WaPo Edit Board Roasts Sanders: Stop Lying To Your Supporters!

[savalez]

After a tense state Democratic convention in Nevada escalated to reported violence over the weekend, the Washington Post’s editorial board slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for his response after the state party chair received death threats.

In an editorial published online Wednesday evening, the board said Sanders responded to the Nevada upheaval “with self-righteousness and hypocrisy” by releasing a statement that did not accept responsibility for the chaos but highlighted procedural issues with the convention.

“Mr. Sanders’s irresponsibility is sadly unsurprising,” the editorial board wrote. “He has indulged and encouraged hyperbolic feelings that the country is badly adrift, that most of the nation agrees with a left-wing agenda but is trapped in a corrupt system, and that nothing but a political revolution will do.”

“Mr. Sanders denies reality when he tells supporters he still has a plausible pathway to the Democratic presidential nomination,” the editorial continued. “It is past time for Mr. Sanders to be honest with his supporters, before they take the campaign’s irresponsible ethos to greater extremes and thereby help ensure the election of Donald Trump.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-washington-post-editorial-nevada

[BlueMTexpat]

1. "Self-righteousness and hypocrisy" ..

sounds about right.

[Her Sister]

2. Oh Man!

This all I can do today!
lots and lots of popcorn!!

[yallerdawg]

3. The media and the money will pop...

that bubble reality won't pierce.

[Cha]

4. Turns out we and the WaPo Editorial Board were right.

It’s not the first time the editorial board has tangled with Sanders. After a January editorial, headlined “Bernie Sanders’ fiction-filled campaign,” condemned the senator as a “politician selling his own brand of fiction,” Sanders blasted the paper in a breakfast with reporters.

Just look @ how far we've come since January... Thank Goodness!

Thank you for this, savalez~

[skylucy]

5. YES!

[Her Sister]

6. Wash Po: The Post's View After tensions explode in Nevada, it’s time for Sanders to be honest with

The Post's View
After tensions explode in Nevada, it’s time for Sanders to be honest with his supporters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/after-tensions-explode-in-nevada-its-time-for-sanders-to-be-honest-with-his-supporters/2016/05/18/f17c2468-1d2d-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html

Excerpt!

What is particularly galling about the Sanders camp’s complaints of disenfranchisement is that Mr. Sanders has benefited or tried to benefit from a variety of sketchy quirks of the nominating process. He has claimed support for his cause in caucuses, which are quite exclusive, but he complains about closed primary elections, which are more inclusive. In Nevada, his supporters were trying to game the rules to get more delegates and got upset when they did not succeed. As veteran Nevada politics reporter Jon Ralston put it, “Despite their social media frothing and self-righteous screeds, the facts reveal that the Sanders folks disregarded rules, then when shown the truth, attacked organizers and party officials as tools of a conspiracy to defraud the senator of what was never rightfully his in the first place.”

[riversedge]

7. Good for the WASH post.

http://www.politifact.com/nevada/statements/2016/may/18/jeff-weaver/allegations-fraud-and-misconduct-nevada-democratic/

PolitiFACT-->Allegations of fraud and misconduct at Nevada Democratic convention unfounded www.politifact.com/... via @PolitiFactNV



Nevada Democratic Party leaders "hijacked the process on the floor" of the state convention "ignoring the regular procedure and ramming through what they wanted to do."

— Jeff Weaver on Tuesday, May 17th, 2016 in a television interview on CNN

Our ruling

Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said Nevada Democratic Party leaders "hijacked the process on the floor" of the state convention "ignoring the regular procedure and ramming through what they wanted to do."

Caucuses and delegate math can be incredibly confusing, and the arcane party structures don’t reflect how most people assume presidential selection works.

But the howls of unfairness and corruption by the Sanders campaign during Nevada’s state Democratic Convention can’t change the simple fact that Clinton’s supporters simply turned out in larger numbers and helped her solidify her delegate lead in Nevada.

There’s no clear evidence the state party "hijacked" the process or ignored "regular procedure."

We rate this claim False.