Rawstory: "Surprise! Author of viral ‘Becoming Anti-Bernie’ ..."

[pat_k]

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/surprise-author-of-viral-becoming-anti-bernie-piece-is-corporate-lawyer-who-defends-hedge-funds/

RawStory
Surprise! Author of viral ‘Becoming Anti-Bernie’ piece is corporate lawyer who defends hedge funds
KATIE HALPER
19 APR 2016 AT 16:56 ET

You may have seen this “On Becoming Anti-Bernie” piece, which is going around the internets. It’s one of the top three most popular posts on Medium’s politics section, has 1.4k likes, and over 600 comments. But who is the author? Robin Alperstein? She’s a corporate lawyer who specializes in defending hedge funds but also represents the occasional nanny-abusing, jet-setting, Chilean aristocratic Upper East Side couple.

Lest you think I’m bringing up Alperstein’s biography because I can’t rebut the substance of her argument, I’ll go through a mere sampling of its flaws.


Let’s start with one of her bald-faced lies. Alperstein writes that Sanders, “literally pushed his wife away from a lectern (‘don’t stand there!’) on the air.” Actually, Bernie gestured. He never touched her. And there is video. So Alperstein either didn’t watch it (is “lazy and unprepared,” which are literally the words she uses to describe Sanders) or she’s a liar...

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[Betty Karlson]

1. I hope this goes viral too. eom

[pat_k]

2. Me too.

[djean111]

3. Looks like trash about Bernie written by trash.

Do people really think that writing lying anti-Bernie screeds do anything but preach to the Hillary choir. Do they really think that Bernie's supporters would abandon principles and overlook issues? At this point, "articles" like that are just self-indulgent twaddle. At best.