A Sander's Supporter has Admitted to faking Video (Updated 8:00pm EST)

[Henhouse]

Last edited Sat May 28, 2016, 09:15 PM - Edit history (3)

For all the people blaming this on Hillary supporters.

http://americablog.com/2016/05/sanders-plays-kill-gays-rap-song-ca-rally.html

UPDATE: A Sanders supporter has admitted to faking the video of Bernie Sanders arriving on stage in California earlier this week to a homophobic rap song about killing gay and trans people.

The Sanders supporter claims he made the fake video in order to intentionally trick voters as a form of “social experiment.” He issued a statement, which concluded “Congratulations, you played yourself.”

No, congratulations to you, young man. You just ticked off thousands of people online with a story that seriously hurt your candidate, and is now going to be very difficult to pu

5/28/16 11:17am by John Aravosis 15

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders this week played a song at one of his California rallies that mocks transgender people and calls for gays to be shot.

Politico, BET, the Root, Billboard others reported that Sanders entered the rally in Lancaster, California on May 25, playing the song “Where the hood at?” by rapper DMX.

Here’s a video of Sanders’ entrance. I have a copy of it, in case it gets pulled. Interestingly, you’ll see Sanders come on stage right when the music turns to “niggaz” having sex “with the SAME sex.”

[riversedge]

1. ooops!! those lyrics really are slurring. What was his camp thinking??

.... To further gather the troops, Sanders held a Thursday night rally in Lancaster. His fiery speech — which argued for legalization of marijuana and against low Disneyland wages in the face of enormous corporate profits — drew plenty of attention. Yet nothing is making headlines like Sanders’ entrance song, DMX’s “Where the Hood At?” And make no mistake, rally music is a highly planned endeavor.

But what is sure to make more waves is the fact that Bernie Sanders’ newest favorite song is an ode to shooting gay men, or at the song calls them, “homos.”

[LAS14]

9. Obviously they weren't thinking, or someone...

... sabotaged them. This should get no more attention than Hillary's occasional slip ups.

[cui bono]

39. The OP is a lie. It never happened. So you can delete your post now.

[Warren DeMontague]

70. ...

[Iliyah]

2. UGH

[bobbobbins01]

4. I'll bet he even picked the song himself!

Just like when he picked Starman from David Bowie to end his speeches even though he hasn't listened to David Bowie. The deviousness!

[JackRiddler]

5. He was the DJ, of course!

[pnwmom]

11. It shows the quality of the people advising him. nt

[bobbobbins01]

13. I wonder who advised Clinton to set up a server at her house.

Obviously someone of quality.

[Peregrine Took]

6. "Taverious" - you already posted this a few minutes ago....better check the log..

[Henhouse]

8. Huh...Taverious and I posted simultaneously....More like a coincidence than a conspiracy..n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. More like you lack a system of staggering your posts after the marching orders go out.

[B Calm]

7. Trashing Thread duplicate post

D

[TwilightZone]

10. So, 500 posts of the same Hillary server story - OK

Two posts about an anti-gay song played at a Sanders rally - a huge problem.

Gotcha.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. His attempts to be hip seem clumsy.

[Cobalt Violet]

28. one story is fake and one story is real

The fake one is not okay.

[JackRiddler]

96. Fake story is a huge problem, yes.

[azurnoir]

14. watch the vid folks the rap is quite obviously overdubbed onto it

you'd think Avarosis could do better

[MelungeonWoman]

16. Ohh look, another Clinton lie. How very...

common.

[Dem2]

21. Bernie supporter made it

I'm interested in your source that this is a Clinton lie.

[ronnykmarshall]

59. Out of her ass probably

[RandySF]

17. Oh my.

[KingFlorez]

18. What the hell?

This campaign has lost all sanity. Sick.

[Cobalt Violet]

29. do you believe everything you see?

[barrow-wight]

19. I truly hope this is a hoax.

I've said I'd vote for whoever is the nominee but if this turns out to be true, I'll never vote for Sanders.

[vintx]

20. .

[tammywammy]

22. The article has been updated:

UPDATE: A Sanders supporter has admitted to faking the video of Bernie Sanders arriving on stage in California earlier this week to a homophobic rap song about killing gay and trans people.

The Sanders supporter claims he made the fake video in order to intentionally trick voters as a form of “social experiment.” He issued a statement, which concluded “Congratulations, you played yourself.”

No, congratulations to you, young man. You just ticked off thousands of people online with a story that seriously hurt your candidate, and is now going to be very difficult to put back in the bottle.

[vintx]

24. lol... does "the Sanders supporter" have a name?

[tammywammy]

25. Edwin Acuna

UPDATE: I've received the following statement from Edwin Acuna, the artist who created the Bernie Sanders DMX video, which had many mainstream and gay blogs hopping today:

So long story short, this was a social experiment, and everyone seem to fall for it. Im a Bernie supporter but one of the main things that I set to prove is the medias ability to rewrite headlines and make everything seem twisted. The video was a joke at first, I imagined a 70 year old man walking out to a song that has a hard intro (subtract the homophobic lyrics, which is why it isn't in the video) but as i thought about it, i knew everyone would go nuts, i just want to give a major shout out to boy culture for keeping a level head about the situation. The video was faked, if you're going to support a candidate dont do it cause of a viral video, and if it sparks you're interest, let the flame burn a lot longer than just voting and walking away, we as american citizens have more power than we think, and to all those people thinking they got a 1up on Bernie….I say this…

http://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2016/05/if-the-bernie-dmx-video-is-fake-it-certainly-wasnt-faked-by-his-opponent.html

[vintx]

26. Every other one of his tweets that's not about this has less than 10 likes/shares

[polly7]

23. Such an obvious and stupid lie.

[jpmonk91]

27. More bullshit

From the rabid HRC clan

[vintx]

30. I'm SERIOUSLY curious how this guy with few followers and even less circulation of his tweets

suddenly managed to get the attention of her supporters.

[Thinkingabout]

36. Read Post #25, it was a Sanders supporter.

[vintx]

37. How'd he go from 1-5 likes to hundreds, then thousands?

[Thinkingabout]

40. Don't know

[vintx]

42. He played the clinton loving media like a fucking fiddle...

And I would LOVE to know how the F they even saw his tweets

[jpmonk91]

45. Just saw the update

How did he trick everyone and why did the media fall for it? Obviously I thought it was another HRC supporter

[vintx]

46. All he did was post a few tweets about it. If you look at his page he has VERY little attention

to his tweets

So how did those few manage to get so much attention?

And how did the Hillary-hawking media snap them up like they were handed down by G_d himself? With like, ZERO fact checking?

It's a real head-scratcher

[jpmonk91]

51. If info goes out that quick than

The media most be watching every thing on the web

[bravenak]

61. I first saw it posted here, by a Sanders supporter who has since deleted it

In video and multi media and in the bernie group. It was spread by the people who support that candidate.

[jpmonk91]

43. Just saw the update

My bad

[Peregrine Took]

31. Keerissst! Still pushing this one??

This is pathetic.

[Major Nikon]

32. Results...

On Sat May 28, 2016, 06:51 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

Sanders uses “shoot the gays” rap song at CA rally 5/28/16
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512074645

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

This has been shown to be a disgusting lie and has no place on this site.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sat May 28, 2016, 06:56 PM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I failed to see where this post needs to be hidden, if we hid every post conceived to not be true there would only be a few posts. If alerter disagreed then reply with the true facts, do not use the jury system for this task.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: This has already been exposed as untrue. Alerter is right, come on!
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: If it's a lie, expose it as such so when we see it other places we will know and can correct it. I have no idea if it is or not, so now I'm curious.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

[imari362]

33. HRC Supporters doing their usual.

Spreading and taking pleasure in lies and smears about Bernie.

Bernie Sanders Did Not Play DMX's 'Where the Hood At'; Video Creator Speaks on 'Social Experiment'

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7386067/bernie-sanders-dmx-where-the-hood-at-video-fake

[reddread]

34. never an accountable moment

suicide candidate

[imari362]

44. "Accountable" for something that NEVER HAPPENED.

Bernie Sanders Did Not Play DMX's 'Where the Hood At'; Video Creator Speaks on 'Social Experiment'

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7386067/bernie-sanders-dmx-where-the-hood-at-video-fake

...A Hillary supporter would think so about Bernie since she evolves, misspeaks, flip flops or just outright lie on many of things that she should have been held accountable for.
Whereas, no such thing happened at the Bernie rally, Clinton did actually praise Nancy Reagan in regards to AIDS...no apology, just "mis-spoke"

[reddread]

101. uncountable how many times it was reposted by David Brock's posters who never apologize for lying?

I would wait a long time before I believed any ends of the threads within lies being told.
Especially the early stories.
and the week is young.

[Thinkingabout]

38. Read Post #25, it was a Sanders supporter.

[BillZBubb]

47. And it was PUSHED by Hillary fans. They wanted it to be true and they pushed it as such.

It just shows how fanatical and dishonest Hillary's supporters are. No issues, nothing positive, just bullshit smears. The cult of Hillary and Brock.

[imari362]

50. And they are still.....

...shoveling it in this thread.

[imari362]

49. I seem to know that as I did read the entire thread....

...before posting.

You don't seem to know how to comprehend what you read.....
A HILLARY supporter posted this OP, HILLARY supporters are buying into and taking pleasure in the smearing of Bernie with this.

It's not TRUE.

Now do you fully understand my post or do you want to play Hillary supporter anyway and deny inconvenient proven FACT?

[Thinkingabout]

54. Like wise then I should not believe what Sanders supporters post.

[imari362]

55. Only if it's NOT provable FACTS.

You do know the difference, right?

[Thinkingabout]

57. Yes we know the facts, talking points are posted every day, I have stopped

Correcting them, it is to no avail.

[Bjorn Against]

60. He is an admitted liar, there is no reason to believe anything he says

He admitted to lying about the music played to the rally, there is no reason to believe he is telling the truth when he claims to be a Sanders supporter.

[Thinkingabout]

64. No reason to believe this isn't a Sanders supporter. I suspect the guy Sanders fired

In the data base breach, he has a vendetta.

[Bjorn Against]

66. This just proves you will throw crap at the wall and see if it sticks

No, this is not the guy that Sanders fired. You obviously know nothing about this person so your claim that he is a Sanders supporter has no credibility.

[Thinkingabout]

71. No no no, I am talking about RW talking points posted here on regular basis,

Yes and it is lots of crap and not posted by me.

[Bjorn Against]

74. Actually the discussion was on the fact that Hillary supporters lied

A bunch of Hillary supporters pushed a doctored video and claimed it proved that Bernie rallied his supporters with a song about shooting gay people.

It was a sick and disgusting lie and there are a few Hillary supporters here who continue to lie about this video.

This is not about RW talking points, although it does prove that some Hillary supporters are every bit as untrustworthy as Breitbart or James O'Keefe.

[Thinkingabout]

82. If it was only Hillary supporters pushing false stories you may have a point, it

Isn't, maybe you never read any of H A Goodman reports but I have. Recently there was a Trump statement about Crazy Bernie and Crooked Hillary, a statement straight from Trump, a RW talking point, these are crap. BTW, I have never posted a link to HA Goodman so understand this is not one-sided.

[Bjorn Against]

83. What the hell does this thread have to do with HA Goodman?

For your info I have never posted a link to HA Goodman either, I am not a fan of his. What he has to do with the smear that was spread today however I have no clue, you are deflecting from the topic of this thread.

[Thinkingabout]

85. Re read post#71

[Bjorn Against]

86. Post 71 is just as irrelevant to this thread the second time I read it as it was the first time

Once again this thread is about the doctored video Hillary supporters used to smear Bernie, re-reading your off topic posts does not make them relevant to this thread.

[Thinkingabout]

87. My point is just as relevent as your claim, it happen with supporters of Sanders and Clinton.

[Bjorn Against]

89. No sorry but the doctored video is relevant to this thread, HA Goodman is not

[Thinkingabout]

90. Doctored video, doctored articles, whether video or article.

[Bjorn Against]

91. Actually no those are not the same thing at all

HA Goodman may embarrass himself by getting things wrong, but he is not doctoring anything. His words are his words and he is accountable for them. He may be wrong but he is not doctoring anything to make it appear someone else is responsible for his words.

Doctoring a video to falsely slander a person is a whole different thing and it is a much more serious offense than writing bad op-eds.

[cui bono]

35. No, he didn't. Your link even says so. Thank you in advance for deleting.

[oldandhappy]

41. actually no

[HooptieWagon]

48. Castle Bansalot still butthurt over OIG report.

Update at 11.

[Trust Buster]

52. Very reminiscent of the Sanders introduction that included calling Hillary a B***h a couple of

months ago. I think we're seeing a pattern here from the human rights wing of the party.

[sadoldgirl]

53. Whoever has watched any of Bernie's rallies, would

know, that when Bernie comes onto the stage
there will be no music at all.

Secondly, anyone, who started this can always claim
to be someone s/he is not.

Lastly, the fact that this has had so much publicity
and so much "outrage" makes one wonder who these
"outraged" people are and why they are propagating
this.

[Uponthegears]

56. Spin spin spin

Edwin Acuna told Billboard that he released the video to test whether Hillary supporters would spread a ridiculously patently false story.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7386067/bernie-sanders-dmx-where-the-hood-at-video-fake

The test has now been graded

Hillary FAILS

[Warren DeMontague]

63. What's even more telling is how they continue to use it after they know it is false.

[Garrett78]

93. Most of the posts and all of the recent posts about it are from Sanders supporters refuting it.

Show me where DU posters are peddling the bogus story.

[Warren DeMontague]

97. You're right

It looks like the cease and desist instructions have gone out on that one. Well done, team!

[Garrett78]

98. There were very few posts peddling the story to begin with, and the last one was hours and hours...

...before your accusation that it was still being peddled.

[Warren DeMontague]

100. Well, then, in the immortal words of Dr. Gonzo

"I guess I owe you an apology.....or, nothing at all"

[MyNameGoesHere]

58. I'm going to use some Sanders supporters logic now

He's a homophobe.

[Henhouse]

65. I did....As soon as I saw the update...n/t

[Bjorn Against]

67. Anyone who reads the subject line of your OP can see that you are a liar

[Bjorn Against]

69. It is not just misinformation, it is a flat out lie

Let's not sugarcoat this, the OP is a liar. I know that speaking that truth may get my post hidden but I believe lies need to be called out for what they are.

[Henhouse]

72. Done..n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

80. Thank you.

[wyldwolf]

73. just another young Sanders follower who thinks he's clever

[JSup]

75. They'll never admit it...

Step 1
"there is no proof of this"

If proof is provided go to step 2

Step 2
"there's no proof he's a Sanders supporter"

If he's seen with Bernie signs go to step 3

Step 3
"no proof that he isn't a false flag plant"

If he isn't go to Step 4

Step 4
"it's okay because he supports Bernie against the corporatist oligarchy riggers of voter suppression"

[Uponthegears]

77. Hillary supporters can quit whining

Edwin Acuna has said EXACTLY what he did and EXACTLY why he did it.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7386067/bernie-sanders-dmx-where-the-hood-at-video-fake

All he did was post an obviously fave video. It took Hillary supporters to pick it up and wave it as part of their "Bernie hates gays" meme of the moment.

A test of Hillary's honesty and SHE FAILED

[JSup]

99. Step 4, then...

...which is better than Step 3, but still.

[Uponthegears]

103. Don't you just love

pop psychology?

It makes you feel all grown up, huh?

[Cheese Sandwich]

76. americablog = the liberal version of Infowars

[Renew Deal]

81. Infowars is cited on DU occasionally

There is some overlap in the crazy

[LexVegas]

78. Cheeto fingered Berniebro...busted. nt

[Jester Messiah]

79. You have no credibility. n/t

[Cheese Sandwich]

84. No first hand info. Source is three layers of links through untrustworthy personal blog sites...

Final result is a statement on some blog which there is no possible way to verify.

seems legit

[barrow-wight]

88. So it's a Democratic Socialist's social experiment?

With supporters like that, who needs enemies?

[hopemountain]

92. Another Clinton Campaign Orchestrated Lie

just like nevada.

so, that's 2 big ones today - jane and the paid lackey, "edwin" acuna.

at this rate - there will be 14 more before the 7th.

[Henhouse]

94. Do tell...Jane and the paid Lackey, "Edwin" Acuna..? n/t

[hopemountain]

95. i'm sure you'll have no trouble designing

another orchestrated lie - since you have such convenient connections with aravosis.

[Left Brain]

102. Failed once...

Going two for two now, I see...
smh

[Number23]

104. Kicking because, you know, it was only Hillary supporters that pushed this story here

Don't let the dozens of posts in this thread from people screaming that this was another "Clinton dirty trick" as well as the 10 other threads on this nothing of a story fool you into believing otherwise.