Andrea Mitchell’s palpable disappointment at not getting the chance to report Hillary Clinton’s indictment was a shameful performance on MSNBC. Fortunately, her guest took the wind right out of her sails and put responsibility on Comey for making one of the most nakedly political statements about closing an investigation I have ever seen anywhere. Mrs. Greenspan… Continue reading “Ex-DOJ Spox Rips FBI Director’s ‘Really Reckless Statements’”
I feel like I spend my entire life rebutting crazy things people believe about Hillary Clinton, so this was validating as hell:
https://youtu.be/gthEktOSpH4
I wrote this last year, but it’s as relevant as ever:
Clay Johnson was not just the former director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, he also had a White House fellowship to help improve how the federal government acquires and uses technology. This is what he wrote about the Hillary Clinton email story. Please note the last paragraph: But more importantly, let’s talk about records.… Continue reading “Transparency Expert: Hillary Clinton Was Trying To Do Her Job”
Embed from Getty Images Why Hating the Media Could Make the Difference in November The winning candidate may be the one who most successfully stirs the public’s mistrust of journalists and journalism. by Neal Gabler As the political pundits keep reminding us, this might be called the “hate” election. Both major parties’ presumptive nominees, Donald Trump… Continue reading “Why Hating the Media Could Make the Difference in November”
Nevada’s delegate allocation process is complex, but Sanders supporters have accused the state Democratic Party of various crimes including ignoring attempts to change the rules, rigging the process in favor of Clinton and disqualifying several dozen delegates that supported Sanders.
Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver reiterated those concerns during a May 18 interview on CNN with John Vause.
“There was a horrendous breakdown, where the leadership there in Nevada hijacked the process on the floor, created a tremendous amount of angst among people who were there attending the convention, who were supporters of Sen. Sanders, by ignoring the regular procedure and ramming through what they wanted to do,” he said.
There’s little disagreement that the convention was chaotic. PolitiFact Nevada was at the convention and saw it firsthand. But does the Sanders campaign’s complaints have merit?
Irate Berne Sanders supporters did not just leave threatening voicemails and texts for state Democratic Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange but also launched an assault on the businesses she oversees, the owner says.
Tom Gallagher, the former Caesars CEO and congressional candidate, said that his son’s tavern, the Porchlight Grille, began receiving threats shortly after the convention ended in chaos Saturday. Lange is the day operations manager there.
“Beginning about 3am on Sunday morning our bartenders at Porchlight Grille began getting non-stop phone threats from Bernie partisans,” Gallagher told me via email. “The level of threats including death threats and vitriol was astonishing. One of our bartenders was actually a Bernie supporter and was stunned at the threats he was hearing on the phone. He began to respond telling people that he was just trying to do his job and pay off his student loans and their tactics were harming his livelihood. It made no difference to the callers. Their goal was to harass and as became clear….to shut down the business and Roberta’s job with it.”
Gallagher said the calls continued during the day Sunday until the eatery disconnected the phone.
“At one point on Sunday before we unplugged the phones, I took a turn at answering and experienced such a nasty call that a Metro officer who happened to be in the tavern as a customer picked up the call and attempted to encourage the woman to stop, explaining that what she was doing was unlawful harassment,” Gallagher told me. “It made no difference. She actually responded that it was her right of free speech.”
And then the social media assault commenced.
From Gallagher: “The Porchlight website and Facebook page were similarly attacked with threats, including by someone who set up a fake ‘Roberta Lange’ ID on Facebook and then posted on the Porchlight Facebook page incredibly slanderous attacks against both Roberta and her husband Ken, including a post by the so-called ‘Roberta Lange’ that accused her husband Ken of crimes against children!”
Also, a Nevada delegate gives his version of events.
In the past week or so, I’ve seen a lot of Democrats who are oh, so upset about the idea that many Republicans are now beginning to coalesce around Clinton. You know, as if that proves she’s a Republican.
And the months of insisting Bernie would get a lot of independent and Republican votes just vanish. Poof! I’m not sure if the research has changed recently, but it was always true that the larger chunk of independents were mostly Republicans who thought the GOP wasn’t conservative enough — but who tended to vote that way, anyway. So the bulk of Bernie’s support has always come from, well, Republicans.
Does that still prove something?
In an interview a few weeks ago with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, actress and activist Susan Sarandon ruffled more than a few feathers by asserting that “some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in. Then things will really, you know, explode.” Sarandon said later that the ensuing media frenzy took… Continue reading “She’s more afraid of Hillary”
It’s Nevada, it’s a caucus, and it’s got Sheldon Adelson in it. You think maybe that sets the table for some good old-fashioned Lee Atwater-style ratfcking? Sure it does. Jon Ralston: Below is an email sent to GOP folks, with a link to this post, by Nick Vander Poel, a Republican activist and former AFPer. It… Continue reading “Republicans for Bernie in Nevada”
