Excerpt: "When they knocked out the 64 Bernie delegates as Republicans,
suddenly Hillary won the caucus by 35 delegate votes. Some of the Sanders
people didn't like that. So what was the report? Not how Sanders delegates
were somehow excluded from exercising their rightful vote for the partys
nominee. Instead, The New York Times headline was: 'From Bernie Sanders
Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates."
Bernie Sanders at a rally in Carson, California. (photo: Lucy Nicholson)
Dennis J Bernstein and Greg Palast: Media Fabricates Sanders Riot, Buries
the Real Story
By Dennis J Bernstein and Greg Palast, Reader Supported News
22 May 16
In this May 18 interview with Dennis Bernstein, best¬selling author Greg
Palast takes on The New York Times, NPR, and big media in general for their
biased reporting in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Dennis Bernstein: Dissect for us the story in the electronic version of The
New York Times, From Bernie Sanders Supporters, Death Threats Over
Delegates. Its the same establishment deciding, essentially, who is going
to win or lose, who the candidates will be, who is acceptable and who isnt.
The corporate news cycle determines that.
Greg Palast: In Nevada, 64 Bernie Sanders delegates some committee
chairmen and life¬long county Democratic Party members were disqualified
on the grounds that they were Republicans. They are lifelong Democrats, and
thats why they were at the convention, as chosen delegates. Bernie Sanders
had more delegates than Hillary Clinton. It was a very close race in Nevada.
When they knocked out the 64 Bernie delegates as Republicans, suddenly
Hillary won the caucus by 35 delegate votes. Some of the Sanders people
didnt like that. So what was the report? Not how Sanders delegates were
somehow excluded from exercising their rightful vote for the partys
nominee. Instead, The New York Times headline was: From Bernie Sanders
Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates.
DB: The Bernie bird threatening delegates!
Palast: The story was that the Sanders people were leveling death threats at
the chairwoman of the Democratic Party, who overruled all the voice votes,
all the Bernie delegates credentials, and ramrodded Hillary Clinton through
as the winner of these extra Nevada delegates.
The Party chairwoman claimed that they were grandchildren kidnappers and
leveled death threats.
But the Times reported nothing about stealing the delegates votes, the
cause of the rebellion, the riot.
The problem here is that although its funny to accuse Bernie of being a
grand¬kidnapper, the sad part is that this is how the so¬-called liberal
press and supposedly good journalists are operating. If I wrote a story like
this for The Guardian, I would be fired by my editors. This is what stands
for news coverage in the USA not the issues, but some fools threats.
DB: In the same spirit of demonization of Sanders, NPRs Tamara Keith
characterized his aggressive, effective campaign with the highly charged
term of battering Hillary Clinton. As if Sanders were a batterer of women
just like Donald Trump.
Palast: NPR. What do you expect from National Petroleum Radio? Ive been
taken off NPR. I was supposed to be on Media Matters, their media program.
They wanted me to complain about right wing newspapers like The New York
Post. As I was about to go on the air, they asked what I was going to talk
about. I said, Biased coverage by NPR. Literally, just 40 seconds before
airtime they said, We cant have you on.
This is the problem. Were not getting the news we ought to get. Im not a
Sanders person, Im a journalist. No sides here. A New York Times headline
was, Liberal Economists Say Sanders Numbers Dont Add Up. They cited a
guy, Austan Goolsbee, from the University of Chicago, which is where I went
and is a right¬wing cesspool. Liberal economist? He did not do a study
rather, hes a Hillary Clinton supporter who was just mouthing off.
There was a detailed study of Sanders program, which the Times and the
rest of the media ignored. The positive effect of Sanders stimulus
program was well measured by the economists at Amherst. The one true
analysis that has been done shows that his programs will increase employment
and national income. This is the same Democratic Party and newspaper that
says Obamas stimulus program came from heaven itself, but almost the same
program proposed by Sanders is obviously nuts and the numbers dont add up.
This isnt whether I support Sanders or not. This is about media bias, pure
and simple.
Palast: In general, when Ive been reporting about the theft of U.S.
elections, for years
When I wrote about tens of thousands of Black people
getting their names wiped off the voter roles in 2000 by Katherine Harris
which elected Bush it was top of the nightly news in Britain, but in the
U.S. it was completely blacked out.
DB: U.S. media had access.
Palast: ABC had a contract to run BBCs vote¬theft news, but didnt. Then
CBS said they would run the story. Dan Rathers people called me, then
backed out. I told them Black people were wiped off the voter roles. I had
the list in my hands, letters in my hands from the office of Jeb Bush, who
was the Governor of Florida and brother of the candidate. When I asked why
they didnt run the story, they said they had called Jeb Bushs office, and
he said it wasnt true. That was the end of the story. They couldnt even
say, The BBC and The Guardian say this and Bush says this ... This is
continuing to happen.
In 2004, when BBC and The Guardian ran my story about the theft of the
election in Ohio, the Times picked up the story on the front page. It said,
Internet Rumors of Election Theft Easily Debunked. That was the headline.
DB: It demonstrates the ridiculous nature of what they call journalism.
Palast: So thank you for letting my stories in through the electronic Berlin
Wall.
________________________________________
Dennis J. Bernstein is the executive producer of Flashpoints, syndicated on
Pacifica Radio, and is the recipient of a 2015 Pillar Award for his work as
a journalist whistleblower. He is most recently the author of Special Ed:
Voices from a Hidden Classroom.
Greg Palast has been called the most important investigative reporter of
our time up there with Woodward and Bernstein (The Guardian). Palast has
broken front-page stories for BBC Television Newsnight, The Guardian, The
Nation Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Harper's Magazine. He is the author of
the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed
Madhouse, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and the highly acclaimed
Vultures Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review. His
books have been translated into two dozen languages. His brand new film of
his documentary reports for BBC Newsnight and Democracy Now! is called
Vultures and Vote Rustlers.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
Supported News.
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Dennis J Bernstein and Greg Palast: Media Fabricates Sanders Riot, Buries
the Real Story
By Dennis J Bernstein and Greg Palast, Reader Supported News
22 May 16
In this May 18 interview with Dennis Bernstein, bestselling author Greg
Palast takes on The New York Times, NPR, and big media in general for their
biased reporting in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Dennis Bernstein: Dissect for us the story in the electronic version of The
New York Times, From Bernie Sanders Supporters, Death Threats Over
Delegates. Its the same establishment deciding, essentially, who is going
to win or lose, who the candidates will be, who is acceptable and who isnt.
The corporate news cycle determines that.
Greg Palast: In Nevada, 64 Bernie Sanders delegates some committee
chairmen and lifelong county Democratic Party members were disqualified
on the grounds that they were Republicans. They are lifelong Democrats, and
thats why they were at the convention, as chosen delegates. Bernie Sanders
had more delegates than Hillary Clinton. It was a very close race in Nevada.
When they knocked out the 64 Bernie delegates as Republicans, suddenly
Hillary won the caucus by 35 delegate votes. Some of the Sanders people
didnt like that. So what was the report? Not how Sanders delegates were
somehow excluded from exercising their rightful vote for the partys
nominee. Instead, The New York Times headline was: From Bernie Sanders
Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates.
DB: The Bernie bird threatening delegates!
Palast: The story was that the Sanders people were leveling death threats at
the chairwoman of the Democratic Party, who overruled all the voice votes,
all the Bernie delegates credentials, and ramrodded Hillary Clinton through
as the winner of these extra Nevada delegates.
The Party chairwoman claimed that they were grandchildren kidnappers and
leveled death threats.
But the Times reported nothing about stealing the delegates votes, the
cause of the rebellion, the riot.
The problem here is that although its funny to accuse Bernie of being a
grandkidnapper, the sad part is that this is how the so-called liberal
press and supposedly good journalists are operating. If I wrote a story like
this for The Guardian, I would be fired by my editors. This is what stands
for news coverage in the USA not the issues, but some fools threats.
DB: In the same spirit of demonization of Sanders, NPRs Tamara Keith
characterized his aggressive, effective campaign with the highly charged
term of battering Hillary Clinton. As if Sanders were a batterer of women
just like Donald Trump.
Palast: NPR. What do you expect from National Petroleum Radio? Ive been
taken off NPR. I was supposed to be on Media Matters, their media program.
They wanted me to complain about right wing newspapers like The New York
Post. As I was about to go on the air, they asked what I was going to talk
about. I said, Biased coverage by NPR. Literally, just 40 seconds before
airtime they said, We cant have you on.
This is the problem. Were not getting the news we ought to get. Im not a
Sanders person, Im a journalist. No sides here. A New York Times headline
was, Liberal Economists Say Sanders Numbers Dont Add Up. They cited a
guy, Austan Goolsbee, from the University of Chicago, which is where I went
and is a rightwing cesspool. Liberal economist? He did not do a study
rather, hes a Hillary Clinton supporter who was just mouthing off.
There was a detailed study of Sanders program, which the Times and the
rest of the media ignored. The positive effect of Sanders stimulus
program was well measured by the economists at Amherst. The one true
analysis that has been done shows that his programs will increase employment
and national income. This is the same Democratic Party and newspaper that
says Obamas stimulus program came from heaven itself, but almost the same
program proposed by Sanders is obviously nuts and the numbers dont add up.
This isnt whether I support Sanders or not. This is about media bias, pure
and simple.
Palast: In general, when Ive been reporting about the theft of U.S.
elections, for years
When I wrote about tens of thousands of Black people
getting their names wiped off the voter roles in 2000 by Katherine Harris
which elected Bush it was top of the nightly news in Britain, but in the
U.S. it was completely blacked out.
DB: U.S. media had access.
Palast: ABC had a contract to run BBCs votetheft news, but didnt. Then
CBS said they would run the story. Dan Rathers people called me, then
backed out. I told them Black people were wiped off the voter roles. I had
the list in my hands, letters in my hands from the office of Jeb Bush, who
was the Governor of Florida and brother of the candidate. When I asked why
they didnt run the story, they said they had called Jeb Bushs office, and
he said it wasnt true. That was the end of the story. They couldnt even
say, The BBC and The Guardian say this and Bush says this ... This is
continuing to happen.
In 2004, when BBC and The Guardian ran my story about the theft of the
election in Ohio, the Times picked up the story on the front page. It said,
Internet Rumors of Election Theft Easily Debunked. That was the headline.
DB: It demonstrates the ridiculous nature of what they call journalism.
Palast: So thank you for letting my stories in through the electronic Berlin
Wall.
Dennis J. Bernstein is the executive producer of Flashpoints, syndicated on
Pacifica Radio, and is the recipient of a 2015 Pillar Award for his work as
a journalist whistleblower. He is most recently the author of Special Ed:
Voices from a Hidden Classroom.
Greg Palast has been called the most important investigative reporter of
our time up there with Woodward and Bernstein (The Guardian). Palast has
broken front-page stories for BBC Television Newsnight, The Guardian, The
Nation Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Harper's Magazine. He is the author of
the New York Times bestsellers
http://www.gregpalast.com/ballotbandits/Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed
Madhouse, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and the highly acclaimed
Vultures Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review. His
books have been translated into two dozen languages. His brand new film of
his documentary reports for BBC Newsnight and Democracy Now! is called
Vultures and Vote Rustlers.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
Supported News.
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