2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dolores Huerta: Bernie Sanders supporters 'don't know who I am' [View all]noamnety
(20,234 posts)And she could have so easily done it graciously.
Instead of letting her original false accusations stand, and quietly tweaking the story in subsequent accounts without acknowledging the lie/mistake, she could have gotten through this with her reputation unharmed. All she had to do was say "I looked at the video, and in the heat, chaos and excitement of the moment I misinterpreted what happened. The rules prohibited a partisan translator, when that was pointed out, the moderator asked me to step down to be in compliance with the rules. I originally said that Bernie supporters demanded that the event would be in English only - and that was entirely incorrect - they actually tried to provide a translator as well."
People would have laid off if she'd done that instead of pulling a Capehart.