Here we go again with more deceptions from the Sanders campaign. The latest deceptions is in running ads that claims endorsements that don’t exist.
Bernie’s Endorsement Deceptions:
1. Fake Endorsements called out by Time Magazine
“A new ad for Bernie Sanders set to play in New Hampshire suggests that two regional newspapers have endorsed the Vermont Senator when in fact, they have not.
Sanders’ 30-second campaign advertising spot, playing less than a week before the key New Hampshire primary, cites glowing praise from the regional Nashua Telegraph and The Valley News alongside organizations that have endorsed Sanders. But the Telegraph and Valley News have not endorsed him—a fact that is not shared with the viewer.”
2. More Fake Endorsements Called out by the New York Times
“The Des Moines Register has not endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders, but a new ad from his campaign that started running on Thursday in Iowa may lead viewers to think that it did.”
3. Several Additional Endorsement Lies Called Out by Newsweek
Senator Bernie Sanders has built his insurgent presidential bid around being Mr. Clean, but several outside groups are now accusing his campaign of playing dirty.
Sanders’s campaign in Iowa has included League of Conservation Voters and AARP logos in recent mailers it’s sent to prospective caucusgoers, a subtle effort to tie himself to those groups, if not implying an endorsement. But neither group has backed him. The AARP, which represents retirees, does not endorse candidates, and the League of Conservation Voters, an environmental advocacy group, is supporting Sanders’s Democratic foe, Hillary Clinton.
And now news has broken of what is potentially an even more bald-faced deception, in Nevada, where Sanders supporters have reportedly been posing as members of Las Vegas’s powerful Culinary Workers Union Local 226 to try to rally labor support ahead of the state’s Democratic caucuses on February 20.
4. Bernie’s Response to Being Caught by Politico
Sanders campaign revises ad ripped as 'deceptive'
Bernie Sanders’ campaign on Thursday released a revised advertisement that no longer suggests he was endorsed by a New Hampshire newspaper.
The new 30-second spot, titled “Endorsed,” shows that the American Postal Workers Union, National Union of Healthcare Workers and National Nurses United have backed the Vermont senator and touts additional endorsements throughout.
But it no longer claims that the Valley News had officially endorsed Sanders. “The Valley News says, ‘Sanders has been genuinely outraged about the treatment of ordinary Americans for as long as we can remember,’” the narrator says as the newspaper's name, quote and date appear on screen with a shot of a Sanders rally in the background. An “endorsed by” label no longer appears by the Valley News, though.
The ad still does, however, flash a quote from the Nashua Daily Telegraph — "He is not beholden to Wall Street money" — though it does not explicitly say the paper endorsed Sanders.
Before the edits, the executive editor of that newspaper, Roger Carroll, denounced the ad as "deceptive":
So yes, now that Bernie is finally being vetted, we’re learning that he’s just as deceptive as the rest of them.
