Bernie’s Top Aide Smears BNR, Its Owners and Staff
I will be so happy when we do not have to hear Weaver and Divine smear Hillary over and over.
TWEET:
Peter Daou @peterdaou
I can't remember a time when the top adviser of a Dem presidential campaign slandered a progressive media outlet: http://bit.ly/1RwqWPD
Bernie’s Top Aide Smears BNR, Its Owners and Staff
By Peter Daou
March 7, 2016
619 Shares
The Daily Beast just published a poorly researched hit job on this site under the guise of an investigative story. And it is more than just an inaccurate, unsupported attack piece. The Daily Beast provides a forum for Tad Devine, Bernie Sanders’s top aide, to slander the site, its owners and staff without an iota of evidence to back up his insults.
Neither Devine nor The Daily Beast can point to a single factual error or inaccuracy in BNR’s reporting.
The title of the Daily Beast story suggests that the site’s owners/editors are “hit men for Hillary” simply because of their years of strong advocacy for the first woman president.
Got that? If you support Hillary and criticize her opponents, then you’re a “hit man.” But all the media outlets that attack Hillary relentlessly do it for valid reasons.
The Daily Beast story is rife with over-inflated rhetoric and fact-free assertions. Here are a few examples:
“Is a propaganda arm of Hillary Clinton’s presidential juggernaut masquerading as an independent news and opinion site?”
We publicly endorsed Hillary, which the article concedes, and we cover a wide range of issues from the GOP to racial justice to the environment, so where’s the “masquerading?” And what is the evidence for the term “propaganda?” None.......................
= new reply since forum marked as read
Do these people understand they are mirroring the extremist nature of the rightwing negative attack machine?
Attack the messenger. No criticism is tolerable.
The Sanders' campaign is all about keeping the cash flowing - now it is pandering to the basest nature of its followers - who have repeatedly explained to us, they are not Democrats and will not support Hillary if she is the nominee.
We already have seen what the supporters have done 'here.' Sanders is now taking it national. And promises he won't go away.
Which is why this must end - be ended - March 16! 
It is awful to witness, and even worse as so-called Dems participate.
I have not heard of that one before.
Never heard of them before either, no wonder.
that can't be trusted because Chelsea is on the board of directors? How can this be?
