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Politico: Sanders Camp Admits Anti-Warren Script Was Deployed in Multiple Early States
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Sanders: does something that no one sane gives a fuck about.
Libs: IT'S THE APOCALYPSE!
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This script stuff is nonsense. Warren is my preferred candidate, but I don't find those critiques either malicious or unfair.
This.
Besides this has been such a nothingburger that this is the only place I've even seen it register as anything more than an "Oh" and move on with your day kind of thing.
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Yes, please point out where people are flipping their shit over the fact that they lied about talking points?
It's ok to just say "they did a bad", but like we've seen that seems to be impossible for some people.
This is absolute bullshit. The campaign itself as quoted in news stories never said it wasn't real. It was volunteers who legitimately hadn't seen it saying it wasn't real.
I was paying very close attention to how this played out and the real surrogates for the campaign took an angle of "these are mild factual criticisms and this is a primary, have you seen what Obama and Clinton ads were like in 2008?"
They literally just looked at the demographics from actual polling and tried to use it to differentiate the two. You can say that then saying she can't "expand the base" is speculative but the other parts of the script are truths.
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Lol read the article and the timeline of events.
I'm not playing this game with you :)
The fact he apparently lied about it, though having now seen his statement about it, it doesn't appear that he did
When I skimmed the first few posts of this thread before reading the article I assumed he lied but after reading the article and also what his response at the time was in full, I'm not sure I see a lie, since you won't "play this game" with them, could you in a non playful but civil manner, explain it to me? Cause I'm open to the possibility, even if I would be very disappointed
drawing any distinction between them is unfair and actually a violent attack on warren and all her supporters
Ohh sorry, they just waited multiple days to confirm it. So much better.
Can we close the thread then? The OP is almost devoid of content and you don't want to discuss anything with someone who doesn't actually agree with you. The thread seems designed to antagonize.
I don't even think it's about lying. It's ineptitude and lack of actual organization. Which feels even worse.
Damn Bernard, you always find a way to disappoint at the most crucial moment.
Damn Bernard, you always find a way to disappoint at the most crucial moment.
Attributing a script to "people saying things they shouldn't" is literally lying by omission when the people saying the things they shouldn't are reading scrips.
Again, not a big deal, in fact I would say it's usual fair game politics but in the face of everyone trying to pretend they are "buddy buddy" it just makes it all the more funny when actual friction happens and people either pretend it doesn't exist or the defense force outright makes it a non-existent thing.
But this defense force thing some folks have going on for when he spews casual sexism and now this "lol it's nothing omg stop overreacting" to people commenting pretty chill in a thread is just embarrassing, and pretty annoying since you're doing a little routine and trying to act coy.
Doesn't appear that way to me either! This is a nonstory on top of a nonstory.
Rent. Fucking. Free.
This is such a fucking shit show. I am so pissed right now. As someone who was happily backing Sanders as my first pick and Warren as my second, they BOTH should know better than to pull this kind of shit at such a crucial point in the primaries, given that one of them is gonna need the voters/delegates of the other if they want to stop Biden.
I don't even care whether or not Bernie actually lied. Him and Liz should still be on good terms on the whole, not at each other's throats. This kind of strategy was a bad call from the outset. As equally a bad call as Liz's campaign pulling out the sexism card just as Bernie started soaring in the straw polls.
If Biden slides right into the nomination because of this shit, this is on BOTH of them.
I don't even care whether or not Bernie actually lied. Him and Liz should still be on good terms on the whole, not at each other's throats. This kind of strategy was a bad call from the outset. As equally a bad call as Liz's campaign pulling out the sexism card just as Bernie started soaring in the straw polls.
If Biden slides right into the nomination because of this shit, this is on BOTH of them.
The very low level staff and volunteers were recounting their own experiences and probably didn't know it differed from other parts of the campaign.
I'm pretty sure high level officials always claimed it was a mistake of a few employees out of hundreds, unless someone can point to something which says otherwise.
If the people surrounding Warren think that the truth that Warren's support skews whiter and richer, and that she's the second choice of many Sanders' supporters is something to throw a huge fit about, I really don't like Warren's chances in the general election.
Warren's my second choice, btw, will be ecstatic if either win.
Not like this news will change any minds, especially here.
It's gonna be a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong primary season.
It's gonna be a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong primary season.
If he didn't personally approve the script he can absolutely think using the script is people saying things they shouldn't.
So, having done that: I don't see where he lied?
If you wanna say his staffers/campaign were wrong about how it was used - maybe even that they lied - I guess? But he said he didn't approve it, and even the article says "His press aides never denied the veracity of the document.", so... am I missing something?
So Warren was in the right when she said they were being urged to trash her, and so many people were using that as proof she was lying about being told a woman can't be president. Gross
It's a good sign that they didn't say it was real or fake until they knew for sure, unlike Warren responding off the cuff to a reporter's question about it not having seen the (mild!) script herself.
"Trash her"???
Agreed. What else is new with this poster though. Gleefully antagonistic and unwilling to engage with anything that contradicts their opinions.
Truth be told, the problem is more the supporters than the candidates. The attack is a little unfair, but the real firestorm around it is supporters looking for something to rip into each other about.
There's always an ascending order of zeal in these things as you work your way down the campaign hierarchy. Staffers are more zealous than candidates, volunteers moreso than staffers, and people posting on forums got 'em all beat handily.
Yep. Her support skews white and well-off. I don't understand why Sanders campaign even bothered to issue a token denial.
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lol what?
I'm happy to discuss, but I'm not going to jump through hoops that you feel like dictating.
It's clear from the article that the Sanders camp said one thing. That thing turned out to not be true. This is relevant to this particular story but it also potentially connects to the larger questions around honesty and trustworthiness with regard to the Sanders/ Warren he said/ she said back and forth.
I'm not sure why you're suggesting that a legitimate thread that contains new information be shut down.
You don't like making every non-issue into a big story on ResetEra dot com?
There's a large difference between acknowledging a fait divers that happened that ultimately has no interest whatsoever and making yet another thread on yet another flimsy excuse for yet another hollow controversy. This thread is not made in good faith in the slightest. The very article quoted belies the very silly and transparent OP.
And you had no quote for me :(
"I didn't see the script and we are going to be more carful in how we go forward so this doesn't happen again"
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"People said things they shouldn't have"
the stuff in the script wasn't trashing her, but to try to convert supporters of hers to Bernie which was also done for the other candidates. Why is it suddenly not okay to try to convert voters to Bernie voters when its Warren but not to do so for the rest of the candidates
You can argue his wording could have been better sure, but calling it a lie is being purposefully disingenous. This is the same level of mischaracterisation as those assuming Warren is straight up lying about the other situation.
I'm actually confused now, too. Where's the new information that contradicts what Sanders or his campaign said "over the weekend"?
Politico says:
"The controversial talking points attacking Elizabeth Warren that Bernie Sanders' campaign deployed were given to teams in at least two early voting states on Friday, three Sanders campaign officials confirmed.
Volunteers and staffers used the script on Saturday while canvassing for votes, meaning the talking points were more official than what Sanders previously suggested after POLITICO reported on the language."
What is actually new here?
Yea, almost no thread is made in good faith since 95% of Political OT belong to two communities who keep trying to get pot shots at each other.