7/22/16 UK Independent:
The Democratic National Committee - a supposedly neutral organisation - apparently hatched a plan to try and undermine Bernie Sanders’ campaign against Hillary Clinton by getting someone to claim he was an atheist.
The Sanders campaign for months complained that people in the DNC were biased in favour of the establishment candidate, Ms Clinton. The campaign even sued the DNC to allow it access to its voter database.
Now, the release of a more than 20,000 internal DNC emails byWikileaks, suggests that senior DNC officials plotted against Mr Sanders.
An email from May 2016 and sent from DNC CFO Brad Marshall suggested that they should “get someone to ask” Mr Sanders his views on religion,
“It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist,” wrote Mr Marshall.
“This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.”If the RNC did this, we would see it on every news shw as evidence of bigotry and anti-Semitism. But the DNC does it and crickets chirping.
The email was sent to DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda and Deputy Communications Director Mark Paustenbach. The email did not mention Mr Sanders by name but he was the only Jewish candidate in the Democratic race - apparently something that was considered a weakness by Mr Marshall, and which party thought it could exploit in favour of Ms Clinton.
There certainly are Democrats who are Christian, but the party is not. In the previous convention many (most?) voted no against a party platform amendment to name Jerusalem and the include God and booed when the amendment was deemed successful by th chair. So it is more than an interesting twist to now try to smear Sanders as an atheist.
ReplyDeleteBut this wikileaks dump shows things that are arguably worse. There are emails that show that a mainstream newspaper, the Washington Post, teamed up with the Democrats on a political fund raiser.
Let's see how fast they can shut down discussion on this.
ReplyDeleteVirtually all media outlets are in the tank for the Dems, the WaPo is just further down the toilet than most. They'll find something to distract us, the truth is harmful to the Demorat party.
Look for "squirrel!" coming in 3... 2... 1....