Why is a Sanders advisor re-tweeting divisive gossip from Russia Today?

[lapucelle]

[George II]

1. Only candidates signed "The Pledge", surrogates and advisers didn't.

[Beakybird]

2. But to quote Russia Times! Nefarious!

[Hekate]

8. RT is a propaganda arm of the Russian State. It is not a source that ANY of us should tolerate...

...now that we know what it is.

[blue cat]

3. Either Bernie's son is trying to hurt him

Or he isn’t too smart. I’ve never seen a politician not try to win over a faction in his own party. Can’t wait to hear the after stories.

[George II]

14. He's not trying to hurt him, he's a "senior adviser" to BS' campaign. From his twitter profile:

Bernie Sanders for President 2020.
Senior Advisor and son @BernieSanders.
Ran For Congress NH-1 http://sandersforcongress.com .

[Hortensis]

44. Levy is the Sanders version of Trump's Eric.

He's embarrassed many times on social media. Like Eric, he clearly has no idea how low he sounds and just what he's revealing.

These things have shown up before when he's trying to please dad by playing a role, but judgement is terrible. This is classic! RT for god's sake from Sanders' son? How could he not know that's for more distant surrogates? But he obviously doesn't. Which makes me wonder just what he's hearing inside that campaign.

[irisblue]

4. He did post this earlier today

Levi Sanders (@Celentra) Tweeted:
I want to be clear that I was be facetious, as many have misconstrued what I was saying. https://t.co/IkpNPKshwY

Link to tweet

[charlyvi]

7. Does he think we're as stupid as he is?

How the hell do you misconstrue that tweet? Facetious? I call bullshit.

[irisblue]

11. I'm leaning towards the blowback from the 1st tweet on 5 June

got today, 9 Junes' ::facetious:: comment.

So yeah, he seems to act/behave/think that we are.

[George II]

18. Me too. But it took him four days to get around to it.

[irisblue]

21. Yeah. Slow to tespond, mayhaps he felt it was irrelevant?

But he bungled this.

[betsuni]

55. Yes, and I take umbrage.

It doesn't make any sense. I have taken so much umbrage over the last few years, I don't know where to put it all.

[Hekate]

29. Is that like "be best"?

[DURHAM D]

38. More like Donald Trump.

Can't spell. Bad sentence construction. Confused.

[charlyvi]

5. Levi Sanders, BS's son, tweeting about an article from Russia Today?

Doesn't even pass the smell test.

[JI7]

6. entitled bitter loser asshole. he reminds me of trump's sons

[Kurt V.]

32. That's a stretch. he's had a real job most of his life . but the tweet was uncalled for.

[JI7]

33. it isn't the first time. he has attacked chelsea Clinton also

[George II]

10. They're not just being divisive toward Hillary Clinton, here's one about Warren:

Link to tweet

[lapucelle]

12. Who is she? N/T

[George II]

15. She's scrubbed most of her twitter profile, but she "was" a Sanders organizer at one time....

....that's gone now.

[Celerity]

39. a bitter Berner

[JI7]

13. Warren has also been a target of the Russian attacks

if someone mentions her some troll would respond something like she also can't be trusted, is establishment and the usual things.

and then say how Sanders and Gabbard are the only ones we should support.

[mcar]

20. Wow! That is ugly

Sen. Sanders cannot ignore this behavior.

[JI7]

24. im sure he isn't ignoring it

[mcar]

25. I hope you are correct

[JI7]

28. i mean, it is coming from him

[mcar]

50. Ah, I see

Sad.

[Control-Z]

27. I expect he will, though. n/t

[Politicub]

34. Ignoring behavior like this is Bernie's jam.

His campaign hires attack dogs so he can maintain an aura of purity and virtue. It’s not Bernie posting, you see; it’s these other people.

[sheshe2]

48. For the win!!!!

It’s not Bernie posting, you see; it’s these other people.

[sheshe2]

49. For the win!!!!

It’s not Bernie posting, you see; it’s these other people.

[mcar]

52. It's his campaign

Why are other candidates held responsible for their staffers mistakes but not Bernie?

[betsuni]

57. But Democrats are personally responsible for anything anyone connected with their campaigns,

family members and friends, donors, anyone they're in a picture with, etc., does.

[NastyRiffraff]

73. Yep

It's long past time for Bernie to take responsibility for his own campaign. I doubt that will happen, though.

[Cha]

64. lol.. Aimee's getting a lot of

pushback on her "malicious actor" accusation!

[George II]

16. Here's the original tweet from June 5. After 1600 responses, most of them negative, finally....

on June 9 he claims he was being facetious. Yeah, he thinks we're idiot.

Link to tweet

[Cha]

35. He Definitely should look in the mirror.

[mcar]

17. Russian backed, no less

Careless, classless, and clueless.

[Cha]

37. He can't quit Hillary.

[mcar]

42. Living rent free in yet another man's head

[George II]

47. Bazinga!

[Fresh_Start]

19. Orders from Russia? nt

nt

[BlueJac]

22. K&R

[comradebillyboy]

23. Maybe Levi is bitter about his childhood on welfare

and wants to hurt daddy's campaign or maybe he's trying to please his daddy and get his approval.

[JI7]

26. Sanders himself hired all those jill Stein people

[George II]

30. Nina Turner, David Sirota, Brianha Gray.

[LibFarmer]

31. This makes paragraph 43 in Mueller's indictment salient

43. By 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used their fictitious online personas to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. They engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump.

(Emphasis added)

https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download

[Gothmog]

70. That indictment is very interesting

[Cha]

36. Just making sure everyone knows

how divisive the campaign is.

[George II]

40. And they're going after Kamala Harris, too:

Link to tweet

[JI7]

41. fuck them and the stupid pledges

[betsuni]

56. Well said.

What is it with the pledges, it's weird.

[JI7]

60. reminds me of pinky swears

i guess it's more simple and easier to pretend to do something than to actually work on legislation in congress and try to get it passed by getting supporters .

[betsuni]

65. Right! Pinky swears in the No Establishment Allowed treehouse.

[Control-Z]

76. Republicans love pledges

and are well known to live and die by them.

Yay! Now supposed Democrats are doing it?

Dear gawd, just fuck me again.

[Cha]

61. omg... Young turks and their

"pledge".. they're not fooling anyone.. or should I say.. "so many"?

[Gothmog]

71. Senator Harris is being attacked also by Cenk

[MrsCoffee]

72. He is a misogynistic pig.

Or should I say свинья

[lapucelle]

45. The New York Post ("Page 6") is a notorious right wing rag here in NY.

Cindy Adams is a gossip columnist who prefaced her remarks about the former Secretary of State with this:

We were alone. Just we two. An off-the-record old-time longtime friendship. No interview. No Q&A. No notes. No quotes. I’m just remembering. Should my memory prove faulty, you can cancel my order for a new Studebaker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Adams#Marriage_to_Joey_Adams



From Media Bias/Fact Check:

The New York Post is currently owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which owns many conservative/sensational media outlets around the world. The paper is funded through advertising, subscriptions and newsstand sales.

Analysis / Bias

In review, the New York Post tends to publish stories utilizing sensationalized headlines with emotionally loaded wording such as “Cop cold-cocks unarmed man ‘acting irate’ at restaurant”, and “It’s time for Bill Clinton to take a walk in the Chappaqua woods.” The New York Post also republishes news from other sources such as the least biased Associated Press. In general, more stories favor the right, but the NY Post does not shy away from reporting negative coverage of the right, if it is a big story. They also tend to source their information properly, however many times the headline misleadingly exaggerates the actual story they are reporting.

According to an LA Times article, the New York Post was reported to be the preferred newspaper of U.S. President Donald Trump, who maintains frequent contact with its owner, Rupert Murdoch. The Post, According to a survey conducted by Pace University in 2004, was rated the least-credible major news outlet in New York. Further, The Post has been criticized since the beginning of Murdoch’s ownership for “sensationalism, blatant advocacy, and conservative bias.”

[George II]

46. Good research, thanks. NY Post Page Six?????

That's their gossip page....



By the way, not a single real quote of Clinton talking about BS, either.

[Cha]

62. Mahalo for your research,

lapucelle!

[NurseJackie]

51. ...

[lapucelle]

54. ...

[Me.]

53. He Never Liked Her

and has been fairly vicious towards HRC in the past. Shameful really and does not do his father any favors.

[comradebillyboy]

58. It's not like Bernie doesn't hate Hillary himself.

It was so obvious at the Selma event.

[Cha]

63. The pic at Selma, Alabama..

[Hortensis]

78. Sanders has the same fundamental ideological differences

he claims to have with Hillary with every other Democratic candidate, including Elizabeth Warren, but while his badmouthing of candidates he's running against could at least be argued for, not so his gratuitous display of antipathy toward Hillary.

Politico: Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday that he hasn’t spoken to Hillary Clinton for advice on the 2020 race, and frankly, he isn’t interested. “Hillary and I have fundamental differences and that’s just what it is,” Sanders (I-Vt.) said on "The View."

No, that's NOT just what it is. There's something else. He has been routinely eating alone, avoided by not just her but all his colleagues as in this picture, his entire time in congress.

[Me.]

69. Exactly

[Gothmog]

59. Who is surprised by this?

[Blue_Tires]

66. I'd answer but my post would only get alerted on

[SouthernProgressive]

67. When you boss speaks...

You re-tweet.

[ehrnst]

68. Levi may be family, but he's definitely not an asset to Bernie's run. (nt)

[Hekate]

74. An "asset" but not an asset? Hmmmm.

[R B Garr]

75. Wow, thanks for posting this. Someone needs to sit his

son down and show him the unity pledge he signed. A good teaching moment for the family.

[stonecutter357]

77. K&R

[SidDithers]

79. Only the best people...nt

Sid