLUDED THIS SENTENCE:

“THE CAMPAIGN’S DEPUTY COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, CHRISTINA REYNOLDS, ARGUED THAT SANDERS IS UNQUALIFIED.”

THEN, WASHINGTON POST CLAIMS THEIR LEDE WAS JUSTIFIED BASED ON THE FOLLOWING DIALOGUE FROM MORNING JOE:

Here is the full transcript:

JOE SCARBOROUGH: We’ve been talking about Bernie Sanders’s New York Daily News interview. I want to start with that and ask you, in light of the interview, in light of the questions he had problems with, do you believe this morning that Bernie Sanders is qualified and ready to be president of the United States?

CLINTON: Well, I think the interview raised a lot of really serious questions and I look at it this way. The core of his campaign has been break up the banks and it didn’t seem in reading his answers that he understood exactly how that would work under Dodd-Frank, exactly who would be responsible, what the criteria were. And you know, that means you can’t really help people if you don’t know how to do what you are campaigning on saying you want to do.

SCARBOROUGH: So is he — so is he …

CLINTON: And then there were other very …

SCARBOROUGH: Is he — I know there are a lot of examples of where he came up short and the interviewers were having to repeat questions. So the question, and I’m serious, if you weren’t running today and you looked at Bernie Sanders, would you say this guy is ready to be president of the United States?

CLINTON: Well, I think he hadn’t done his homework, and he’d been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn’t really studied or understood, and that does raise a lot of questions. And really what it goes to is for voters to ask themselves can he deliver what he’s talking about, can he really help people …

SCARBOROUGH: What do you think?

CLINTON: Can he help our economy? Can he keep our country strong? Well obviously, I think I’m by far the better choice and …

SCARBOROUGH: But do you think he is qualified? And do you think he is able to deliver on the things he is promising to all these Democratic voters?

CLINTON: Well, let me put it this way, Joe. I think that what he has been saying about the core issue in his whole campaign doesn’t seem to be rooted in an understanding of either the law or the practical ways you get something done. And I will leave it to voters to decide who of us can do the job that the country needs, who can do all aspects of the job, both on the economic domestic issues and on national security and foreign policy.
Note that Scarborough three times asks her whether Sanders is qualified, and she refuses to answer or offers nonresponsive rhetoric that his Daily News interview “raises lots of questions.”

Those kinds of answers certainly give license to reporters to offer an interpretation that Clinton is raising questions about her rival’s qualifications. The irony here is that in the end, WaPo says there’s enough there to justify their lede. But, as a Presidential candidate, Sanders should have known better and then they give him 3 Pinochios.

I shit you not.



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