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In reply to the discussion: Sanders Lowballs Vermont Gun Deaths by an Order of Magnitude [View all]Billsmile
(404 posts)70. Here's Another Seven Days VT Article
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I am not a fan of Bernie Sanders but if he said 42, rather than 420, then that sounds like a typo
StevieM
Mar 2018
#16
Pardon? He intentionally doesn't want to mention 378 people who died of guns in Vermont?
Corvo Bianco
Mar 2018
#61
Making such a hair-splitting distinction makes things sound better than they really are.
NurseJackie
Mar 2018
#62
You're saying that a Sanders spokesperson has said that Bernie intentionally falsified numbers?
StevieM
Mar 2018
#77
Typing a tweet on a telephone is entirely different than preparing a speech in advance...
George II
Mar 2018
#18
And yet the incorrect comment was made ON the record from the floor of the Senate...
George II
Mar 2018
#106
I guess not. But who has time for voting records when there's another movement he can co-opt?
Maven
Mar 2018
#42
Really, as close as that race ended up being...We certainly dodged a bullet there!
Wwcd
Mar 2018
#45
I thought it was interesting that of the three smallest New England states (NH, VT, RI)....
George II
Mar 2018
#59
Of course. Gee thanks for explaining what Sanders should have known enough about in the first place.
Wwcd
Mar 2018
#46
Hmm, that looks like the free press doing it's objective job, wouldn't you say?
George II
Mar 2018
#64
Thank you, that's my point. I think someone in this discussion is going to be very disappointed...
George II
Mar 2018
#72
The thing is he hardly ever holds press conferences. I can't remember the last time he did. But...
George II
Mar 2018
#60
Yes, he tells them is them in advance what issues they can discuss and ask questions about.
George II
Mar 2018
#74
Snotty, aren't we? Telling people to leave the country just because they messed with precious Bernie
shenmue
Mar 2018
#81
I think he meant there was 42 deaths of people who got between him and a video camera
njhoneybadger
Mar 2018
#79
That "minor comment" was made on the floor of the Senate. You act like it was made in a sports bar.
George II
Mar 2018
#88
The article wasn't read on the record from the floor of the Senate. The false statement...
George II
Mar 2018
#108