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| Topic | My Warren supporting friend just posted this on Facebook |
| s0nicfan 01/30/20 11:36:54 AM #6: | glitteringfairy posted... Well is it true? I checked out of curiosity. The Daily Beast wrote an article on it, and Snopes hasn't touched it. That's about it. The closest thing to a neutral source I could find was an Atlantic article on "The Challenges Bernie faces" with this line: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/bernie-sanderss-biggest-challenges/605500/ In 1980, Sanders joined a left-wing party whose presidential candidate condemned anti-Iranian hysteria around the U.S. hostages being held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, suggesting that many of them are simply spies or people assigned to protect the spies, as Ronald Radosh reported in The Daily Beast. Imagine what Trump and his team will do with that. EDIT: For what it's worth, the Daily Beast article at least addresses Bernie's response to it, which is basically "I refuse to talk about it" like everything else controversial from his career: https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-iran-took-americans-hostage-bernie-backed-irans-defenders The Sanders campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Asked about the SWP in 1988, Sanders, then the mayor of Burlington and a congressional candidate, talked down the connection, saying that: I was asked to put my name on the ballot and I did, thats true." Today, no mention of Sanders association with the SWP appears in any campaign biography he has issued. But Sanders remained tied to the party after 1980. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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