OK, I’ve read through most of the comments.
1. For anyone who doubts my claim of being '’non-partisan’’ during the 2016 primary season, I will offer you this and this.
And even during the general election portion of the campaign, I tried to write a positive diary about Hillary Clinton and found that I could not authentically do so...other Sanders partisans here at DK actually did that. Yes, I voted for Hillary Clinton in the GE.
2. Because of my ‘’non-partisan’’ status as it regards Sanders v. Clinton, as this issue began to arise following the Special Counsel’s indictment of 13 Russians last Friday, I had a feeling that it would fall to me...or some other person that was '’non-partisan’’ (and there weren’t many of us!) to write about this. In fact, I still feel that way.
3. I considered that the proper way to do this story would have been to post a transcript of Bernie’s comments to Vermont Public Radio.
I decided against it bascially because a) I am a sloooooooow transcriber and b) people would have thrown pie even if I had put up a transcript...which I really didn’t have time to do because of another commitmment today.
Note the ‘’hedges’’ that I posted in the headline and in the body of the story as well as my comments that Vermont Public Radio did take Sanders’ comments on the Russian bots issue slightly out of context...but not by much.
Jane Lindholm of Vermont Public Radio asked the tough questions and did a fabulous interview of Sanders and she is to be commended for it.
Link to VPR’S Jane Lindholm’s interview with Bernie Sanders
4. Don’t forget that the Republican National Convention wasn’t the only place where people chanted '’lock her up.’’
(well, you said you wanted me to do an update!)
And if anyone saw Rachel last night, then you learned, in part, about the possible origins of that chant...I will look for that video.
(RM’s story on the 2004 presidential campaign in the Ukraine begins at ~ the 4:00 mark.)
Lastly…
I don’t know if anyone has noticed but in the past few months, I have generally avoided commenting in ANY Bernie-related diary and I rarely read them; when I do comment, it is usually to make a somewhat positive comment, actually.
And I am tired of the wars that I see on Twitter and in my Twitter feed...VERY tired of them.
The questions of Russian influence on the 2016 campaign of Bernie Sanders, which was, to an extent, outlined in Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russian nationals last Friday, are legitimate questions to ask at Daily Kos, uncomfortable as those questions are to many.
Personally, I don’t think that we can or should duck them, no matter how uncomfortable those questions make us.
oh, and I will get to work on a transcription of the relevant portion of Jane Lindholm’s interview with Bernie Sanders’ for a follow-up post.