This is what David Sirota is spreading on twitter:

[George II]

He's repeating misleading truncated quotes of Joe Biden AND circulating a graphic calling Biden "blue trump".

Link to tweet

/photo/1

[dalton99a]

1. Sirota the lying amoral ratfucker

[PatSeg]

93. What the hell is wrong with that man?

Can't Sanders rein him in? If he can't control his attack dog, he should fire him.

Sirota campaigns like a damn republican.

[DemocracyMouse]

127. Shooting the messenger?

Motley Fool:
"Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, who you'd expect to fight for core Democratic principles in resolving Social Security's imminent cash crunch, including raising or eliminating the earnings cap, has called for Social Security cuts on three separate occasions over the past 12 years."
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2019/05/17/joe-biden-has-called-for-social-security-cuts-3-ti.aspx

[myohmy2]

135. you'd think...

...the Bernie-Bashers would reflect more on Joe's current and past positions making this possible...

...what do they think trump's going to do in the general?

...this is child's play...

[Cha]

140. The "messenger" shoots him damn self..

ds is a BIG Reason we have the monster in the WH.

Here's some tweets SNEAKY sirotaa Deleted but they live forever.


"Here are links to the the International Business Times stories he was tweeting out and wanted voters to revisit the night before the 2016 election. "

https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-economic-team-planned-secret-meeting-wall-street-mogul-pushing?utm_content=buffer2cf20&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/emails-show-clinton-foundation-donor-reached-out-hillary-clinton-arms-export-boost?utm_content=buffereb3c4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-said-outsourcing-benefited-america-after-she-criticized-bush?utm_content=buffer8b4c6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/state-department-blocks-release-hillary-clinton-era-tpp-emails-until-after?utm_content=buffera658a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-spotlighting-crisis-flint-michigan-voted-against-measure-prevent?utm_content=bufferc4ee4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-paid-speeches-wall-street-promoted-commission-pushed-social?utm_content=buffer0cb0f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Link to tweet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=417556

[Hortensis]

134. :) Sanders or his employee? Isn't Sirota just following orders?

"Sirota campaigns like a damn republican."

Yup. Sanders does. Those tactics work for those he's drawn so far and, because he can't get enough Democrats, for those he still needs to: Trump's populist fallaways. Studies show Republican leaders long ago degraded their main ideology to essentially "stop liberalism" and "stop the Democrats," and the teapartier/trumpsters themselves rebelled by adding "and keep your hands off my Social Security." Populism.

This is the second election in which Sanders is marketing himself to populists on both sides: to resentful LW populists and aspiring socialists as an alternative to the mainstream Democratic Party and to RW populists as an alternative to Trump and the Democratic Party.

[PatSeg]

136. I really don't know

There was a time when such tactics would have been below Bernie, but his presidential run in 2016 changed him dramatically and I barely recognize the man anymore. If Bernie is not giving the orders, which is possible, he is allowing his surrogates to do or say whatever they want. If he is not in control of his campaign, how will he be in control of his administration. It conjures up an image of a chaotic, rudderless White House with no real direction.

I am afraid that a lofty goal of making the world a better place may have been replaced with a goal of winning at any cost. Running for president can be a real test of one's character and resilience.

[Hortensis]

137. :) Yes, but did he have a massive personality change, or

did he just not need to run such ruthless, dishonest campaigns in Vermont to get reelected to congress for nearly 30 years? Did the person or the situation change?

I believe his history actually revealed the answer long ago that many just didn't suspect of the very undistinguished I-Sanders face in group photos or the newly interesting one many first noticed in the first debate. He's always believed in the righteousness of and critical need for his lofty goals.

With the WH unexpectedly seeming attainable, my notion is that in 2015-2016 he added the belief in a critical need to place himself there, and with that a conviction that winning at all costs is justified. His history and writings reveal that his belief in himself has always been as strong as his contempt for those who don't share it.

As you say, running's a test of one's character, and so would be winning great power. I believe that any candidate who relies so extremely heavily on deceiving voters about what socialism and Democrats are and also on avoiding press scrutiny -- most seek as much as possible -- could have more previously unsuspected reveals with that power.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Sirota is Sanders' senior adviser and speechwriter.

You can't tell me Sanders is blissfully unaware of what Sirota has been doing.

[Cha]

14. Jill Stein pusher and voter was hired for a reason..

Link to tweet

[melman]

19. Hey I remember that guy

Haven't seen him around in a while. Where's he been?

[NurseJackie]

24. Can we assume that Sanders approves of this?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. I think we can assume he doesn't disapprove.

If it had been a one-off or if Sirota was just some low-level volunteer working unsupervised out of his mom's basement I'd be inclined to cut Bernie a little slack, but that's not what's going on. This is exactly the kind of thing Sirota does and has been doing all along. If Bernie doesn't either curb him or fire him we'll know exactly how Bernie feels about this sort of campaigning.

[NurseJackie]

39. Silence equals consent.

[DemocracyMouse]

128. Shooting the messenger?

Motley Fool:
"Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, who you'd expect to fight for core Democratic principles in resolving Social Security's imminent cash crunch, including raising or eliminating the earnings cap, has called for Social Security cuts on three separate occasions over the past 12 years."
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2019/05/17/joe-biden-has-called-for-social-security-cuts-3-ti.aspx

[George II]

33. Sirota is Sanders' "hitman", and it's beginning to look like a repeat of Philadelphia. Disgusting...

....and yes, Sanders CANNOT be oblivious to this. Sirota's reputation preceded him, and he still got hired into a top staff position.

[NYMinute]

131. Sanders needs to disavow this and fire Sirota

Sanders Anything less would indicate he is complicit.

[LisaM]

80. Sanders' lack of responsibility in picking his advisors is disqualifying, IMHO.

He has a pattern of this and it goes back a way. His spokespeople (Tulsi Gabbard, Nina Turner) are likewise troubling.

It's not that most of us here don't agree with the majority of what his positions are. We do, absolutely. But if this is any indication as to whom he'd pick for Cabinet level positions, it says to me that he would not make a good Chief Executive.

[PatSeg]

104. Well said

Policy wise, I agree a lot with what Sanders says, but I seriously have issues with his judgment, which reflects to me what kind of president he would be. Just imagine this clown Sirota having power in a Democratic White House.

[LongtimeAZDem]

3. This is what Bernie Sanders really is

[Cha]

15. +1

[TexasTowelie]

36. Yep. +1

[comradebillyboy]

62. Indeed. +1

[Mr.Bill]

91. Move that to a CEO's desk in today's corporate America

and it reads "The Bucks Stop Here".

[MineralMan]

4. Sirota is a blatant liar.

Bernie Sanders should fire him for his lies about another Democratic candidate. Will he?

And then, there's Senator Sanders' Press Secretary. She's deleting tweets she made, but without any comment regarding them. She hopes they go away. Where is Senator Sanders on this?

Acceptance is support when it comes to high-level staff of a campaign. If they do wrong, and it is not addressed, that says something about the candidate, it seems to me.

Senator Sanders? What do you say? I'll wait here.

[Docreed2003]

50. +1

[TwilightZone]

6. David Sirota isn't in the media.

He's Bernie Sanders' senior advisor and speechwriter.

[dem4decades]

27. Why doesn't Sanders call out his own campaign? He's at fault not the MSM.

And his supporters should tell him if he continues the attack on Democrats they will no longer back him

[Mr.Bill]

92. How about if we mail them to Bernie first

and ask him what action he plans to takt to correct this?

[Renew Deal]

7. Sirota and people like him are the enemies of the Democratic party.

They should be kept on the outside talking to themselves. We don't need to appease them.

[MineralMan]

9. Sanders should fire Sirota forthwith.

However, he will not do that. That tells me everything I need to know for this primary election season. Between Sirota and his Jill Stein-voting press secretary, Sanders is handicapping his campaign in a very serious way. That will not work out well for his primary campaign. If he hopes to become the nominee, he needs to clean house immediately and disavow the misleading tactics put forward by Sirota and others on his campaign.

However, he will not do that.

[beastie boy]

10. Bernie is losing control over the propaganda published by his staff.

They are now borrowing straight from the teabagger handbook, and alienating all but the most devoted adherents who didn't care for any pretense of objectivity or accuracy to begin with. Whether he tacitly consents to it or not, if he doesn't regain control, I can easily see his campaign going to hell in a handbasket. Unless his strategy is to attract the former teabaggers who eat this shit up.

[Me.]

21. I Don't Believe He Is Not In Charge Of His Message

He owns it all

[beastie boy]

32. He may be in charge of his message, but I don't believe he realizes how awful, terrible, bad and

destructive it is for his campaign.

[Me.]

72. Then That Is An Even Bigger Problem

because judgment comes into play

[redqueen]

83. Exactly. nt

[beastie boy]

90. It sure is.

[George II]

65. Don't forget, he hired both Matt Orfalea and Darius Khalil Gordon before knowing about them....

....and then had to fire them each within one day.

But Sirota has a history of this in campaigns before:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/22/sanders-speechwriter-racially-inflammatory-website-1232953

[LongtimeAZDem]

69. I'm no longer convinced that he didn't know about them beforehand

[Lexee]

85. Sanders knows who these people are just as he knew Cenk and gravitates to them.

Look at who a person has around them. It tells you a lot. I agree that Sanders is well aware and has chosen this in his campaign. The upside? It is not one of our Dems. Our Dems don't do this. Sanders had people stealing stuff from HRC previously. This is not new behavior.

[Lexee]

78. Or it is his idea. He very much is a micromanager. Why should I point the finger at staff

When this is so consistent with Sanders campaign and past campaigns.

[beastie boy]

101. Technically, the shit is coming from his staff. Bernie can still claim ignorance and slap a "Not me"

slogan on his tour bus. So I am giving him the benefit of the doubt, knowing that in the long run it doesn't help him one bit.

[Lexee]

103. Sanders is responsible for his team. It is out there. He knows, as of this morning.

If not prior to it being put out. seeing how he micromanages and knows what is going on with his team. He either fires the guy, apologizes and clears the record, on tv or he is the problem.

[betsuni]

119. +1

[Blue_true]

121. Then, what does that say about Bernie as a leader?

Either way, it is beyond his control or he is approving the strategy, Bernie is going to come out losing.

His statements is a recent interview says that he knows exactly what his staff is doing and has likely signed off on it.

[TidalWave46]

11. It is at the direction of his boss. NT

[Cha]

26. Despicable.

[SidDithers]

12. These are Bernie's views. He owns them...

He hired the people who say these things. That’s not unintentional.

Sid

[Me.]

20. This!

And there should be a price paid.

[TexasTowelie]

42. +1

[Docreed2003]

51. I think you're absolutely correct

And that makes me sad, because I supported Bernie in the 2026 primary. I refuse to do so this time around because of this kind of crap.

[yardwork]

68. And it's not a new strategy.

In 2000, we heard a lot about how the two parties were exactly the same and the only moral vote was a vote for Nader. That got us W, the attacks on 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United.

Of course we heard the same nonsense in 2016. From David Sirota. So this is not new or unexpected.

[Hav]

13. We already had a thread about the similarities

between one candidate and Trump regarding campaign style, the scapegoating and the vilification of the media. Both are also supported by the Russian troll farms.
I'd say one person is considerably closer in style to Trump and it's not Biden.

[NYMinute]

132. +1,000,000 nt

[mcar]

16. Sanders needs to get rid of this guy

He is not helping Sanders' cause.

[Cha]

25. I think BS knew who sirota was when

he hired him..

Link to tweet

[greatauntoftriplets]

30. And if he didn't, that's another failure of Sanders' vetting.

Happy New Year, Cha!

[Cha]

44. He knows.. he knew who cenk was, too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=381802
2020! !

greataunt

[greatauntoftriplets]

46. Good point. How could he not know?

[mcar]

40. I think so too, Cha

He seems to deliberately surround himself with such people.

[Cha]

138. Absolutely.. like they're

the only way.

[Tarheel_Dem]

125. This is precisely why I don't want BS making cabinet and judicial appointments. Can you...

imagine who his advisers will be?

[melman]

17. "circulating a graphic calling Biden "blue trump"."

No he's not. Anyone who knows how twitter works can see you've posted Imes' tweet which is a reply to Sirota.

That's why Imes' tweet shows bigger, there is a line going up to Sirota's and at the bottom it says " see Chris Imes' other tweets."

[George II]

34. He's retweeted it, and he's retweeted the few seconds of the video, too.

[melman]

35. Well then I'm sure you can show us the proof

[George II]

38. It's all on twitter. I'm not going to scour Sirota's timeline, one example is enough for me.

[melman]

43. "one example is enough for me"

One example would be one more than you've shown.

[George II]

48. So you're okay with the tweet that was posted?

[melman]

52. Which one?

There are three tweets posted in the OP.

[George II]

55. Not playing, thanks!

[melman]

59. lol

Playing what? You asked if I'm "okay with the tweet"

There are three tweets here.

[George II]

61. lol

[George II]

53. In case you were wondering, this is the twitter profile for Warren Gunnels:

[melman]

57. I wasn't

But since you're doing screeshots let's see one of that alleged retweet.

[George II]

60. Guess what? It was another Sirota hit and run, he's already deleted it. It's now....

....with his other 20,000 tweets that he deleted earlier this year.

Nice way for Sanders' speechwriter to act, eh?

[melman]

66. So you are acknowledging there never was a retweet of this graphic

Okay.

[George II]

67. Where did I acknowledge that? I didn't, but said that he's already deleted it. Please....

....stop saying what I didn't say or think. Thank you!

[melman]

71. "stop saying what I didn't say or think"

What you said was there was a retweet of this graphic. You have failed to prove this.

The reason you can't prove it is it never happened.


Done here.

[George II]

73. There was, and in typical Sirota fashion he left it up just long enough to get it's maximum effect..

...and then deleted it.

That's been his history for a long time.

[Cha]

18. Poor thing.. he's SO DESPERATE.. HOPE it BACKFIRES in

dsirota's ******* face.

Link to tweet

[George II]

75. I wonder if he included screen shots of those with his resume when he applied for his current job.

[Cha]

82. I think they probalby noticed

what he was up to.

Like President Obama said when Steve Kroft or somebody asked President Obama why he didn't talk about being "Black". "I think they noticed."

[The Valley Below]

22. Not surprised in the least.

The problem is at the top.

[Cha]

23. Yep.

[redstateblues]

29. Where are all the Bernie defenders this morning?

[MineralMan]

31. Cats have their tongues, or fingers, or whatever, I guess.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. Evidently.

[MineralMan]

41. Scat, Cat!

Sings the cat, "Sha daba dooba daba..."

[roody]

97. I haven't seen the video, so can't comment.

Would you post it?

[Blue_true]

122. I hope that they are shocked and rethinking who they are backing. nt

[Peacetrain]

45. Honest to God, I just cannot believe this is not known to Bernie or his campaign

and that colors my view completely of how effective Sanders would be as a President if he can sit still for this

[LongtimeAZDem]

47. To quote a real Democrat:

[Peacetrain]

49. EXACTLY!!!

[George II]

56. No doubt he knows, look at post #54.

[TwilightZone]

76. In fairness, Sirota does stuff like this so often...

that perhaps Sanders can't keep up with it all.

Another alternative, of course, is that scorched earth is the campaign strategy and all of Sirota's silliness is part of that and approved by the campaign. I find that more likely. It happens too frequently to be a series of accidents.

[Thekaspervote]

98. You call this "silliness"?? Really it's crap. Bernie needs to put a stop to this

[George II]

54. Warren Gunnels' twitter profile:

[Docreed2003]

58. This type of bullshit from Sirota and Imes needs to be called out for what it truly is

We are watching in real time a repeat of the types of divisive nonsense that blew up 2016.

The only individual this election should be about is the narcissistic asshole currently sitting in the Oval Office. When bullshit like the above is spread far and wide, make no mistake, it does have an influence on those who are less well informed. Equating Biden to Trump is simply nonsense.

While I may agree with Sanders on many issues, I'm not naive enough to think that his way is the only way or that those who don't share his EXACT beliefs are somehow enemies. If Bernie disagrees with the posts his subordinates are posting on Twitter, then he needs to come out and make a strong statement and put an end to this now. As an observer, it would be easy for me to say that he has brought into his campaign leadership a group of individuals who care more about electing Bernie than they do about actually getting democrats elected. At the end of this primary, that has the be our primary goal, no matter who ultimately prevails in the nomination. I hope Bernie addresses this and puts a stop to it immediately, but I'm not convinced that will happen.

[lapucelle]

63. When Sirota dumped 20,000 anti-Democratic Party tweets

in preparation for his new role as the BS advisor/speechwriter, the press phoned to ask why he was ashamed of his personal GE 2016 messaging campaign.

The Stein supporter claimed that he couldn't answer the phone because he was "tending a sick child".

He was actually out bowling with friends and a comfortable-enough liar to post this picture of his busy night "tending a sick child".

If the hat fits, wear it.



https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/sanders-promised-civility-hired-twitter-attack-dog/585259/

[LuvLoogie]

64. Kind of hard to focus on the opposition when you are getting stabbed from behind.

I think Bernie is fine with this because he sees the Democratic Party as an obstacle as well as a borrowed vehicle he can run into the ground.

[still_one]

70. Scum

[Cha]

74. It's horrifying that some reporters and people with big Twitter followings circulated that..

Link to tweet

[R B Garr]

77. Sickening, but it is not surprising I'm sad to say.

The lies about Democrats have been pervasive.

Thanks for exposing these outright lies.

[Lexee]

79. It is not surprising. Sanders has shown us who he is. I do not know why so many do not believe

Sanders when he has told and shown us so very often.

[ArtTownsend]

81. Yes, Sanders has shown us to be a principled man who has been on the correct side of so many issues.

Thank you.

[Lexee]

84. The opposite of that. HE use to run on integrity. Not anymore. There is a reason for that.

[Thekaspervote]

100. Principled?? On of the right side of things?? This is completely unprincipled

Don’t kid yourself!!!

[Lexee]

111. Lying in a cut up video is pretty obviously not principled. So one should wonder

it being promoted as principled, I would think.

[lapucelle]

86. Who hires people like this?

When a candidate keeps trying to tell us exactly who he is...we should indeed listen.

Journalist David Sirota has spent the past few months trashing Democratic candidates not named Bernie Sanders, as well as those who support anyone other than Sanders. “Positively unhinged,” he tweeted in response to those who disagreed with one of his takes. His critics, he said at another point, are “mentally incapacitated.”

snip===================================================================

But what Sirota, who wrote for a variety of publications, didn’t reveal was where he was coming from: essentially, from inside Sanders’s campaign.

Unmentioned to his 125,000 Twitter followers and readers of his articles, Sirota has been advising Sanders while publicly attacking the candidate’s critics and rivals. On Tuesday, the relationship became official — Sirota was hired as a speechwriter and senior adviser to Sanders — just as the Atlantic magazine called out what could be the journalist’s conflict of interest

snip==================================================================

Sirota, 43, not only didn’t mention his relationship with Sanders’s campaign but apparently sought to erase his long history of attacks against Sanders’s opponents, according to the Atlantic. Just hours before his hiring by Sanders was announced, Sirota deleted about 20,000 or so of his tweets. He suggested that the timing of the mass deletion was coincidental, telling the Atlantic that his account was scrubbed by an “autodeleter” that periodically and automatically removes his posts.

It remains unclear how long Sirota advised the Sanders camp before his hiring. Neither Sirota nor Sanders’s representatives responded to multiple requests for comment on Wednesday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-bernie-sanders-supporter-and-journalist-had-a-secret-he-kept-from-his-readers/2019/03/20/063aabee-4b26-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html

[betsuni]

120. Ugh.

[murielm99]

87. K&R

[mwooldri]

88. What happened to David Sirota?

He and Al Franken were apparently pals back in the day....

[boomer_wv]

89. What's the difference

In what Bernie is doing and what Trump does? They both take things out of context and twist them into some bastardized version....or just make things up. I'm not fooled that Sirota does this one his own. Sanders has him on staff for a reason.

This has gone on long enough. It happened in 2016 and is happening now.

I will not support Sanders in either a primary or general election. Playing into the Russian propoganda machine is just as bad as working with it directly.

[George II]

99. Thankfully you won't have to worry about him in the general election.

[crazytown]

94. "blue trump" ' is absolutely unacceptable.

Shame.

[Gothmog]

95. A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden signals what's coming

Link to tweet

A video that was edited in a monumentally dishonest fashion to make Joe Biden sound racist just circulated all over Twitter. Distressingly, some reporters and people with large Twitter followings tweeted out the video, before others drew their attention to the full context, causing them to backtrack
.
It is simply incredible that anyone in the business of informing people would circulate a video like this before verifying the full context. Have we really learned nothing in the past few years? One hopes this episode will be taken as a cautionary tale of what’s coming.

The video in question, which your humble blogger will not link to, shows only 19 seconds of a 13-minute monologue that Biden delivered in New Hampshire. Biden had been asked by an audience member to speak about his work and his agenda on sexual assault and domestic violence....

One of the original purveyors of this disinformation (again, we won’t link) is still pretending this was an honest depiction, and is accusing those who supplied the corrective context of being the “real” purveyors of disinformation. Take this as a glimpse of what’s coming.....

All this is a sign of what the Democratic nominee could face. It’s no wonder that some Democrats are worried we might even see “deepfake” media manipulations. Imagine such ultra-sophisticated video distortions of Biden’s rambles, retweeted by Trump, and perhaps even by reporters.

Trump views disinformation not as a scourge to be combated in the name of protecting our democracy, but as an ally. In this particular case, Trump has not retweeted the video of Biden — yet. But let’s try to learn from this.

[Thekaspervote]

96. Where's bernie???!! All of you that think he's so wonderful???

This is disgusting

[George II]

102. That's the other thing - where are those who think he's so wonderful?

[MrsCoffee]

105. Cognitive dissonance makes this thread invisible.

[Hard Truth]

108. Where's the lie?

I found an unedited video clip and article at https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/01/today-in-joe-biden-wants-to-means-test-social-secu.html


They quote Biden as saying “Paul Ryan was correct when he did the tax code. What's the first thing he decided to go after? Social Security and Medicare. Now, we need to do something about Social Security and Medicare. That's the only way you can find room to pay for it. I don't know a whole lot of people in the top 1/10 of 1% or top 1% are relying on social security when they retire.”

and they comment "Now, it may be tempting to give Biden a pass on this one because he's only targeting rich people, and he does go on to denounce the GOP tax bill. But the very idea of means-testing Social Security and Medicare, in any way, is anathema to progressives because it opens the door for further changes—some of which will be implemented by the other side. It's supposed to be doctrine among the left that these two programs are untouchable unless they're being expanded, and for Biden to suggest reducing coverage—even if it's just for rich people, at the moment—is shocking and worrisome. Especially when it's accompanied by praise for Paul Ryan, who wanted nothing more for his entire career than to gut these programs..."

Based on this information, I don't see Sirota's statement as inaccurate. (I have not seen an edited video from him) What am I missing?

In the clip Biden says that "the people at the top aren't bad guys." Then who is funding all the lobbyists, Republicans, think tanks and others who who push our legislators to cut services for the poor and middle class and give tax breaks and other subsidies to the rich?

Based on the video clip, it appears that, although Biden supports more progressive taxation, he would cut social security benefits (yes, for rich people) before he would reduce defense spending.

I plan to strongly avoid voting for any candidate who supports austerity measures impacting the poor and retirees without first drastically reducing defense spending, giveaways to the rich (many farm subsidies for example) and raising taxes on the extremely rich. I believe that many of the voters Democrats need to win, especially minorities and young people, agree. That statement will hurt Biden.

[George II]

112. A link to the edited video is in the OP tweet. It's only TWENTY SECONDS, not the original 3+ mins.

[lapucelle]

116. Biden didn't say "Ryan was correct to go after social security and medicare".

Sirota retweeted a fake Biden "quote" that was actually made up by a BS senior advisor.

Link to tweet

[NYMinute]

133. Anything to defend Bernie and Sirota

?v=1489436645

[ehrnst]

109. One has to wonder what side Sirota is on.

[OnDoutside]

129. Sirota, Turner, Weaver think nothing of dirty politics. It's all about

Ideology, not truth.

[mopinko]

113. bernie seems perfectly happy w the ratfuckers on his side.

we need to tune up our bullshit detectors, people.

[George II]

115. Actually we really don't have to tune them up, the campaign isn't making an effort to be subtle.

[peggysue2]

114. This guy needs to be fired

And if Bernie Sanders accepts this garbage? Well, you're known by the company you keep.

No excuses.

[lapucelle]

117. A senior BS advisor makes up a quote and attributes it to Joe Biden...

...and a second senior BS advisor retweets it.

[betsuni]

118. Disgusting.

[lapucelle]

123. Bump.

[Gothmog]

124. I really do not understand how a campaign can hire a person like Sirota

[LongtimeAZDem]

126. It's easy if you have contempt for the organization you purport to represent

[NYMinute]

130. David Sirota is

Lee Atwater, Karl Rove and Roger Stone of the Bernie campaign. I thought Democrats were above such dirty tricks. Oh .. wait .. not a Democrat.

[Hortensis]

139. Only a wannabe Atwater, Rove, Roger Stone. A small potato

copying their techniques.

Just a reminder for newcomers and zealous deniers of what we're talking about:

THE ATLANTIC, March 2019: Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog: David Sirota had been working unofficially for Sanders while savaging the other Democratic candidates on Twitter.

Shortly before he gave speeches launching his 2020 campaign earlier this month, Bernie Sanders emailed his supporters, urging them to “do our very best to engage respectfully with our Democratic opponents—talking about the issues we are fighting for, not about personalities or past grievances. I want to be clear that I condemn bullying and harassment of any kind and in any space.”

What he didn’t include was that one of the people already advising him and helping him write those launch speeches is one of his most famously aggressive supporters online.

Since December, David Sirota has, on Twitter, on the website Capital & Main, and in columns in The Guardian, been trashing most of Sanders’s Democratic opponents—all without disclosing his work with Sanders... He centered many of his attacks on Beto O’Rourke, but he also bashed Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, Mike Bloomberg, and even Andrew Cuomo.

A screenshot of one of the more than 20,000 tweets that Sirota deleted yesterday. [It won't copy but it's the one about how Democrats throw screaming temper tantrums and hate democracy.]

Sirota’s hiring as a senior adviser and speechwriter was announced by the Sanders campaign on Tuesday morning after The Atlantic contacted the campaign and inquired about the undisclosed role Sirota held while attacking other Democrats.

Busted! Not that this ruthless, dishonest-politics side of Sanders was not at all new, it's decades old, and busted long before.