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In reply to the discussion: The Atlantic Accused David Sirota of Secretly Working For Bernie Sanders. But Where's the Evidence? [View all]Autumn
(48,177 posts)64. You are skating around the fact that Dovere was told by Shakir " at most, it was a month".
that's a far cry from your tweet you keeps posting that says otherwise.
His informal work goes back a month at most. Devore refused to correct the record and went with some anonymous unnamed source. How odd and defiantly shady that he continued to use the only named source who denies his story.
I sent him the dates and from what I understand, he thinks hes got a different source that tracks it differently.
Dovere did not respond to our multiple requests for comment, but his article fails to credit any source besides Shakir. Asked what he thought about the fact that no direct quote was used to make such a claim, Shakir replied, Theres no quote in there because I never said that Feb. 20 is when you probably start the clock on [Sirota] starting to do some work [for the campaign].
Dovere did not respond to our multiple requests for comment, but his article fails to credit any source besides Shakir. Asked what he thought about the fact that no direct quote was used to make such a claim, Shakir replied, Theres no quote in there because I never said that Feb. 20 is when you probably start the clock on [Sirota] starting to do some work [for the campaign].
I think it's pretty shady that Dovere wouldn't respond to The Atlantic's multiple requests for a comment on the discrepancies in his story. Why would any one who wrote a legitimate bombshell do that? They wouldn't. I think I'll chose to say I agree with the fact as that Walter Bragman said "Doveres bombshell wasnt supported by any real evidence." One could day it was "made up for some reason" if one wanted to stop short of saying he's "lying about" the story or he doesn't really have another source and it's just bullshit.

John Mulholland from The Guardian said the last piece Sirota did for them was the end of December
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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The Atlantic Accused David Sirota of Secretly Working For Bernie Sanders. But Where's the Evidence? [View all]
CentralMass
Mar 2019
OP
Where's the evidence? How about Sanders' own campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, admitting it?
George II
Mar 2019
#1
Apparently you didn't see his own campaign manager's admission, and this from CNN:
George II
Mar 2019
#4
The arguments in the article are most logical; perhaps you can point something out in it that isn't?
Uncle Joe
Mar 2019
#8
Good luck arguing logic... some just don't want to hear it, though it does make perfect sense.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Mar 2019
#51
Since when does deleting tweets, emails, and/or texts cause for suspicion? Or does that standard
InAbLuEsTaTe
Mar 2019
#53
But Faiz Shakir doesn't dispute the fact that Sirota and the Sanders campaign has been denying....
George II
Mar 2019
#15
You are skating around the fact that Dovere was told by Shakir " at most, it was a month".
Autumn
Mar 2019
#64
Nope, Shakir said on March 11 that Sirota's informal work "goes back months"....
George II
Mar 2019
#68
The section on the left in black references what Sirota did in 2016, not 19 years ago....
George II
Mar 2019
#25
It mentions 2016, so it couldn't be a reference to 19 years, ago, and as I pointed out....
George II
Mar 2019
#27
No. It mentions that Sirota worked for Sanders 19 years ago the mention him doing "something" in
CentralMass
Mar 2019
#36
The bottom line is that he was working for the Sanders campaign (as you admit)....
George II
Mar 2019
#46
He, according the facts as stated in the CNN article, was working fo the Sanders campaign on a trial
CentralMass
Mar 2019
#49
You keep saying that, but whatev'. The fact is he was working as a "journalist" criticizing....
George II
Mar 2019
#52
Funny that yesterday we were assured that CNN was "corporate media conglomerate spin."
betsuni
Mar 2019
#54
I get the feeling that the Sanders campaign is a giant disinformation operation
Renew Deal
Mar 2019
#5
Should he win the nomination (not a snowball's chance in hell, but whatev')...
George II
Mar 2019
#48
I doubt that BS will be able to undo the massive damage he's doing to his own campaign n/t
SFnomad
Mar 2019
#29
Well from the CNN article Sirota started on a trial basis on February 20th 2019 and was formally
CentralMass
Mar 2019
#42
So why the silence from Sanders' campaign? We know he has hired a press secretary.
ehrnst
Mar 2019
#63
Didn't the "observer" also claim to have worked in a newsroom with Maggie Haberman?
lapucelle
Mar 2019
#82
So what? That's one newspaper. Sirota continued to do his dirty work on twitter,
lapucelle
Mar 2019
#87