This is a good example of horse race journalism eating journalists' brains again, like it has in years past. Bernie is winning and in position to lock up the nomination. His polls are high, he's broadly popular. But there's a scandal in The Discourse because we need a storyline 
The Washington Post could devote this prominent headline space to almost any other story and serve its readers better. There are a million issues facing American voters. There's no shortage of foreign news. But politics-as-sport gets the clicks, and needs the artificial drama
I will go on a limb and say approximately zero people will condition their vote for Sanders on whether or not they believe he overpraised Cuban literacy programs, or was too generous to Soviet youth sports in 1988
Think about stories like this next time you hear a rant about how Fox News is pure propaganda, while we are the brave truth seekers keeping the wan flame of civilization alight in a sea of barbarism
I like to think of this as third-derivative political journalism: "Will this mean the accelerating move towards Sanders picks up pace more slowly?"
