Opinion: Bernie is being Bernie, and plenty of Democrats don’t like it
Sen. Bernie Sanders , a Democratic presidential candidate, in Henderson, Nev., on Saturday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 20 at 9:45 AM The Atlantic’s Edward-Isaac Dovere reports on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s hiring of an infamous left-wing attack dog:
As a matter of journalistic ethics, such deception is inexcusable. One cannot present oneself as an independent actor — even one with a distinct political viewpoint — while secretly working on behalf of one candidate as his hatchet man, and all the while denouncing Democratic intramural fights. Social media exploded with criticism of Sirota’s extreme views , his underhanded advocacy for Sanders and, even with all that, Sanders’s decision to hire him. Just a few examples of the tweets from Tuesday night:
— )) March 19, 2019 This is a very bad story for Bernie Sanders ... and what makes it such a head-scratcher is that even after Sirota’s tirades against other Democrats Sanders STILL hired him to be his speechwriter https://t.co/DIFZpiPcWt
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