TICK-TOCK: How Shoddy Reporting Contributed to Bernie’s Inexcusable Attack on Hillary

[MrWendel]

http://bluenationreview.com/how-shoddy-reporting-contributed-to-bernies-unqualified-attack/

Bernie’s excuse for calling Hillary “unqualified” to be president doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Here is a timeline of how the personal attack developed and the shoddy reporting that Bernie and his campaign relied on to rationalize it.

It began with Bernie’s interview with the New York Daily News Editorial Board, where he struggled to provide specifics on how he would break up big banks and enact his agenda.

Before Hillary ever responded to the interview, the media were raising concerns about Bernie’s answers to questions on issues that have been centerpieces of his campaign.

When asked whether or not the Fed has the power to regulate Wall Street, for example, Bernie’s response was, “Well, I don’t know.”

These are just a few of the headlines that circulated after the interview:

Jonathan Capehart at the Washington Post: “9 Things Bernie Sanders Should’ve Known About but Didn’t in That Daily News Interview.”

Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post: “This New York Daily News Interview Was Pretty Close to a Disaster for Bernie Sanders.”

David A. Graham at The Atlantic: “How Much Does Bernie Sanders Know About Policy?“

Caitlin Cruz at Talking Points Memo: “Bernie Sanders Struggles to Explain How He Would Break up the Banks.”

When MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asked Hillary about the interview on Morning Joe, Hillary pointedly refused to say Bernie was unqualified. Instead she focused on his apparent unpreparedness in light of the Daily News interview.

“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,” Hillary said, “and that does raise a lot of questions.”

According to Scarborough:

I tried to get Hillary Clinton four times — three or four times to say that Bernie Sanders was unqualified to be president of the United States and just like my interview with Rick Santorum, I start asking a question, I keep going being I get an answer or give up and after three or four attempts with Secretary Clinton I gave up because she was not going to say the words he is unqualified to be president of the United States.

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[WhiteTara]

1. Well he definitely fired a giant nuclear missle

interesting that she was so gracious.

[Her Sister]

5. She knows she is qualified!

People have said worse things about her.
Shows she knows herself. Confident.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. It was absolutely inexcusable.

It became even more inexcusable today when he and his campaign doubled down on the attack.

Now SBS surrogates and supporters are going after the NYDN. One of their memes is "gotcha questions." After all, their candidate is infallible. So it must be someone else's fault.

[livetohike]

3. Wasn't that Sarah Palin's excuse? Gotcha questions?

I think I do see a connection there .

[MrWendel]

4. Thats what happens...

when you paint yourself into a corner.

[Her Sister]

8. All the questions were basic!

and Basic to his platform including the Revolution.

[livetohike]

6. He's burning any bridges he might have once he returns to the Senate.

Wonder if he realizes just how bad he sounds?

[Native]

12. What bridges? Didn't the guy work in a vacuum?

I mean he only passed 3 bills in the House & Senate, and 2 were to rename freaking post offices.

[livetohike]

14. True. So maybe the handful of those colleagues.

If they are still there .

[SunSeeker]

7. Great timeline of Bernie's lie-tastic meltdown. nt

[Her Sister]

9. Thanks thanks thanks for bringing up the NYDN fiasco!

Worried this is going to be forgotten and this is an important whopper!

[Agnosticsherbet]

10. Sanders and his campaign staff are desperate.

They know the math and know that Sanders has lost the Campaign. Rather than make a graceful exit it appears they decided to go scorched earth.

[spooky3]

11. The WaPo DID have a misleading headline, but

All Sanders had to do was read a few paragraphs to see that the direct quotes did not match the headline. Why didn't he do that?

[SharonClark]

13. Morning Joe S was actually honest about something?

What a surprise!

[GusBob]

15. It was all a big trick, a ploy

An oft-used goat roping trick.

The media and the campaign conspired together in order to get Bern-Bern to step in the manure pile