It was a horror. Instead of showing the way the caucus got rigged, cable news spent days reporting a story fabricated by a reporter and repeated endlessly by John Ralston, who claimed to witness it but did not, that Sanders' supporters 'threw chairs.'
It, subsequently, was revealed that Ralston, the smirking blowhard, dubbed the 'Dean of NV politics' by Rachel Maddie, had left the convention before the alleged chair throwing took place and had repeated a story that another reporter relayed to him who had fabricated it. Ralston
... was fired once the truth was discovered and the story did run in some print media but no retraction or correction was ever issued by shows or networks who had run wall to wall with coverage of the false story for days on end. As a NV voter at that time, I did not miss the...
...odious Ralston who was obviously enjoying his sudden unearned fame as the darling of cable news once his program was taken away from him. This whole story was a breach of journalistic ethics, the likes of which I could never have conceived of. Now, print media can refer to...
...the 2016 NV state convention and say "where it was alleged Sanders'supporters three chairs," without mentioning this was proven to be a false allegation. Likewise, Roberta Lange was reported daily to have been receiving non-stop death threats by phone daily. She became the...
... recipient of fawning sympathy from cable news hosts as she appeared on shows. It came to my attention that she would play an example of a threatening call on some shows and, while it was certainly uncalled for, it was always the same call. It was eventually revealed this...
...was the only call she received and thus, her 15 minutes of fawning game came to an end. No one involved in the endless smearing of Sanders delegates ever made a correction or offered an apology. It had accomplished its purpose-to divert attention from the theft of Sanders'...
...delegates which was done in plain site and was a blatant case of a rigged election and subversion of democracy by a party which dares call itself "Democratic."
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