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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Campaign Manager Lies About Hillary to Deflect Gun Control Criticism
http://www.mediaite.com/online/bernie-sanders-campaign-manager-lies-about-hillary-to-deflect-gun-control-criticism/by Tommy Christopher

Democratic presidential candidate and independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is getting all kinds of fallout from his interview with the New York Daily News editorial board, including harsh attacks from the paper over his support for a law that gave gun manufacturers immunity from lawsuits. On MSNBC Tuesday night, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver tried to deflect that heat away from his candidate by misleading, obfuscating, and outright lying to Rachel Maddow:
This issue of guns certainly is an issue that the Secretarys campaign likes to raise a lot, but the truth of the matter is shes been all over the map on this over the years. Her current campaign takes money from the gun lobby. You know, a gun lobbyist actually ran a fundraiser for her in DC on the 21st of March. So its a little bit disingenuous again. Its like Wall Street or the fossil fuel industry or what have you, they say one thing, but theyre taking money with the other hand.
Lets just break that down. On Sanders support for the immunity provision, he has said over and over again that he doesnt think gun manufacturers ought to be liable for legally-purchased guns, even during Mondays interview. In that NYDN interview, Sanders was asked if he thinks that victims of crimes should be able to sue gun manufacturers, and he replied No, I dont. He muddied the waters later in the interview, though, when he was asked if the Sandy Hook lawsuit is baseless, and he said Its not baseless. I wouldnt use that word, but added that its a backdoor way of achieving the goal of a legislative assault weapons ban.
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Bernie Sanders Campaign Manager Lies About Hillary to Deflect Gun Control Criticism (Original Post)
MrWendel
Apr 2016
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NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)1. Surely you wouldn't suggest Jeff Weaver's character is questionable.

jsmirman
(4,507 posts)3. He's running a consistently dishonest campaign at this point
this is the key quotation:
What Weaver is referring to is a fundraiser that was co-hosted by John Podesta and Jeff Forbes, who is a lobbyist whose former clients include the NRA, but for whom his firm stopped lobbying in December. It might not seem like a huge lie, but it is most definitely a deliberate one, one which Hillarys opponents have been telling for awhile. It takes no time or effort at all to say former lobbyist, but that distinction is obviously large enough for the Sanders campaign not to want to make it, just as their rolling fossil fuel industry attacks always wind up with a mess of asterisks next to them.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)4. They are consistent when it comes to their "truthiness"
They want it to be that way sooooo much that they just can't help saying it.
Or they just like to lie.
One of those.