Ralston: I was not there to see any chair that might have been thrown.

[grasswire]

Just now on MSNBC.

[MisterP]

1. if Schrodinger's candidate sits in Schrodigner's chair, does it support her or do they both vanish?

[HooptieWagon]

84. "Schrodinger's Chair"....

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Which means they are walking it back

[QC]

11. They've gotten what they needed out of it. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. I got a slight different read

Social Media has proven Ralston wrong, which did not happen. We are seeing a battle of narratives and they are starting to lose.

[QC]

50. Do you think they really care if they're proved wrong?

It's not like these people are particularly honest or decent, and the corporate media will always cover for the corporate candidate.

[nadinbrzezinski]

53. THere is a difference from not caring, which they do not,

and becoming Pravda, which they are. If you have a chance to talk to a Russian citizens who remembers the last years of the USSR, it will be instructive. They are at that stage.

You can only control the narrative for so long. Once the truth tellers are exposed you cannot get it back. We are at that point. Why it matters little who "wins" the White House, they will try to close down the internet.

[pmorlan1]

58. Yes they will

They can't have the people informing themselves without the filter.

[nadinbrzezinski]

68. I know

[Kittycat]

76. It's the only thing I fear.

Let them line the streets with brown shirts all day. We can't talk or organize if they shut down the web. Which is exactly why HRC supporters have been trying to get us shut down and banned from the start. Regardless of our tenure or membership status.

[JimDandy]

80. Exactly like what happened with Capehart. Two 'Jonathan' reporters now both proved wrong

by social media, about the Sanders Campaign. Coincidence or Karma?

Any other 'Jonathan' reporter out there that wants to take your chances and wrongfully smear Bernie Sanders?

[nadinbrzezinski]

81. They will shut down the internets, that is next

[bjo59]

83. Absolutely, they will. Bernie Sanders' campaign and the response to it has proven to them

that they need to work towards that double-time.

[RichVRichV]

85. Nah, the objective is to co-opt it.

Just look at the brock online response force as an example. They're trying to buy the narrative.

They can't stop the message, instead the objective is to control it (just like every other media). The problem is the internet is way more fluid than any media they have ever tried to control. Even if the power structure took over every single major online media site we would just create new ones. The only way to semi control the message on the internet is through mass censure-ship (like China). And with the freedom of speech the internet offers, I doubt they will ever get that genie back in the bottle at this point.

[nadinbrzezinski]

86. They will try

as to small media. You are talking to one of those crazy small outlets that is despised here.

[virtualobserver]

18. The David Brock wing of the party always has to walk things back.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. It is not 1992 anymore

and they have forgotten this thing called the Internet. We are seeing the dirty tricks shot down fast. This is a narrative story.

[jwirr]

42. If we watch closely before each primary there is a BIG LIE

that is viral and then it is walked back as soon as it can be and yet have an effect on voters. This lie is the big one this time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

44. It is but once again this is not 1992

they are working on that paradigm

[jwirr]

59. Yes, I know somehow even though Bill and Hillary and many

of their followers are out and about in the world they do not seem to have moved on inch past the 90s. It is really sad for all of us that they are so out of touch.

[nadinbrzezinski]

66. Well they do live in a secret service buble

and are very, very wealthy. I am dealing with that with a few characters in fiction. They struggle to keep up, within a bubble

[jwirr]

70. A much needed book. Good writing.

[arcane1]

60. Unfortunately, trolls on DU will continue to claim it on for the rest of the year.

Hell, they'll do it in this very thread.

[nadinbrzezinski]

65. Of course they will

that is what trolls do

[riversedge]

3. He also said that Sanders had the chance to damp down his supports today but choose not

to do so.

Horrible. Glad the media is letting the world know.

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. Damp them down from an incident that he has no knowledge of.

Say what you might about team weathervane, the faux outrage machine is fully functional.

[beedle]

22. What the F is that suppose to mean????

Show some proof that anything was done that needed 'damping' down.

[dchill]

78. Damping down hysterical fiction...

Is a logical impossibility. Think on it, if need be.

[tazkcmo]

79. Clutch those pearls!

Get on the fainting couch. Such delicate flowers! This convention is going to be awesome.

[winter is coming]

4. What's the Foley effect noise for backpedaling? n/t

[dchill]

28. A giant sucking sound?

[Mike__M]

33. Playing card

pinned to the front tricycle wheel, flapping in the spokes?

[YouDig]

5. And then said there were multiple eyewitnesses.

Gee, why would you leave that out? #berniefacts

[JackRiddler]

10. So where are those?

[grasswire]

16. bring them forward, then.

identify them.

We will see if that's what he truly said, when the tape is out. I don't think it is.

[YouDig]

19. So that they can get the death threat treatment? Yeah, I'm sure they'd love that.

[mindwalker_i]

25. If no one has the nads to come forward and say it

Then there's a good possibility it came from someone's ass, didn't pass go, didn't collect $200.

[beedle]

26. Those "Correct the Facts" trolls

are not going to actually hurt anyone .. they just leave messages like that to give naive Hillary supporters something to panic over.

Trace those death threats ... funny how the 'victims' are not all that interested in tracking down the people who made those threats.

[Ned_Devine]

55. Youdig is one of them

[arcane1]

61. And not even a very good one n/t

[Ned_Devine]

62. So embarrassing

[notadmblnd]

57. Where are the interviews of these multiple eye witnesses?

That's right. They don't exist.

[Arugula Latte]

63. And no one had phones to get video of it? In this day and age? Riiiiiight.

[TCJ70]

6. What a piece of work...someone tell YouDig to cut the crap and find his own evidence...

...that guy has been on an unfounded chair-throwing bonanza since he first heard about "it".

[ThePhilosopher04]

27. You mean David?

[pangaia]

64. Just ignore the guy.. All of us....

Don't PUT him on ignore.. just never, ever reply It is all shit and all know it..

[elleng]

7. OH FFS!

and I thought he was good at his job! Silly me, I guess.

[winter is coming]

8. So: who told him that chairs were being thrown?

Shouldn't the MSM be interviewing that person?

[jwirr]

48. And weren't any media with cameras there to catch the BIG

LIE?

[dchill]

9. "threw chairs at the stage as they rushed forward to try to take control of a convention ...

... they had lost"

Then what hack wrote that?

[grasswire]

20. yeah, I don't see any "allegedly" in Ralston's writing there nt

[floriduck]

12. But by god, let's make shit up then. We need anti-Sanders stories.

[Waiting For Everyman]

13. His bluff got called.

Bernie eats these jerks for breakfast.

Chris Jansing said he was "defiant". Defiant for us, his supporters. Way to go, Bernie!!

[Bluenorthwest]

15. And yet many on DU claimed these chairs were thrown on his word....

Bernie folks rushed stage, yelling obscenities, throwing chairs and bottles
https://twitter.com/RalstonReports/status/731892274464841729

Convention ended w/security shutting it down, Bernie folks rushed stage, yelling obscenities, throwing chairs. Unity Now! On to Philly 2/2

@atdleft @RalstonReports bottles were also thrown at the stage. Had to escort women out fearing 4 their life. This has no place in politics.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511966368

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511976816

A hidden one!:
Bernie supporters started throwing chairs in Nevada because they weren't allowed to cheat.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511973829


He lied, just as so many in the media have this cycle. It's the Jonathan Capehart School of Honesty.

[YouDig]

39. The OP didn't give the full account.

Ralston said he wasn't there at the end when the chairs were thrown but there were multiple eyewitnesses. Earlier on the show Roberta Lange confirmed that chairs were thrown.

I have no idea why the OP would decide to only give half of what Ralston said. What do you think? Do you think the part about multiple witnesses was an important omission?

[Luminous Animal]

40. You do know, don't you, that there is video all the way up to the end when the cops were

trotted out.

No chairs or anything else thrown.

[YouDig]

41. There are a lot of videos shot by Sanders supporters. Apparently they put the phones down

before picking up the chairs. Multiple reports, and save your Brock conspiracy theories for people who believe them.

[Luminous Animal]

43. Hmmm. Hmmm. You look sillier and sillier.

[YouDig]

47. If I look silly from the point of view of camp Sanders, that's a complement.

Just look at what else those people believe.

[Jude the Obscure]

72. Yep, one of those..

[.99center]

69. Wouldn't there be video and reports from anybody of this mass coordinated plan to cut the video?

Everyone in the room would have to be involved! Save your Brock conspiracy theories...

[tazkcmo]

82. You must do yoga.

How else could you contort yourself so well? Put the phone down to pick up the chair? No Clinton supporters had cameras going? You dismiss Brock theories while promoting a debunked, walked back conspiracy theory of heavy chairs now? lol They had to be heavy if they needed two hands. Or was a slight, thin, slightly sickly person who needed two hands to throw all these heavy chairs?

[grasswire]

21. Tweety just said that we will know for sure when we see the video.

LOLOL.

He won't give up.

[jillan]

31. The videos have already been scoured. No one can find a chair being thrown.

[grasswire]

32. he doesn't know that

but his statement admits that we must surmise NO CHAIR THROWN.

[One Black Sheep]

24. The alleged chair throwing is now exposed as flat-out lies by Hillary surrogates and lackeys

not surprised, not even a little bit.

[dana_b]

29. then shut the hell up (Ralston)

and stop telling lies, asshole

[jillan]

30. That's because there was NO chair thrown!!

[sadoldgirl]

34. Perhaps Ralston needed his 15 minute national fame.

His retraction now however, will make his reports
in the future not credible.

[TheKentuckian]

35. Lying ass liars that fucking lie all the damn time.

Why? Seems awfully desperate for folks supposedly in the catbird seat.

I suspect it has little to do with this election and more about scrambling to kill the movement in the crib and maintain long term control for the Oligarchs in the party by poisoning the well at any and all cost.

Don't buckle a millimeter, push back with gust and never ever give up.

[grasswire]

36. NEVER QUIT. nt

[jwirr]

54. Exactly.

[Jude the Obscure]

37. So he lied. Gosh.

What a stunner. Not.

More ammo for Bernie and his case for being the standard bearer.

[Mike__M]

38. No, no. Not "Chairs"

It was just a misunderstanding.
It was "Cheers".
"Cheers" were thrown when Bernie delegates demanded English only.

Or something like that. . .

maybe?

[Luminous Animal]

45. : )

[AtomicKitten]

46. Maybe he misspoke. Happens to Hillary a lot.

[lapfog_1]

77. Bullets in Bosnia

corkscrew landings and flak jackets and running with your head down to make the armored vehicles!

Apparently everyone in Hillary's camp suffers from "it was really violent! People shouted at me!" syndrome

[winter is coming]

49. You win this thread.

And possibly the entirety of this shitty day on DU.

[arcane1]

67. DUzy!

[smiley]

51. It doesn't matter what really happened.

The truth is whatever the establishment and the media say is true.

[notadmblnd]

52. Looks like Mr. Ralston's pants are on fire.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

56. Keep arguing about phantom chairs being thrown while the GOP unites

behind a fucking madman.

[Number23]

71. Meanwhile, Hillary is winning in Kentucky. Freaking KENTUCKY. And doesn't even need to be.

[.99center]

73. A group of nonviolent supporters were labeled as rioters

By one of the campaigns, yeah that's going to be a hard one to get over. Kinda a big deal when the only source for the DNC's allegations of violence starts to walk back his story. It appears that they made up a story so the media could do a hatchet job on Bernie and now that the damage is done they're walking it back.

[catnhatnh]

74. How soon can we expect retractions

from MSNBC, AP, NYT and others???

[grasswire]

75. I'd be happy to hear retractions from Rachel and Tweety.

They were the most hysterical about the chairs.

[bbgrunt]

87. Media lies. It's a psyops operation.

[grasswire]

89. and they are ALL jumping on it as if it is coordinated.

Fancy that.

[azurnoir]

90. and they got so very little for it too- a win by <1% in KY and a loss in OR

wonder what Bernrage of the day will by tomorrow

[grasswire]

91. they are trying to paint Bernie as dangerous as Trump.

And then Hillary can swoop in as the "safe" candidate.

Seriously.

I saw the strategy discussed on Bloomberg on Friday

[azurnoir]

88. well at least he admits it -that's a start

[Snarkoleptic]

92. Here's the chair throw video...warning...scary stuff! (SHOCKING VIOLENCE TRIGGER ALERT!!!)

https://mobile.twitter.com/Bernie4People/status/732619789424832512/video/1

[lagomorph777]

94. So... that's the "chair throw"

Amazing how things get overblown.

[lagomorph777]

93. This big DNC lie has been exposed.

200 Hillaryans with cellphones, and not one caught a chair on video? Total bullshit.