Typical American Politics

Those Photographs Of Bernie Sanders Are Real Despite What You've Heard
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You may remember the Clinton campaign circulating a photograph of Barack Obama wearing a turban in an effort to portray him as a Muslim sympathizer. It was a little push to stoke the xenophobia and paranoia bubbling up at the time. It worked. That photo is still used today by some on the right as clear evidence that Obama is a secret Muslim terrorist trying to destroy our country. The Clinton campaign recently tried the same tactic with Bernie Sanders. A photo of Sanders speaking at a sit-in to protest segregation has been making the rounds recently and has been causing some uproar. Sanders supporters were posting the image as proof of his involvement with the civil rights movement. It's also been used in a lot of his campaign material... Last week, almost every news outlet started systematically releasing reports that the photo was a fake and that the person in the image was not Bernie Sanders, but was actually Bruce Rappaport, a fellow student activist with a similar haircut, glasses and stature, who died in 2006. CNN and MSNBC aired interviews with the Sanders campaign interrogating spokespeople about the photo and insinuating that Sanders was pulling the wool over the eyes of his supporters and the American people. "Time" ran what they called an exclusive report about clear evidence that the man depicted in the photo was not Bernie Sanders. The "Washington Post" demanded that people, "Stop sending around this photo of 'Bernie Sanders',"... Both the "Times" and "The Washington Post" cite as their sources for the accusation two Chicago University alumni, Sally Cook, class of 1966, and Robin Kaufman, class of 1965, who said they believed the photo showed Rappaport. What neither The Post nor Time did was to ask the photographer who took the picture. Because if they had, they would have written something completely different. Danny Lyon, the guy who took photos said that the photographs of Bernie Sanders are real and are of Bernie Sanders. Quote: In 1962 and the spring of 1963 I was the student photographer at the University of Chicago, making pictures for the yearbook, the Alumni Magazine and the student paper, The Maroon. By the summer of 1962 I had taken my camera into the deep South, and become the first photographer for SNCC... I took the photograph of Bernie Sanders speaking to his fellow CORE members at that sit-in. Bob McNamara, a close friend and CORE activist, is in the very corner next to me in the picture. Across the room from me is another campus photographer named Wexler, who taught me how to develop film... I photographed Bernie a second time after he after he got a haircut, as he appeared next to the noble laureate and chancellor Dr. George Beadle. Time Magazine is now claiming it is not Bernie in the picture but someone else. It is Bernie, and it is proof of his very early dedication to justice for African Americans. The CORE sit-in that Bernie helped lead was the first civil rights sit-in to take place in the North...

This is good for the Sanders' campaign, it seasons and conditions Sanders for the types of attacks he can expect to increasingly face leading up to November. It's the early part of the season facing divisional rivals, first step to the playoffs is winning your division. It isn't about the attacks you suffer, it's about how you respond.

The Clintons are the democratic party establishment aristocracy and will provide a good workout and measuring stick.

They say S.Carolina puts the nasty in national politics,

fire proofs the mettle

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