David Gergen on CNN saying Bernie Playing the "Race Card" & Needs to Call off Trump Protests..

[KoKo]

He said that Bernie making a comment about his "Father was Born in Poland, and no one ever questioned my Citizenship"...Is it because the color of my skin is white" was playing the race card. As we Bernie supporters know, he was defending Obama against the "Trump Birther Movement" who claimed that Obama was born in Kenya. Gergen turns that into Bernie plays the "Race Card?"

It gets worse:

Gergen says that: "Trump says the Protesters in Chicago were "Bernie Supporters" and Bernie should "tell his supporters to call it off."

The whole think is disgusting and he doesn't deserve to be a Political Commentator no matter what his "non-partisan" F..ing Background or credentials are.

There's not a clip up yet or I would try to post it. Did anyone else see it?


Who is David Gergen? Check this out:

David Richmond Gergen (born May 9, 1942) is an American political commentator and former presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.[7] He is currently a Senior Political Analyst for CNN[8] and a Professor of Public Service and Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen is also the former Editor-at-Large of U.S. News and World Report[9] and a contributor to CNN.com and Parade Magazine. He has twice been a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards—in 1988 with MacNeil-Lehrer, and in 2008 with CNN.

Gergen joined the Nixon White House in 1971, as a staff assistant on the speech writing team, becoming Director of Speechwriting two years later. He served as Director of Communications for both Ford and Reagan, and as a senior advisor to Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher.[10] As a commentator his admirers consider him an objective political voice because he has served in both Republican and Democratic administrations.[7] He graduated with honors from Yale and Harvard Law School, and has been awarded 25 honorary degrees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gergen

[cyberswede]

1. Fuck a bunch of David Gergen.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. Let me guess... Gergen's a Hillary supporter?

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[FreakinDJ]

60. David Gergen is a former Clinton administration official and 3rd Way Smear Artist

An advisor to three Republican presidents, Clinton brought him to the White House in 1993 in a move that caused resentment among the White House staff. Gergen left the administration in December 1994

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/gergen.html

The latest version of so-called moderate, centrist, Third Way to organize is calling itself "No Labels". If you look at who makes it up, it is the usual Third Way (Jonathan Cowan) crowd with the non-batshit insane wing of the conservative and republicans (David Frum, Mark McKinnon) and token conservadem (William Galston).

Featured Speakers:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Congressman Bob Inglis
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Congressman Tom Davis
David Brooks
Joe Scarborough
Mika Brzezinski
Senator Joe Lieberman
Senator Evan Bayh
Senator Joe Manchin
David Gergen
Governor Charlie Crist
Lt Governor Abel Maldonado
Congressman Michael Castle
Ellen Freidin


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/13/928592/-

[AzDar]

2. Get bent, Gergen...Yesterday Trumpster blamed Obama.

Fools.

[jillan]

3. NO - Bernie was playing the Trump card. DUH!

[Skwmom]

28. Anyone could see where this was heading. That was the reason for how hard they pushed the spin.

[BeyondGeography]

4. That's completely fucking obtuse

The race card bit. Holy hell.

[mikehiggins]

5. I love it whenever one of these establishment whores chimes in against Sanders

It shows they are taking this campaign seriously, and it shows some of the Sanders supporters just how low, lying and deceitful the Powers That Be will be as the campaign of the Inevitable One stalls.

[restorefreedom]

14. ^^^^^^^ this^^^^^^^ nt

[m-lekktor]

6. He is most likely a Hillary supporter and doing his thing for "the struggle". nt

[KoKo]

17. Since he came in to the Clinton Campaign to "Reorganize It" I'd say he's for Hillary!

I remember on PBS as supposedly the "Reasonable One" ....he's nothing but a Political Operative ..but, to shoot off his mouth that way about Bernie ...says to me he's sent out as a Hillary "Attack Dog" against Bernie.

Watching him...there's no doubt, in my mind that he is a "Fixer."

[oasis]

7. Gergen is one smart commentator. Yale and Harvard Law School.

Gotta go with his political instinct.

[Bjorn Against]

21. And Ted Cruz was educated at Princeton and Harvard

Just because a person has an Ivy League education does not mean they have good political instincts.

[oasis]

37. Cruz currently has the GOP establishment eating out of his hand.

He's their "go to guy" right now. He didn't get to be a GOP senator from Texas based on his charm.

[Bjorn Against]

42. Actually even much of the GOP establishment hates Cruz

The guy is toxic to everyone outside of his true believers.

[oasis]

43. True dat, but where else can they go?

[beam me up scottie]

34. Um...George Bush Jr. graduated from Yale too and he's not exactly known for his intelligence.

[oasis]

38. Please see post #37. nt

[beam me up scottie]

39. How does that refute my point?

Obviously graduating from Yale isn't the barometer of intelligence you think it is.

[oasis]

41. Gergen graduated with honors. Holds 25 honorary degrees.

You aren't about to imply GWB is his intellectual equal, are you?

[beam me up scottie]

44. You do realize that honorary degrees aren't actual degrees, right?

Bush Returns to Yale, Gives Graduates the Last Laugh

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — George Walker Bush (Class of '68) and Yale University buried the hatchet on Monday, as the proud West Texan embraced his alma mater after decades of rejecting the school for what he saw as its intellectual arrogance, then for his own political convenience and finally for perceived slights against his father (Class of '48).

In his first public appearance at Yale since he graduated with a history degree, the former president of Delta Kappa Epsilon--a fraternity known for its raucous parties--donned a blue academic gown, received an honorary doctor of law degree and delivered a brief and mostly lighthearted, self-deprecating speech at the university's 300th commencement.

...

After congratulating this year's graduates, Bush--who was hardly a stellar student--launched a series of quips, mostly at his own expense.

"And to the 'C' students, I say to you: You too can be president of the United States."

Referring to Vice President Dick Cheney, who briefly attended Yale and left amid poor grades, Bush said: "So now we know: If you graduate from Yale, you become president. If you drop out, you get to be vice president."

In an elliptical reference to his rowdy days here, Bush joked: "If you are like me, you won't remember everything you did here. . . . That can be a good thing."

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/22/news/mn-1027

[oasis]

45. Uh yeah, but they're not given out like trick or treat candy.

[beam me up scottie]

47. Yeah they kind of are. Kanye West received one and so did Kermit the Frog.

[oasis]

49. Kermit deserved it. "It ain't easy being green."

[beam me up scottie]

50. LOL!

[oasis]

53. Again we part on the square.

Gotta go babysit my grandson now.

[brentspeak]

63. If attending Yale and Harvard Law School means that a graduate

knows how to manipulate the dummies of the world who are impressed by the name of a school, then maybe Gergen really is "smart".

[oasis]

67. A few of those "dummies" you refer to are CEOs of corporations.

Somehow, while looking for associates to help run their organizations, they let dozens of Ivy Leaguers slip through the interview process.

[brentspeak]

68. So the self-proclaimed elite hires its own

What's your point? And what does have to do with David Gergen, who is not a CEO? And how does it explain your shameless groveling at the feet of someone who went to a "name" school?

[oasis]

69. I don't purchase generic products. Some do.

Btw, the only "shameless groveling" I perform is at the feet of Hillary. Unfortunately, my apartment is too small for me to add another shrine.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Gergen totally flipped from his initial coverage last night when he was taking Trump to task for

inciting hatred and violence in his speeches as being the cause of the protest.

Bernie made a valid point in regards to the birther nonsense and has never promoted violence.

Thanks for the thread, KoKo.

[PonyUp]

12. He must have gotten a 3 am call from Hillary. nt

[scscholar]

16. He has never promoted it...

but what has he done to stop it? Just look on reddit for lots of his supporters calling for violence or on Facebook where they're calling for Trump's assassination.

[Uncle Joe]

20. Bernie's statement against violence.

CHICAGO – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement today on disturbances of Donald Trump rallies:

“As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar. Obviously, while I appreciate that we had supporters at Trump’s rally in Chicago, our campaign did not organize the protests.

“What caused the protests at Trump’s rally is a candidate that has promoted hatred and division against Latinos, Muslims, women, and people with disabilities, and his birther attacks against the legitimacy of President Obama.

“What caused the violence at Trump’s rally is a campaign whose words and actions have encouraged it on the part of his supporters. He recently said of a protester, ‘I want to punch him in the face.’ Another time Trump yearned for the old days when the protester would have been punched and “carried out on a stretcher.’ Then just a few days ago a female reporter apparently was assaulted by his campaign manager.

“When that is what the Trump campaign is doing, we should not be surprised that there is a response.

“What Donald Trump must do now is stop provoking violence and make it clear to his supporters that people who attend his rallies or protest should not be assaulted, should not be punched, should not be kicked. In America people have a right to attend a political rally without fear of physical harm.”

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-statement-donald-trump/

People can post anything they want on the Internet and no candidate can stop them, Trump is fueling the flames of his own bonfire with hate and violence inciting language.

Surely you can see that?

Furthermore not everyone that claims to be a supporter of a particular candidate on the Internet is in fact a supporter.

[scscholar]

61. The old "but that other guy is worse" defense

[Uncle Joe]

62. Why are you defending Trump and his hate filled, violence inciting rhetoric?

[KoKo]

23. Do you remember watching him on PBS when it was "supposedly" a Public Station?

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He's as bad as Chris Matthews....he sticks his finger in the wind and goes which way it blows. But, his ties to the Clintons makes me think he wants Bernie Out and Hillary in... and he will use whatever creds he ever had to do this.

This isn't the first time I've seen him go to the "Dark Side" in the last few weeks..but this was Totally OTT. Bernie has caused Great Fear in the Politico Network...What else can explain him attacking Bernie?

Says to me, that Hillary is having problems and the fear of Bernie beating her, and Trump Winning, has them in Frenzy!

Here in NC Today, the Early Voting was filled with Young People. Instead of having money to take their College Spring Break to have fun in Florida they were out there Voting. NC has "Same Day Registration" for 18 years and older.. and they were out in long lines (2hr. wait) to vote on our last Early Voting Day. Reports are that Early Voting was heavy all this last week. I'm hopeful that NC which is full of Delegates (proportonal) is going to give Bernie some amount of Delegates going forward that will help him as he goes to the Convention. It's much more turnout than we expected.

Bernie had 5,000 at an event in Raleigh, NC...and he's been here before months ago. I've got my fingers crossed that Bernie will do well enough on Tuesday to surpass all expectations. Remember Michigan! where the polls were off.

And now we have a Full Press onslaught against Bern and even Trump now making fun of Bernie on CNN after he blamed his supporters for shutting down his Chicago event which he knows is a lie...but he feels the "Threat of the Bern" just like Hillary.

[Uncle Joe]

24. That's encouraging to hear.

"Here in NC Today the Early Voting was filled with Young People. Instead of having money to take their College Spring Break to have fun in Florida they were out there Voting. NC has "Same Day Registration" for 18 years and older.. and they were out in long lines (2hr. wait) to vote on our last Early Voting Day. Reports are that Early Voting was heavy all this last week. I'm hopeful that NC which is full of Delegates (proportial) is going to give Bernie some amount of Delegates going forward that will help him as he goes to the Convention. It's much more turnout than we expected. "



I believe Trump blaming Bernie will backfire.

[Gregorian]

9. I can hear the muffled mutterings of a John McLaughlin in the background.

Davey Gergie Jergen, what do you think? 10 seconds! Go!

[Enrique]

10. Gergen: "Hillary and Trump blaze trails"

http://heralddemocrat.com/opinion/national-commentary/david-gergen-making-history-hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump-blaze

...

On the other side, Donald Trump on Super Tuesday won a series of convincing victories that have brought him closer to winning the nomination of his party than any business leader since Wendell Willkie. That was in 1940 when Willkie stormed the Republican convention; he went on to lose to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the general but was well-remembered for the bipartisan help he gave to FDR as war came.

No business leader has captured the imagination of voters since. Mitt Romney was a CEO, too, but he won the GOP nomination in 2012 because he had been a successful governor, not because of his corporate experience. Indeed, his corporate leadership was a matter of controversy rather than strength.

Even Willkie was no Trump — he was chief of a utilities company, which is akin to running as an accountant. Trump is the exact opposite, gleefully breaking all conventionalities with his bombast, narcissism and seeming indifference to the intricacies of running a powerful, complex government.

Yet here is Trump with 10 victories in the first 15 states to vote. It remains hard to imagine him as the nominee of the Republican Party, but it is even harder to see who will beat him now. Historians may one day ask who has shaped the political landscape of America more: the first woman nominee of a party or the first celebrity CEO to seize the reins of a party.

Clinton and Trump haven’t won their crowns yet, but after Super Tuesday, they should certainly feel the weight of responsibility bearing down upon them. And one hopes that in their quiet moments, they are examining their souls and asking not only how they can make history — but more importantly, how they can bend its arc toward a better world.

- See more at: http://heralddemocrat.com/opinion/national-commentary/david-gergen-making-history-hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump-blaze#sthash.bTlj2peS.dpuf

[KoKo]

40. Well...there you have Gergen's View! Thanks for the Post!

Clinton and Trump haven’t won their crowns yet, but after Super Tuesday, they should certainly feel the weight of responsibility bearing down upon them. And one hopes that in their quiet moments, they are examining their souls and asking not only how they can make history — but more importantly, how they can bend its arc toward a better world.

[deutsey]

11. Man, the way he tortures logic

he should apply to be an interrogator with Homeland Security.

[grasswire]

13. light up his twitter account

Yesterday he was flooded with tweets from Trumpsters mad at him for criticisms of Trump's calls to violence.

So tweet the hell out of him today.

Do it.

[amborin]

15. he's a totally biased republican; nonetheless,

the optics of this could backfire; our revolution is at the ballot box; we need to win the nomination and then the GE.
the optics of this can scare off the over-30 crowd. just my .02

[BernieforPres2016]

18. The last job Gergen had in politics was working for a Democrat, President Bill Clinton

Since then Gergen has been a talking head. He is corporate establishment before he is Republican or Democrat.

[Jefferson23]

19. Nancy Reagan was just buried and Gergen has no stomach for their legacy of racism.

It is Trump not Reagan that incited racism..if you're deaf dumb and blind to
his history that is. Gergen, Rubio, are just a few talking about St Ronnie,
(what racism?) they better be careful, it will likely be Trump who takes the
final mask off their disgusting political party's legacy of blatant racism.

What goes around comes around, often enough. Fuck you, Gergen.

[Gwhittey]

22. So let me get this right

This guy works in HRC for Queen camp and he just told the Jewish person whose family was from Poland, to stop protesting a fascist?

[yourout]

25. Excellent point...well done.

John Fugelsang would approve.

[KoKo]

55. Yep...n/t

[Skwmom]

26. I've lost track of how the race card has been used this cycle and it wasn't Bernie doing the playing

Gergen is another Clinton hack. What a surprise.

[blm]

27. Gergen - He is reading this completely wrong, as is most corpmedia.

.

[azurnoir]

70. sounds more like Gergen is writing it not reading it

[Kip Humphrey]

30. David Gergen, now there's the first person I turn to for the latest in race politics!

[Jefferson23]

31. yep, totally unbiased. lol n/t

[Merryland]

32. Gergen doesn't understand that people don't take "orders" from Bernie

because he lives in such a hierarchical framework. So full of himself.

[Skwmom]

33. This is just another dirty trick. That became obvious last night.

[truegrit44]

35. Watching Trump in KC right now...........

Unreal the shit he is saying about the protesters and he is calling out people that appear to be protesters in the crowd. Picked out someone with a Bernie sign yelling get em out, get em out and saying all kinds of crap about Bernie supporters causing havoc.

Don't know about you but I think that the guy with the Bernie sign could be a plant. For some reason he is trying to start shit with Bernie people.

Been on 15 minutes and that's all he is talking about.............

[KoKo]

48. CNN had "Bernie Protesters Disrupt Trump" scolling headline under a feature story

late this afternoon after the panel where Gergen blamed Bernie that I posted in my OP.

If Bernie Wins I hop one of his first actions is to clean out the FCC. Put some Dems on there who will fight back against the MSM Conglomerates and work to bring back the Fairness in Media Doctrine for all Campaigns. Equal Time for Candidates in all MSM Discussions. I know with the Cables it will be hard to do...and that only 5-6 Companies own everything....but the MSM's interference in our National and Local Elections is so OTT with Trump 24-7 that something has to be done to bring some kind of balance in reporting back into the PEOPLE's AIRWAVES. We still are supposed to own the F...ing Airwaves ....but, no one believes that, anymore, because the PEOPLE'S RIGHTS have been taken over by Media Conglomerates.

It wasn't always that way. We did once have a Fairness Doctrine. And, there's got to be a way to Break Up those Media Conglomerates! "Donald Trump 24-7: (getting free airtime) should hopefully prove the dangers of a Media "Gone Wild."

[beam me up scottie]

36. So another Clinton surrogate is carrying water for Trump?

Why am I not surprised?

[KoKo]

51. I remember David Gergen from way back on PBS when he

seemed so "fair and balanced." Now we know we were Duped/Deceived. He is just a "Fixer" for whichever Party pays him enough. I gave up on PBS many years ago when right wing started to take over under Bush II ...maybe before.

I only got back into watching MSM, since this election, because I wanted to know what the opposition was doing given the craziness going on with Trump. I didn't realize how really terrible and in the gutter MSM/Cable had gotten for news reporting because I use internet and Roku for news. I've stayed with Democracy Now, Thom Hartmann and other Lefty sites who do report REAL NEWS. But, you can't fight back unless you watch what the MSM Conglomerates are doing during this Election Season. Especially when you have candidates like Trump and the rest of the RW Crazies plus a Candidate running for Third Term Presidency who just doesn't seem to understand why voters are so angry.

[beam me up scottie]

52. So he's like David Brock?

Who suddenly saw the light after helping ruin Anita Hill.

Just the fact that he's helping trump is all we need to know about his motivations.

[KoKo]

58. No..not David Brock. He's way credentialed above Brock ...

and that is why he's dangerous because he used to be a "voice of reason" with all of his connections and background if you read his WIKI in my OP.

Brock is a Lee Atwater Wannabe... Dirty Tricks and Power Brokering using Media with funding from Big Pocket Interests to fill his bank accounts. He doesn't have a background of once, way back, being "a respected non-partisan commentator."

[malletgirl02]

46. Clinton supporters need to get their meme straight.

Is Bernie Sanders a racists who only have the support of white males, or his he anti white radical playing the race card?

[Person 2713]

56. ++++++1

[Scootaloo]

57. Well, if you know your antisemitic tropes, he can be both!

[nadinbrzezinski]

72. BINGO

[Peregrine Took]

54. One of the many old pundits who needs to hang it up.

Nothing cogent to say -he is desperate to grab at some new tidbit so he has something to talk about.

[FlatBaroque]

73. This election cycle will have many unexpected, positive consequences, the

harsh exposure of people like Chris Matthews and Gergen and many more to come, is one of those positive consequences.

[jfern]

59. What a racist HillaryBro

[Dem2]

64. STFU David

What an ass clown he is.

[Octafish]

65. Nixon's Turd

Fears the Bern.

[AgingAmerican]

66. Projection

Her whole campaign is based on race baiting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

71. This is the same David Gergen that has said

that Trump lost his primary bid at Chicago. I was screaming at the tv

[Ichingcarpenter]

74. 2003 Gergan blames the Democrats for Iraq

link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x604142

Gergen thinks Jeb Bush or Hillary would be great

http://uk.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-vs-jeb-bush-in-2016-2015-1?r=US&IR=T

Fuck him

[Bluenorthwest]

75. Gergen on Ronald 'Hero of the AIDS Crisis' Reagan:

"Ronald Reagan rebuilt the American presidency; it was in trouble when he came into office as an institution, and he did through his communications and through his own inspiration, and his principles. I think he did lift our spirits about, and convince us that once again that the future of the best, our best days were always ahead of us."
David Gergen