My my....Bernie is being asked, ahem...QUESTIONS!

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69. in the world yes, on this site, Bernie is and has been the main target of relentless attacks

This thread illustrates how it works. A reporter pushes a question that has already been given by another reporter with a "no comment" answer. "PBS’s Lisa Desjardins noted that she had asked Sanders about his campaign before Raju’s question, and he had said “no comment.” But Manu asked the same question again. This is a reporters job and happens all the time. Sometimes the politician answers sometimes not. Bernie again answered that he would not discuss this but he was talking about was the virus.

So here is how it works if you just want to attack him You find this nothing burger of an interaction from twitter and inflate it and put factual significance into it. And it works regardless of what Bernie actually does. If Bernie talked about his campaign, he would be the worst person in the world because he talked about his campaign in the middle of a pandemic. When he says he does not want to, then he is the worst person in the world cause he doesn't.

So then you take his actual response to this reporter which has the words "I" and the word "We" and read the word "We" out of it and post that it proves that Bernie is eqocentric and the worst person in the world. Then you base your attacks around the use of the word "lash" rather than "tell" and the word "angry" which are the reporter (Manu) subjective words. Was Bernie in fact angry or frustrated. Was this just direct speech to emphasize again that he was not going to take these questions or was it actual anger. The use of the words "angry" and "lash" are used rather than neutral words to imply this is an affirmative act rather than a response to a reporter trying to pin him down. It turns out (see below) that it was actually one direct statement within a reasonable moderate discussion within a number of reporters and not in a press conference called for that purpose.

If you actually research this interaction between Manu and Bernie you will find that this is not a video but is Manu's impressions which he is entitled to as an impression but not a fact. If you look further you find that this only comes from the Reporter who confronted him and not someone else who discussed something he or she witnessed. Further, even Manu reduces Sander,'s "anger" to the one response.

From the article "Sanders “was furious,” Raju said of the exchange in a series of tweets. “Afterwards, he mellowed out and answered questions about the crisis for about two more minutes.” "

So despite using "angry" and "lash" it turned out that Bernie then continued to talk reasonably with him and other reporters on the virus for a short period of time in an informal setting. So he did not immediately leave in "anger" but rather continued to talk about the virus which seems to be directly to his point. But this all takes too much work if all you want to do is say "lash" "angry" "unqualified" etc. This is an absolute nothing burger which is inflated to global significance to assert negative attacks on Bernie's character. It would be just as easy to take this nothing burger interaction and inflate it the other way to show that rather than talk about his campaign he wanted to discuss the importance of the virus in policy and continued even though verbally assaulted by a reporter who had already been nicely told that his election at that point was not important. See how easy that was.

Quotes from Manu and Lisa Desjardins in the article at the below site.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/bernie-sanders-lashes-out-at-reporter-asking-about-the-state-of-his-campaign/

And yes, Biden and all candidates face unfair attacks in the world. Very little on this site. And further, anyone else attacking Joe on this and other sites does not excuse the players on this thread who do something like the above dance daily to attack Bernie Biden is on path to win this and we need unity. Bernie is not what they portray. He is popular in the country and among democrats, as is Joe. Relentless twisting of every Bernie breath to fuel the desire to beat him and his supporters into the ground on this site is disunifying so rather than just say it happens to Joe, you might question if it should happen to anyone including Bernie and including Bernie on this site.
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