Newsweek: Sanders get Control or get out of the race

[book_worm]

Violence. Death threats. Vile, misogynistic names screamed at women. Rage. Hatred. Menacing, anonymous phone calls to homes and offices. Public officials whisked offstage by security agents frightened of the growing mob. None of this has any place in a political campaign. And the candidate who has been tolerating this obscene behavior among his supporters is showing himself to be unfit for office.

So, Senator Sanders, either get control of what is becoming your increasingly unhinged cult or get out of the race. Whatever respect sane liberals had for you is rapidly dwindling, and the damage being inflicted on your reputation may be unfixable. If you can’t even manage the vicious thugs who act in your name, you can’t be trusted to run a convenience store, much less the country.

When Bernie Sanders launched his presidential campaign, he seemed to be the kind of candidate who would inspire voters from the liberal blocs of the Democratic Party, push the party leftward and influence the future direction of politics—either as the nominee or as a force for change. But Sanders has increasingly signaled that he is in this race for Sanders, and day after day shows himself to be a whining crybaby with little interest in a broader movement. His vicious—and often ridiculous—attacks on the party whenever he doesn’t win a contest have inspired a level of ignorant fanaticism among a large swath of his supporters that is becoming more akin to what might be seen at an out-of-control rally for Donald Trump...

http://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-get-control-get-out-race-461195

[reformist2]

1. Complete bullshit. Didn't Newsweek go bankrupt a few years ago?

[GreatGazoo]

3. Newsweek denied they wrote the Clinton book "Anonymous"

then admitted they did. They haven't been relevant since then.

[dsc]

7. ah no

a reporter did that.

[GreatGazoo]

11. um yes, Joe Klein wrote the book "Primary Colors" while he worked for Newsweek

Klein initially denied writing the book and publicly condemned Foster. Klein denied authorship again in Newsweek, speculating that another writer wrote it. Washington Post Style editor David von Drehle, in an interview, asked Klein if he was willing to stake his journalistic credibility on his denial, to which Klein agreed.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-medias-true-colors/article/8414

[ThePhilosopher04]

2. Didn't realize Newsweek still existed. Lol

[anotherproletariat]

4. I don't care who says this...it needs to be repeated as loudly as possible. The man has lost it. nt

[reformist2]

9. The establishment just figured out Bernie isn't going to corral the libs back into Hillary's herd

of sheep. How dare he actually want to win this for himself? How selfish!! And he - the loser - wants to dictate party platform issues??? The nerve!!! LOL

[jillan]

5. Newsweek? Seriously. LOL!! RW online website now because it failed at being a news magazine.

[Jennylynn]

6. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how they are going to try to win the rest of the states. Eom

[NWCorona]

8. The problem for this narrative is that it happened to early.

Now there's too much time for it to be proven bull before California.

[Gregorian]

10. More nonsense.

The only violence was a hillary supporter punching a female Bernie supporter in the face.

Newswhat?

The revelations just keep coming. The country is entrenched in stagnation in the name of money.

[Sheepshank]

12. Sanders had the opportunity to rise above this rhetoric.

Sanders has a clear opportunity to put all of this to rest before it got out of hand (BOTH .

Sanders had a clear platform and to speak out against the badgering, bullying nasty rhetoric his supporters participated in.

Instead he double downed, reiterated that everything is everyone else's fault, and the Democratic Party is to blame.

He and only he is irreversably damaging not only his own campaign, but the entire Primary process, the Democratic Party and Hillary.